Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — A Printer’s Curions Theft. [ARTICLE]

A Printer’s Curions Theft.

Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. Twenty years ago the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indiana Railroad Company' issued a lot of bonds payable in 1903. The bonds were for SI,OOO, with interest at 7 per cent, per annum, payable semi annually. The printing was done in Cincinnati, and the coupons were presented in New York for payment. For a long time the officers of the company have been satisfied that there was something wrong in the bond deal, bat were unable to find out what it was until a few days ago. When the coupon of bond No. 33-19 was presented for payment at the New York office the first of this month it was noticed that the number was written in blue ink instead of red ink, as was used on the other coupons. The coupon was sent from 208 Forquer shreet, and was payable to S. A. Brewer. The auditor of the road went to Chicago and reported the matter at the central station. Friday night the detectives arrested Brewer. A special from Chicago says: “Brewer admitted having sent the coupon to New York, but that M. A. Reed had the bond. Reed was arrested and the bond found in his possession. Both men are printers, employed in Chicago. Reed said he was employed in the office at Cincinnati where the bonds were printed twenty years ago and had stolen one of them. He forged the signatures of the officers of the road to the bond and had successfully collectid the interest on the coupons during all these years. The amount of interest collected on the stolen bond by Reed amounts to $1435. The men will be taken back to Cincinnati to stand trial.”