The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-07
A WALLINCF0RD?
Topeka Man Tells Amazing Tale
of $2,64O,OOO i'm Bonds.
j.. G. Mccall Thought He Was
Near a Fortune.

An amazing tale of rapid accumula-
ton of wealth, involving something
like $2,64O,00O in steel stocks ana
bonds, that would back "Get-rlch-
quick Wallingford off the map was
told this morning in the county attor-
ney's office by J. c. Mccall, or 51o
West street, who swore to a Warrano
for the arrest of two men whom ne
claims robbed him of his bonds We'd
neSday night.
When Sheriff L. L. Kiene and Rad
NJ. Lee, assistant county attorney
heard McCalps story they stared IN
blank amazement, being unable to be-
lieve that there was that much money
in the world.
But here's McCalls story:
you know how fellow viii do.
Trade around and get things that he
thinks is junk. Well last spring l
traded for this Lackawanna steel. !
had some land in western Kansas anu
some in Missouri that 1 couldn't pay
taxes on so I traded it to different fel-
lows and got 200 shares OF Lacka-
wanna steel. I am not sure that tnere
was that much, but it was something
near that. 1 had thirteen cert1flcateS
and each certificate was good for a
thousand or more shares.
Only Worth 81 Then.
when 1 got this it was only worth
about So a share. Now 1t lS worth
about $50. I was talking to Myers, OF
the investment company in the Column
bian building, about the stock and he
| told me that now was the time TO SELL
| 1 was going to sell the stock today.
Last night / went to the home OF
C. F. Ludington, 101S Lane street, and
when L was going home two men, one
large and one small, spoke to me. L
said howdy and started north on Lane
street I noticed the two fellows fol-
| lowing me and when reached a dark
| spot under the trees between Seventh
and Eighth streets they jumped on
me. One of 'em said:
We Mt
| said, why, men, I amt got no pa
pers.' Then they cut my clothes,
kicked me in the back and jerked a
big envelope out of my inside pock-
| ct. This envelope had the bonds in
it. 1 know one of the fellows, be-
cause I bought some of the stock from
him last spring. (Name oSleted by or
| der of the police.)
Plan on Sale Today.
st have been sick for the last three
years and when L heard that Lacka-
wanna had taken big jumps and was
up to $50, I figured that I'd have an
easy time now. L was going to sell
| them this morning"
| Mccall didn't know just how much
money he would have been worth if
he had been able to sell the stocks.
He was enough interested in the rob-
berry to wire the Kean-Taylor com
pany, New York city, the transfer
agent for the Lackawanna Steel COM
| pany, and ask to have the company
prevent the transfer of the stocks.
Some of the certificates were blank,
Mccall said, and could be converted
into cash by anyone.
Advised to Sell.
The Lackawanna Steel company is
a $7O,0OO,000 corporation in the
state of New York. 1t has coal fields
in Pennsylvania, and smelters in Min
nesota and Michigan. The offices OF
the company are in Buffalo, N. Y,
Since the war steel stock has been on
the jump and Lackawanna went UP.
| too.
Mccall told me that he had some
Lackawanna stock and I advised him
to sell now, because the stock was
up said Thomas J. Myers, invest
m emit broker, this morning. Il dc
not believe, however, that he had
$4,000 shares Lackawanna Steel is
quoted at S0% today. 1t was up tc
So a few days ago, but the market
has fluctuated -
# Mccall had $4,000 shares of thi.
stock, as he says he had, he wa:
WORTH something like $2,64O,OOO be
fore he was robbed Wednesday night
The police and the sheriff's force are
investigating the case.
The county attorneys force is in
clined to believe that Mccall hac
$4,000 worth of this stock, or abou
$50 shares and that he got ratified q.
his loss and forgot how to tell jus
what he did have. But Mccall stout
~ maintains that he had $4,000
shares.
Mystery: How many shares die
Mccall have?