The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-12-07
Langhorne Again Arrested

Helena, Nov. 2S.-On his arrival
here flcm the penitentiary at Deer
Lodge where he has just finished
serving a sentence Of one year, Sam.
uel Langhorne, Jr., formerly clerk
IN the office of secretary of state
board of stock commissioners. was
taken into custody today on charge
of forgery, similar to the one to
which he plea ded guilty to a year
ago.
His arrest means the case inyolv-
ing the estray fund with a shortage
of from $685. to 100000. has not
been dropped, The original case was
disposed Of SO rapidly that the legis-
lature last winter appointed COM
mittee to make an investigation and
appropriated money to pay the ex-
penses of a special prosecutor and
special accountant. These special
officials have been quietly working
for more than eight months. on the
case.
Often it has been rumored that
other persons We're involved, but
Langhorne shouldered the burden.
Speculation is rife NOW rs to whether
he will still shoulder the burden or
will reveal all that he knows. Should
he do this, a sensation will be sprung,
it is said.
Langhorne WAS arrested this even
ing on complaint sworn to by
George E. Hurd, special proset utor,
charging him with having forged the
endorsement on a check issued by the
secretary of the board OF stock COM
missioners, March II, 1910, to Mrs.
C. w. Carver, and drawn on the
National Bank of this city
in the sum of $50.
When money from the sale of es-
trays was received at the Secretary's
office, and the checks to the owners
made out I4angholne, who handled
all the mail, extracted the checks
and destroyed the letters. lie or All
accomplish then forged the endorse
ment in ink, and below this endorse
ment, endorsed the check with lead
pencil in their own name. When the
checks were returned from tue bank
Langhorne erased the pencil endorse
ment.
He was placed under arrest by
Debuty Sheriff Rolla Duncan rs he
stepped from the train. Taken be-
fore Judge II. G.. Guthrie, he waived
preliminary hearing and was bound
over to the district court. His bond
was fixed in the sum of ST., 800. He
secured as bondsmen Jacob Walker,
grocer, and Sam Goodman, a cigar
dealer.
Langhorne was first arrested last
December and the next day after his
arrest, he pleaded guilty to the
charge of forging an endorsement on
a $40 check issued by the state board
of stock commissioners out of the es-
stray fund. The prosecution was
handled by Attorney General a. j..
Galen, and Langhorne retained as
counsel for the defense A. Y. Hey
wood, who was county attorney elect.
When the Legislature met a few days
later, stoclmen throughout the state
demanded a vigorous Investigation
and as a result, Mr.. Hurd, a elias
gov attorney, was designated in a
special statute as special prosecutor
to handle the case.
Mr.. Hurd today announced that
during the years 1909 and 1910, 1925
checks were fraudulently cashed
against the estray fund in the custo-
dy OF the state board, the total
amount of the checks being approx
mately $4,000. Mr.. Hurd further
alleged that all the checks issued in
1907 and 1908 had been destroyed af-
ter their return from the banks, thus
making it practically impossible to
check the amount of the shortage in
these years.
81 am convinced that Langhorne
was not alone in these operations
and did not alone profit in them,'
said special prosecutor Hurd.
Mr.. Hurd declared that other ar.
rests would follow shortly. but re-
fused to say whether or not he ex
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