The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-29
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whose duty it shall be to ascertain if
said school bonds were negotiated and
sold to said commissioners OF the per-
manent school fund by the said An
drew j. Mowry land for the purpose
of investigating the same, they are
| authorized to send for persons and pa
pers and administer oaths thereon,
and to report to this house. for It's
proper action thereon. the facts per-
tanning to said investigation
And, by virtue of a certain other
resolution, adopted by the house of
representatives on the 4th day of Feb
ruary, 1876, of which the following is
a copy:
Resolved, That the committee on
state affairs. when they make their
report on the resolution referred to
them, relating to the statement OF the
attorney general, that the permanent
school fund commissioners had pur-
chased certain school bonds issued by
districts Nos. and 3. in Comanche
county, be empowered to report all
the facts in relation to the issue and
sale of said bonds to the permanent
school fund, and the value of the
same, and their conclusions thereon
(Which resolutions authorize your
committee to investigate the charges
made against Andrew j. MONTY, py
Attorney General A. NJ F. Randolph,
in his report for the year ending NO
vember 80. 1875, respectfully herewith
submit their report:
Hollister as their clerk and stenog-
rapher, who reduced to writing the
testimony herewith sumbitted, and
made a part of our report
Your committee find that on the 18th
day of March, 1874 the said Andrew j.
MoWry, now a member of this house
from the Third district (Don1pnan
county,. sold to the permanent school
fund two bonds purporting to have been
issued by school officers of school dis
tricts Nos. and 3, Comanche county,
and received therefor from the state
treasurer, on the order of the commits
sioners for the investment of the school
fund, and of the money belonging to the
permanent school fund, the sum of
seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, as
per exhibits marked, respectively, "A,
"B, " CO. and ID"
Your committee further find that
Comanche county, at the time said bonds
purpOrt to have been issued, had no
bona fide population. no taxable proper
ty. no organized school districts, no
school houses. no records of the county
or of school districts.
Your committee further find that pre-
tended school bond No 1, of school dis
trict No. 2, Comancne county, was pre-
tended to be issued directly to said An
drew J. Mowry; and that pretended
school bond No. 1, of school district No.
8. Comanche county, was issued to A.
Mills, as the payee thereof; that said
pretended bond No 1. in school district
No. 2. Comanche county, which con-
tains the name of A. J. Mowry as payee,
purports to have been signed by Oliver
Ray, as clerk of said school district No.
,. and w. Henry, as director of said
school district No. 2, and the certificate
Endorsed on the back of said bond pur-
porting to have been signed by James
Hopkins, county superintendent of
public instruction of said Comanche
and William Allen, as county
clerk of said county, are not the genuine
of the persons purporting to
IVA sic cd i
rectors of said school districts, or the
persons purporting to have signed the
said certificates Endorsed on said bonds
as county superintendent of public in
structiOn, and the county clerk of said
county. Your committee have no hest
tation in saying, from the evidence pro-
duced before them:
First-That no such persons, whose
names appear to said bonds, ever lived
in Comanche county.
Second-That said bond is a forgery,
and that the names of Oliver Ray, as
clerk and w. Henry, as director, of
said school district, James Hopkins, as
superintendent. and w. Allen, as
county clerk. were written and endorsed
on said bond. and the said coupons
thereto attached, by the said A. J.
Mowry.
Your committee further report that
said pretended bond No. 1. in school dis
trict No 8, Comanche county, contain
ing the name of A. Mills. as payee, pur-
Newman, as clerk, and NJ Mitchell, IS
director, of said school district No. s.
of said Comanche county, are not the
genuine signatures of the persons pur-
porting to have signed the same; and
the certificates on the back of said bond |
to have been signed by |
James Hopkins, as county Superintend- |
emit of public instruction, and w. Allen, !
clerk of said Comanche county, |
are not the genuine signatures of said |
James Hopkins and w. Allen; and the |
committee find that said bond, and the |
coupons thereto attached, are forgerieS, |
and that A. ]. Mowry forged the names |
Of Peter Newman and NJ. Mitchell to |
the said bond and coupons. numbered |
from three to fifteen inclusive, and that |
said A. J. Mowry forged the names of |
James Hopkins and William Allen to |
the certificate endorsed on said bond. |
Your committee further report that said !
A. J. Mowry received the sum of seven |
teen hundred and fifty dollars from the |
state treasurer aforesaid for the pre- |
tended bonds aforesaid, and converted |
the money to his (the said Mowrys) |
own use. (See the testimony of S. x |
Lakin, cashier of the Topeka National |
bank; VIM. B. Craig, of the firm of d. |
NJ. Steel & Company, where the said |
Mowry deposited, in person, one thou |
sand dollars On the oath day of March, |
lS74-five days after he received the |
money on said pretended bonds.)
Your committee further report that .
said Mowry purchased blank school I
bonds of ii. D. McCarty, state Super1n- |
tendent of public Instruction, some time |
before the making and date of the pre-
tended bonds of school districts Nos. 2 |
and 8. Comancne county.
It appears, from the testimony here
with submitted, that w. H. Small
wood, secretary of state, and H. D. |
McCarty, superintendent of public in
struction. ard by virtue of their office
as commissioners for the investment of |
the permanent school fund in the year
1874 purchased these school bonds. to-
wit: bond No. 1, school district No. ..
and bond No. 1, school district No. 3,
Comanche county of A. J. Mowry,
the consent of the other COM
missioner. Hon. A. L. Williams. then