The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-05
BANKS ARE EASY.
Institutions at Belle PIaine and
Mulvane Worked.
Cashiers Cash Fraudulent
Checks and Notes.
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
B. z. Taylor, of Belle PIaine,
Does Rapid Work.
Practically Secures 900
Without Amy Trouble.
His Life q Series of Mortgages
and Mishaps.
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

Wellington, Kas-. Aug. 5.-The Mail
saws:
Yesterday Ben z Taylor. OF Belle
PLANE, a eonsumptive so nearly dead
that he can scarcely walk, created a
sensation in Mulvane and Belle PLANE
BY making checks on two banks for
$2.4s0 and getting 1850 in cash on them
without having any money in the
banks to drawn on
Taylor owed the Mulvane State bank
$500 on chattel mortgages Yesterday
morning he drove to Mulvane and gave
the bank there a check on the Citizens
State bank of Belle PLANE for s1,25e.
He was given his notes and $3.50 in cash
He then came to Belle PLANE Going
into the Citizens State bank, where
Z he had an account amounting to $40,
/ he said he knew he was soon going to
die. and had some money which he
wished TO place on deposit; that he did
not wish to invest il, as he preferred
I 10 leave 1t in cash when he died He
then gave the bank q check on the
Aulyane State bank for $3.50 He
was given a deposit slip for the
amount.
In a little time he returned to the
bank and said he had concluded &c, buy
I a house and wanted $1,000, made his
check for the amount, was given the
amount in cash, walked out of the
bank, climbed into a livery buggy he
had ready and started for wellington
In little while c E Scudder, the
cashier. called up the Mulvane bank by
Ielephone and inquired whether Taylor
had any money on deposit there He
learned that he had not but owed the
bank Scudder then got a team and in
company with C T. Massey. of Wichita,
/ a brother 10 the ex-chief of police,
started after Taylor.
Scudder and Massey overlook TAYLOR
before he reached the Nenneseah- He
handed the s.. 600 back to Scudder and
afterwards paid the expenses Of the
i telephone to Mulyane and the livery
team.
By that time the MuIvane bank peo=
pie had got busy They sent repre-
sentative 10 Belle PLANE Taylor paid
back what he had left Of the $3.50 cash
ne had received from them He had
spent part OF il in paying bills around
town The Mulvane bank is now sour
rying around to find the stock on which
they have chattla mortgages
Larry IN 1900, Thomas Taylor, son of
J. NJ Taylor Who lives near Belle Plaine,
died leaving two sons, Harry and Har-
old, both small children His wife died
near the same time-- J. N. Taylor is the
man who has hauled waterrneIons and
garden truck 10 Yelling for years
livery one who knows Taylor says he
can I'VE only very short time He is
in the last stages Of consumption He
often has TO be assisted 10 walk
Ben Taylor is guardian for his two
1908 1t showed $s7S11 in cash in his
hands He admits that he has squan-
dered this money gambling. He admits
that he has involved his father to such
an extent that he will doubtless lose his
home His father IS also IN very poor
health
Taylor says that he realized that he
is doomed TO die in a few days and that
he has disgraced himself besides ruin
! ing his father financially. He says that
when he was intercepted he was COM
ing to Wellington 10 resign a. guardian
and pay the full amount of liability into
court so as to relieve his father of la
bility on his bond
Thomas Taylor was insured in the
Fraternal Aid After his death, J. NJ
Taylor filed a petition in probate court
asking that Ben Z. Taylor his son and
uncle Of the children of Thomas Taylor
be appointed as tts-r guardian The
members OF the Fratsrnal Aid at Belle
PIaine were opposed to Ben Taylor
March :. 1890. He gave bond the
same day with J. NJ Taylor as his only
surety.
on May 3 1900. he received 81 ZOO life
insurance from tbs FraternaI Aid He,
as guardian. then took mortgage
from his father and mother on their 50
acre homestead for $500, dated May l.
1900 This mortgage was released No
vember I, 1901, and at the same time J.
NJ Taylor and wife gave the Mulvane
the $500
December 1. 1902. 3. z. Taylor gave
the Citizens State bank of Belle PLANE
a chatteI mortgage for $500 on thirty
cattle and two horses Along this spring
he had a cattle sale but did not pay the
note The officers of the Belle Plaine
bank asked him where the cattle mort
gaged to them were and he directed them
to q certain pasture in Butler county.
Gcing there they failed TO find the cat
tie But Taylor said he would pay of
the note and did so and the mortgage
was released June ;. 1908
On December 3. 1902 J N Taylor gave
B T. TAYLOR chattel mortgage on
three horses and one steer for 800 which
was afterwards assigned To the Mulvaae
State bank and Is still unrelsased-
February 90 1908. B. z Taylor gave
the Mulvane state bank a chatteI mort
ge On three horses for ss5-
On March Is. 1s92 he gave the sans
hank another mortgage for 800 on three
. horses and Is heiters-
on June :. 1909. the day the Belle
Piaine bank mortgage was released HI
gave the same bank another mortgags
for $500 on nine steers and p cows. This
mortgage became due yesterday
Yesterday J. NJ Taylor and wife gave
the MuIvane State bank mortgage or
their homestead for 1880
Thfs. morning Probate Judge Showai
ter issued citation for both B z Ts-y-
I0r and J. II Taylor TO appear IN pro
bate court tomorrow to show cause why
!. Ben TAYLOR shall not be removed a
guardian of the Thomas Taylor children
when II cores 70 opening up new
country remarked the Observer Of Events
. and Things. there IS rothing can beat