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DEVLIN ItETL'HNH DRAIN
HANK ITS SECURITIES.
Amount Due IiiHtltutlon Mudo Good
Jtut Not Willi l'HMr Demanded
In Threut d Suit.
Thomas O. Devlin, as receiver for
the Oregon Trust & Savings bank, at
noon yesterday, delivered to A. N.
Orcutt, attorney for the Luuk of
Drain, bonds of the Puget' Sound
Telephone company, representing $0,
'800, together with Interest duo Oc
tober 1, 1007, April 1, 1008, October
1, 1908, and April 1, lus), says Fri
day's Portland Journal. Tbe bonds
delivered by Mr. Devlin were not
those bought by the Oregon Trust for
the Dank of Drain In March, 1907,
and sought by the Dank of Drain
ever since that time. They were
othor bonds, representing the sume
amount of money, and the Interest
due to the Dank of Drain was paid
In cash because some one had cash
ed the coupons of the Drain bank's
bonds.
Who now holds the bonds origin
ally sold to the Dank of Drain Is a
mystery. How they disappeared from
the safoty deposit vaults of the Ger-man-Amerlcnn
bank Is unexpluined.
Who took thorn, without order or au
thority of the Bank of Drain and col
lected the interest on coupons as that
Interest fell due, Is a riddle, the
answer to which may be known to
the receiver of the Oregon TruBt, but
which he has not made public, con
tending that the original bonds were
simply mlslnid for a time and had
been recovered and returned to the
Bank of Drain.
The history of this bond dual If
Btrango. It appears to demonstrate
the methods of high finance carried
on by tho officials of the old Oregon
Trust St Savings bank. It lmllcntes o
surprlHlng laxity in the handling ol
securities by tho receiver or other
officials In charge of these socurltieF
by reason of which $9800 In bondi
were tnkon from a doposlt box, th
coupons cashed and the money col
lected without aulhorlly of tho own
era of those bonds. It allows that I:
was necessary to file a petition for r
suit against the receiver bofore tin
ownerB of those securities could re
cover tholr property.
History of Suit.
Going back into hiHtory, the con
noctlon of the bank of Drain with tin
Oregon Trust & Savings hank begni
In January, 1907, when Gc-orgo Kb
tea, head of the bond department ol
the Oregon TruRt & Savings bank, be
gan negotiations with the bunk ol
Drain for the purchase of that Insti
tution. The negotiations resulted in
the purchase of the bank of Drain In
January, 1907, by tho Oregon Trust
A Havings bank. In making thlf
deal tho Oregon Trust got $16,200
worth of the stock of the bank of
Drain. The total Rtock was $20,000,
the remaining $4800 bolng held by
local pcnplo In Drain.
Tho stock owned by the Oregon
Trust ft Savings company was assign
ed to W. H. Moore, W. Cooper Mor
ris and Georgo Estos as trustees.
ThOHO men were elected to the hoard
of -directors of tho Drain bank, form
ing a mnjorlty of the bonrd.
In March, 1907, tho bank of Drain
was notllled that Itn board of direct
ors hnd purchased for It $26,000
worth of Puget Bound Telephone
bonds nt pnr and the official of the
bank of Drain were asked to send
the money to Portland to pay for
the bomlfl:
HcihIn the Money.
Notwithstanding the fact that
these bonds were then sailing In the
open market for between 60 and
75 cents on the dollar, tho Drain
officials considered thut the action of
the majority of their board of di
rectors waB binding on the bank and
sent tho money, $25,000, to tho Ore
gon Trust & Savings bank which was
handling the telephone bonds. Fol
lowing the receipt of the money word
was sent to tho bank of Drain that
Its bonds were In a Barely deposit
box. held subject to the order of
the hank of Drain.
Following this 'came tho failure
of tho Oregon Trust & Savings bank
and the sultHctiucnt suspension of
the bank of Drain. U. M. Ilassett
cnahler of the bank of Drain, and a
member of Its board of directors, waf
appointed receiver. He, together
with locnl capitalists, took up tbe re
organization of the bank. They
wanted lo dlmolve all connection
with the Oregon Trust A Savings
bank and begnn ucuotlntlnns with T
C. Devlin, recelvor of the Portlnuil
Institution, for tho recovery of their
$16,200 worth of sWrk hela m a
ass, of she Portkind bank.
firVart K-httiM.
flK bank l DraWi lrf pi Mixes
she telephone nt stir, paying
riXlHisr for I1h H tfniSi. Ylrey there-
(hire sfVe4 emttfiMfse I.V2
rfMl f Mm Ur tkii ir..i'
wYiMh Ot Ht.cH) k4 ay tm Vm
ru4 til ats4tin Wwv
ItnrVtw. Mbs iutf as (Mrr,
197. v. iMiMli At tin
ttnjp (i.MI si wiw
fctln Kt Am qMy st mil
(Sir rw litis-
tnimfe to tie coirl- sjurt ?)
bonds vsr' pnKMvty 15.2 telm
put In one pii .0. tlv
remainder, In anptfA' was Mnalltt
parttme. Tli l: pis lsssi wi ex
changed for the stoA a.d the smaller
package was presumably r placed In
the deposit box and held mbject to
the order of the bank of Drain.
The bauk of Drain reopened and
1
cutiVthpUted lrattsferrlf.it the $'jQ0
of buiidt to (he utindy of the Mer
chants' National Dank of Portland,
with which institution the bank of
Drain was doing business, but the
bank holidays caused a suspension of
business and the transfer was not
made, the bonds presumably remain
ing In the sufety deposit vaults of
the Qermaa-Amerlcan bank.
More Mystery,
In December, 1907, Attorney Or
cutt came to Portland on business
and brought with him an order from
Cashier Uaasett directing Iteceiver
Devlin to deliver tho bonds of the
bank of Drain to Orcutt for delivery
to the bank of Drain. Devlin was
not In Portland at the time, and Ar
thur B. Mason, assistant cashier of
the Gornian-Amerlcan.bank, told Or
cutt that the bonds could not be de
livered in tho absence of Devlin.
Subsequent to this Bassett wrote
to Devlin, asking for the delivery of
the bonds, and the receiver replied
by telephone, saying that the secur
ities had been mislaid. This was In
January, 1908, aud all of thut year
was spent by the bauk or Drum In
repeated attempts to secure posses
sion of Its bonds. During the sum
mer a representative of the bank of
Drain searched the vaults of Ihe
German-American bank In company
with Receiver Devlin In an attempt
to discover their whereaboutB. The
search was fruitless.
During the full of 1908 the bank
of Drain, through Its attorney, In
formed Receiver Devlin that unless
the bonds were forthcoming, suit
would be brought for their replevin.
The matter wus then tuken up with
the Puget Sound Telephone company
In an effort to see if duplicate bonds
could not be issued to the bank of
Drain to cover the loss of the old
ones. The company would not Issue
duplicates without absolute proof
that tho first bonds had been lust be
yond hope of recovery.
Hunk Examiner Intervene.
During tho latter part of tho year
the bank examiner was appealed to
liy the bank of Drnln. The bank ex-
aminor interviewed Receiver Devlin
who told him that the bonds were
misplaced and thut he wus hunting
for them. Attorney General Craw
ford was then nppealed to and the In
vestigation started by him resulted In
a petition for a suit agulnst the re
ceiver, which was presented to Judge
(lantenhcin laBt Monday. Judge Gnn
tenheln Bays that he told Attorney
General Crawford that he would look
over tho papers and grout an order
or tho suit. He asked Devlin shout
ho bonds and Devlin told him they
had been recovered and were bolng
held by him subject to the order of
ho Hank of Drain. The judge did
-lot sign the order for suit nnd the
jottlemcnt wus made yesterday at
loon.
Tho fact retnnlns. however, that all
1'irlng this time Interest had been
Millocted on the iost bondB, the cou
pons being presented as they fell due,
:hreo ots of coupons going to Ta
oina and the series of April 1 last
being enshed In Portland.
Proceedings Hlopcd; Mystery Un
solved. It Is also a fact that tho bonds
iellvered at noon yesterday to Mr.
Orcutt, nttorncy for th) bank of
Ornln, by Receiver Devlin wore not
the bonds segregated Into a $0800
nacknge and put In the safety deposit
box of tho Gorman-American bank.
The only Inference left then, Is that
jthcr bonds were bought In the mar
ket, or secured In some other way.
nnd substituted for those owned by
tho- Hank of Drain. Who stopped
?o- rt proceedings In this way, wheth
er It was Receiver Devlin or some
one elso Interested, Is an open ques
tion. That tho bonds could have
been in tho possession of nny "parties
In Intorest" during all of the time, ns
Is clalmod by Receiver Devlin, Ib de
nied by. Attorney Orcutt, who con
tends that tho Hank of Drain was the
lole owner, that the bonds were held
ln safety deposit subject to order of
'he Bank of Drain, and that that in
itittitton never gave any autliurlty to
any person or corporation to tnko
possession of tho bonds or to collect
the Interest thereon as it fell due.
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Arrest Caused by H. W. Miller Case
Grows Out of Burning of Two
Drug Stores -at Arleta.
The spotlight of publicity bos
again thrown Un rays of W. J. Ar
t milage and H. W. Miller, former resi
dents of Roseburg and Myrtle Creek.
I Armltage wao once in the flour mill
business in Roseburg and later oper
1 ated in inlnos and real estate at Myr-
tie Cr-'ek. Miller is an ex-Jusllce
of the peace, real estate agent and
saloon owner of this city. He was
i afterwards In the hotel and real es
tate business ln Myrtle Creek.
I Upon leaving Myrtle Creek, Miller
'got mixed up ln a fake timber land
locating scheme and served time on
McNeill's Island. Armltage came in
to 'public notice sometime afterwards
through tho burning of his two drug
Btores at Arleta, a suburb of Port
land. Arleta Is a "dry" town and it
was openly charged that the destruc
tion of his drug stores was due to
"blind pigging."
For the past ten years, Armltage
and Miller have been associated In
numerous ventures, but the Inevit
able has now happened they have at
last reached tho parting of the wayn
according to the following article
in the Portland Journal of April 30:
Two firee. a lot of fire insurance
and two drug stores are mixed up in
series of incidents, which have led
to the arrest of W. J. Armltage, an
Arleta druggist, charging hfm with
the larceny by embezzlement of $700
from H. W. Miller. Armltage has now
been released under $2600 bonds. .
The trouble started with tho Arleta
pharmacy ln May. 1908. This was
then owned by Mr. Armltage and at
that time It burned down. There was
$2000 Insurance on the building and
contents. This policy was then as
signed to the Blumauer-Frank com
pany in payment of an indebtedness
of this amount. Then, across the
street Mr. Armltage started a new
Arleta pharmacy company. Mr. Arml
tage then borrow a certain amount
from Mr. Miller and little by little the
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indebtedness was increased until fin
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the company was turned over to Mr.
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Again the store burned down, this
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In July, 1908. Again a policy for
$2000 Insurance was turned over
to the Blunihuer-Frank company,
while the other $2000 policy was as
signed to H. W. Miller by the Arleta
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A compromise of $1250 was made
with the insurance company and this
was paid to Armltage. Armitage then
paid out $499.55 In bills due and this
entirely wiped out the bills payable
by the company.
This balance of $700.45 Miller now
say Armltage converted to his own
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has promised from day to day to pay
this money but has fulled to do so.
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