Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-06

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Captain Warren" he declared, that
you probably do not realize what this
means. Besides proving your broth
or dishonest, It means that this stock
holder, whoever he may have BEEN
.'Heyi What's that? Don't you know
who he wasT
"No, We do mot. The name upon the
I stub of the transfer book has been
scratched out"
Captain Elisha looked the speaker in
the face, then slowly turned his look
upon the other two faces.
Scratched out?' he repeated. who
scratched It outr'
Graves shrugged his shoulders.
Eyes, yes" said the captain. you
don't know. but we're all entitled to
guess, hey7 Humphw
III this person IL living began Syl-
vester, 1T follows that
Hold on q minute! don't know
much about corporations, of course.
That's more In your line than tits In
mine. But want to ask one question.
You say this what dye call it-this
Akras thingamajig-was sold out, hull,
canvas and riggin'. to crowd In Bra
xil7 It's gone out Of business. then-
it's deadr'
EYES, but
.Waiti Amt 1t customary when a
sale like this il made to turn over al
the stock, certificates and all7 Some
times you get stock in the new COM
pany IN exchange. I know that. But
to complete the trade wouldn't this ex-
try hundred shares be turned in or
aoma sharp quesuonin' done II
'twa'n'tf
He addressed the query to Sylvester.
The latter seemed more troubled than
before.
'sThat," he said, with some hesita-
ton, Is one of the delicate points In
this talk Of ours, Captain Warren. "A
certificate for the missing hundred
shares was turned in. It was dated
n the time of the original issue, made
put in tho name Of one Edward Brad
ley and transferred on the back by
him to your brother-that is. it was
presumably - transferred"
Presumably presumably? You
mean
II mean that this certificate is-well,
let us say, rather queer. To begin
with, no one knows who this Bradley
Is, or was, and the-well, I hate to say
II, Captain Warren, but the handwrit-
lhg on that Bradley signature resem-
bles veg closely that OF your brother"
At length the captain raised his head.
- 8 sWen,s he said slowly, 1--WE amt
children. We might as well call things
By their right names. Bic forged that
certificate"
"Tm afraid there is no doubt Of Il"
Dear, dear, dearl Why, they put
folks in states prison for that!v
eyes. But q dead man II beyond
prisona"
that's %. Then don't see''-
You will You don't grasp the full
meaning Of this affair even yet II the
Bradley certificate Is forgery. fraud
from beginning to end, then the pre-
sumption Is that there was never any
such person as Bradley. But SOME one
paid SIC. 600 for 100 Akrae shares when
the company was formed. That certif.
cate has never been turned in. Some
person or persons somewhere hold 100
shafes Of Akrae Rubber company
stock. Think, nowl Suppose that some
I one turns up and demands all that he
has been cheated out Of for the past
seventeen years! Think Of that!'
tsWeI, am thinlin' Of It. I got the
scent Of what you was drivin' at i've
minutes ago. And don't see that we
need to be afraid. He could have put
Bile In jail, but Bile is already servin'
longer sentence than he could give
him. So that disgrace amt bearin'
down on us. And, If I understand
about such things, his claim is against
the Akrae company, and that's dead
dead AZ the man that started It May
be he could put in a keeper or receiv-
or or some such critter, but there's
nothin' left to keep or receive. Amt
Iright7"
.You are or you would be but for
one thing, the really inexplicable thing
d In this whole miserable affair. Your
brother, Captain Warren. was dishon-
ct. He took money that didn't belong
to him, and he forged that certificate.
4 But he must have intended to make
restitution. He was. always optimistic
aid always plunging in desperate and
sometimes rather shady speculations
which hs was sure would turn out ia
yorably. II they had-if, for instance.
the South Shore trolley combine had
I been put through. You knew Of that,
did you7"
-I'vs been told somethin' about It.
Go orr
8 Well, It was not put through, SO his
hopes there were frustrated. And that
4 was but one Of his schemes. How
eyer. when the sale Of the company
was contaminated he did an extraor-
binary thing. He made out and sign
"a his personal note, payable to the
Akrae company, for every cent he had
e Incorporated And we found that
] note in his safe after his death. That
was what first aroused our suspicious.
Now. Captain Warren, do you under
gtand?'
~ Cup H1s!...sha did not understand.
4 that was evident. q;
- motel" he repeated. Bite put
y his note In the safe? A note promisin'
{ 70 nay III he'd stole. And left It there
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