Telegram-herald., 1890-10-14
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s~indling BY gang et Americans u 30
Azs rosbed English investors II thoe-
sands Of pounds Succeeding Install
msnts II the story came - ilght In Ne~
York Saturday when Mrs Miller and
Ars Field TIE siyes % the swtndlers
charged With carrying on = large part
of tie booty, @efe arrested for e1trAdi-
tion
The operations ot the ssindlers we're
carried on In London. where they were
known and widely advertised a. James
h. Field a Co, bankers Ii was given
out that the trm consisted 0f James IL
Field, William ". Miller aRd William
Yates Miller. With the pretense that
they mere sgents for unusually prof IA
bic enterprises ia America they sent
out alluring circulars iRyiting de-
posits On those they paid monthly re-
turns putpOrting 10 be profits at what
would be al annual rate of IS or 80 per
cent They advertised these returns
aud gave instances where men who had
invested ai. 600 in their enterprises
were likely 10 get all their capital
back in less than four years
American investments were popular
in England With the notoriety such
fabulous dividends gave them Field &
Co. got plenty of customers in the year
and half they were at work. What
they wan ted particularly was small de-
posits-95o0 or like sums They used
part Of the money as IL came in 10 pay
the alleged profits. and the rest they
put by for the grand smash.
The grand smash came about six
weeks ago. The partners fed 1t is sup
posed that they went TO the continent
but there is also some reason 10 believe
that they may now be in America
Wherever they are they have some
thing like sSoo.oo Of British capital
which doesn't belong to them. OF every
$1,000 intrusted TO them they got away
with $500. So the story from London
goes.
A loud cry went up from the swim
died. Many of them were small t.ades-
men and comparatively poor people.
When the London police came TO look
into the case they found that the wives
of the bankers had left the country just
u
large amount of the stolen money
with them. The police came to this
latter conclusion because two women
answering the description OF the
bankers wives had got about 940 900 in
notes at the Bank of England and then
bad bought drafts with these notes at
the London banking-house OF Brown.
Shipley & Co.
Bank of England notes are numbered
and careful records are kept Of the num-
bers at every transfer. 1t was com
paratiyely easy 10 trace these notes
when the London detectives were once
on their track. When the detectives got
this far they secured warrants for the
earrest of the women and cabled the
facts to the British Consul In New York.
asking him to have the women looked
for and arrested for extradition IL they
appeared. Consul General Hoare went
TO Inspector Byrnes and laid the case
before him.
The women were soon located IN this
city, and Mrs Miller was shadowed
wherever she went. 1t was discovered
that she had presented at Brown Bros
bank drafts for large amounts drawn on
Brown, Shipley IL Co, OF London. Sat
urday Inspector Byrnes ordered their
arrest
Neither OF the women would make a
statement. They were dressed fashion
ably but not extravagantly. Their
manners and conversation were those of
people of refinement and good education.
In the meantime Mr. Hoare, the British
onsul-Generai, obtained warrants for
the arrest of the women under the extra
dition law. Tho warrant against Mrs.
Miller charges her with receiving stolen
property, an of'ense which is now extra
ditable between the United States and
Great Britain. In the warrant against
Mrs. Field the ofiense is left blank.
This is because fuller information is
wanted from Great Britain before COM
pleting the charge. The total amount
obtained by Mrs Miller from Brown
Bros. before they heard from Brown,
Shipley & Co. WAS $50. 600. What has
become of this money nobody seems
to know. Inspector Byrnes says he has
not found any OF it. There is a theory
a
sent it to the swindlers, If the swind-
lers are anywhere in America
NEW YORK, Oct. l3-The case of Mrs
Caroline r. V. Miller and Mrs Field
was brought before Judge Barrett
in Supreme Court chambers on a writ
Of habeas corpus. Both were dis
charged. The charge against the women
fs that OF recefviur stolen funds from
the banking firm OF Messrs j. NJ. Field
q Co Immediately after the discharge
OF the accused, United States Marshal
Bernhardt arrested Mrs. Miller upon .
warrant issued By Commissioner
Shields who held Mrs. Miller for exam
ination.
CmcAso, Oct 1a-1t Is next TO GER
tain that in the English swim
die. in which Field and Miller
have been engaged, Miller was
the protector oi the scheme and
drew Field into IT. II Is certain.
too. that the precious pair left Chicago
expressly to perpetrsts their swindle on
TIE English public. That Miller Vas the
prime mover in the enterprise will not
be doubted when recalling his connec-
ton with fsmoss swindling scheme of
. similar nature Tat q few years age
fonrishei IN Chicago. uetted is pro
rotsrs several million dollars, ard
finally ended in crash that vas the
sensation of the year. This swipale rss
TIE Fund W fraud
No more gigantic - ssoo~ssfal swind-