The New York herald., 1869-06-20
FINANCIAL FiNESSlyG.

How n Brokers' Once Was Opened and n
Capital OF Few Hundreds Speedily Multi
piled into Th0usands-Au Old Dodge
ShrewdIy md Successfully Played.
Manifold chapters of thrilling interest might be
written showing up the strategic inessing of those
whose ambition to acquire wealth ou,strps every
feeling OF honesty. The arrest and arraignment
yesterday, before Judge Dowling, at the Tombs, OF
Henry Miller, alias David Marsh, u!uods one chap
Ter out Of the many capable OF beng written The
story is old one simple story Of cool, caculat-
ing criminalIty, and, therefore, very costly and
briefly told. little over eighteen months agothe per-
son whom we Eave named and who then passed py
thfe name Of Henry Miller, opened brokers' once
at No. 40 Exchange place. The ohSce was most ell
g,bly located and was well furnished> ana aitogether
there was a very busness-llke air abofe the place.
Mr. Miller opened o bank account at the Ocean Ma
tional Bank He had some money-an essentia, pre-
,,minary to carrying ont successfully his pip-
gramme. He bought stocks of all kinds and securi.
ties, and bonds and mortgages and gold ana gave
checks and received checks He gets a certidcation
from his bank OF Is, 100 6 deposit. Now Comes the
elimination of his financial fnessing. He makes
this certihcation read for s21 600, and with the
check thus altered buys OF Mr. O. Haryler sl6,ooO
worth OF gold. Mr.. Harvier deposits the check IN
the Union National Bank, and it comes back TO nm
marked as altered in the way we have described.
bsns bsSre M mr. MeT shuts up his Ocs IN exchanges @
place, and the place that had known him knew him
The 9'n next sWindng game tfactsed 50 success
fully by Mr.. Miller was not to be allowed to
pass unnotced. Mr.. Harvier had an interest
in hunting him up and so had the Ocean and
Union National Banks. The date OF this financial
transaction Of Mr.. Miller was December TO- 1897.
To Captain Jourdan was entrusted the task OF find
Ing him n p0s 70 ds e Ssus as ss
looked as unweariedly as can look shrewd seafcher
after violators Of the law; few days ago he got
dayits were at once taken before Judge Dowling
The fruit OF these afidavits. as embOdying clear
and succinct statement OF the facts and upon which
what we have written above ts mainly based, we
give IN full. This affidavit Is as follows:-
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paper has been altered the having been originally
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Thousand and the numerical figures on the lower left cor;
check also altered conform the body OF
the said paper deponen therefore charges the said Mn
s a' S M sa Of
forged check with the intent and deraud he
pra va be NAV be dealt with az the law directs.
CHARLES II. HARvIER.
Sworn 10 before me this 18th day of June ls69-JosEru
BOWLING.
Charles H. Clark states in further affldavit that
the check referred to above was on the date men,
toned presented to him as the paying teller OF the
Ocean National Bank for certifcation, and that al
this time the check was for g. 100 and that the same
mad been changed to make II appear as having been
certified for $4,000. He positively dentined the
check. -
Upon the above aIidavits Mr.. Miller was arrested
as already stated, and conveyed before Justice Dow
| ling at the Tombs. He was at once committed y
| prison without bail 1t Is not until quite recent
tnat Mr.. Miller has ventured to return 10 tne CITY
Not long since he was arrested Rpi2ig a Greenwich
| street bank out of quite sum OF money by some
| what similar process. It is believed that Othe
swindes OF like character can be traced home tt
him.