The Monticellonian., 1904-03-17
IA CHANGE INQUIRY
 EXPOSED HAYNES
A Skidmore Mo. Affair That Bears Resemblance to One Lately
 Aired in St. Louis.
DEED AND MORTGAGE FORGERIES
 ASSORTED ID TO RAISE MONEY.
Discovery Followed by Almost I:n- mcdinte Collapse and Death, Ap- pnrentIy Due to Poison-i'randn- tent Transactions Involving S25,- 600 Inearthed.

St Louis, March 15.-A special to the Globe Democrat from MaryyiIle, Mo. says:
 Further investigation into the af- fairs of T. E Haynes. the Skidmore | tMoD attorney who died suddenly. last Friday. and who. it Was discovered yesterday, had committed extensive deed and mortgage forgeries. fails to reveal any motive for his misconduct further than a mania on his part to be known as a capitalist and wealthy property owner. He had no bad habIs and did not speculate.
 Haynes opertions were very sim | liar to those of the late James L. Blair, of St Louis. although. of course. not of such an extensive character He was the representative at Skidmore of Robert Stevenson, banker of Tar kio. Mo. It was principally through the forgery of securities. which Ee presented to Stevenson. and the ap- | propriation 10 his own Use of the money which Stevenson supposed him self to be advancing on real estate mortgages. that Haynes carried on his fraudulent transactions. Haynes short 1 age amounts to S25.000 or more. and Stevenson is the heaviest loser
 Apparently Suicide.
 ''The theory that Haynes took his own life is generally accepted A few days before his death he had applied to Stevenson for a loan of S6,0oo on q tract of land belonging to the Haynes family estate. Haynes represented 10 Stevenson that he had purchased the equity of tae other heirs in this es- tate and that he needed the money asked for oil the mortgage to close lip the deal. As the land was ample se- eurity for the loan asked Stevenson readily agreed to advance the 5000. The land is located in AtehisOn county. and II was necessary for Haynes to send the mortgages and papers con nected with the transaction to Rock. port the county seat of Atchison. to be recorded Purely as a business pre- caution Stevenson asked his attorney at Rockport to go over the papers after Haynes had filed them and see that they were free from legal or clerical error As a result of this examination Stevenson's attorney discovered that all the signatures conveying the equity of the other heirs in the estate to Haynes were written in the same hand. He conveyed this information to Stew enson. who called Haynes at Skidmore by telephone from Tarkio and either accused him of having forged the se- curities or intimated 1t so strongly that Haynes, being guilty, saw that he could not nope to further conceal his fraudulent acts. After receiving the telephone message from Stevenson at his office Haynes went directly home arriving at his house in state of col lapse. 7nls was about II o'clock Fri day A physician was summoned. but when he arrived Haynes was in the throes of a convulson and died at 1:30 in terrible agony,
 Further InycstiSntion.
 Fearing that others of the many transactions that had been carried on between himself and Haynes were fraudulent, Mr Stevenson started an lnNeSIlE' 4On do SOOll dS lie AlSIOhtitd the forgeries in the matter of the loan on the Haynes estate. This resulted in the discovery that Haynes had Dor rowed s9 800 from Stevenson on a tract of land owned by William N. Albright Haynes father-in-law. As Mir. Albright is quite wealtry and himself money loaner, fl is thought that the mortgage on the Albright land is forgery, and this is not denied by those having charge of Haynes affairs.
 "A few weeks ago Haynes had pre-. sented to Nh. Stevenson an application for a loan on a farm in Holt county. belonging to L A Iddlngs. The amount wanted was $6000. and the loan was allowed. Iddings was purchasing a tract of land against which stood a mortgage of $2 800 It was his inten
 ton to pay off this mortgage out of the S600o furnished by Stevenson, and he gave Haynes s3.o00 for that purpose. the amount being 10 cover the S2SO0 loan and accumulated interest. This money Haynes kept, and the S2S00 mortgage still stands against MT. Id dings' farm.
 In addition to these specific sums there arc supposed to ne various de- faIcations with smaller clients and TTa-..o.-' il,r o,,l h.