The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-06
HIS MANNER SyAYE.
Jules Arbib Arrested for swindllns
a Detective Agency.
CROOKED CAREER OLA FRENCRM4N
In the Little City on the Banks Of the
Raging Kaw.--It was His Smooth
Talk Alone that Secured tho FIRMS
Endorsement of Draft---He Lived
sumptuously.

ShAhpShOHbASs
cnIcAco, IL, July 5.-when Jules
Afbib steppedoft the train from Detroit
last Thursday in New York hewas taken
in charge by an officer. He was held for
swindling operations in Chicago.
Arbib is blue-eyed Frenchman, who
speaks English with sufficient piquancy
to. make it pleasant to the ear. His
''brogue" must be likewise persuasive
II his crooked operations in Chicago
and Kansas City are any criterion. A
man who can go quickly to the head
quartersof appointment detectiveagency
and induce the management to stand
good for him to the extent of 500
must be credited with smoothness.
Jules Arbib did that very act in Chica-
90, as the Union National Bank can
affirm, for that banking institutionmade
the detective agency pay over the $40.
The agency Is Just now holding the
bag although the management Is san
guine it will get every cent.
WELL RECOMMENDED.
Through introductions from the lead
ing French citizens of Kansas City Arbib
came to Chicago. He represented him
self as an agent for Brock & Co., hard;
ware merchants OF New York. He sold
some goods, and about month ago
sent to the New York house orders ag..
eregating nearly $1,000. About half OF
these were shipped, and Arbib pro-
cured them and realized on them.
About two weeks ago Arbib was intro
duced to the manager OF leading de-
tectiya agency. Colonel Plume intro
duced him. Arbib had q certified check
for SIS, which only needed Identification
to realize upon, The polite manager
for the detective agency identified ArbiP
at q bank, and the money was drawn.
That transaction was straight.
A few days ago Arbib again appeared
at the detective agency, saying he
wanted to draw draft for 800 on his
house in New York. The bank re-
ouired Endorsement before the money
was paid. The detective agency man
ager refused to do this. Nothing daunt-
ed, Arbib called at the agency when
the manager was out, and with his
suaye manner, induced member OF the
firm to write his name on the back OF
the draft. Two days after a representa-
tive of the firm Of Brock & Co., OF New
York, came here to prosecute Arbtb Tor
fraud. Arbib could not be found. The
next day the detective agency was
called upon to make good the 500
which Arbib had secured. 1t was then
learned Arbib had gone to Detroit. An
order by wire to arrest him ct Detroit
reached there two hours after he had
taken train for New York. On his
arrival there he was arrested. He will
be prosecuted in the New York courts.
HIS DISHONEST CAREER.
Jules Arbib's crookedness first came
to the surface in Kansas City three
years ago. He went to that city as
agent for number of foreign manu-!
facturers, as well as representing print
millin Georgia. Arbib placed mum.
Der of orders with the leading firms and
seemed very prosperous, At first orders
were filled promptly and payments
made by purchasers direct to the man
ufacturers. Arbib was energetic and
his smooth manners made him popular.
Suddenly Arbib began to collect for
goods when delivered, stating he did so
to get his commissions. This mode of
procedure was objected to at once by
the manufacturers, before objections
were seriously made he had collected
about 5000. He only RENTED por-
ton Of this. Two large invoices OF
prints from the Georgia mills were in
kansas City, the price OF which Arbib
had made so low that q large quantity
had been bought. The manufacturers,
by prompt use Of the wire, had the in
voice Of prints seized. The purchasers
had such bargain they fought the
seizure, and for nearly @ year this case
WINS in court, but Arbib managed to
wriggle out OF the transaction.
Arbib has q very pretty French wife,
He and she gained admission to the best
society among the French people in
Kansas City, and this pretty woman's
influence served her husband more than
once. Shortly after the row with the
Georgia manufacturers, Arbib induced
F. NJ. Livingston to enter in copartner-
ship with him under the firm name OF
Livingston & Co. Livingston had sew
eral thousand dollars in cash, and with
this Arbib induced him to fit up very
elaborate offices. The fixtures were as
elaborate as millionaire importer
would desire. Arbib had numerous let
ters from manufacturers Of fine silks,
laces, and satins in Paris, London, and
Belgium. It was these letters which
caught Livingston. Arbib's suave way
OF explaining how they would soon oe
wealthy caused the unsuspecting young
man to put in all tho money he had and
to borrow from his relatives.
HE wINED AND DrEED suMPTuousLY.
Arbib, as the company, was to draw
the big salary. He was to put his time
in persuading merchants to buy.
His wine suppers for this purpose were
elaborate. He wrote his orders to Paris
in French, and as Livingston know no
French Arbib read them as he pleased.
Answers were the same. Livingston
began to get short OF money, as no
goods arrived on which to realize. FL
nally the sheriff took a hand, at the in
etigation Of local creditors, and in less
than two days the fine fixtures and
furnishings which had given the office