The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-02
ALL THREE DISCHARGED.
NO CASE AGlINsr TIE QUEER III,
EANCIERs ARRESTED IN NEWARK.

| Auhoush One OF Thern, It Il Said, Made .
| Confsssion Revealing Their Isteuas6
Mode OF Finsscierine vita Courtsr.
Tho three men who vers arrested In A
c. Courter's oil store at Newark on Tuesday
evening, while. ss alleged. trying to fleece him
| out ~ several thousand dollars in notes were
| discharged last night. although IL IL said
| Albert I. Miller had confessed. and could have
been used a. State witness II any proeed-
I ings were taken against the others in New
| Jersey
Miller. It soc ms. is quite we'll known in New.
ark. At one time he had . grocery on High
street. lie has a wife and family and his father
issaid to be quite we'll TO do. Miller. IL is said.
| told Prosecutor Crane that two m onths ago he
| was called on in his once In Liberty street in
this city by man who said that he wanted to
sell somo real estate. The conversation ended
In proposition to Join in the scheme
which was exposed In The Sun yeeterday
morning. lie agreed to act as partner in New
ark for Hall and Barth. He said It was his frst
venture at such work. and that it would he
his last. Miller added according to Prosecutor
Crane;
We went into the deal on equal shares. We
expected to tap Courier for TOW Of his notes
and would have been satisfied with few thou
sands each. Whatever notes we got from him
we proposed to negotiate. and give him his'
share on the first lot to encourage him to 60 in
deeper. II We got more from him. we would
have thought that we we're In great luck and
then we would give him the laugh and he
could have done nothing. because he would
have been i'm plicatsd By the making Of the
notes He would have been as guilty as any
OF us II he had consented to our scheme. and,
while we were getting money from him unlaw-
fully. he would have been attempting to use us
as tools to float his paper with expectations Of
being insolveut before the notes matured.
That was the true condition OF the scheme
tried half a dozen other men OF business in
Newark. but we did not succeed with any Of
them. and have not made q cent at tho busi-
ness"
Miller said tho three men got u note
OF $4,000 from the Sandow Manufacturing
to get a second instaiiment but fsii.d. The
Snpetintendent B To%n Of the NeSars e eolies
to call and see him yesterday.
was that %iliism H. Bali Of ' SssaTE. y wso deal.
In diamonds in John street. this city. had been
trio. When Mr.. Bal called at Police Head
quarters yesterday morning he could not
iooEine Young man, who said his is' name V WSs
hnymond bought the diamonds and had them
IL a man Of that name in Louisville but he re-
pudiated the order and said the goods were
body else MIR. Ball has brought suit In Ken-a
tucky
At noon Yesterday Hall and Barth were
Ign was brouEhtin. He is an agent OF q CLOTH
yea. On ntering the room Clark pointed ous
know that man" He then put his finger
n. TIE Hi, ielHw know too " he said. indicate
and Police Com m ission ne '0'"'en f'p'''er
F hHil s called CLARK over to him and whispsredi
clark shoop ri. II. h.a 1 ana sslfs San away hA Ii.
a tut Of nearly es s2o6 6' aor ds c sSn his
which they ordered deliyerpd e. O. ID al
IA West Fifty second street. THE city. and
tGF wssh hsy s: that Sey $
failed to locate them until they road OF Barth's
W ii. Ball said he thought Barth. under the
name OF SshSsrtz tried to swindle him In
o e sure N Sas ss could
The most surprising feature Of the entire
WSes seF s aTm sec S., ,ass nPbg g
ecutor Crane and Samuel Kalish. the prisoners.
s0Snss the thEss men mel, were ,a H.
hands with SuDerintendent Brown the other
police officials and the several newspaper men
Miller was released half an hour later. He
frastSd Hn n with the no1ehsant air Of
the star nIsoners On leaving Miller and
J: s ot 6 SSs
pay the balance Of their counsel fee. They
B fhs saa Se had held
"nns e esy S on SSeS
Prosecutor Crane that the men could not he
legally detained he ordered their release.
The Prosecutor held a different opinion until
convinced by Lawyer Kalsh that he was
wrong.
II required some forebe language to bring
about the change. The interview between
the lawyers which was private. was held In the
superintendents otice. Prosecutor Crane
had agreed to an early hearing. and Lawyer
Kalish informed him that IL IL was not granted
he would apply for writ Of ha beas corpus
The prosecutor failed to keep his word as to
the hearing. and that reused Mr. Kalish's ire
10 acc uSaut ia nj a. ataIv
laying the matter 20 hunt around the country
for witnesses to Tx up badly handled case
and insisted on the discharge OF his clients
Halls son hal arrived a few hours earlier and
tod his father that the goods in their Pearl
street store in this city had been seized.
Representatives OF the firms OF A. Louns-
berry X son. 81 and ~ Fulton street. and
Casper 4 Co.. 80 Fast Fourteenth street,
importers called last night at Newark
Police Headquarters but failed to identity the
prisoners This was not long before their dis
charge On regaining their freedom the three
men started for this city.