The sun., 1883-12-05
JOINT STOCK WICKEDNESS.
SAID TO BE STEALING, BUT READS UN-
COMMONLY LIKE LYING.
TIVE Grecers' Clerks Reveal the Nysteries
ef the A. II. e. Union-solemnly bound By
Hast OF Horn to Steal 81 rs Week Each.

sf the A. II. e. Enthusiastically Hound BIZ
Binst OF Horn to Steal eIeS a Week Each.
Henry Fulle, grocer at Second avenue
and Forty-fourth street, has been doing rush.
ing business lately. but has been puzzled by
the meaereness OF his cash balances. He ouos-
toned his nephew. Herman Myers who is
clerk in tho store. but got no satisfaction.
Finding that Myers was spending good deal
OF money. he locked Myers up for two days In q
room over the store. On the third day Myers
told him story to this effect:
Twenty-Five retail grocers clcrks about nino
months ago formed union. which they styled
the A D G Union. Tho President was Chris
tian Krooss. q milkman who supplied with milk
tho grocers whose clerks belonged to tho
union. The union was strictly secret organ
ization. with passwords and grips. Each mom-
bcr solcmnly bound himself to stoal s125 q
month from his employer and give the money
to Krooss who was the banker as we'll as the
President. Krooss bound himself to keen the
money one year for them. aud return 1t ut
tho end Of that timo. keeping $25 out Of
every 800 for his trouble. In tho event OF
the inability of any Of the members to steal
s125 in any given month. he was to pay over
$500 at the end OF three months or forfeit all
his rights in tho enterprise. 1t was agreed
that the members who were in good standing
at tho end OF the year. having squared up their
| accounts by the payment OF $1,000 during that
time. were to divide the. accumulated money.
BY which, he demonstrated that q certain num-
ber would drop. out Mt the end OF tho sixth
two from that time until the expiration Of the
year, 50 that M each q membcs @ og IN go2a "a standing
% Was either TO % be nvsstSd IN stores by indvduaI %
msmbers or embarked In z Joint enterprise;
aT sa5f II .s story ad .bas 1hG he
%rFul!s EsT sshsdaie; Tissjen s yoSns Y isiIoy
admitted into f9il fellowship with the A b
ana to see that ie received Ills Esrofts like thesi
Shelly OF the Fifty first street station that John
East. Q ceIk for Ann papenhaqsen grocer at
Ls foeF as%gy at rFfS s ssd
avenue. and others werc in tho conspiracy.
ss1s E. HNa rrsh nS ys Tse to s cSrssn rstef T
g, nS 9 E ls Were STRAIT tc s9sk Wos
Krooss Was held in ii 500 bail at The Yorkyilie
Henry own thrco houses in iisth street as Worth
$1,000 and M have & rrr2@ner,&y @ & Henry krGoss
Il is koSs ss refused dS to make
Fast and Preeht said they had mover heard
Of the 4 b Union or Of 81 each other, precht
sfs ss yGspbs bs dtH H ws nsh
,aS Myers rs i yoqnS man
II vas walking with Henry Precht on Sun.
day: Oct when he asked Z, dine me to ,9in the
sens store. There were 1--WE there altogether.
hhresht was a ono He was the sss1etary Then
whose name an do not EnoWnnd w. nc Krooss don't
y a aS 9aaa wouS Sasa
70 DO would be 70 steal tl25 month. and at the
afraid we will eIieGe sss I'd! Wi. IS : ~ Il
us Ensc NE us x sG snd yos ssa
draw all the checks. Precht will give up the
seGrHtarrh to y9n No ,h. can daT
he said that the union paid sick members - n
day from each member or s5oa day, for the
bers refused to Join the union. but agreed
Then Krooss asked Fast how ho had got
along the IH cSS"no Of months oMn lie ns said ID
$500 each one niic for Eirisef and the other
for his nHr'nsr who worked a in rapennausSsns
sHS @ e pad hfs SStn put ne
money into his pocket. Then ali sworc TO keep
sS m s Blew wi hr"h Sahs oln gSntf to /"
The detectives are iookins ,up Tho ,@;her nj
legged Is mcmberSi Of the alleged , Union
was nade more dinicult because MIR. Tu!e lost
lnh'i,iNp ~ VIC "cit!. hiiu uSSho'u
on Monday morning Of instgatinS the thefts.
Myers says thnt Precht was warned and burn
ed up the books of the union. Tho detectives
say they believe that from $4,000 TO $4,000
has been paid in in the ninc months by the
twcnty-flv A E c unionsts. The police hnvo
two mcmorandnms from couple OF tho MEM
bers, which they say show payments Of many n
ana Anderson knew nothing of their losses
until tho arrest Of their clerks.
Mr.. Fullc says he has begun civil proceedings
70 recover si1l.7o from man who Is alleged TO
have collected II from Nephew Myers rs the
agent of tho Z or some similar organization.