The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-07-14
100000 IN BONDS
HAVE BEEN STOLEN
Police Investigating Theft from New
York City Safety Vault.

AVIA NIty SAFETY vault.
NEW YORK Specialize grand
jury and District Attorney whitman
are today investigating the theft of
100000 worth OF railroad bonds from
the safe deposit vaults Of the Carne-
gle Trust Company. The bonds were
deposited there by client OF the law
firm OF Putney, Twombley and Put
ney, of Rector Street. The bonds.
said to have been Southern Railway
securities, are said TO have been sold
on the street by a firm OF stock brok-
ers. Charles c. Dickinson, ex-presi-
dent or the trust company, died re-
Gently.
His Death Mysterious.
The death of Dickinson was set in
such unusual surroundings that the
case seemed to come into the class of
notion instead OF as a matter Of cold
fact.
An alchemist. DR.. F. w. LANCE. Of
scranton, Pa, attracted Dickinson for
financial venture. DR.. Ianzs claim
ed, and still claims, that he can make
silver In the laboratory out Of base
metals, one part silver and ninety
nine base. Dickinson heard of this
laboratory possibility and went to
scranton to see with his own ewes
the alchemist perform the feat that
has absorbed alchemists for centuries.
The banker was shown a pot with
matter in ii heated to 1000 degrees.
and from this stew Of metals arose
the fumes of a deadly gas. Here an
atom or silver was to be increased TO
one hundred times its weight and the
silver wealth of the world would cor
respondingly be made a hundredfoId
greater.
DR.. LANCE, in an interview after
the death Of Dickinson, said that when
the banker realized that the silver
was forming, in his enthusiasm he
leaned over the open retort and in
| nailed some of the gas. 1t made him
sick, but he revived outside.
he returned 10 New York and pneu-
mona developed. The lungs had been
| lrrltated, was the theory of the fam
lily, and the alchemist's pot was the
| direct cause of death.
Mr.. Dickinson died on May cath In
st. Luke's Hospital.
Casualty insurance companies i'm
medlateIy began Investigations The
DEAD mans life had been covered
with 100000 accident insurance not
many months before his death. Sui
| clue would have annulled that insur-
! ahce' Inc company's investigators
heId that Dickinson had turned on the
gas and had died by his own hand.
witness i'm Damage Case.
| Mr.. Dickinson had been summoned
10 court as a witness TO testify in a
case involving promissory note fo1
| SS+o,VVO. The transaction bringing
the suit occurred when he was presi.
| dent or the Carnegie Trust Company
| Inc suit was brought by Patrick ]
| hieran, president Of the defunct ri.
deity Funding Company against the
| carnegie Trust Company. and Kierar
| alleged that while Dickinson was pres.
| ldent OF the Carnegie Trust Company
| the company fraudulently obtained
| from him the promissory note for
| $3.50 200. There were also reports
! that Mr.. Dickinson had lost heavily
in the stock market, and that his ii.
| nancial resources had been steadily
| drained. 1t was said that his policie.
| IN the Carnegie Trust Company haC
deprecated 10 a great extent.
A verdict was reached that Dickin.
son died from pneumonia caused 10,
an irritating gas. The insurance com
| panies then decided 10 fight the pav
ment of the accident policies.
strange fact in the case was that Will,
Dickinson died in the early mornin.
about the break of day, no announce
ment OF his death was made unit
noon.
Then his brother, who took charg,
Of affairs for the family, declined I,
make any statement until the Carnegi,
Trust Company people advised hin
10 make known the facts in order I,
avoid rumors in Wall Street 10 tn,
effect that his brother had taken hi
own life.
1t was then the first account of III,
| day spent in the laboratory of DR.
| Lange became public and the stor,
Of the bankers dream of making sill
yer in the melting pot was opened up
DR.. LANCE was interviewed and n,
| declared that il was a fact that n,
could and had been making silver a.
described.