Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19
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hours, to which that bank paid no attention.
NOtg, however, the change OF manage
ment of the Corliss company allows OF a
freer action. Therefore, we, the undersign-
ed, declare that the Hall encase3 safe in the
Merchants National bauk, of Defiance, o..
is not secure for four hours, and we agree
to open it in that time in a burglarous man.
ner or make the bank good for any failure
of ours to accomplish this, or tc. allow the
value Of the gift safe", now used by the
Merchants National bank, ON the purchase
of Corliss safe. This full statement is
made to correct the inaccurate statements
of persons interested in this bank, and who
also accepted of gift safe in lieu of a bur
glar proof safe. They now have the chance
of showing that they have a burglar proof
safe, or if admitting the fact they dare not
contest, which is, that whereas they had six
hours protection when they had a safe in
vault, they hare NOT nOiO four hours. protect
ion al their exposed safe.
Banks like Merchants National, of De-
fiance. o., are like a half drowned puppy
they don't know whether TO fight or whimp
er. They oaly know, as did Pres. Harley,
that his wife had lost big pile of her faith
er's accumulations. Mr.. Harley, personally,
had lost nothing, it is asserted.
| If the Merchants National bank, of Def
ance, o., ever RECEIVERS from it's burglary,
! and if it gets into shape to go into a test, it
I will buy Il Corliss safe. Until it does SO re-
cuperate. and so long as its financial condi.
tion compells it to use gift safe of the
identical build as the one through which it
I lost its last accumulation, the opinion of
this bank, or its wife's president, will hard
| ly be In order. Our proposition is, briefly,
to open Mrs. Pres. Harley's Hall safe in A
hours. A reply from Mrs. Pres. Harley will
be received with favor. However, we expect
no reply because the condition of the Hem
ing-Hall- Marvin Co. is so rotten that as
matter of fact this company no longer ex-
lists
The last issue of the U. S. Investor, Nov.
%, 1895, says;
"The best interests of tho stock holders of
the unfortunate II ning-Hall-Marvin Co,
demands that Mr.. Edward q. Hall and the
entire Hall interest be eliminated from the
Co. Immediately.
This party (E. @. HalD there are reasons
for believing has played the Co. false almost
! from the beginning, and eastern stockhold-
ers are awakening to this fact, etc Through
two columns of farraignment Cf e. Hall and
the Hall Safe Co. See Bond Buyer of N. Y.
City of Dec. 2nd, '95.
To follow the misfortunes of this com
pany is no pleasant occupation. 1t is due
entirely to the falsehoods and crooked deal
ings of Pres. Hall. Where a lie would sell
a safe the Hall 90. has supplied it. For in
stance, at the Dehance burglary, this Hall
Co. wss exhibiting its circulars issued from
its Chicago Office which stated that: "Our
experiments (Which never occurred and we
defy the Hall Co. to show record of any
test-O. s. and W. O. Clark have proven be-
yond question 10 US, that any safe put in a
rault can be opened by burglars in burg,
lars time"
Now while the Hall Co. was PUBLISHING q
this lie, they were advocating it at Defiance,
o., and at the same time, at Xenia, o., al
the Citizens National bank, this same Hal
Co. was advocating and advising that banh
to pct in vault and Hall safe, and drew
plans and submitted them, and made simgl
taaeousiy two sales, based G;Ss tleo lies, Tha
at Xenia an encased and fire proof safe was
out of date and they there sold vault anc
a safe, while at Defiance, O., at the Sdmt
time, the Hall 90. represented that safe
in vault could be burglarized. and they
gave to tGe Defiance bank just such safe
as they said was worthless at Xenia, O.
That the Hall Safe Co. is bankrupt witt
these kind of practices, no one can wonder
: In the last two years over 100 of its banl
J safes have been burglarzed successfully. |
r lost last year $20S,Q00 and had not enough