The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-20

the furnishing goods store in company
with another young man, who was
twanging the light guitar in the light of
an incandescent lamp. Mr. Kapus was
smoking a cigar and was as easy and
lunem barrassed as if he were about 70
receive payment for another approved
claim" He was quite willing to dis
cuss the matter but begged his visitor
| to wait upon him a few minutes. Irl
| the course of those few minutes he re-
turned accompanied by his attorney,
Sheldon Borden, esq, and after an
nouncing that he was prepared to invoke
the penalties of the law upon any news
paper or newspapers which made state
ments of an unpleasant nature about
him, stated with the permission of his
attorney in substance as follows:
1.-The claims in question are genuine.
My business has been to purchase claims
and not to sell them. l never did any
business direct with the steamship COM
pany; did with man named Vincent,
who Is their voucher man." Asked how
he met Vincent he said: His name is
S. C. Vincent; met him here while l was
in the steamship office. He came to me
and told me that he was in position to
handle freight loss claims. He said he
would give me the information here
ahead of giving it to the parties them
selves and in that way I could go to the
parties who had claims and buy them
up before they knew they had been al
| lowed. That is the way we have done
the business. 1 explained this to Mr..
Nordlinger before doing business with
| him. The money 1 got from Mr.. Nord-
| linger and his associates 1 paid to the
parties who had the claims"
Being reminded that some of the So
called claims We're for losses on the
Arago, and that the steamship company
was never the owner of that vessel, but
that it belonged to the Oregon Coal COM
pany, Mr.. Kapus simply replied that
| they were wrong. Nor did he deign to
explain how it was that the company
had approved" claims for loss of freight
in a vessel which it did not own. Being
asked further about Vincent and being
told that the steamship company denied
having anyone in their employ of that
name, Kapus replied that Vincent was
the only man he knew, and he was the
man who sent him down the money.
He admitted that Vincent did not cor
respond with him on stationery belong
| ing TO the steamship company, out uSeu
plain paper for his letters At this point
Attorney Borden interfered and thought
that as Mr.. Vincent was becoming mixed
up in the conversation it might be well
for the protection of Mr.. Vincent and
of his client that the explanation should
terminate. Which 1t accordingly did
with the reiteration on the part of Mr..
Kapus that the claims he had bought
were genuine; or as his attorney inter-
jected, you bought them for genuine. y
The interviewer then left.
THE MYSTERIOUS MR.. VINCENT
! In connection with the mysterious Mr.
| Vincent above mentioned, it appears
that some months ago upon Dr. Peppers
getting impatient at the delay in the
payment of some of the claims he had
bought and expressing a determination
TO go to the steamship company for in
| formation, 'Kapus brought to his office a
man whom he introduced as the chief
claim adjuster of the company, and who
presented card reading: