The evening world. Newspaper, November 8, 1901, Page 9

~ , this morning at th ______—CTHE WORI WORLD: _FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1901. SAY BROKER LURED MANY Detectives Arrest Alexander Seaman for Alleged Swin- dling of Small Investors. HAS PASSED BAD CHECKS As ‘M.S. Phillips” It Is Said He Advertised Stock ‘That Will Certainly Rise.” Alexander Seaman, a prosperous ap- pearing young man, who says he {s a stock broker, was arraigned im the ‘Tombs Court to-day by Detectives Mc- Conville and Savage on a charge of swindling a lot of persons all over the country in a “get-rich-quick” scheme. Scaman {s thirty-six years old and lives at No. 49 West Twenty-third street. He has served a term in the Kings County Penitentiary for passing bogus cl and has other charges pendin, inst him, The Central Oftice men arrested Bea- man in the Madison Square branch post-office yesterday as he was leaving with a dig bundle of mall, supposed to contain money from new dupes, Capt. Titus has been receiving com- plaints from small investors all over the country that they had sent mi in sums ranging from $50 to $200 to “M. S. Phillips," stock broker, No. {0 Broad street, to be Invested in stocks that would “certainly rise." This was Seaman's ‘bait. ‘Trall Starts Soon. McConville and Savage were assigned by Capt. Titus to investigate ‘M. 8. Phillips," who was thknown in Broad atreet. They found that the New York Post- OMice had received instructions from “M.S. Phillips’ to forward all mail that might come to him at No. aa Broad street to Post-OMce box No, Madison Square station, and that me 230 was rented to a man giving the name of Alexander Seaman. Seaman, it was also learned, at the Madison Square station on twico a day to receive his mail, whlch | was quite large at times. Acting under instructions from. the Captain, McConville and Savage waited in the lobby of the Post-Ofice station yesterday, and when Mr. Seaman called for his mail they !mmedlately recog- nized him as an ex-convict who had served a term in the Kings County Pen- Itenitary, and placed him under arrest. When drought to the Detective Bureau he admitted his Identity. Seaman was arrested !n June, 1898, for passing bogus checks which bore the ail- “Alexander Seaman & Co. way," by purghasing a smal of goods a tendering In payment one of nis checks for a large amount ang receiving tho difference in cash. Yad Checks tu Brooklya. In this manner he passed a number of checks on Brooklyn merchants, which finally resulted In his arrest and gell- Ie was released in May, 1899, 5 immediately rearrested for bogus cheeks in this city. however, in view of » relented, custody. y the detectives asked that sd until a number of complainants that haye forwarded him come to New York and ap- aguinst him, and he was went 10 Tombs for lack of $1,500 bail. he police say Seaman's winnings must haye been large. ASKS FOR PROBATE OF STOKESS WILL. HE LEFT NO WIDOW. SAYS GOUSIN IN PETITION. ——_—_ cated m. y. E. D. Stokes, an Executor, De- ares Value of Estate Is Unknown, Mortimer Flagg, attorney for William E. Dodge Stokes, who wa» named as executor and trustee in the will of hin cousin, Edward Stokes, filed a (or- mal petition’ {or the probate of the will ward 8, imade in ISS}, Then it says that the Value of the estate is unknown and that Hdward 8. Stokes left no widow and no children, the on beirs at law being his alst ‘y J, MeNutt, formerly Mary T.| Sutton, formerly Mary J, Stokes, Ind his brother, Horace Stokes. —-- CARNEGIE A LORD RECTOR: Andrewa “Univeralty Elects Hi and Students Jubilate. LONDON, Nov. §--Vice-Chanceltor Donaldsen, of the University of Andrews, te-lay announced the unan- imous election of Andrew Carnegie an Lord Rector. The students greeted the announcement with ‘olonged cheering and the singing of “He's a Joliy Good Fellow.”” The Vice-Chancellor remarked that Mr, Carnegte’s election would meet the approval of the whole nation. _—$——-—-- Dropped Dead on “LY Station. Kdward Walsh, of No. 1397 Lexington avenue, a watchman, on the subway, dropped dead on the elevated station at Fordham this moraing. — Doubly Fortunate, (From the Toledo Hee.) Mra. Newlywed—You remember Bob Bigtront; whom I refused last year? Well. he's ju: oll wel stout Just struck an ML worth .]man sipped about $100 worth of fine -|pointed yoke. sel Ticks Some men have} Results awalt takers at the top, STOLESIO,000 IN FINE SHOES For Five Years J. J. Heffner Has Been Robbing Employ- | | er Who Trusted Him. IMPLICATES A CUSTOMER. Was in the Habit of Slipping Extra Pairs Into Philip Schmitt's Orders. In the ast five years $10,000 worth of fine stock bas disappeared from the Wholesale shoe house of Thomas Grea- ” Duane street. The man- ppearance was explained the First Crimtaal Court in when Philip Schmitt, a [shoe dealer, of No, 73 Newark avenue, 1s arraigned on a charge of grand lar- Mecen had in his employ a gman of the name of John who lived In Jersey City on the Hudeon County Bouleyard, and was a frlend of Schmitt. About a week ago something directed suspicion against Heffner in connection with the stock shrinkage and Detective- Sergt. Foye, of the Central OMice, se- cured a position in the store. Ile kept his eye on Heffner, and when yesterday afternoon the trusted sales- shoes into a case of goods that had already been packed and addreseed to Schmitt, of Jersey City, the scheme was clear, For five vears Heffner had been add- ing to the Schmitt shipments, and so clever had he been that only an acc}. dent brought suspicion upon him, Heffner was arrested on the spot and mado a full confession, implicating the Jersey City shoe dealer, who was taken into custody this morning. Schmitt will be extradited and brought to this city, and he and Heffner will be put on trial charged with Hit grand Tarcen larceny. STRANGE. WONAN WORE HER GOWN. MISS ENFIELD FOUND MISSING GARMENT ON MBS. ATKINSON. Mother and Daughter Weep in Court on Charge of Having Stolen Contents of Trank. Mrs. Mary Atkinson, of No. 235 E: Twenty-sixth street, an® her fourtee: year-oll daughter wept In Yorkville Court this morming when ¢he former was arraigned on a charge of stealing a trunk Mled with clothing from Miss Mamie Enfield, of the same address. Miss Enfleld said she had a trupk with her clothing sent to the Twenty sixth street house from Atlantic City 1 that, though informed by company that the trunk vered at the house, she had been ¢ had not recelved it, She deciared she discovered Mra, At- Kinson wearing an ounderskirt of hers and the daughter a bleyeie skirt. and had the mother arrested, Detective Me- Mullen declared that the trunk reached the house by the first expreseman, but was sent away by another expressman and then sent to the houre again In an- other name. inpkagigtrate Meade held irs. 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