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MANUFACTURING PERIOD
Circa 1900-1909
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Columbus Sporting Goods Co.
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The Columbus Sporting Goods Co. of
Columbus, Ohio, was incorporated in
1900. President and manager of the
firm, John H. Mackie was formerly
a clerk with
Peters Arms & Sporting Goods Company
in Cincinnati. Mackie was poor until he
married Miss Bertha May Cahill, granddaughter of
Mrs. Jane T. Green, of Madisonville, in
1895. Mrs. Green was
the widow of John K. Green, former
well known retired business man, who
left his family in good circumstances.
Mackie having learned the sporting
goods business induced his wife's
grandmother to buy out the controlling
interest in the Columbus concern and
place him at the head.
Mrs. Green, invested over $35.000. It was supposed to be
flourishing business, but In three
years went into the hands of receiver
and then May, 1909 a fire of mysterious
origin, and suspicious circumstances
destroyed the building. Under other
suspicion, Mr. Mackie had a stick of
dynamite In his safe at the same time
of the fire. The explosion of the
dynamite helped to wreck the building,
which spread rapidly to the storeroom
of the Columbus Sporting Goods Company.
The loss to the company of
approximately $50,000, whose stock,
valued at $34,000, was
a jumbled mass of debris in the cellar.
It was insured for $28,000., which Mackie was unable to
get hold of himself.
Mackie fled to Los Angeles, but was extradited and returned to Ohio. An
indictment was returned against Mackie
on July 23, 1909, charging him with
embezzlement, while another was
returned charging the larceny of a
certificate for 100 shares of stock of
the Bradford Machine Tool Company,
valued at $10,000. On October 28, 1909,
Mankie was convicted and sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary upon
conviction of embezzling $10,000 from
his wife's grandmother, Mrs. Jane T.
Green.
The only Columbus Sporting Goods Co. Baseball Bat model that has surfaced
in the hobby has "Our Best" branded on
the barrel.
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The Columbus Sporting
Goods Co. Baseball Bat |
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1899 Newspaper Ad |
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