The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-28

XIV" 7zeH Authorized to Use Smell,
Fnp"r--.5im thc Pcnnnn 81 ,rv,o
Compared 10 the 81. Ap4ln,
f"fk Fi""icier--s'irst Sunday In
tiae CGc,nty Jail
r. no time check issued by James II
11-ToGtHaH. the late chief clerk Of the
Dilteu Sttttts engineering department.
terfoi I,i,''ri arrest for forgery and c0un-
1tIItIl!ES pay warrants, ever was gem
ulHe or worth enc cent. They were all
without exception, bogus. Assistant
ChIeI E+nginCer Mckenzie and later hi.
successor at st. Paul, James d. Du
shame were the only persons ever al-
li-"i Ecu 70 issue the time checks The
checkS Which they issued We're noid
years ago, and none have been sent
OUT since Southall never was enDOv-
Gieu 10 sign d time check. and If is
renewed that every signature on thr
pack OF the checks, pUrpOrting to hava
,'esn written by labOrer, was written
1T II is a remarkable fact in connection
WIZ the men whose names aDuear on
lhe checks that, though they wnrjxeI
1II fGO ana $40 month, they were all
educated 50 that they wrote thoir
names with considerable ease and even
grace. not one of the checks that have
ga IL" "p III lhe market is signed with
Il cross, as is usual There are cor
tam twists in the writing that indicate
IHte'tI5eEce OF higher order than i;
usually found among a gang Of Mi
SISSlFpi river labOrers Some of the in
uofSemeAtS show lines very similar. to
nose In SouthalIs handwriting. The
resemblance IS noticeable in the final
I - OF Us and Gs and in small
lis. There are other points of 20
sembIance that have httbert0 agaa,led
attention Of the holders and even If
CNpellS who have examined the PAPER
9eNefaI persons who are suprOeed "a
nave a knowledge Of such things haI,o
declared that Southall nor any 0tber
man could initiate 50 many different
SUES OF Fenmanship, but a man who !
mas lately examined them under a mi |
cfOScope says positively that S0uthau
wrote them all.
Jim Wasn't in 1t.
If this is correct, Jim the Panroan
was a tyro compared to Southau
It IS barely possible that S0uthaJI in
uuced Iaborers who called at the en-
Glneer's Office for their pay to sign
their names on the backs Of his boe71s
time checks, representing that tbn M
I'tIS were receipts for their money and
required Endorsement But this is MT
considered probable.
y peculiar thing about the signatures
IS mat lhey Were written in different I
KINDS OF inks. Some are signed with
Diue ink, some with pale black. Others
with deep black. and in fact with ev
cry color and quality of ink The idea
10 De conveyed was that the men sign
5d the checks at their homes and not
IN the office -''1
Another circumstance that escapad
suspicion, but which was calculated 70
grouse 1t in the minds Of careful mon
was the fact that among the names Of
he indorsers there We're few dun1i-
,ateS. Each months issue Of the time
'hecks was for a new gang. No man
to work for the government
Wo months in succession. Yet they
we're supposed to be men who were So
lnXious to get money that they were
Wiling to sell their pay warrants at
arge discounts
Didn't Have Witnesses.
But 1t is the circumstance that the
men all signed their names in full that
certain persons that they are
III forgeries A cross for a signature
you'd nave required q witness, and
'outhau did not want any witnesses.
Inc men who -.have been caught in
helr dealings with SouthalI object to
eng called ShyIOcks. They say the
,,ame does not fit them, but that, on
ne contrary, they were actuated bv
ne pest motives in buying the time I
hecks. !
When the checks were first put ON
ne market they were redeemed within
Wo or three months, and Southall dis I
osed of them at 80 and 90. Then the I
len who bought them-the middle
that If they ran a year {
hey could not make any profit in the !
linasmuch as they had to /
ay and 10 per cent on money thew |
orroWed on pledge Of the checks as q
And as the certificates ran Z
niger and longer the price paid for ;,
lem naturally decreased until finally II
got as low as 70. D
The Oldest certificates now outstand-
g, so far as known are four wears
q, and If they were bought at 70 and T
lie purchaser had to pay 10 per cent ~
r his money he would be hardly -
zen II they We're paid today. So that D
e belief that purchasers made money OF
the trade is not as correct as at 81
ST appears. The present holders, is
no took them as collateral from the in
lrchasers, and who hold them now n
hply as pledges. had no dealings