The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-01

cRooxEDNEss OF A HIGHLY CON-
NECTED COLLEGE GRADUATE.

Tried Law a While, but Found Cor
rorations More Prof1table-Queer
Dickers in Stocks, Followed, it is
Alleged, by Forgery.
From the Neic YOrI; sun
Ceorge Haywood Carpenter, who was ar
~sstad on Friday at Jacksonville, Fla, by
notactive Sheldon of Inspector Byrnes'
staff. for forgeries committed while PreSi-
don't of the Brookside Knitting Company,
nassed through brief but varied career be
fore he fed the city in November last. He
s. not more than 2S years old, is tall and of
handsome figure, and is graduate of
Princeton of the class of 1884. He is ready
and pe suasive talker, and is fond of fine
clothes and all the luxuries of life. He
claimed relationship with SenatdE Matl
Carpenter of Wisconsin and other persons
Of high standing, and married daughter
of a former United States Senator from
New Jersey His father is clergyman of
Cbillicothe, Ohio The Rev DR. Kynett of
the Methodist Book Concern of Phila-
delphia is an uncle of Carpenter, and S
probably out some $4,000 on paper
he had Endorsed for his enterprising
nephew.
After his graduation from Princeton, Car
renter came to this city and entered the law
office of Dillon & Swayne. Apparently he
found the law too slow path to riches for
he soon began to interest himself in various
manufacturing enterprises, such as the New
York Knitting Company, the Blackman
Disinfectant Company OF Beekman street,
the Paper Stock Disinfecting Company, and
the Washburn Salicyhca Manufacturing
Company, which dealt in n specific for
rheumatism In each of these concerns,
and in more than one of them at the same
time, Carpenter speedily became president
or secretary. and in all he was the moving
spirit until it suited his plans to give up the
enterprise and seek a new field
In two cases he is said to have secured
valuable real estate in exchange for stock
in his companies. For $37, 900 worth OF the
rheumatism specific stock he obtained from
!. B. Conkling, of No. % Broadway, house
Of that value in st. Louis, which he at once
mortgaged for $4,000 Mr.. ConkliDg sub
sequently obtained decree from the courts
ordering the property TO be transferred
hack to him. Later on, when Carpenter
got possession of handsome country estate
near Poughkeepsie IN return for stock, he
nut it in the hands of his wife after raising
upon it a snug little sum. He Is said also
to have induced j. B. Stokes, a college
classmate, to invest s., 900 in certain stocks,
Of which Stokes afterward got back g., 500
in good cash and the same amount in bad
notes.
These are some of the stories told Of Car
penter after the Foster Black Company,
now of 279 Church str..,. sought to have
him arrested on a charge of forgery. Car
penter had bought from William c. Temp
kins, lately the manager of the Myra
Goodwin Theatrical Company, a large in
terest in the Brookside Knitting Company,
aud became its president and treasurer
The mills We're at Troy, under the imme-
diate management of A B. Mallory For
year previous to last November the Foster
Black Company were the sole agents for the
products of the mills. They noticed that
the invoices came faster than the goods,
and, in fact, faster than the goods could be
manufactured. The correspondents of the
Foster Black Company began to complain
that they did not receive from the
Brookside Company the goods they
had ordered. Inspection showed how
ever, that the signatures of the receiving
clerks were regularly attached to the bills
of lading When the bills were shown the
receiving clerks they pronounced the sigma
lures genuine, but when the shipping mani
tests we're examined and it was found that
the Brookside Company had no goods to
correspond with those described in the bills
of lading, it became evident that the sigma
lures were tOrgerleS. Carpenter was con-
fronted with these facts He said there
must be some mistake. Mallory came to
New York and admitted that he had sent
bills of lading without the goods and
declared that he had been induced to do so
by promise from Carpenter of increased
salary. Subsequently Mallory was arrested
in Troy and was admitted to bail Carpen-
ter, at this time, had just moved from his
country place on the Hudson to house in
Forty-fifth street, near Fifth avenue
When the suspicion gained strength that
Carpenter himself and not Mallory. had
forged the clerks signatures, the young
hnancler fled, and for nearly three months
escaped arrest. His liabilities are estimated
at $4,000. If his creditors have good
grounds for their complaints, and Carpen-
ter has not been shrewd enough to forestall
them, there viii be pretty batch of indict-
mentS when he gets back to New York.
1t was week or two ago that Inspector
Byrnes learned that Carpenter was in Jack
sonvlile. He wrote, asking the authorities
there to arrest him and hold him for ex-
tradition. The jacksonville police sent back
asking the particulars of the crime and
how much reward was offered The In
Spector answered, saying that there was no
reward, but declaring that the man was a
fugitive from justice Again came a reply
from Jacksonville asking how much it
would be worth to them to make the arrest
Disguised, the Inspector sent Sheldon and
a boy employed by Foster, Black & Co. to
Jacksonville. Yesterday the lad recognized
me man and Sheldon arrested him as
fugitive from justice. On this charge the
Magistrate could not refuse to hold him
ds viii be brought North on extradition
papers that are now being prepared.