The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-09
FORCED deeds OF
PROPERTY here
Continued from First Page.)
rections duly made and fifty cents, will
file same and return 1t to you.
Yours very truly,

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authorities to suspect that there had
been some crooked work In New Ha-
ven. probably in connection with the
transfer of the property of this Mar
garet McCullom. AS result, some
quiet inquiries were instituted yester-
day in behalf Of the New York authori-
ties
Mrs. McCullom could not be located,
but her name appears in the assessors
lists as the owner of property on Bea-
con street.
A deed to this land Is In the possess
sion of Bough, the leading figure In the
case. Every effort will now be made to
locate Mrs. McCullom, and 1t Will prob
ably result in the proving Of the suspic-
ions that the deed is bogus one.
1t is not yet known whether the same
gang has had any further dealings In
property here.
City Clerk Street has received word
from the New York authorities to look
up the matter of the McCullom deed,
and find out If possible If 1t is bogus.
Mr.. Street is investigating the matter.
New York Aug. S-There were some
new phases, to-day In the investigation
Of the syndicate which has ben forg
ing deeds to real estate by the whole
sale for the purpose of giving fraudu-
lent bail bonds. The trafficking in
forged deeds has been traced to a gang
Of six men, who, In some way are con-
rected with all the cases. Two nota-
rles public have done the certifying to
the forged acknowledgements.
The leader of the gang Is believed to
be John Bough, who is at present UNI
der arrest charged with fraudulently
conveying an Eleventh avenue tena-
ment house. The notary in connection
with the case is Charles A. Herman Of
Brooklyn. The same pair have since
been definitely connected with several
other transactions of the same charac-
ter,
To-day three more improper trans
fers were discovered accidentally by a
title searcher in Queens county In
going over some of the records, he
noticed these deeds, which were
acknowledged before notary who
had been several times mentioned In
connection with the so-called straw
bail gangs" operations, A casual ex-
animation showed that the paper on
/ which the deeds were made out was
watermarked 1906, inspite Of the fact
that the transfers were dated 1901
land 1904. The searcher reported the
matter to the district attorneys office.
1T was learned that in November,
1906, an effort was made by member
of the forgery syndicate to sell Mr..
Appleby's property at Nos S91 and
| 1913 Eleventh avenue. A man who rep
resented himself as Benjamin Hart, a
| farmer from Wilmington, De, offered
'his property" at a low price to a
client of L. S. Marx. Hart had law
YER" too, but negotiations were drop
ped when it was learned that the office
address in Wal street given by the
ilawver was the custom mousse Hart
tried another time to dispose of the
same property for $4,000, although it
lis valued at twice that figure.
AS the hitherto unknown operations
| of this gang came to light the suspi-
cion grows that it was in business for
even larger gains than it could get
from giving straw bail. 1t is believed
that it forged deeds for the purpose of
raising mortgages and, If possible, SELL
| ing the property.
Mr.. Appleby, through Cannon &
Cannon, his attorneys, began suit yes
| terday in the supreme court against
Edith Stonebridge and others to set
| aside the alleged deed, dated and ac-
knowledged on January 26, 1905, and
filed in the office of the register on
July "a last, purporting to be deed
of conveyance from Appleby to Edith
Stonebridge of property in Eleventh
avenue Appleby alleges that what
purports to be his signature upon the
said paper writing is forgery, and
asks that the deed be declared void
and cancelled. A lis pendens has been
filed against the property.