Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-15
VANC[EVE SCANDAL
GETS INTO COURT
DR.. E. A. Cantonwine Seeks to
Recover $5,365.74 From
Bosch Bros.
PAID THAT SUM UNDER THREAT
Plaintiff Alleges He Turned Over
Large Amount to Defendants on
Latters Threat to Begin Criminal
Prosecution-Bosch Bros. Say Can
tonwine Was Guilty of Thefts.

Alleging that he was accused by
Bosch Bros. of theft and while protest.
ing his innocence, yet admitting that he
turned over a large amount of money
and bankabe notes under duress Of the
threat of prosecution on criminal
charge DR.. e. A. Cantonwine of Van
cleve, today filed a most sensational pc
tition for suit in the August term of
the district court. He seeks to recover
Threatened Prosecution.
Bosch Bros, is partnership firm
composed of Peter, William and Vessel
Bosch, doing a general merchandise
and implement business. DR.. Canton
wines petition alleges that Vessel
and Peter Bosch falsely and maliciously
charged Cantonwine with theft and lar
ceny and embezzlement. and threatened
him with immediate criminal prosecu-
ton and Imprisonment unless he at
once paid to them the sum of So
900 in cash and surrendered notes
signed by the firm, and held by him, for
$500. His petition admits the money
and notes were soon after paid over and
returned to the firm, the reasons for so
doing he sets forth in the petition as
follows: Overcome by the suddenness
and falsfty Of the charge and over per-
suaded and over influenced by Bosch
Bros, the plaintiff, tho innocent, but
thru fear and apprehension, lost his
power OF reason and sumbitted on that
account to the threats and demands
and exactions of Bosch Bros, and was
thereby induced and persuaded to en-
dorse over and delive, to the defend
ants the following personal property:
Certificate of deposit s1,S65.74
Certificate Of deposit ........ 10000
Certificate of deposit ......... 10000
Certificate of deposit ......... 10000
Bosch Bros, note ............ 100000
Bosch Bros, note ............ 100000
Note of Peter Bosch .......... 10000
Iotai ~. =. .$6, 1854
Two Of the certificates Of deposit
were issued by local bank, and the
other two We're from a Melbourne bank
The firms two notes were for thirty
days each at per cent. The note
signed by Peter Bosch was for one
year at 6 per cent.
Cantonwine Claims Fraud.
The petition, continuing, sets forth
the claim that all of the property was
obtained maliciously, fraudulently, and
by coercion. undue influence, intimida-
ton and compulsion. 1t also alleges
that Cantonwine was absolutely limo
cent of any crime, but that Bosch
Bros. so terroriZed and overcame his
mind and will power as to cause him
to act not of his own volition. Can
tonwine asks that a decree be given
him restoring his property to him,
and that in case 1t cannot be restored
he seeks judgment against William
and Peter Bosch for $500 and against
Vessel and Peter Bosch and Bosch
Bros, $5.365.74
Bosch Gives His Side.
Peter Bosch, a member of the firm,
was communicated with by telephone
at Vancleve this morning. He said
that they did accuse Cantonwine as set
forth and that they had done so be-
cause they had seen him taking money
from the safe during the various time
he had been employed by the firm
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Bosch said it was represented by what
the firm had secured from Cantonwine.
He further stated that the thefts
which they had alleged had covered
period Of about two and one half
years. or most of the time that the
firm has been in business.
Watched Theft Thru Hole.
Suspecting Cantonwine, members of
the firm, Mr.. Bosch said, bored hole
in the ceiling of the store, and two of
them secreted themselves in the attic
above While There they saw Cam
tonwine take money from the safe On
another occasion he was seen to take
money by a person secreted with his
eye to the same hole. This, Mr.. Bosch
said, was in April, and soon after the
firm demanded and secured the return
of the money and bankable paper.
Cantonwine, in his petition denies his
guilt and seeks to prove his innocence
Borrowed 1t Back Again.
The presence of notes by the firm
in Cantonwine's possession was ex-
planned by Mr.. Bosch, who said that
the continued taking OF the money so
financially crippled the firm that it
was forced to borrow money, which it
did, from Cantanwine, giving him two
notes Of $1,000 each. The first of these
was given Nov 20, 1906, and the sec
ond was given March 4, 1907. The
Vancleve community has known Of the
alleging of theft for several months.
Observation-Disclosures