New-York tribune., 1872-03-14
vORE ABOUT TIE ELIAS GANG.
now THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS
COOPERATIVE UNION WAS BROKEN UP III
r,p POI IICr-TUE GENEVA WATCH COMPANY

NOW THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS
COOPERATIVE UNION WAS BROKEN UP Bl
TIE POLICE-THE GENEVA WATCH CoNrANi
REDUCED TO DESPERATE STRAITS.
The last grand swindle in which the Elias
gang were engaged before they determined on .ho
"Gencva Watch Company" project, was tho dei-
chants and Manufacturers Cooperative Union "'oF
terry IN which the purchaser OF ticket was proSc""
chance for a prize and admission to gfahd co"oo'' w
he given during the drawing. The scheme was ",s'y
advertised and the stores Nos. 69i ana OVo nIo""'
were leased for II in April last Three grand prizes weio
announced one of $4,000 aud two OF siooo e"cn' "n"
for the first few days purchasers OF u'"v'
noclod IN the stores When business ntggcu mo
drawing for the two $4,000 prizes was ad'eIsco' ""
Major A. Wright Maltby House, New-i orA' al" o'ii"''
A. Butts r No 1i7 Becckcr-st, were ta" 10 pe '"o
holders OF the winning numbers. The ElaS p'o'n'i'
published this widely but they forgot to stare that po
Wright and Butts were employees OF the swihihng COM
pany and that the prizes were never rediiy IeCoio.
when il was announced that the two large prizes hau
been drawn business revived and In ono day r receps
from the sale OF tickets over 5000 IL seeci 'nd'
the scheme would result in net profit OF slooo' ana
probably woud have done but for the interference VI
Cant Walsh of the Fourteenth Precinct, W"o' ~ tn5
presence OF Il crowd of spectator, sczfa tHc Nti' anu
took from II nearly three barrels 81 baukS thd o' Slu
gle numhicd ticket. Ellis H. EiiS ana TWO oi is Pil
cipa assistants arrested and Et' was hcid III $VVO
bail for nial that has never taken place , 81, l,
Since The Xposurcs In TIE TIlBi n "t INC N'irVa
Watch COMPANY fraud, the business OF the Eas gang
has dvuGlcd away, aud within few days thcy haNe
Ind recourse 10 The class rascalS known tS c"p
-Inen who appearing 10 have no connection WIN me
sUndlc Tho store ana either make puFchSc oi
merely pun the goods for tie benefit Of the Dstanuc
one of these ru cred the Geneva watch company :
store one evening this week, and. after looking at l"W
,atchrs yyitbouf rnrcha sing veutWcd the opinion ~
vatrnnakcr that tLey could not he purchased wholesale
for So more each than the price at when tDcf were sen
iu0 Til, mau was "copper"" and his regular position
il On thc sidewalk before door save when group Oh
sufficient size to warrant exercise ol Ills NoIup"'l
La- In 2 store. Incn hc sW1gScr, IN hhd
attempts 10y his luii4tOns TO Increase the s"luuh9
tdthc. r..o,i,
one Of the cOnfcdetatos of ne Elias Bf9thcfs Joseph
Constantine alas Joe Met uloch' 9!ids HehE hU),'',
alias Henry Bailey, aa. Charles LAWSON hiiaS hoDcit
Earl. when the exposures began, constantine aN"ilcu
hccn warned that his noiOrrty criminal might bring
hiln into flrler trouble. Constantine is Veteran III
the ,awdust" and counteret money business, ana NOT
long ago was arrested by one of capt. MrDOWrIs ON
Ger. fnr sWind ing a farmer Nv The "s1Ndu,t' tTick'
AZ tLc ST, ion hon SO he was fully 'cutfsd 10y bis victim
and nearly cIt ing begged 10 be allowed I" "'1uh"Hso
VITA the complainant. Inis Was refused al 'ous' N
tine sent 20 the Puic" CVuiI' pu h' Has Hp"t'""
| managed to escape ttlal