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C. K. HOSFORD.Ifla-ItT£*62UeObJects to RM^ivIng Lieutenant Van*dever a* aGueit,No career in ibis city was ever moreLremarkable than that of Charles E. His-lord. To write U up from its begimt ngto the etui would occupy columns but in condensed form it is simply the old •tory of abuse of \ rust, which varies only in incident through the various forms ofdefalcations, embezzlements Ac. Air.ilusford was a very genial man and bad a certain attraction about his manner which impressed all lu his favor. He had the cuntidence of the large Eastern corporations which place money out1 West to draw larger Interest than it I omraands at home. These institutions'60unfliiioc-ii iyy3TI.L*.»Ciennow claim that Air. (iosford did not act as their agent but it will be bard to es* I f tablish that notio* in this community at 1 least. They never advanced such a plea v until th^y found that a good many 1 * thousand dollars were swamped through I 1 Mr. Hnsfnrd’s agency, Mr. H. carried I I on ii loan business for these Eastern j capitalist* and corporations for over I ten years. He often bad Bissell and a party of them out here, wineing Had din £ tug (hem in great splendor. He would q charter a special train and take them to a section of land and there place a large a loan upon it often in their presence so|^ far a* the preliminary matters were con- j ^ corned. It sit ms that Mr. Hosford has f( collected tb* interest on very many of Si these loans and the principal and receip -1 0 ed foi them in full to the farmers but m failed to.send tbo money East. Now the 1 Eastern parties are coming upon the I honest farmer and seeking to force him p: to pay the interest and the prin-j||is it i tI-e?•Varri-upaiclt;01aiwCesEsibtIkskrt»tstDCyitctpal a second time. 8ome of our relis» hie farmers wiii now be foroed at great expense to prove in court that Mr. Hos-ford from whom they got this lean and to whom they paid it back with interest, was really tbe agent for these Eastern paitie*. aod that having paid the money totbeir lawful agent they are freed from further obligation. It is a very remarkable case. If Mr. Hoaford was not their went, be certainly was a colossal swindler with an aptness for crooked ways which lias never been surpassed by tbe m'-st noted forgers, cracksmen and famous robber* of our time. Im fact, if he were not lijeir agent, such ft net*work of etreini.Htitnoe* must be planned and kept up continually as the prompt payment of interest., principal, c., because the ..lightest jar in this cool system of swindling would arouse suspicion and J gi destroy it all and all connected with it, that it* success lor a long course oi| *e years amounts to the work of a genius.Hut the crash came and it was found that by Mr. Hosford’* course some $H0.Mb) bad been lost. Mr. Hosford fled for! H the West. Recently Lieutenant Van-Jsu dever made a trip te Park City, Utah, where Mr. U. and many of our prominent silver-minded citizens struck that Big Bonanza (of losses) in order to ar-|tu rest Mr. H. on a charge of embezzlement! fo sworn out by Bissell Co., of Hartford, Conn. But Mr. ll's friends had used the! ?£ telegraph und be had gone. Lieut. Vun-dever trucked him to Cheyenne andl^ from there he had flown to Mexico, where ho i* beyond the reach of the law. 1 H •Mr. Vandevcr P»und that Hosford had I to already made friends in the little village oI uoo people. They are accustom-ed to mixed characters and any one of them would help Hosford In preference to tbe officer. They say that Mr. H, al-f p* ways had identy of money and passed! tp UU time at the hotel in conversation, en joying good wbi ky and good living gen»| ^c era ly and stiff games of poker. At first he had been working toe mine near Pari. City, but J. J. Baur, who is intei -1 to ested, came out last summer and tbeylCr had a quarrel and the work was stopped! lt;so tlii:i Mr. 11. had abundant leisure.! P* Lieut. Vandever’s trip was in vain.reof4onpa
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Terre Haute Saturday Evening Ledger
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 29, 1881
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