New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-03
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
swINDLING TWENTY-THREE FIRMS.
THE STORY THE DETECTIVES TELL Or HE FNaOD'
TIpVFS YEARS

SWINDLING TWENTY-THREE FIRMS
rHy STORY THE DETECTIVES TELL or THE FRAUDS
OF ELRvEN YEARS.
series of long-cOntuued swindling operations,
among the victims of which the police already
connt twcnty-tlree firms of dealers Ill straw g00us
and millinery in this city, has been uhcallIel ny
Inspector Byrnes's detectives alter wecMS d b h..
only tool in the hands of others, has so lar Dcc
caught. but the police know and are on the 'TaCn
issued According to the story told at Iolice
Headquarters yesterday the beginning oil system
of swindng that grew into regular ITactce Wa H
made in 1869 by CcntTc-St. firm The Iracllce
was to secure some willing tool for mlddic-l;hIi,
open an account for him in q bank. ana start nun,
in the straw goods or millinery DuslieIS ~ r""Gs
convenient store This person would ouy S"TTTIm
from various firms. first for cash, ana trduuH,i!
secure ten. twenty and thirty days credit, RihAinS
always promptly, &nH m jfc was reached. On The
day after this payment would become Uur' ,o
would move the goods from inc store 70 aa o ~ H.
ppnnIs nreviously bought in order that ho might
meet his payments and would then convenient
disappear The principals VIC ~ tllrn @iHiVSv t
tile goods at auction, and would soon aid'r lsle"'
the trick with some other tool easily found b.
In this way firms were swindlcd IRON year TO
wear but as their losses were never very larg' ana
;b";r foithless customer always disappeared, 1t
was not suspected that he had simply been playing
part in the execution OF an el9oGIdfe Srr, a or
,nore firms that have been used by the principal
swindlers in this manner, and they nave upon upon
victims Among these are Henry Br9mberg.> at
Greene and MrrcCr-sts.; DrcytusS d Cohen; Oh No
80 Mcrccr,St Richard Iscn, No. 339 G9nal-S!,; -
+. Danbrein, OF Franklin-St.; Cobb y lrSStnocrE'
of Church-st aud several Canal st. merchants.
The principal swindlers. growing bold Ill lahcle9
seeprty procured Last FfnrG3Ty T nt No. G
broadway, and introduced at the German kAch;hSe
Bank. Mt Broadway and Bond-st.,, mclch3nt
named Bnski of No. 81 lloward-st. becoming ms
reference. Angelrnan carried cut the old scheme,
dealing fairly Mt first, and, when he had ODtalneu
from nine different firms a. as many g goo %S n
tho goods 1t happened that some OF these lnrr-
chants had been swindled before III the same man
ncr, and now determined to seek out the sTnuclTI.
The names of the firms who undertook tins task
are given b. the police as Weckhcrln oi No -
Sprng-st.; Scarle. Daley & Co.. No 31S l5roaH.
J. Goggncr No sos Broadway; +. Stenhus4n, No
697 Broadway; kuglcr IL HcireS. No. 591 broad
way; Jacob New Of GTeenGsf; SS 81 %n 5G HroaT
way. They placed their case in the hands OF Sinon
Stern Who advised Inspector ByrneS ct what haq
worked Gnictiy for weeks before they got on the
track of the real culprits. They ascrrtalnrd llat
Angelman under advice of the principals was
about TO 20 to Europe. and had been sent 10 Moh-
treal to miscad the police. The montreal ponce
were informed. and arrested him under the assumed
of K2 dSSR' WITH S Draft s for frames
August Belmont, payable at Paris. was handing
him the money preparatory for ms departure lor
Europe. Sticpsicy. or Angcman. consented 10 go
to this city without delay, and was lOched up NJ
Police headquarters on his arrival on Monday
night Warrants are ont for his alleged coniGdcT-
atcs in crime The amount of the thrfts of which
he and lis principals are g5ty TGachSS as lar as
the police know at present, about S20;0OO.
Police Court, before Justice Wandell, he was cool,
calm and collected He admitted swindling
the extent of $3.50 -, by means OF II check, pay
able to the order of :. l.. Barber d Co" and pur-
porting to be signed bv Richard w. Angrlnan.
Justice Wandell held HIM to await the action OF the
Grand Jury iii 81 800 bail.