New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-03

AN EXTENSIVE PLAN TO ROB THE ROADS.
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FORMER EMPLOYEES rasY ROAD TO RICHES
MANY uCKEr s.4iRs IMPLICATED.
Colonel Hahn, manage of the Manhattan Ee-
waited Railway told Inspector Byrnes recently that
the company Was being robbed by ticket agents.
number of agents had been discharged for dis
honesty. but the trouble was not abated. Several
the agents had keys to the drop-boxes at the sta
tons and that tickets were taken from the boxes
and rcsold. Later it was asccrtalned that forged
tickets were being sold at some of the
stations. The detectives were puzzled TO
account for the forg''g Of the tickets
Suspicion was directed at LEM t9Tard j. Cole .
three years, and had been discharged for dishon-
esty. He was seen in the company oil some oil the
tcket agents and ! Was learned 'ns5 ne coc vee b
city nearly every night and transacted mysterious
business at the elevated stations. Among the TICKET
sellers with whom he seemed to be familiar was
William Finder employed in the uptown station
of the Sixth-ave. road at Twenty-third-st larry
on Tuesday morning Pinder was arrested after he
had started toward his home, at No. Wald0-ave.,
Jersey City. In his pockets were found some
genuine and q number of counterfeit tickets. nc
was locked up at Police Headquarters and remanded
by police justice INTO the custody OF Inspector
Byrnes. ,,,.
asking for an immediate interview AT place IN
this city near one of the ferries Cole answerea
the summons in the afternoon and was arrested
Nothing of q suspicious character was iouhu On
him and he refused to make any stltemen,; Ter
Qeant Slevn aud three her officers were sent that
evening to search Cole house where they iVuHu
is 600 counterfeit and ~ out 600 genuine tlckets
They also found souJ meiuoianduns ana notes
which indicated that ;nc work OF counterfclting
had been done by Augugt &. Speth llthographer az
No. 80 Maiden lane The detectives returned 20
Police Headquarters at4 a. M Yesterday. LATER IN
The morning they went to Maiden lane TO LOOK
after the photographer. Learning that Spetn nNeu
at No. 1913 Atlantlo-aye Brooklyn ana nnat M IL
that he did the counterfeiting at his home noio
was sent to his Office askir Speth TO meet Mr. Cole
in Broadway. He left the ofi3e at once aud was
Disbursements
nor went TO Brooklyn and searched Speths house
finding four large photographic stones and SIX
smaller ones, all used for printing counterfeit eie-
large number of counterfeit tickets
in > sheets and a quantity of paper. The
property seized, placed on q truck ana csiIleu
TO Police Headquarters n.
When confronted with the evidence Of their guilt
the three prisoners made confessions he schelhe
was laid by Cole who said that while he was an
agent in the employ of the Manhattan Company lie
made false key for the drop-bOx in the station
where he was employed TO sell tickets. lie stole
tickets from the box pressed out the punch marks
between damp cloths and res0ld the tickets Be
fore he was discharged.he made about $l40oo III
that way. When he lost his place he formed a new
plan of robbery. 1t TO procure counterfeit
tickets to the amount of 100000 "a ana 10
~ he employ of the company. He knew that
tickets taken from the drop-boxes IN the regular
way were destroyed every day after being counted.
When of hls coufederates sold lot OF counter;
felt tickets he was to deliver 10 Cole an equal
number of genuine tickets Cole expected that the
counterfeting business would not be discovered
until be had genuine tickets worth 100000 IN his
possession. Then all materials used In making the
counterfeits were to be destroyed, and the inten-
ton of Cole was to offer packageso genuine tickets
for sale in the streets at reduced rates. tie sx-
pected in that way to make about 500, IN 81
months after paying liberal commissions to the
ticket sellers and $4,000 to Speth. The confess
SONS of the prisoners implicated about dozen
ticket agents who probably will be arrested to-
dav. They and Pindar will be charged with con,
spracy. Cole and Speth will be heldon charges OF
forgery.