Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-10

at the Office of Broker Iseman. Broker
Iseman wanted to know if he was sure
that he had bought the tickets from Mr.
Beard. Mr.. Todd was sure. Broker
Iseman said that Mr.. Beard had denied
the sale of the tickets, and Todd suggest
ted that there was mistake. Itwould be
a good idea for the broker to telegraph
again, and. in the meantime, he would
walk across to the Kimball, returning
by the time the broker should get the
desired information.
Broker Iseman had already prepared
himself for something like this. An off,
Ger had been summoned, and the officer
was instructed to follow Todd. The
man walked leisurely across the street and
went into the main entrance Of the Kim
ball house. The officer quickened his
pace and went around to the side entrance.
Just as he got there, he met Todd COM
ing out, and laying his hand roughly on
the young mans shoulder, invited him
to return to the office of the broker.
By this time the telegram from Recei-
yer Harper, authorizing Todd's arrest,
had been received, and the young man
was taken regularly into custody. be
insisted that there had beer some mis-
take, and persisted that he was innocent
of any wrong doing.
Superintendent Nichols and Agent
Beard went to Atlanta, Saturday, arriving
there on Sunday. With the help.of the
police, they Investigated the whole mat
ter thoroughly. In Todd's room, at a
boarding house, they found his valise,
and in the valise they found some uni
versal coupon tickets and u pretty fair
counterfeit of the stamp used at the
Yorkville agency Of the Chester and
Lenoir railroad. Some of the tickets had
been made out for Los Angeles, CAL,
and others for the City of Mexico. Such
tickets are numbered from one on up.
From the numbers, it appeared that one
was missing. After careful search, the
charred remains Of this was found in
the CRATE. The ink was still visible, and
it was learned that the ticket-which had
probably been the alleged forger's first
attempt-was made out for st. Louis, Mo.
Upon being confronted with the evil
dences of guilt, Todd tried to implicate two
wellknown railroad men-Tom Mccain
dless and 8. L. Milan. They were sum-
moned but they did not coborrate Todd's
story. Their story was to the effect that
having accepted an invitation to the young
mans room, he said to them that he rep
resented the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge railroad the road was in serious
trouble financially, and that he had been
sent to Atlanta for the purpose of selling
some Of the tickets; he wanted them to
help him but both declined positively to
have anything to do with any such
scheme, notwithstanding his promise to
divide, and left the room. The police
were satisfied that Tood had committed
the forgeries himself, and the young man
is now awaiting the action of tie grand
jury.
How the blank tickets came into Todd's
possession is not clear. He has not said.
The Atlanta papers, from which we got
most of the above information, suggests
that he probably had them printed. But
this theory is not so plausible as another.
The oung man was soliciting agent for
the Narrow Gauge railroad from October,
1895, until about January, 1895. During
that time he had access to all the offices
along the line, and in the light of subse-
quent developments, it is not improba-
BILE that while he had the opportunity he
laid in his supply of blanks.
Since the young mans arrest, the re.
porter has been informed that. up to
few weeks ago, he was engaged in the
bucket shop business in Chester, and
some of his customers are ready to be-
lieve that he f1eeced them out Of con-
siderable SUM of money. The story
about the sick wife recited above is a
hoax. Todd is not married.