St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-11
HE SAYS HE FORMERLY POS
SESSED SOME THAT WE'RE
BOGUS,
BUT GOT THEM HONESTLY.
so FAR AS THIS CHARGE, HE DE.
MES BEING IN OMAHA AT
THE TIME.
WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT 1T.
Detective Dempsey Arrives With
RequfsitiOn Papers and Will
Return Tomorrow.

Detective Michael Dempsey, of the
Omaha police force, arrived in st.
Paul yesterday with requisition pa
pers for the return Of W. C. Faye,
the man arrested at Moorhead on the
charge of forging a school bond Of
the township of Lyons, Cook county,
Ill. Detective Dempsey will present
his papers to Gov. Clough today,
and, if honored, as it is expected they
will be, will start for Omaha Tues
day morning with Faye. The latter
says he is willing to return without
requisition papers, but the officer pre-
fers to go through the legal formula
and than he knows he is les liable
to have any trouble.
Faye, as published in the G ODE
of yesterday was brought down from
Moorhead Saturday and taken to the
Metropolitan hotel. He asked to be
allowed to stay at some hotel with a
detective rather than be placed in
the central police station or the jail.
He was allowed his wish. Yesterday
he was seen by reporter for the
G o b e, and after awhile talked
rather freely about the case.
L know how it is with you news i.
paper men," said he. "All you want
is story, and if you can get q scoop,
so much the BETTER
His knowledge of newspapers is
simply a sample of his general
knowledge, for the man is intelligent,
shrewd and posted seemingly on all
subjects. He uses legal terms with
the same freedom that they are
thrown into legal document, and in
denying that he is guilty of the
charge, says that he neither passed,
uttered, forged, or caused to be pass
ed, uttered or forged, or realized or
caused to be realized on the bonds
in question"
$50 far as this charge is concern
ed" said he, sit will be pretty hard TO
convict me of a crime committed in
Omaha when 1 was not there at the
time, and can prove. exactly where
was.
"This charge is an old matter" he
continued. 'It dates back to 1891, and
has been allowed to go until this time.
If there was any ground for prosecu-
tion, it should have been started at
that time, and not now. So far as
forging school bonds, that would be a
pretty difficult matter. The bonds
have to be autographed and printed,
and no ordinary printing office could
do the work. And there is no print
ing office in Nebraska or anywhere
else at which it can be shown
that l got such work done. l had
a number of the bonds, but when the
time comes I can show just where I
got them, and I had no idea at the
time but what they were genuine.
you know" Faye continued, after
pause, 'that institutions have been
known to issue duplicates of this
kind. Such a thing is possible, at
least
Gas I say" he continued, returning
to his connection with the bogus
bonds, this trouble dates back to 1891.
In that year 1 went to McKaig's bank,
in Omaha, and borrowed $500. giving
one of the bonds as security 1 then
supposed they were genuine The frs.
interest bearing coupon was clipped
and paid. l put up another bond later
but when the coupon was presented
for payment It was returned 10 Nc
kaig Brothers with the information
that it was worthless. The bank sent
for me and told ME that the second one
had been found to be worthless. The
first one had also been returned. il
having been found that it. too, was no
good. eI was thunderstruck. They
told me L had better take UP the bonds
and went TO my wife and told her she
would have to borrow money to do it
with. She did. She got the money
from her brother and 1 got the. two
bonds back. l at once destroyed them
and all the rest that l could get nv
hands on. My wife, however, had
some of them and she refused to give
them up. L could not get them from
her then, nor was 1 ever able TO do so
afterwards. That was the only pos
sible connection 1 had with the bonds
in which 1 was liable to prosecution.
and that 1 Strengthened out as soon as
learned the bonds were bad. Why,
Was in Omaha for years after that.
Travelled out of that city and have
never tried to get away. 1 have never
changed my name and have never tried
to conceal myself. If l had done any
thing wrong it is not likely 1 would
have been going around as openly as 1
have DONE
"One of the reports says that a bond
was negotiated at Seward, Neb. Do
you know anything about thar"
Not a thing. 1 never borrowed a
cent of money in Seward in my life.
never negotiated or tried to negotiate
a bond in that town and know nothing
about it, If one was offered there. Yes,
my wife has been arrested in connec-
tion with the same matter, but / do
not know anything about that either.
We have not been living together for
a year and half, and know nothing
of her troubles
'You do not care to tell how you
came in possession of the bonds?"
Not now. l will show how | came
by them when the proper time comes.
All there is to it is that am innocent
of any crookedness, and 1 can prove it
when / get a chance to do So"
There are two charges to the COM
plaint which Detective Dempsey
brought from Omaha The first charges
Faye with having on Feb. l, 1895, forged
a Lyons county school bond, made
payable TO bearer on the 1st day of
January. 1902. with interest at per
cent. purporting to have been made by
p. G. Gardner. president; w. b. Wick
ersham, clerk; registered by John r.
Nayler.
The second charge is that Faye, OH
Jan. ], 1885,, "feloniously disposed OF
and uttered and published said certain
forged and counterfeit bond as true
and genuine, the purport substance
and value of which is sl,000.'