The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-01
Peculations of King
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 that there was something wrong with the transactions and I got in touch with the agent of the Congregational church and induced him to send me the original documents. One was a m ortgage from Frank Saum for $1s- 700 property I had once owned, but which I knew Saurn did not own.
 "Saum said that he had never sign ed the mortgage. My name had been forged to the document as town clerk recording the volume and page in the land cords of Fairfield. This was for $1,700. The other mortgage was for S1,600 and in the deed was described property which belonged to John Kruzslyals, but in the deed C1i- tus H. King and Edward Pickett ap- peared as the owners. On this last document the name of Bacon Wake man as assistant town clerk had been forged as having recorded it. Page and volume of the land records were also on this paper but no such record exists and as King and Pickett did not own the land they could not mort gage it. MT. Pickett has since de- clared that he knows nothing of the fransa ction and that his name was forged also.
 MT. Wakemans and myself took the matter up with the agent of the Con Egregational church and with MT. Keeler. We were told that there was arrangement by which MT. King was to return some of the money that he had received and that no proSecu- ton was to follow. Later develop ments showed us that MT. King had negotiated loans of about $7,800 un- der what we had reason to believe was similar circumstances. We also dis covered that he was, not paying any thing back to MT. KeeIer.
 f'We then took the matter to At torney Charles Stuart }Canfield, chair man of the grievance committee of the Fairfield county bar. He at once told us that while we might be dis posed to overlook the forgeries as pri- vate citizens as public officials we had no right to condone such an offense matter before the state attorneys of flee. This was done and warrant has been issued for MT. Kings arrest on the charge of forgery
 We have been unjustly criticised because we have not spoken sooner, but we were warned by the states at torney's office not to make public our Knowledge before the states officers were able to act. Now that the story has been printed, however, we feel at liberty to tell our side.''
 MT. King has been missing from his l. H. I. Elwood claims to have endorsed a note for s650 for Hvr King a few days ago. He also handed the attorney $350 in cash to invest in a mortgage. He received from the lawyer an envelope tied with red tape and endorsed on the outside by the. lawyer to the effect that it ontained the mortgage. The sheriff opened the envelope last night and found a blank note and blank mortgage.
 The name of John P Gray, MT Kings law partner, appears as wit ness on the nortga ge which King ne gotiated in the name of Frank Saun. MT. Gray said he had signed numer- ous papers for King with the contents of which he was unfamiliar.
 Another man who has a grievance against King is Doninick Adronik of Norwalk. He claims that on July 25, 191 he made an agreement with At torney King by which the lawyer promised on payment of $20O to se- cure a liquor license for Adronik When the license was secured it was to be transferred to a store specified by Adronik. According to the agree ment, Attorney King promised, if he failed to get the license, to return the $20o, less legal expenses, which were not to exceed $50. In the event that the lawyer secured the license he was to receive a fee not to exceed $500.
 Adroriik says he paid King the s2oo but alleges the work was not per- formed as agreed. He was unable to secure the return of his s200. On October 19, 1912, he gave King $250, he says, which was to be used as part payment for a liquor license AL though he failed to get the license the lawyer did not return the money to Adronik, the complaint states. The action. which is returnab to the September term of the superior court, is for $1,5oo damages.