The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-03-08
NEW ANGLE:
\ IN jaeger
! !: BOND STORY
Ownership Of $4,000 Worth
OF Government Securities
Has Been Established

The famous Jaeger bond mystery.
which, Tor two years, provided a knot
~ problem for private detectives. state
tSnd federal operatives and at the same
time furnished the public with much
70 speculate on, has been solved
The owner OF the $4,000 worth of
| government bonds has been found but
/ the bonds have not been relincuished
10y Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jaeger OF Gary
/ Today they remained in the safe de-
sposit vault of Attorney w. j. WINERY
! in Hammond.
The bonds belong to the American
Pneumatic Service Co. OF Boston. Mass
( Attorney WINERY made this assertion
at noon today Before leaving for Chi
! cago where he VIII conduct negotia-
I tions with representatives Of the BoS-
ton firm.
! Chicago newspapers this morning
! told OF the arrival OF a Boston man In
| chicago yesterday TO claim the bord
II was stated that he had been trac-
Ing them since they were stolen Aprfi
-. 1890. when the safe of the An,eri-
can Pneumatic Service Co was blown
Attorney WINERY explained that he
with the aid OF the Ptnkerton Detect
I've Agency had done the tracing and
mac established the ownership o. the
| ponds The Boston firm was notified
| Now they are laying claim 20 the bonds
nut here new angle enters. They
GO not want TO repay the Jaggers and
Mr. WINERY for the trouble and ex-
pense they have gone 70 in establish
! ing the ownership
~ was In April. 1920. that the bonds
h-st came into the iimelisht Tbar
J
! found $4,000 in government secnri
ties in Chicago taxicab. It later do
/ VeloSed that Mrs. Jaeger never stated
we exact amount of the find. This
iaeer dwindied TO 100000 and finally
reached $50 900 the proper figure
4 She advertised for the owners soo
apparently made other ef-orts - Eva
| then No one claimed the bonds Mr.
ana Mrs Jagsers then ocered them 70,
fale Two or them were sent d tha
! rederai Reserve bank Of Chicago The
nank refused payment and held the
| ooncs claiming them as s-overnme,t
property and holding that the Jaagers
, We're not the fightSul owners. Mr.
ana Mrz. Jaggers Instituted suit
against the bank. This suit. still mend
ing brought about a federal fnyest,-
cation.
II was at this point that the fancf-
ful story of Melville Reeves the sly
scraper Burglar entered Reeves was
eaid to have left the bonds with the
girl cashier OF the barbershop in the
Morrison Hotel in Chicago. requesting
her to keep than for few days. The
! story said that the Jagsers had learn
ed indirectly from the ca shier that she
rad the bonds. They were supposed
TO have iaipersonated Reeves over a
Telephone and secured possession OF
the securities.
On December 20. 1921, Mr.. and mrs.
Jaeger and George Brarnish. a Gary
mechanic were arrested on charges OF
conspiracy to obtain possession Of the
bonds. They were held at the Gary
police station until released on habea.
corpus proceedings in tn superior court
at Hammond Immediately after they
were freed they were re-arrested on
the federal charge. They were bound
over to appear before Judge Anderson
at Indianapolis January 16. but the
matter never came to trial. Two days
after the Hammond hearing Attorne,
WINERY was told that the matt
would be dropped IL he Jaggers woult
turn over the bonds. He refused and
the matter was dropped anyway.
Yesterday It was announced that tn.
Jaggers had been indicted on a con
spiracy charge ty the federal grant
jury at Chicago.
Mrs Jaeger stili sticks to the orig
inal story that the bonds were founs
by her in the taxicab and SCOTS at tn
story involving Reeves, the "Skysc-ap
err Burglar" The government in 1T
action is placed in the position OF try
ing to force the return OF the bonds I,
this buarglar and If the case comes t.
trial Reeves may be able TO provid'
the missing link OF the story--how tn
bonds reached Chicago after bein.
taken from the wrecked safe of tn
American Pneumatic Service Co.