The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-02
BURNS AND BOURNE
DICTMENTs AGAINST
10TH MEN
SEVEN AGAINST THE LATTER
Burns Pleads Not Guilty, and Gives
bonds for $2,5OO-Someone
May Have to Pay County
$1,000.

Indictments were found against j. H.
| Burns and Walter B. Bourne yesterday
| by the grand jury. The former is in
dicted on a charge of grand larceny,
! namely, obtaining money. under false pre-
| tense The Indictment against Burns is
| founded on the David O'Nel tax certffi-
Gates, and the amount obtained is est1-
mated at $1S3.S3
Two tax certificates were out against
piece of property owned by O'Neil in
the DeBow, Risque and Williams addi-
| ton, one for 1889 and one for 1885, A
Mr. Denegre bought one Of the certifi-
Gates and O'Neil himself bid in the other,
and later he bought the Denegre certi-
| ficate. When O,Neil died and his estate
| was closed up, the certificates were not
found, and Of course had never been
| taken up.
| According to the indictment, there was
a fraudulent refundment of these certi-
| fcates by Burns to Carl Ducius and J.
| H. Schoonmaker, acting as his agents.
| Ducius made the application to the
| county board and Schoonmaker had the
warrant made out in his name and turned
| the money over to Burns.
Some time after, when there. was some
| litigation over the property, Miss. ONeil,
in searching through an old trunk, found
| the certificates, which were presented to
the county auditor, and then the fraud,
as charged in the Indictment, was expos
| ed. Burns was arraigned yesterday after
| noon and pleaded not guilty. j. Cooley
| and c. Kartak went on his bond for
| $780,
| The Indictment found against Bourne
yesterday makes seven charges that he
will have to stand trial for The last
Indictment is for grand larceny in the
! first degree, and the amount he is alleged
| to have appropriated is $7.342. 40.
W. I'll.
charges that Bourne fraudulently, and by
| means of false pretenses, obtained from
! the State Savings bank a certain order
drawn by ]. NJ. Goldsmith, treasurer for
$3.50. 40, and was drawn April 49, 1892 on
the First National bank in favor of w.
B. Bourne, deputy auditor.
The check was in payment of a number
of refunding orders for large amounts
purporting to be signed by County Au-
ditor Johnson and A. r. Kiefer, as chair
man of the board of county commission
ers,and Endorsed to all intents by the per-
son to whom they ran. Under the date OF
April II johnson had stamped his in
dorsement on each of them, stating that
there was no money with which to pay
them, and that the orders would be paid
when the funds were available, with in
terest at Z per cent The treasurers in
dorsement was per H. Mayer" The Or
ders We're of the date of March 80, 1899,
and purported to be taxes for 1891, save.
in one item.
When Bourne presented the order or
check at the Second National bank, the
institution refused to cash it, not being
satisfied with Beurnes Endorsement, and
Bourne then took the check to County
Treasurer Arosin and received his official
check, which he proceeded to cash at the
National German-Ameriean bank. The
next wear, in Nav the State bank had
the refunding orders redeemed with the
promised per cent interest.
From the way the affair stands now it :
looks as though someone would have to
make up the $1,000. The county is secur-
ed, of course, by the bonds of its Off
Gals, and the bank innocently purchased
fraudulent orders.