New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-09
HE STOLE TO PLAY POLICY.
noyyFALL OF A TRUSTED BooKKEEPER.
ais ARREST LED TO WHOLESALE RAID On
THE POLICY SHOPS WHERE HE HAD
LOST OVER $50 900.

William A. LoZee, who was prisoner at fonce
Headquarters las: night, has been playing policy
,ipce MAY. 1890, and 10 do 1t has embczzcd
Ri .s,2 36 from Molleson Brothers, paper dealers,
No Il Beekman-st., by whom he had for many
wears been employed as confidential bookkeeper'
or the money he took, Lozec has now only little
oycr 800 For this he has endured three years
Of racIing anxiety of mind has sacrificed home.
friends and good name and now awaits prison.
InspecDr Byrncs so deeply impressed Dy
Iozee's story that yesterday he organized ana
carried n wholesale raid on the policy shops where
L,ozec hd lost and won money lie says he Will
.ontinp the crusade until he has closed every one
pf them
Iozee had been employed by MolleSon brothers
for nea.ly eleven years, and most of the firms
.,a,. ,assed through his hands. MollcsOn Broth
,rs for a considerable time have been puzzled 10
understand why their profits were 30 small. FL
aIIv th-v started an investigation and were amazed
lo find that Iozee had been Systematically rob
hing nsem His complete control over the books
had enabled him To falsify them with little chance
If detection. When taxed with the robbery on
saturday Jozee confessed that he had stolen $500.
md then raised the figure TO $500. On Monday he
was arrested
Lozee told Inspector Byrnes that one morning In
May. 1890. while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on
his way TO New-Yorll, he told friend the story
of dream he had had the night before Inc
friend said that the dream was favorable Tor policy
playing. Lozee acted on the suggestion and at the
first attempt lest his money On the second day he
won, and. backed by the Messrs. Mollesons' cash.
has continued to gamble ever since AT No. AGA
PearLst he lost S3,ls1 so; at No. 96 Park Row,
Ssl5l 119; at No. 155 Park Row. S3,1 So 10; at
No. 25 Ann-st., 81 ,016 II at No 3Os Myrtle-ave.,
B7,140 % and at No zoe l-2 Wiliam-st 5000 80.
Early yesterday morning acknowledgements
Hanson Titus, Sheridan and others started out
on a tour Of the places named by Lozee in his
statement to the Inspector. At No. AGA Pearl-st.
the detectives arrested George Hamilton, of No.
235 Madson-st. William Spencer, twenty-eight
years old, of No. II Jefferson-st., was found at
No. 202 North William-st AT No 50 Park Row
Morris Sullivan, thirty-four years old, of No.
Madson-st., was arrested by Detectve-Sergeant
Heard. Detective-Sergeant Sheridan closed Room
at No. 25 Ann-st., and took to Police Head
quarters Fred Wilson, of No. 1s6 East Thirty
second-st., William Radford, of No. 2j6 West
Fifty y-sixth-st, and George Morgan of No 332 West
Hftyeighth-st. The last man taken 10 Police
Headquarters was Thomas Duneen, Of No. 2l2
Waverley Place. AS these men were taken In sue
cesson to Inspector Byrnes's private room they
were confronted by LoZee, who Identified each
of them as men with whom he had staked money.
The prisoners were all taken to the Tombs
Police Court and there remanded for further eX-
animation. Lozee is fifty years old, married, and
Monroe-st, Brooklyn He will be charged with
grand larceny and possibly forgery The Soley
gambling laws, but, If it can be proved that they
were aware of the source from which LOzee drew
his funds, it is probable that the charge against
them will assume q much ,graver character