The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-09
THIS SWINDLE IS SMASHED.
,,coyyOR a co.'s NAME SCRA TCHED
rig THE DOOR At - BROADWAE


Sat Bogus Land Company faiA foe ~
.HerAs~ with = Net~s 'asa Was 0eins
70 Fay for It's Land with its Boaas-1n
.oee.t George = Tsrrasgtoa - EsAsrssr
The exposure In yesterdays svN OF tn,
Nav York and baltimore Land and Improve
mont Company has smashed that swindle ant
produced more news about F. II. O'Connor
Co. Of SO Broadway. The exposure came jus
in time. for in few days moro tho COMPANY
would have spread its ADVERTISING broadcast
and It's maps. which now will never DO printed
would have been ready for distribution.
The most remarkable fact connected with
tho whole fraudulent scheme wns tho east
with which O'Connor and Clarke got tho bust
ness fairly into shape without apparently OK
pending q single dollar OF the mythical tive
million dollars paid up capital" Even the
beautifully Autographed bonds haven't cost
Secretary F. H. OConnor and his confederatet
cent yet Tho company was going to pay fol-
land with the bonds" and the payment oil
advertising was even secured BY these same
worthless chromos.
Tho bonds were printed by tho Snckett q
Fisko stationery company. al broadway. ana
all that the company has to show for the work
done IA a prcmissory note for Sl.3OO. which
Mr.. Snckctt, after reading THE SUNS story
yesterday. felt very doubtful about
"Betore taking the printing he said yester-
day, I'VE investigated somo OF the references
Off H. O'Connor X CO.. and we were satisfied
TINT we were all right. Most OF the negotia-
lions were carried on by A. T. Crawford. an
advertising agent for the company. lie give
mo as OConnor's references Frank Dykes. a
member of the New York Stock Exchange a
man named Sonncnboru at 30 Broad street.
and ". l. Allen OF 30 Broadway. who was rep
resented as having known O'Connor since
1874 called on Dykes Mt tho Stock FIX
change and got n warm recommendation Of
OConnor from him. He told mo that O'Con.
nor had a wealthy father. and understand
that there was whore he was getting his back
Ing. Mr.. Dykes told me that O'Connor
had failed on the Exchange. but was
square man and always met his obliRa-
tons. This was enough for me. and l. went
ahead with the c9mrany's printing, all OF
which believe has been done by us. Besides
letter heads OF the Improvement company.
U,Connor gave mo u prpmissory note for the
M namy 81 aS s"Se x eSSn %ss
Mtn t Gen bs name on It for was
Improvement company which was all right.
] have ende4yoreI to got, the money from
me TINT they hadn't sold any bonds yet; The
%sSh o. s bsSd about
psny viii get now. As soon as saw saw ' TME
M and ss' viii shf de SS.
Dir. sackett conerstuIased himself TINT hi.
company wns not u larger creditor. He had
1S tie K New T9 YORK s0G "d s
haG already prepaTed a small ensraVins show oSe
divided into Numbered lots. each r Tes USH
tGxl5O. as described in the com pany's bonds.
yesterday and was informed by. him that he
had only leased office room to O'Connor 4 Co.
4GS ESsn nS s
q the otiice ii So Broadway yesterday after.
ason his first cali escorted him into tha inner
IN 1an vi the whom Fin ste Of
:s.sS ss ana J ;sd J ts H.
Ny name e James Robinson." he said.
70 H. III vet G 81 s
tSat sas then sk to
t. scratch na the the pane q 9Cennor C. he
ION made ri stpee sa ID H. r"G Robinson
your story; 70. he hasn't any connection with
Under these circum stances II is unlucky for
rp l1EEi%Gton TIT he s Should have
rsc,ory Or itae3 as a director d the New YORK
nnd Ssn
to be IN " to reporter Of another paper who
s sa sets Gs n srpFtn said h.
war.and had always thought him to be per:er
S stFaishs; hs e hadn't anythns e do with
pluined to the reporter how their " prQperty'
a"ysp be was b SGnE ;o to
slthousn thu property was nineteen miles iTg;
sunur p, Of the Monumental Gity re SOM
% would So %d S ss 80 or the lisS
which INV was sure t. fSlI1y Hs admitsd that
a Sa fny s"s n IT Eis.
Clarke. who halls from Baltimore had some.
The sVS X has already shown thu. NJ lind In
70 another visitor Treasurer Clarke showed
had been trnnserrcl f,om W. c: odd to the
c cora,s ~" Il" trnnser i,nd NIT been e.
TIL wns wssS mnST
nor to Mr. Sake that ll.j hadn't sold my
svN,s possession is any indication. about 1000
q q inc issue have alrendy been placed by
t sn banding and brok!ng irm Of r. II. O'Con-
The Nationa, Magazine. published in the Van
Tsn.e VIII sn mad so4 "a tte
sgn one Of tho firm called Mt tho ofIlee Of the
nn and left note saying that the Land
s and ,imGproyement Com many wanted 70 get
!say to isy WIZ ,op ING Bavid tho sn Stv was
using man. WAS not in. This WINS tho contract
which was left ut thu Office Of the magazine:
>. ~ ocoSsoR 4 Co.. |
b"hErfs anu Bru.srs.,
IME SArIOSAL MAGAZINE: ' 'N' 80 N'"-'
o., tS.h one page advertisement In the
,nr '1a W!in q. Dne year Tor which agree 10 pay
W. ss ns sum % two hundred and seventy dollars PER
S:d Eps.s C..nxx. rressursr.
,eN 10TH AMI baltimore Land AMI Improvement Co
~ Inc next day Mr.: David called at o., Broad
ne ay "a ana was led int the inner Office which
i IUM sahctornm. Hero he met u pomp,,us-
sJaddnns: gentleman who was introduc:d, US
pavlI mado little Investigation into the com.
w ~ affairs. and decidod tnat the contract
r. ~ Hisned ~ the treasurer wasn't worth any
snn,S to The magazine. although It bore tue
RsnIys bands. Mr Crawfsrd. the SAME lea adv"r.
SS sulhhg agent with whom Mr.. Sackett had his
CC sndsn brought three Of the somrany's
SonlTdct. A Quy two lntNr ho np,a prr>,nL |