The evening world., 1894-08-29
4 BOY SWINOLER.
Endeavored to Get Jewelry on I
Forged Check.
Arrested and Then Got Away from
Detectives.
Police Finally Catch Him and sa,
He Is an Old offender.

Although only seventeen years OF age,
Sebastlne Lind. of 221 Second avenue.
has proven himself 10 be one OF the
coolest young swindlers tiat has ever
fallen into the hands OF the New York
police.
Lind was arres,ed by Detective Con-
nor. OF the Church street station, In the
iewelry store of &. Il. Pierce, lS Broad
way. Late In the afternoon he entered the
store and presented an order purporting
to have been made out by r. j. Finley,
manufacturing jeweiller at $50 East
One Hundred and Twcnty-tifth street.
The order was written on letter head
| bearing the name of the alleged firm.
and called for two li-carat gold watch
chains. weighing twenty pennyweghts
| each. They were to be delivered to
| bearer.
Accompanying the order was a check
on the Citizens National Bank. which
bore the date of Aug. 49, and was
signed by +. J. Finley. The space for
| the amount was left vacant, and Lind
was to fill In the amount of the pur-
| chase.
Pierce became suspicious from the fact
that he had never heard of the firm
and the peculiar nature of the transac-
ton. He drew the boys attention and
despatched one of his clerks to the
Church street station. lie then told
the boy to wait a few moments while
he fixed the chains.
When Detective Connors arrived he
began beg 9ussst1Onlns Lind but he was
cided to arrest the boy pending an in
| vestigation, Mr.. Pierce in the mean time
having ascertained that no such firm
.aNiu tad NhA I'D llNnA lt.s.I
and Twenty-ffth street
At the station Lind admitted that
there was no such firm. but said he had
man. who had given him the order In
front OF the given address. He said
the man had promised to meet him there
Detectives Connors and Strip then
took Lind up to one Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street to try to catch the
front of the place while the detectives
stationed themselves few feet away.
suddenly, Lind darted towards the
hallway of the house. and, slamming
ing an open window he jumped out into
the yard. with the detectives In pusuit.
LIND then made dash for millinery
again disappeared. He fed through the
store and gained an exit through the
yard into Lexington avenue.
The detectives had missed him. On
the way uptown Lind had told the men
that he lived at AS East One Hundred
and Thirteenth street, and Connors and
strip Immediately started for there.
They found that the address given was
a vacant lot.
When near Second avenue, however,
they espied Lind coming along Second
avenue, and started for him. The boy
saw them and ran towards One Hundred
and Twelfth street. When near there
named Goldsmith. After Il long search
he was found in the cellar. hidden he
hind pile of boxes. He was then taken
back to the Church street station.
While In court this morning, Lind was
stuck to the story about the order and
check having been given to him by a
strange man. He IL very bright
youngster and looks quiet and Innocent
He Is slight In build. with light hair
His parents are respectable people and
Is a shoemaker.
1t is thought that he is a member OF
been ,victimizing jewellers throughout
the city. Detective Connors is in pos
session OF large number OF similar
orders and checks. They are nearly ali
signed by f. j. Finley.
One ,s Of the hss orders bears the firm name
order Lind tried to secure three gold
watch cases of Smith & Knapp, OF II
Maiden lane, but was not successful.
LIND says he was employed by the
Rochester Car Wheel Works at Thirty.
third street and First avenue. until
the foreman ard was discharged.
The case was adjourned until this
afternoon. so as to enable Connor tC
produce number Of Lind's victims In