Re: The Big Fire ~ W. H. Smythe and J. J. Smythe ~ Chariton, Iowa
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The Big Fire ~ W. H. Smythe and J. J. Smythe ~ Chariton, Iowa
Deborah Stanley 9/21/04
The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, December 7, 1905
The case of DR. J.F. SPEAR, the man who was accused of forging the signature of Mrs. Taylor Gillespie to a note, which was afterwards negotiated, came before Justice E.H. Storie, last Saturday. The State's witnesses were examined but SPEAR waived hearing and was bound over in the sum of $1,000 to await the action of the Grand Jury. In default of bond he is held in jail. He stated that he could procure a $500 bond but was unable to procure the amount required. Mrs. Gillespie identified the $100 note which she signed but stated to the court that she had given but the one. The two notes were much alike but had been written with different ink. The note which Mrs. Gillespie identified was the one sold by SPEAR to J.J. Smythe. Dr. Elrod, whom SPEAR had been soliciting for, had been given the "bogus" note instead of the authentic one as he should have had, and which he sold to the Chariton National Bank.
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But here comes up a legal question. Whose property is the good note? In-as-much as SPEAR failed to return the proper note to Dr. Elrod, as his agency required, it is probable that replevin action will be instituted to try the rights of property. But Mr. Smythe holds the genuine document up to date.
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Foreign fruit tree peddlers and forgers keep the common people a-figuring...................
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