Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-08
NLPPED IN THE BUD.
A Flattering Swindling Scheme That
Didn't Work Very Long.
BANKING ON THE WORLDS FAIR,
Halsey De Baud Organizes Triple Thestri-
cal Speculation. g
HERnANNAND KIRALFY BOTH cAuGH,

ESPECIAL TILIcRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, March THE arrest and
arraignment at the Jefferson Market Police
Court to-day Of clever young swindler,
nipped in the bud one Of the most care
fully planned schemes for securing money
under false pretenses which the great fair
to be held in Chicago in 1898 has as yet
given occasion for
About five years ago Halsey g. De Baud
was well-known to theatrical people as q
clever theatrical architect. He used to
have an Office in the same building as H. s.
Taylor, Edward Zimmerman, Sanger, and
other dramatic agents and managers. De
Baud was known as Newark" because he
lived in that town and would go home
every ev vening while the rest stayed in the
city to gossip along Broadway.
But DeBaud was not particularly success
full and he disappeared from view. It was
not until about . month ago that he turned
up again on Broadway, but he no longer
was the struggling young architect. He
drove up to the door of H. s. Taylor's dra-
matte agency in swell brougham
drawn by two fine horses. With him was
man whom he presented to his old associate
as Mr.. Sears, his personal attorney. He
called on Mr.. Taylor and engaged an office
in his building, and in few days installed
pretty typewriter there, who ticked away
on the keys from morning until night.
In Business at Niagara Falls.
DeBaud would be absent for several DAYS
at time, and his typewriter said he had
gone to Buffalo or Niagara Falls. The
great milling industry which it is hoped
will be developed at the falls by means of
the tunnel,now in construction will tend
to increase the size of the town.,
and the authorities are preparing
for boom. DeBaud entered into
partnership with w. @. johnson, and the
two drew up plan for constructing a sys-
tenn of sewerage which they presented to
the town council with such good success a.
to get them to bond the city for $3.50, 900
to raise money to construct the sewer. De-
Baud and johnson we're to receive a large
percentage. ~
DeBaud then organized the tWorld's
Columbian Transportation, Amusement
and Construction Company" Of which he
was President, Treasurer and Board of
Directors, and came to New York to es-
tablish his headquarters. On bis cards he
put Inc Title 'Dlrecteuf General
The scheme was to construct three
theaters on the plan of the Eldorado at
in this city, one in
Niagara and one in Chicago. Agencies
were to be established in all the great
European centers, and people abroad were
to be urged to buy tickets of the transporta-
tion company, which would enable them to
stop off in these cities to witness the great
performances at these theaters.
Kiralfy and Hermann Caught.
De Baud even went so far as to engage
Bolossy Kiralfy to organize the spectacular
part of the entertainments, and made a
contract with Hermann to give three per-
formances day at salary of 81, s0oa week.
DeBaud got Mr.. Taylor to manage these
great shows, but Taylor grew Suspicious.
On February 20 Taylor cashed d $50 check
for DeBand, drawn on the CATARACT National
Bank, OF. Niagara Falls. "A few days later
the check was returned. Taylor autographed
for information and received word that De
Baud had drawn numerous checks on. the
bank above his balance. :
On. receiving this information Mr.. TAYLOR
got warrant for the arrest of DeBaud, and
+ was served by Detective Hays this morn.
ing. At court another complainant an
peared. He was William Moules, grocer.
who said he had cashed $3.50 in checks for |
DeBaud in payment for liquors and cigars. !