The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-11
Bogus Securities Aggreeating SILL
900 Already Found, and Only u
Few Cities Heard From.
AN INDIANAPOLIS MANS LOSS
HOW f. ID. HUTCHINSON WAS M
DUCED TO PART WITH $4,000.
Received s1l 900 I'm Forged bonds for
His Good MOney-Two of the Fu-
gitive's Banks Closed.

URBANA. O.. July 10--Z T. Lewis. the
absconding broker. lis now known to be
forger of high degrees. Each hour brings
out fresh rascalities on the part of the
fugitive. The amount of forgeries on bonds
known positively aggregate one hundred
and eleven thousand dollars. This does
not include large amount ON bonds SUI :
posed to be forgeries. E. E. Hutchirson.
of indianapolis, to-day turned up sti.e9p
more of the forged bonds. They are tn
pecanoe City. school bonds. The $4,000 NJ
these bonds held by the German National
Bank Of Cincinnati are declared to bs
bogus. A Springfield bank has $4,000 more
George Mock. a Columbus broker, has
just turned up with $4,000 fraudulent bonds.
Five thousand are Adams county bonds
and 1--WE thousand Tippecanoe City schoo.
bonds w. f. Hutton. of Cincinnati, h0s
$4,000 OF Tipecanoe City school bonds taat
are fraudulent Boston bankers have a
batch of forged Mechanicsburg school
bonds. They are rank forgeries, having
Autographed signatures of officials in
place of written signatures. They also
have the name of John j. Morris, signed
as clerk of the school board. when the corr
rect name is John ]. Mauk. Similar bords
are held by Springfield parties. 1t is be-
leved here that the forgeries will aggre-
gate over two hundred thousand dollars.
The liens on the property of Lewis in this
county amount to $4,000, while the prop
erty is valued at about $4,000
Judge Heiseman appointed Sheriff Miller
as receiver of the property of Lewis this
evening
u. L. Lewis was at one time a candidate
for State treasurer before the Republican
convention He has also tried for the nom-
ination as Representative from Champaign
county. He at one time was proprietor of
the Daily Citizen. He organized the Home
Savings Bank in Urbana; established
banks at Plain City. Forest. Ansonia and
Anna. In all his transactions he never
sold forged bonds outright. but kept them
for use as collateral security, thereby
controlling them and covering up his
tracks. He had most of his lthographing
and printing done In Cincinnati.
Great excitement prevails, and people
here here talk , of nothing else The fugitive
tion. He left here Monday and it is an
established fact that he first went to Mich
igan. where his family is spending. the
America to get beyond reach Of the law,
but there is no cIew to his route
Robbed His Brothers.
CINCINNATI, o., July 10.-A dispatch
from Urbana. O.. says: H. T. Lewis did not
spare his own brothers in his swindling.
He received 5000 from one brother Tor
farm, failed to deliver the deed, then mort
gagged the farm for it's full value To-day
I. j. Lewis. another brother, discovered
that q. t. Lewis, the forger, had forged
mortgage on his, T. j. Lewiss, farm and
obtained money on it. The president of the
| School Board at Mechanicsburg received by
mail to-day from the president of the Ma
! t.onal Bank of Redemption, of Boston.
chanicsburg school bond. with the query:
| What is this bond worth" The city of
| Springfield o., reports that the only loser
| by Lewis in that city is the First National
| Bank, which loaned him s. 1000 on spurious
bonds; also that the report that druggist
Troupe, of that city. lost $4,000 is false. The
Farmers National Bank holds ample Sc
| curities for its $500 loss