The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-08
STOLEN DEED TURNS Up
IN TRUE BLANKET FORM
Drawn to Cover Two Lots, 1t
Had Been Enlarged a
HundrcdfOld.
NAY POSSIBLY BE VALID
IIilIsdale Land Co. Hustles to
Bar Recording Ii, II Not
Too Late.

/. County Clerk Charles F. Thompson of
Bergen county. n. j.. was served with an
Injunction in Hackensack yesterday re-
straining him from recording n deed
which would convey the entire property
Of the Hillsdale Land and Improvement
Company Of Hillsdale. near Hackensack.
to Allen ". Rose of New York. on a docu-
ment which. it is alleged. was altered from
a transfer of two lots to the transfer o'
every lot in the possession of the company.
The Injunction was granted by Chancellor
Stevenson in Paterson on petition of
Randolph Perkins of Jersey City, counsel
for the Hillsdale ompany.
The petition says that in August. 1911.
a deed was drawn to convey two lots at
Hillside to James Murray of Jersey City.
and that few days before the transfer
was to have been made Murray decided
not to buy the lots. The conveyance had
been properly filed out and signed by the
officers of the company. George c. Lodge
and William ii. Lodge, and when the deal
fell through the deed was locked up in
the company's safe.
A few nights later the safe was robbed
and among the papers taken was the
deed to Murray. Attempts to catch the
burglars were unsuccessful and nothing
more was heard OF the matter until Thurs
day last. when word reached the Hills
its property to Allen W. Rose OF New
York had been brought into the County
Clerks Office for recording
When the officers OF the company real
lied that their property could be taken
from them as soon as the deed was re-
corded they set about to get the injuno-
tion from Chancellor Stevenson. who
pointed out when he granted il that a
deed OF transfer Is regarded as auto
matically recorded as soon as 1t Is rendered
at the County Clerks Office and before
il is copied in the recording books. This
whether the land did not pass out of the
hands of the Hillsdale company at the
moment the clerk 3 stamp OF receipt was
placed upon it. This point will be deter
mined at the hearing set for September
%.
George c. Lodge, president Of the COM
pany said yesterday that he does not
know anything about Rose and that he
had never heard Of him until he saw his
name on the deed as buyer Of the prop
ertv. He said examination OF the deed
showed an erasure had been made and
Roses name su stitute in different ink
from the other ink and that the
description of the property also had
been tampered with The deed was
brought into the Office by a man who
says he received "A postal card a week or
20 ago asking him to call on Charles ",
Boye AT 800 East l23d street. Manhattan.
a. he wa anxious to earn something
oil the Hillsdale oompany's proposition.
which he had seen advertised
Mr.. Lodge says he called at the address
given and found Boye so interested that
he described the property in detail and
left figures giving the location Of the lo.s
owned by the company. He found Boys
pleasant end apparently prosperous.
Boye promised to communicate further
with him within a few days but the matter
went no further The description given
AT the County Clerks office Of the man
who brought in the deed to the properly
is similar to that OF Boye. The land IVES
properly described in the deed, which
had been drawn up in such way as tn
leave no looph oles by which the com
pany might recover the property when
the transfer had once been recorded.
Assistant Prosecutor John B. Zabriskie
said yesterday that the Prosecutors Office
had taken no action yet. as it will not he
determined whether the case will be put
in the hands of the New York authorities
until more details are AT hand.