Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-21
BOndsn1en Lose In
Race To Find Man
District Court Forfeits Bond of a. 81.
Haines Accused of Issuing Hundreds
of Dollars in Counterfeit Script.

The district court Saturday for
feited the bonds of A. H. Haines, in
dicted on the charge of issuing false
script. Haines has been missing for
more than four months and his bonds
men, w. v. Silvers, a. A. Frasier and
James Peck have made every posi-
BILE effort to locate him but in vain.
Twice the time for the bondsmen
to produce Haines for trial under the
indictmnt has been extended and with
eacn extension redoubled efforts were
made to find the missing man, but to
no avail
Captain w. H. G. Jaques, of the firm
of Jaques & Jaques, who represents
the bondsmen, when questioned this
morning said:
There is nothing to say about the
case. Haines left his bondsmen in
the lurch and we nave been unable to
locate him. Now the bonds have been
forfeited"
County Attorney Seneca Cornell
this morning stated that suit on the
bond would be fled against the bonds,
men at the August term of court. 1T
is too late now to do any thing with
1t at the March term" he said.
| Haines was accused Of having Is
sued script made in imitation Of that
issued by the Black Diamond store
Of kutledge. The case attracted a
great deal Of attention at the time
Of hiy hrst arrest, subsequent indict,
ment, release, and second capture.
History Of the Case.
1 The history of the entire case is
remarkable In the first place it is the
first time that metal script, such as
that used by the Black Diamond
stores, has ever been counterfeited
as far as is known This much is
vouched for by prominent seal and
stamp manufacturers in Chicago and
other large cities. The fixing of the
guilt on Haines reads like a romance
or detective story, which later, it In
truth is.
The Black Diamond store operates
two merchandise stores, one at Rut-
ledge and one at Foster. Henry Phil
lips, president Of the Phillips Fuel
Co., Is the general manager of both
institutions. A. Decker is the mana
ger of the Rutledge store. Both stores
are of the kind commonly called com
pany stores, that is, they are run in
connection with the mines operated
by the fuel company and their trade is
, principally from the employees of the
mines.
Like other institutions of this class
they used two-piece metal coin, call
, ed script, as medium of exchange
! These were made in denominations Of
a from five cents to 81. An Issue Of
$3.50 was put in circulation for the
Rutledge store
i Last August while Mr. Phillips was
. away on a vacation, it was discovered
4 that the amount of script in circula
ton was largely in excess of the
amount originally issued The amount
: in circulation seemed also to be
] growing larger each month after its
! first discovery.
! Discovery Of Fraud Kept Secret.
: The discovery that the store wat
being defrauded by the use of bogus
script was kept secret by Mr. Deck
er until Mr.. Phillips return. How
r ever he conducted some investigation
quietly which confirmed his belief tina
some one was counterfeiting tn
. stores script.
AS soon as Mr.. Phillips returned
n be wired for detective, securing on
from the Harding Detective agenc
Of Des Moines. The secret service or
q eratiye was put to work on tho cas-
1t a. once. New developments cam
thick and fast. 1t was found that
6. man by the name of T. H. Haines
20 who formerly kept boarding house a
n Rutledge, and later at Ottumwa june
ton, had been selling, and tradin
extensively in this script or coin.
e. Haines Script of the 81 Denomination
t. What particularly attracted the a
ID tension of the detective, was thu
Haines seemed to have nothing bl
the 81 denomination of the coin. H
: children. it was found, had often gon
to the neignbors with 81 pieces
have them changed into smaller d
nominations In shooting craps" wit
the miners employed in the Phillil
mines, Haines would also, it Is sal
manage to work off the larger denor
ination for pieces of a smaller value.
1t was also discovered that tn
man had been doing quite lars
business in selling small lots of
script to the miners for cash, di
counting it from Is to 40 per Ger
One amount of about $50 worth Wi
sold to Henry Nudge and several 10
to James Peck 1t was also learns
that Haines had bought bugs
from w. A. Carnes, which he had pa
in script, and golc watch and s.
graphaphone from Oscar Arnold pa
ing for it in the same way.
Haines Gives Assumed Name.
At Oscar Arnold's he gave the nan
of Miller. While these facts we
being collected, the detectives w
looking for Haines and the police we
also watching for the man. His fal
lily was located in Abba, and a saloo
running in his name was found
Hooking. But no Haines.
In September Chief Daniel Hannt
Of the Ottumwa police force receive
telephone message from the Alb
police authorities, stating that Hahn
had been captured there. Mr.. Philli
notified his son, Philip Phillips, WI
was in Abba at the time, to secu
search warrants for the home in Alb
and the saloon In Hooking Mr. Pi