The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-08

as j. L. Sherwood and said:
@1f you are a personal friend of the
judge then come up TO my room"
He also told US to come along. We
went up to the ......... hotel.
His room was on the third floor, l
think He seated US and then told
US his business. He said he was
working under an auditor for the
New York Stock Exchange, and had
to be very careful what he was doing,
but that they knew just what the ex-
change was doing by some private
party wiring to them when a certain
stock was to be run up and how and
when to buy. He said they made no
mistakes in the three years he was
with them. He also showed US a lot
of surety bonds he was under and
letter from the secretary his bond
would not be renewed after it's ex-
piration, April 1st. He said he was
not allowed to speculate for himself,
or give out any information. As old
Kempfer asked him several times if
he could not do something for us as
he did for the Judge. he replied:
Under this condition, that I am
soon to lose my job and a man ought
to look out for himself and his fam
lily"
He told US he had a big mortgage
against his home and would like to
get that paid off before he lost his
job, so he said:
81 can not use my name as / am
under the auditor, but you do not need
any money. All want to use is your
names, and l will give you each %
per cent of the gains and / want so
per cent" meaning old Kempfer and
| |. He also said there was stock to
be run up that afternoon of which he
would soon get word.
| About three o'clock he took US up
to the exchange, located in a local
hotel. third floor. in rooms in the east
corner of the hotel facing the street
going toward the old station. In the
first room was table. 1t was used
for an Office room. In the adjoining
room was large slate on the wall
with the quotations on it. There was
a telegraph apparatus, also a large
safe or vault, counter with a
screening over the top. it being about
eight feet long, and a desk in the
corner. The telegraph operator and
the manager were back of this coun-
ter.
Mr.. Sherwood had the four of us
go out in the Office room, where he
made out a ticket for old Kempfer
and one for me, and gave, US each
$500 and told US to take the ticket
and the money in and lay it on the
counter, in front of the operator. Ir
a little while the stock went up IL
points. Then Sherwood made out ar
lcrder to sell and told us to take it in
which we did and got $4,000 apiece
We stayed little while in the office
room, then Sherwood made out two
more tickets, one for Kempfer anC
one for myself. for an option OF
$4,000 shares of Mexican Petroleum
together. The stock began to run up
and when it was up two points he or
dered US to sell; and it made a gail
of 100000, when sold. He told u
to go in and get the money. 1t wa
handed out to US, but before we coul,
count it the manager stood up ant
said:
"Are you men established or coul,
you have made good if you had lost :?
Then Sherwood came into the ex
change room and said: 81 knew thes
men would be we'll able to put up on
point if they had lost" Then the man
ager said: "You must get establish
ed" Sherwood asked him to give u
"a hours to do this.
Then we left the place and after
: wards out on the street Sherwoo
said to us: 81 can fix that. I hav
a friend in New York and / will wir
him and we will get established" S
= the next day he came to meet us an
showed US telegram stating that hi
friend had gone to Europe and sal
: that all luck was against him. OIL
Kempfer spoke up and said mayb
we could fix that. Then Sherwoo
left. He said he had to go and sc
his auditor and would be back in tn
: afternoon and if we could do any
thing it would be very good for US al
Old Kempfer said he could get hi
money by drawing a draft on hi
bank. l told him / could not do any
: thing here, but would have to g
home, which would take a week o
more, so Kempfer said it wouldn't d
to leave so much money lay up there
after it was there for US.
When Sherwood came back in tn
afternoon Kempfer told him the tim
was too short for us to get establish
ed, so Sherwood said, well go Vi
and see the manager and maybe h
will give US more time" He gave u
two weeks time to show credit II
some bank that we were worth tina
much money.
On the 18th of February. when W,
were established, we went up to tn,
| exchange about 1890 D. m. to get tn,
money. When we got in the mana
ger was not there and the operator