The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-15
WILLIAM S. GRAY, F0RGER.
4 VAIL STREET BROKER VINO rs 4
PRISONER ~ LONDON.
The swell be Cut in England amer his flight
from New York-liis Career as Vividly
Described bY Detective Thomns sampsOn.

from New York-Iiis Career as Vividly
Described bv Detective Thomas Sampson.
A telegraphed message was received
from London recently saying that VIM. 8. Gray,
the wall.street foreer, had been examined 10
tae Bow Street Police Court and romanded for
extradition. His solicitor asked for hls dis
charge, saying that he had been to the United
states several times since the forgeries, and had
been unmolosted.
Gray's operations were on two continents.
Capt. Thomas Sampson, tho detective OF the
Stock Exchange, says THE first know any
thing Of Gray was In 1858. ono day ten $1,000
registered Governments were received at the
Sub-Treasury from Jay Cooke & Co. for redemp-
tion. The bonds had been stolen and the names
altered. and caveats had been fled against them
in Washington. Mr.. Cooke told me that he got
them from W. L. Gray,a broker at a Broad
street. Gray said that he had taken them from
man who had departed for Honduras
doubted his story, but had no evidence
which to arrest him. lie gave me
ten good bonds. When l Impaired my
suspicious to sub-Tfeasurer Van Dyck he cx-
claimed, Tom, It can't be. You are mistaken.
why. he IL the son OF the chaplain OF the United
States Senate Some OF the boys in the ohice
went 10 college with him. In the fall and early
winter of 1859 Gray borrowed $2jlOoD from seve-
raj rich banking houses on New YORK bounty
raised from si,OOO to $4,000. lie fed
TO London with the money, also taking
| with him quarter OF million IN
registered bonds that had been stolen and
altered. In London he was known ss James
! Payne Morgan. lie had forged letters from
United Siato8 Senators, and he used those Hs an
| introduction into society. His whole desire was
to swindle. Ii Is said that he spent over tlVO,bO
| In making presents, and he gave the British no.
| bility the impression that he was the possessOr
| Of immense wealth In this country. lie kept a
stud OF American horses, and on several occa-
sions ho got up sleighing parties and had the
| Duke Of Edinburgh to accompany him. After
| he .iad been IN London about a year, ana had
successfully established himself, an opportu-
$4,000 IN stolen and forged United states
| registered bonds that he took from here.
| Mr.. Chatteris, an opulent Londoner' invited
| Gray to become a partner with his son IN bank
sented. Young Chattcrs put s2JOOOO In gold
| into the firm, and Gray used the stolen and
| forged bonds to represent his share OF tue cap
| ital The money OF young Chatterls was tquan,
dered by Gray within a year from the starting OF
y arrived in London in 1852 with mandate
for GRAY. Two secret service officers Of the
Treasury had been over after him before ]
living In style IN Upper bloomsbury
square, opposite TO Dickens's house. An Eng
| lish officer arrested him, but was frightened bJ
his lofty bearing. and let him escape, supposi NJ
Sontipsot, S re sH and I nv aIn IN goV '%e
| rlih~ -ntuule there, and yictinized a large mum
1 Dor of bankers on the Hague. He appeared IN
| Paris about two months under the name OF Dr
Francis W. Culetzo, and subsequently returned
To- London. understand that ali his money IL
gone"
Gray Is a tall man, OF elegant address. and
/ mas Hight complexion, hair, and moustache
| lie Is the son OF the Rev. DIR. Edward III. Gray
who was Chaplain Of the United States Senate
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