Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-22

Wiman was arrested by detectives from
! the district attorneys Office. The warrants
were executed at Wimans Office ROOM on
| the sixth floor of the Field building, l
| Broadway. He was perfectly cool and col
/ 1ected when the detectives placed him under
/ arrest and he al once proceeded with them
! to the district attorneys Office From thence
he was taken before Judge MARITIME. He
/ was accompanied by his son-in-law, Nor
man J. Walker. Wiman said that ex-Secre-
( tary Il. T. Tracy was his counsel and that
he had been in consultation with him near
! ly all the afternoon. He was not. he said.
/ prepared to give bail at once and in default
/ he was taken to the Tombs.
! Before the Grand Jury.
The first intimation of any charges
! against Wiman was in the form of a letter
received at the district attorneys Office on
the 10th instant. This letter as given out
/ is unsigned, but is said to have come from
/ Mr.. Dun's attorney, who is supposed to be
! ex-Dstrict Attorney De Lancey Nicholl
/ The witnesses who went before the grand
/ jury yesterday We're X. ID. Douglass, K. w
Bullinger. Ogden Brewer. and the cashier
/ of II. e. Dun & Co.
The counts in the Indictment relate to
| forgery and the uttering of forged checks
which We're drawn on the Second National
Bank when Wiman had no account. The
oifense Is punishable with not more than
/ ten years for each of the Indictments.
A letter addressed to District Attorney
Fellows setting forth the nature of the
complaint in detail states
The association known as the firm of
/ X. u. Dun 4 Co, with which the defend
ant, Wiman, was connected during the per-
/ iod covering the act complained of, was
| formed on January !. 1859. but Wiman had
! for many yea IS prior to that date had BUSH
ness relations with Mr.. Dun. Wiman was
! not a partner of Mr.. Dun in the usual
sense.
"Wiman was a salaried manager for Mr.
| Dun, with such powers only as the contract
/ gave him, with ditional power to draw
checks. The property of r. G.. Dun & Co.
was not his property in any sense, the
moneys of X. q. Dun Co. were not his
moneys in any sense, and the profits of r.
q. Dun x Co. We're not his profits in any
| sense. And yet by various aces of embeZ-
Element through msrepresen tations, con-
ceaIments, breaches of mis- agreement mis-
use of the powers confided TO him and gross
usurpation of powers with which he was
not trusted. he succeeded during the years
ISIS, 1879, 1891, 1892, and up TO February
1913, in stealing from MIR. Dun the enor-
nous sum of S229UlS90.
That sum he owes MIR. Dun today That.
! In view OF his relation to the property OF
MIR. DON. which Winlan helped to manage
under the name of K. q. Dun & Co. he Is
guilty OF the crime of having embezzied the
Whole or greater part of this sum 1 have
little doubt.
he has committed so many crimes that
selection for prosecution is difficult What
out of the long list of his offenses | have
selected fer presentation to you, two forg-
u
~ clear, so easily established. SO inuefen-
sibte that they will serve the purpose of
prosecution without reference also to others
The BulIinger Case.
In February, 1898. r. G. Dun & Co,
owed upward of $1,000 to Z. w Bullinger
of this city, for material purchased On the
9th of February, 1893. Wiman, being i'm
urgent need of money, directed the cashier
of r. G. Dun * Co. to make out a check 70
: order
transmitting ii 10 him IN part payment of
his account deliberately forged the name of
y. w. Bullinger on the back of the check
and deposited il to his own credit in his
own bank.
The account of BulIinger on the books
OF the bTm was debited with that sum in
the usual course of business. L need hardly
say that these accounts of Wiman were
wholly without the knowledge of Mr. Dun
or OF any OF his associates in X. q. Dun a.
Co, ana that since then they have paid to
Mr.. BullinSer the sum which mir. wlmau
ON the cay named appropriated by means OF
forgery TO his own use.
The Campbell Case.
"On the 10Th day of January, 1Sa3 WI
man committed another forgery under cir
cumstances ve-y similar. on that date r
q. Dun x Co. owed the Campbell Printing
Press and Manufacturing Co. the sum of
SJ,3SO tor Two printing presses purchased
in May, lS32 Wiman procured from the
~.
order OF Ogden Brewer, treasurer OF the
campbell Company, ON The prelext that ne
desired 10 pay me account
fhefeapon he went to the Campbell
company and telling them that r. O.
DUN * Co. were short OF funds asket
them whether they would like notes for
their account instead OF cash. On Mr.
brewer acquiesclng in his proposition, he
made TWO notes covering the amount i'm
ms own name and delivered them to him,
lie then forged the name of Ogden Brewer
on the back of the check, ana Appropriated
1t to his own use All of these acts were
concealed from the knowledge of Mr. Dun
or any of his associa ties, but they subse-
quently on discovering them paid the Camp
bell Company the amount of their accounts
Mr.. Dun first learned of Wiman's crimes
in the latter part of February 1888 Neither
he nor his associates in r. G. Dun d Co
had then any suspicion of the extent of
them or Of the amount embezzled by him.
That could only be ascertaned by a critical
examination of their books, which has 1e-
Gently been concluded. But on discovering
some of them. Mr.. Dun Immediately, en-
The 10Th of February, 1893, terminated his
contract with Mr.. Wiman, dismissed him
from his employ, and has never seen him
since.
Wimnn's Assignment.
ION learning that his crimes had been
detected, Wiman offered to transfer to Mr..
Dun certain real estate on Staten Island
of doubtful value, but Mr.. Dun, learning
that Wlman was insolvent, refused to ac-
cept it. or to receive any preference over
his other creditors. Wiman thereupon made
a formal assignment for the benefit of his
creditors, but his assets have amounted to
almost nothing.
Mr. Dun did not submit the proof OF
Wimans crimes to the authorities on first
discovering them for several reasons In
the first place, he was moved with con-
FOR NERVOUS DISEASES