The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-09
HALEY CITIZENS m BAD
Mayor, Bank President and County Of
fetal Arrested for Taking Bonds.

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a big sensation when a bank president,
the chairman of the board of county
commissioners, and the mayor were
arrested charged with larceny OF ID
bonds having value of $500 each. A
fourth man implicated is the deputy
county auditor and recorder, but his
arrest has not been effected because
of the fact that he has fled the coun-
try. @
News of the sensational disclosures
is contained in a special disptach to
the Statesman, setting forth the facts
as follows:
Yesterday H. d. Curtis, president of
the HALEY National Bank, w. F. Horne,
former county clerk and now chairman
of the board of OcOunty commissioners,
and Mayor Henry Plughoff were ar
rested on the charge OF grand larceny,
of appropriating from Blaine county
Is bonds valued at $500 each, re-is-
sue of the 1920 year bonds sold in
1896 to take up an old bond issue of
Alturas county
The bonds were duly ordered issued
and signed but they are remnant of
the issue then authorized tOtaling two
hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
The annual interest coupons were
not presented for redemption, the first
payment being due in July, 1907, and
none have since been presented 1t was
| supposed they were lost. ~
k The COUPONS and the bonds were
placed in the First National bank Of
HALEY for safe keeping and when that
bank sold to the HALEY National bank
they were transferred with the other
papers of the bank.
On December IS, 1914, coupons to-
falling $4,160 were presented to the
county treasurer and redeemed; : then
on January or 3, 1915, $4,995 more
coupons were presented. They came
from the First National bank of Sho-
shone E. B. Johnson, the outgoing
lcounty treasurer, turned the coupons
over to his successor, Mrs. Emma l..
Reed, with directions that she pay
them.
/ Mrs. Reed hesitated and the board
Fof county commissioners verbally in
structed her to pay them Still she
! hesitated and upon her suggestion
County Attorney Proctor K. Perkins
began to investigate the matter and
found that the bonds came from the
HALEY National bank in December,
were then sent to the First National
bank in Shoshone which in turn sent
them to the treasurer of Blaine coun-
ty for payment.
Investigation by the county attor-
ney disclosed the fact that the bonds
and coupons had been taken from the
HALEY National bank by Mayor Plug
hoff, w. F. Horne and Louis A. Duvall
the latter deputy auditor and recorder
of Blaine county, and by Duvall sent to
the Shoshone bank, and consequently
warrants for their arrests were is
sued.
In the meantime, however, it is al
legged that on January 8, Duvall left
HALEY hurriedly for Twin Falls, he
said, to meet Raymond Guyer. He
was traced to Chicago and from that
time all trace of him has been lost.
The bonds of the men were placed
at $4,000 each and all were released
their preliminary examination to be
held Wednesday, February 10.
Horne waived examination and Ii
alleged to have made confession In
which he is said to have told the
county attorney that they saw 6
chance to make some easy money ant
thought that the bonds were binding
obligation on the part OF the county
and that no inquiry would be made
concerning the holders Of them or the
source from which they came.
It is believed by those closest tx
the men arrested that Duvall was the
prime mover in the matter and thu
others accessories but 1t is pointed ou
that the law makes no distinction be
tween the principal and the aces
saries. The penalty is from l to 1
years Imprisonment In the state peni
Tertiary.
The arrests have seemingly causet
nervousness on the part Of the deposi
tors of the HALEY National bank
, James E. Cosgriff, heavy stakeholder
came at once from Salt Lake and a
, once announced that depositors coul'
get their money on demand and that h
, will personally see that all claims ar
paid, even including those for whic
the bank itself Is not liable-Namp