The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1900, Page 1

~~ PRICE ONE CENT. LE | LESLIE CONFESSES !BOYS SHUT IN HOUSE — WAS BACKED BY (Copyright, 1900, by the Press Publishing Company, Mew York Wor'd.) Cectl Leslie,-“pheas agent” and employed ‘ot the $iller 620-per-cent. | swindle, made a long confession to The Evening World. Briefly epitomized, | Leslie says: The Franklin Syndicete was a colosaal bunco game. Mffier must have gathered at least $1,000,000 out of the scheme—prob- | ably more. } Miller had behind bim more political backing than any schemer, swind- | ler or gambler this country ever knew. Politicians of highest rank, Sena-' tors, Ansemblymen and leaders of both parties were bis clients. | The syndicate's stock market connections were fairy tales. | When Leslie last saw Miller the latter bad $10,000 in jewelry on his person and always carried immense sums of money in his pockets. ! Miller's deposit of $100,000 in the Wells-Fargo Bank is in the name of | W. F. Zimmerman and has not been withdrawn. | The syndicate was organized with its first clients from among members of the church In which Miller taught a Sunday-sehooi class. Police Captain Lees's wife was an investor, A great number of police- men and firemen were also investors. | Schlesinger bokily alluded to clients as “these suckers.” Lestté resigned before his indictment and told Capt. Lees’s sergeant in the Vernon avente station, Brooklyn, that the concern was a swindle. The sergeant said he would inform the captain. Through a grocer's boy Leslie was lhformed of his indictment. ‘The same night. while detectives surrounded bis house, Leslie jumped @ver the back fence, took a car under their noses and came to Meabatan | taking a train to Utica. Tm another State a detective followed Lestie, who turned on him and frightened him into sudden flight by threatening to shoot. Leslie is now out of the State, but The Evening World knows where be in. AMAZING STORY (Copyright, 1990, by The Press Fublishing Company, New York World.) |< As nothing has ever been told in pub- syndicaté, | may say | was in the con- Me print of the rea! inside plstory of cern altageiber six weeks, that | re- Wiliam F. Miller's wyndicat¢ jame, ce- signed after the first four weeks of my tablishea in Brooklyn, | propise now to employment, and that I received less Bive to the readers of Thee Kvening | $989 for my vervices. That is what World alt the facts that I have in my! made and all 1 made. er must in concerning the swindle. have gotten out of the scheme $1,000.00) 1 do this for the reason that | wish to| How much more 1 do not know. eet my position in ihe case piainly be- fore the public and to tell of the great fajustice that was done io me when was indicted aaa partner in his cor I bunco game. That is was a bunco William F. Miller (or, ap they veed 1 be him. W. F.) had oehind ese | nls country has ever seen. R co] Nad es eneens, to my know:edge, pol!- tichans of the highest rank, Senators Assemblymen and leaders of both pa-- thee, The line of his political nee comida be traced from the of the Sess dents coe nate ear heeler, all of Whom were indirectly in Bis pay, That is, they received their HIGH INFLUENCE. : . OF THE SWINDLE,: There is no doubt in. my ming that]. 4 " m ‘ . cut is experiencing the worst flood i ‘ | Persons fighting each other wit) all beg (Continued on Second Pagey seeee hh Meemnnnls an Convict ttemines Prices Paper, j« c \i Would be unable to get out __ -- idem Te Sa S _ The Star of Hope, the paper .ssued bi Jess the door whs opened from = ==. Sr ra , ann un! jon of the New York, New Haven and] monthly by the sing Bing convicts, con-|- id George F. Hoar for his attitude on the tford and the Central New England ! * Hartt 4 the Ceniral New E: Philioning question Washington. the other o' 1 ter he Secretary of phe] Rallroade te impeded by washouts rare. ibe at ear ie felub Tealgned ak'a| At Ore Hill, of the latter road, am| lan da a ou nalle and scraps|oniy im trousers. Tt riCk ONE CENT, ¢ == _ DIED OF STARVATION Bodies of Two Little Fel lows Found’ in De- — BOY FELL ON SWORD AND | serted House. 7 [S DYING IN HospiTAL, [MISSING SINCE LAST AUGUSK: ot Locked in Closet and Perisi # ibpatd oicess aval After Vain Efforts to d vai piet-aedh ue cuieatie Escape. demen ta *. ‘The bodies of Martin LoeMer, of 19 | ing bide and seek ond went Into. Radgecombe avenue, and Charles Bin closet and closed the door, to of 115 Edgecombe avenue, who disap- | more. ‘ onditrom: the weedy ere found this| There is a suspicion in the tr fe wa rrigtl to Ube vacant house hood. however, that they { | teased the ichman, and he Ryrnes is nine years old and Leefler| prisoners he death hole om tweleve years hen floor. ‘ = The bodien were decomposed. Byrnes! ‘The police say that any person whe Sm PK MAN NOK was Menufled by « pair of glasses that in the house after the boys NEW YORK MAN NON SUITED IN NEW JERSEY he wore ie {until October, nearly two montig, They had probably starved to death im have been made aware of the 4 the [their narrow prison |of the bodies. — Cornelius Hearn, who was employed as) =The closet is so built that @ | abut in {t could ery at the top Voice and he would be as remote aid as though he were buried underground. Had the house been tenanted) other parts the boys would chance of being resousd. recalled that the week Brie § {, war ¢ @ Watchman in the building, disappeared ‘There is no trace of him, and the police le wae [enink it i strange that he should not have discovered the presence of the bodies and reported the cane. IN NEW UNFINISHED HOUSE. WILLIAM F MILLER — FROM HIS MOST RECENT PHOTOGRAPH: F SUICIDE WITH main to gt : aL ] ITH ACID No. i fe a new flat-house and Mas|appearance of the boys was hensible iden of th Lie all tag never been occupied. When 1 was come | hot ens of the reope or nd the police closed the place, a h » thet Ves of sillers achere, ie Ing mob of several hundred per ; mad street, | Pee lee mor tan toe plus TORTURED BY THE Fichest, the poor | threatened the bluecoats with bodily ews: token | ing The close, dark piace in ‘ " puitoctee : ‘ fellow, addicted to drink, and when he} ov . We decieaun ane pel ite biker, | ‘Thove In the crowd on that eventful Vanished no one wondered at it conditios, thirst must have soon. ‘ night were not el poor, There were ate r errk ; ’ . Loeffier and Byrnes told their|¢o torture them. ers jthe bootbiack, the housewife, her L E EV! ORLEANS Young tL some whore deposits numbered in the a emi were going out in the| Loeffler must have been tne oon eal brothers, her slstcra, and | thousands. I way thls because | have re- see to gather apie on the morning | suffer keeniy. He stripped himeetf. even ws © js own fami es iy Nahie Information to that eff from of Aug. 3 Tha the last em of them. The contract for the plumbing of the flathoure © Charles Darme- a fitadt, of FS Ktgnth avenue, and this rnoon be sent Perey Toombs and CONIMCTICUT 1S FLOODRD,|22,:,~2 ome = mmm ie high water | my own wife who was there at the me. And in support of the axsertion that Miller's depositors were no: all named ere rot included in the poor (in fact, I believe the majority were! vf josers, Had it not Seen for the news | weit-jo-doy, | may say that daily | have waper notoriety and for Miller's short-| won carriage after carrivge and hand- siphtedners at the critical moment! game iiveried equipages drive up to the there [4 no telling where ne might hay | 4oor of the office and beautltully-gowned supped tn hls fortune-mak og. In cOM-| Women push through the crowd endl parison with im the wealth of the] dave net money with the gang. That richest man of to-day would have UliG Co cience was the greatest chance I ately compared with his as a pigmy 1 10 4 giant. ‘Think of it, in a little house tnat he rented for $29 a month in one of the poorert districts of Brooktyn, this boy Was able to Witness daily hundreds of HIS FRIENDS DIDN'T LOSE. i i safe to say. though, that his head agwinst the door. How long they beat upon the cried for help that never came, unconsciousness came to them, B® wil ever know. The whole city was searched for theit pictures publiehed In the i papers ani the river was thelr parents had given up all ever heaving from them. Little is known of Hearn's and the police are busy looking 85 recon! and seeking (o find some him. ave FOUND IN A CLOSET. When the men entered the house they were almost overcome with the strom John Tierny to begin the work ts a commen sight to see small wooden buildings go down Mad River.; ‘The east part of the town ip under! cor tm Bt vrhadlagie V4 Gemeee doar S Semsany or. It was strongest on the secontl i 1 The it into} (iprcigh © The Rven'ng World.) were brought to Chestnut street in| Moot They eaiaa tas Tae a WIN@TED, Conn, Fob. 11—Nearly| boats this noon, the water being so) {Dr *'' 8" e by: every town in Northwestern oti. | A000 and wild | ‘The inside of the door had - that a person ener Whikbdn O6bbe natn wpe aver ane Winsted Facterics Are Closed Dewan. ‘Think of persons so well possessed of wale a M. Merriaan, | provet® saminat the tema: {he Con- | feet of track are undermined and trains) of tron hai shave. Hine Joye had euffered = member are walled. Mad River, wnich rune - - tno § aioe heat in their dark, narro’ through the centre of Winsted is above! gy SSS ae.