Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-08
A LONG LOST j. 5.
BOND RECOVERED.
Was Stolen From Manhattan
Savings Institution Twenty
Seven Years Ago
THREE MEN UNDER ARREST
All Claim to be Capitalists.--Secret
Service Men Are Trying to Tn.
raye the Mystery,

New York, Feb. S.-Dr. Lewis O. VIII
coxson, who is under arrest here, to-
gether with Joseph a. Taylor Of
White Plains, N, Y, and James A.
Smith Of this city, in connection with
the recovery of $4,000 United States
government bond stolen from the Man
haitian Savings institution IN 1878, has
resided with his wife and child at one
of the leading uptown hotels here
together part of the time for nearly
three years, He claims Chicago as his
native city, says he owns extensive
mining interests in Alaska and has an
income Of $4,000 a month. Neverthe-
less, he spent the night in prison in
default of $4,000 bond required by the
federal authorities. The recovery of the
bond was made through the sub treas
ury IN Wall street, where Il had been
delivered by bank messenger, Thirty
OF the same series were taken i'm the
Manhattan robbery and this is only the
third one found. Two others were re-
covered IN 1850 by Inspector Byrnes.
In addition to the three prisoners
mentioned, all OF whom claim 10 be
capitalists and promoters, the complaint
on which they were arrested served also
as the basis for a warrant for the arrest
of one Samuel Warren Miller. Secret
service detectives who are busy un-
ravelling the case say they are IN doubt
whether Miller IL real or a mythical
parsonage, The only evidence that such
q man exists rests upon the fact that
his name, written out IN full appears
upon the bond In the place where the
nI
tuition should appear and the additional
fact that DR.. WlicoXson describes Meyer
as the man from whose hands the bond
came into his possession as the result
Of business tranaction.
When Deputy Asst, United States
Treasurer G., w. Major received the
bond from a bank messenger I'm the
course OF business he instantly recog-
nized II because OF the number and
called Capt. Flynn of the secret service.
They examined the paper and found
no Disagreement except I'm the perfect
substitution Of one name for the other.
The name Samuel Warren Miller APP
peared to have been written many
years ago. The ink had faded nearly
MS much as that In which appeared the
name OF United states Register ALI
son written below,
capt. Flynn went directly TO the Act
ma bank and there found waiting James
A. Smith. who had presented the bond,
and who had been asked 20 wait while
it was referred 10 the treasury officials.
Smith said Joseph A. Taylor n friend,
brought him into contact with DR. VIII
coxson and that the latter had author
ICED him to negotiate a loan for $500
with the bond as collateral. Smith &
Taylor we're to receive commission.
on the back Of the security Il APP
peared that Miller had on Monday
morning transferred the bond 20 VIII
coxson IN the presence Of President
Mover OF the Shoe & Leather National
bank as required by law,
The secret service agents proceeded
10 the Waldorf Astoria hotel and ar
rested Taylor. He expressed great as
honlshment, as also did Wicoxson, who
came I'm after an evening at the thea
ter to find himself under arrest.
The doctor said he made large for
tune I'm Alaskan and Dutch Guiana
mining property, and that Miller re-
Gently entered upon negotiations for
some OF the former Miller, he said,
offered 10 make the entire payment
In United States 4 per cent bonds.
Those are as good as gold to me-