East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-01-05
MAN
UNDER ARREST
LEE W. HELD AND FELLOW
TITLE OFFICERS ARRESTED
Rival Concern Causes Arrest of Three
McH Accusing Them of Fraud
Their offices Searched - Papers
Which Other Company Claims Are
SclLed-Sheriff Claims to Have
Found discriminating Evidence.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. Al. w. Held,
j. b, Wandersforde and d. e, Carle-
ton. officers of the Guarantee Abstract
& Title company, doing business in
the New York block, were arrested
yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sher-
iff c. b. Payton and Constable Jim
shannon on warrants charging con-
spiracy to defraud.
Carlton l.. Hall, manager of the
Title Trust company swore to the
complaint, which alleges the theft of
abstracts and acreage tract sheets
which, he says, have cost the Title
Trust company thousands of dollars
To prepare
George II. Walker, counsel for the
Title Trust company. who prepared
the complaint, said yesterday
"The Title Trust company has, dur
ing the past two years, been making
extensive additions to its abstract
plant, and during a part of that time
has had large force of employees at
work, some of whom have worked at
night. one of its men thus employed
was Dudley Williams.
About year ago several employ
es of various abstract concerns in the
city got to gether and organized the
Guarantee Abstract & Title company,
and they bought or contracted to buy,
the Title Guarantee Abstract COM
pany. then doing business in the New
York block. This plant of the Title
Guarantee Abstract company was
practically owned by II. D. Moore.
"W II. Kirkman was manager of
the new company, but he left them
several months ago. d. NJ. Peoples
was president, but he also left the
company two weeks ago.
Accuses Williams.
Dudley Williams was on the night
force of the Title Trust company.
| Williams went to the Guarantee Alb
stract & Title company and made ar
rangements by which he was to pro-
vide them with the data, information
and records of the Title Trust COM
/ pany.
/ $50 far as the Title Trust company
knows at present, the data Williams
| procured was of two kinds abstracts
and acreage tract sheets. These acre
age tract sheets were skeleton blanks
which showed every transaction which
affected the certain sections from the
government patent down to the date
that such sections may have been
| plated This research entails the ex-
penditure of thousands of dollars.
| Several hundred copies of abstracts
of as many additions to the city of Sc
attic were printed and stored in the
vaults of the Title Trust company.
Williams, from time to time, had
taken copies Of these abstracts and
| delivered them to the Guarantee Alb
! stract & Title company, which filed
them with the equiment of its plant
| in the New York block, thereby Sc
| curing at a nominal cost data that
had cost thousands of dollars to the
people from whom they were taken.
Williams during the nights he was
at work copied the most valuable. OF
the acreage tract sheets of his employ
ers upon the loose leaves printed for
the purpose, and these he sold to the
Guarantee Abstract & Title company.
| Held. Carleton and Wandersforde
would take these transcripts to their
homes and copy them upon blanks
that they had printed for themselves
and file them with the equipment of
their plant. as they did with the abb
stracts secured from Williams"