The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-09
STOLE HIS NAME, TOO.
Cole Was Not Satisfied With
+. B. Wiestling's Money.
The sMNnLgR IS m MEXICO.
How the Worthless Dram Man Gets
Ey~n with His Pursuer-A % 900
Embexxiement Comes Dat.

indeed embered by sew
erai residents OF Seattle, and he now APP
| pears TO have given Frank B. Wrestling.
| one OF bis victims. still further cause 10
regret his acquaintance by stealing his
| good name and using il as CLOAK for his
own bad one in the City OF Mexico
Mr.. Wrestling was much exercised yes
terday to receive copy of the New York
World of August 81, on the first page of
which he found special dispatch from
the City Of Mexico dated August 80. be-
| ginning:
''The following list of Americans. sup
| posed TO be living here under assumed
names. has been published"
Then comes a list of the men. with their
former residences and the crimes of hich
they are accused. Among them is this
one:
Prank B. Wrestling. of Seattle. obtain
ing money under false pretenses.''
As Mr.. Wrestling had been making it
particularly interesting for Cole since he
lost $3.50 on the latter's honesty last
November and had traced the man to the
City of Mexico, he naturally concluded
that the latter had added the larceny of
his good name to his other acts of theft.
He has not been in Mexico City and is
not known there except by Cole. His
name is known to United States Minister
Cray, for last May he wrote TO thar
gentleman asking him TO take steps for
the arrest Of Cole, who, he understood. was
in the Mexican capital, and the minister
referred the matter to the chief of police
of the city, from whom nothing has been
heard. So he thinks that Cole has taken
his name as means of getting even for
his keen pursuit.
Cole is man of good family. his father
being a director Of the Commercial Ma
tional bank. of Peoria, H.. and his grand
father being Almiran s. Cole, q wealthy
distiiler OF that city. He is man OF fine
appearance and good manners and is
smooth talker. He FIRST appeared here as
traveller for Holmes. Booth & Haydens,
who are large dealers in and manufacturers
Of brass goods and slectric wire, with
works at Waterbury, Conn.,, and IS such
was well acquainted among men in the
electric business. Mr.. Wrestling was in
troduced to him about year and a half
/ ago at the Imperial hotel, IN New York
city, and met him again at Seattle when
Cole was here on business. He came here
In May, 1892. and stopped at the Rainier
with woman whom he introduced to Mr.
Wrestling as his wife, but who turned out
to have no claim to that title. He had de-
serted his wife at Peoria.
1t seems to have been about this time
that Cole began his swindling operations
He had met DR.. f. G. Kiibourne, presi-
dent OF the Union Electric Company, at
New York, and had taken him to Water
bury to see the works of his employers,
with whom he seemed to be in high favor.
he afterwards came out here on business
and got DR.. Kiibourne to cash draft for
| $50 on his firm. having rim out of funds,
as travelling men occasionally do. The
| draft came back protested, and the doctor
wrote to the firm about it, the letter
reaching Waterbury just as Cole returned
| from his trip. The firm compelled Cole to
| settle the matter, and il may have been
this affair which caused the severance of
his connection with Holmes, Booth &
Haydens, for he afterwards figured as
traveller for Wallace d Sons. of New York.
the Railway Equipment Company, of
| Chicago and the Robinson Machine
Works, of Altoona, Pa In November.
1892 he appeared in San Francisco, and
there went into the business of issuing
| worthless drafts on quite an extensive
scale. He represented that he had run
short Of money for expenses and induced
wei[known local men 10 indorse drafts on
his house for various amounts, the house
being any one of the several for which he
had formerly Travelled. The following are
some of those whom he swindled in San
francisco, with the amounts for which
they were vietimzed: Miller, Sioss &
Scott, $3.50; Mr.. Taylor. of w. T. CARAT
q Co. $3.50; Pacific Metal Works, $3.50: ].
Budde. 500; DR.. Benjamin Lytford, $50;
]. h. stateier. $50; George T. Marsh &
Co. $50: FL. r. Knapp, sl75. He worked
Mr.. Knapp on fraudulent account and
obtained about $500 more in the same way.
lie Is said TO have swindied other persons
IN San Francisco, who have kept the fact
quiet, and to have secured about S., 90
there altogether.
Leaving there on November he came
here and began operations on the same
line. lie called on Mr. Wrestling, and
teiiing the same old story about having
run snort OF cash, asked him TO indorse a
draft for $3.50 on the Robinson Machine
Works of Altoona. for whom he then
claimed TO be travelling. As he had accom-
modated Cole in the same way on several
previous occasions and the drafts had
always been honored, Mr.. Wrestling
readily complied. On tho same day he
went to Henry Binnian, who had known
him from childhood, having been a neigh
Dor OF his father at Peoria and his chill
dren having been schoolmates of Cole and
his brother. He told the same story
there and asked him to indorse a draft for
$3.50 As he had done so before and the
drafts had been honored, Mr.. Binnian
complied, only TO receive the draft back
dishonoIed.
Then Cole disappeared and he has not
since been seen in this part OF the country.
MIR. Knapp. one Of his San Francisco vic
tins. offered a reward for his capture and
issued notices with his pictures and de-
scrsption, but he had apparently crossed
the boundary into Mexico. lie seems to
be now making that an unpleasant country
for Mr.. Wrestling 20 visit.
Cole IS man about i've feet ten inche,
high, OF rather spare build. with gray eyes,
mussaehe. deep dimple in his chin, an
INABILITY or nnstllingness 10 look per.
son IN the eve. morbid fondness for
women and ski! in winning their affec-
| tons.
MANAGER AND MONEY MISSING.
| Charge OF tmbersiing Against Chamber
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