The sun., 1883-12-05
JOINT STOCK WICKEDNESS.
SAID TO BE STEALING, nut READS UN-
COMMONLY LIKE LYING.

COMMONLY LIKE LYING.
Two Grocers Clerks Reveal tho Mystcries
orthe A. II. G. ENTHUSIASTICALLY Hound by
Blast of Horn to Steal S1e5 u Week Each.
Henry Fullc, a grocer at Second avenue
and Forty-fourth street. has been doing rush.
ing business lately. but has been puzzled by
the mcagrcness of his cash balances. lie aues-
toned his nephew Herman Myers. who is q
clerk in the store. but got no satisfaction.
Finding that Myers was spending q good deal
OF money. LIE locked Myers up for two days in a
room over tho store On tho third day Myors
told him story to this elect
Twenty-Five retail groccrs' clerks about ninc
months nEo formed union. which they styled
tho A d Union. Tho President was Chris
tian Krooss. q milkman who supplied with milk
| tho groccrs whose clerks belonged to tho
| union. Tho union was a strictly secret organ
| ization, with passwords and grips. Each mem
| bcr so!omnly bound himself to steal $l25 q
| month from his employer and Eivc tho money
| to Erooss. who was tho banker as well as tho
| President. Krooss bound himself to keen the
| money one year for them. and return 1t ut
| the end OF that time. keeping s25 out OF
every 500 for his trouble. In tho event Of
| the inability OF any OF tho members to steal
| S125 in any given month. ho was to pay over
s400 at tho end OF three months or forfeit oil
| his rights in the enterprise. 1t was agreed
that the members who were in good standing
ut the end Of tho year. having squared UP their
| accounts by the payment of 1900 during that
time were to divide tho accumulated money.
BY which he demonstrated that certain num-
| month. more by the ninth month. and ono or
two from that time until the expiration OF the
would ys have @ from t -. 5Go to s3d6o This money
was either to bc invested in stores by individual
| members or embarked in n Joint enterprise
Myers nftpr relating this story Suit TINT he
| wns not member OF the union, but that Her
fsk se MS osoa .HSp eoW
of about il. lIe was taxed with the thcits and
into he 5 sn1 hG ha With nSs the
Union but had paid az his m MONEY to ,Rl RrGGss pis
others. Teljcn told Detectives Mcgowan and
for Louis AnlIresen. grocer Ct Ct $40 Second
s,sssssisSss nsi% f%is vs Ts to Slr,s!iss
oy 'oa .na searehns H
Krooss @ Vas held in 800 Iaii at tie IorkviIie
Roce Court yesterday He an anl his brother
vs. 600. and have o,hcrproper,y. Henly Kr9oss
went upon his brothers bail bond. Christian.
s aHS sia's%sai: @ he i 8 vars 9ii: , '''.A,
FRst and ppfht said they III nad never bear, bear,
ssft Fast y3SG % H. Boih Il @a rendcd S S
of ! la S told Tie isown story 10 SaI
OF Tue SUN last night,
day. Oct; 3. when he asked me to Join the
union. | went up into his room over ANDRE
there was Mrs. Parenhauseh's clerk. John Fast.
II clerk for MIR: AhreEs up on Second Avenue.
whose name do not know and Krooss. don't
know who the other man was. Kr9oss wanted
You'd to na AZ aGe
nra sS ~s T Thn hsn KS0ss yo % asyes w
YOU secFrtnry lh9 money XVII viii bH Deposited
draw ali Tie c chseks. Igach. viii give np the
Sccr"thryship TO you. No one can draw out
%?ss 3 hs unon S" dsS nnS s Hs hS S5er3 As IS
~S' G s r e meas say8 G y say
teT.; refused &, to Jein the union. but agreed
& afn tie as c6arS Of E"Ss o1T no ia aa sp
.bre'ty we'll and Pl4nk,ed down TIVE pile; q
: for his ias;ner who worked in Fapcniiauscn's
stI2r" tut has sinGG been , hsfhalged Tks1 zen
money money INTO lis @ roskct V Then ali T swSrc k kear m
secret, never r. e tel anythins relating TO, TO ths 4
u4Gs Ts G9S II 'M M AES% aP hTFq spa
ct'm ~ r o hG m mitss's I'VE we're nTeEln
was made T. orc difficult because NJ. Fulo lost
his patience at the Golay. and accused Krocgs
, On Mone.ay me morning Of instigaiaG tie thefts
cd W, tho books OF tho union. Tha detectives
say :hcy believe that frcr!. sl2.O00 10 $4,000
, twenty-five A b c unionists. The police have
t tyo mcmoTandunis from couple OF the nom
, | bers. which. they say. show payments Of many
hundreds Of dollars. Grocers Pnpenhnuser
. ami Andersen know nothing Of their losses
| until the arrest OF their c!crks.
A!r. Fullc says he has begun civil proceeding!
to recover AT! 10 from man who Is alleged t.
: ! have collected it from Nephew Myers rs thu
, agent OF the A u or some similar organization