The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-07
KANSAS NEWS.
j. s. Scott, Cattleman, Lays All
Blame ON Swazey.
Says Kansas City Broker Only
is Responsible.
HE BORROWED MONEY.
MOrtgaged Many Cattle tt
SWazey as Security.
After Preliminary Hearing Fur
nishes 90, 200 Bond.

Kansas City, Aug. ii. s. Scott, OF
Beaver. Q. T., under arrest on a charge
OF embezzling money under the Gillette
system, accused of having mortgaged cat
tie twice and said to be short $4,000 or
more on his paper, looks like the cattle
man OF the stage Scott was not locked
up in prison, but remained IN the per-
sonal custody of Wig Keshlear. During
the day he was taken before Justice of
the Peace Jenney and formally charged,
but waived his preliminary hearing and
was bound over to the grand jury, with
bond fixed at $1,000. With his custodian
Scott went to the stock yards and there
found the commission firm of Reed & Co.
wiling TO furnish bond, winch security, it
morning. Scott spent the night at kesh-
lear's home
1T is all Swazey's fault the prisoner
says. Il had been shipping him cattle for
a number OF years and had borrowed a
ago he told me we had better take up all
my outstanding paper and make new
600. I supposed everything Vas in order
ana told him to send me the necessary
papers He sent them and 1 filled them
out. They We're all new mortgages to
take up the old maturing ones. Instead
of doing as he ought to have done-take
the old-Swazey negotiated the new and
left the old still outstanding This is the
rest was a complete surprise. to me-
WIN your cattle on hand reimburse
the BANKS was asked.
mot at the rate they are selling them.
They are putting my thoroughbred Here
fords and DurhaArns and other blooded
are not getting even the market price for
beef. l have. more cattle today than
would be required to meet even this Swa-
zey duplicated paper, but from the way
they are sending them In I will lose all
Then. if you prove your innocence. you
will have heavy damage bill to present
to the association which has caused your
doubt auditor remarked.
That is q matter for after considera-
ton SCOTS reply.
Scotts explanation, If 1t goes no fur
Their than he made IL go yesterday, may be
hard to offset, inasmuch as Swazey him
to be known to have done the very thing
Scott charges him with. Scott says that
for $4,000, he had 200 cattle, and at $50
apiece. what they were worth on the
sec. COO He does not attempt to deny his
paper was duplicated, but on the other
the understanding with Swazey. the de-
faulting member of the commission firm
Of Ladd. Penny 8, swazey. that the du-
plicates were to take up the originals.
IF Swazey did not do that the fraud
his part and not on mine.'' Scott
says.
A charge made against Scott was that
of moving cattle from one county to an
zey dated April 20, last, permitting him
They will find that I have been square
in this deal" Scott said, as he put his
permit in his pocketbook. They have
got hold of LOO of my cattle already and
I guess have ruined me. but they have
got hold of the wrong man They want
Swazey, not me-
Scott has been thirty years in the cat
tie business out west and claims to have
a number Of cattle today in Wyoming. the
number of which he can not state until
the fall roundup the calves have
not been counted. He says he has not be-
fore been arrested; that his only pre-
vfous trouble was when in 1898 he in
dorsed another mans paper and had to
make it good