An "honorable" Forger

Mr. Lucius W. Pond, of Worcester, ! , Mass., who preftxed Honorable to his , name, has been lamented f or sonie weeks , past as a prominent addition to the list ; , of unaccountable disappearances. , His , , absence is now regretted by the large , number of persons whom he swindled. j , His custom was to remove by some j : chemical preparation all the writing on I notes in his possession except the signatures, and fill them up with increased amounts. The microscope has now . vealed the trickery that was perpetrated, suspicion having been previously cited by people finding their ñames nffixed to notes which ttioy veré certatn j they never engaged to pay. Out of notes to the amount of $30,000, cnly ote : ine one has been found. One, curiously enough, had been altered from $1,000 to $500. It is now known that two or three years ago a man -visitcd Worcester for the sake of selling an acid to remove blots and wrong figures from account books. Bank men at once feit that it might be used for nefarious puvposes. j It also proved to be so exceedingly vola! tile that it was not deemed profitable to kcep it on sale. It is conjectured that I Pond must have bought some of the j ! stuff. It has been supposed that he I jvunped, or was thíown from a Long j Island Sound steamer, and some still ; , thir.k that such was his fate. There are j rumors, however, that he is at Hamilton, Ont. , and is insane. Mr. Pond was a prominent man m Worcester, and was something of a politician, having served at least one term in the Massachusetts Senate. He was an extensive manufacturer, and had been esteemed as a man of integrity.