The evening times., 1895-10-19
KEPT THE COLLECTIONS
Samuel B. Smith Under Arrest
for EmbezzIemeat.
ACCUSED BY AGENT PINE
ments on DeanwOOd Lots and AI'-
propriated Them-Extent of His Al
legged Peculntions Not Yet Known.
His Trial Postponed.

Samuel B. Smith. who lives at No. 1S N
street northwest. was arrested this morn
ing on a warrant sworn out by Edward n.
Pine, real estate agent at No. 1920 F
| street northwest. charging him with the
enibezZiemeut of various sums of money.
Smith was arraigned before Judge Miller,
and on the motion of Cook Sutherland,
his attorneys, was released on 5000 bail.
and the case continued until next Wednes-
day, the 23d instant.
Smith has been employed by Pine for
about six months and during that time has
| served in the capac city Of a collector for
the East Deanwood Land Company. of
which Mfr. Pine Is the general manager.
About five weeks ago Mr.. Pine was conf
PEELED to 60 to New York ON business, and
during his absence Smith was put in tempo
rary control OF the office and collected all
moneys due the company, great deal of
which. according to the statements made
by the proprietor, he has failed to account
for.
MR.. P INES STATEMENT.
Mr.. Pine was seen by a reporter to-day
and made the following statement:
"Smith came to me about six months
ago and asked for employment. He repre-
sented that he had formerly been employed
by Howard +. johnson. the real estate
agent. and brought other references. I
gave him a position as collector for the
East Deanwood Land Company, and It was
his duty tOmake collection ofthemonthly
instaIlments upon lots suld by the company
in this subdivision.
Il or that purpose a book Is given each
customer. and the amounts paid by them
are credited to their account, opposite to
which is attached the sig nature of the agent
making the collection. About five weeks
ago / was compelled to go to New York
on a matter of business, and left the
office under Smiths control with in
structions that he should remit t" me in
New York the various amounts collected.
Among other things. l left him five
deeds, which had been executed by the
company, and were to be delivered to
various parties upon the payment uf a
certain amount or money. These Smith
was authorized TO deliver.
My business in New York kept me
for longer time than 1 expected, and
needing money I wrote to Smith to remit
me all he had collected. / was very
much surprised to receive a letter from
him a few days later stating that up to
that time he had failed to collect a cent
and stated that the parties had all prom
ised to pay by a certain time when he
would send the money.
HIS SUSPICION AROUSED.
"I waited a reasonable length of time
and failing TO hear from Smith wrote
another letter. getting about the same re-
ply that the parties couldn't pay.
My suspicious were aroused, SO sent
out a number of letters to the supposed
deIinquents and was surprised to get let
ters from them stating that they had
paid Mr.. Smith the sums OF money which
/ had claimed Were overdue. 1 communi-
Gated these facts to my attorney in this
city and requested him to take the keys
of the office from Smith, and at the same
time wrote to the clerk discbarging him
and warning him tina. 1 did not want to
have any further business relations with
him.
Despite this warning he continued to
represent himself as my agent, and made
other collections, all of which he appro-
priated to his own use. i came on to
Washington yesterday from New York and
determined to have an order issued for
his arrest. l have received a score of iet-
tiers from various parties since my arrival
in the city, all of them claiming to have
paid Smith various sums during my abb
sence.
Il also have evidence that the man
opened several registered letters containing
money during my absence and extracted the
contents OF each"
Smith was arrested by Detective Boyd
early this morning on New York avenue
and North Capitol streets and taken to the
police station. He Is a man about forty
five years old and has a wife and two
children living in this city.