The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-08

Police Arrest Two Collectors TO,
: Publishing Concern


Publishing Concern.
Yesterday morning Detectives Gruber
and Wells arrested t. r. Rose, alias
Kane. on a charge of swindling. Rose,
who is a well-dressed and bright-look-
Ing man about thirty years old, Is a
collector for the Merchants and Man
ufacturers' Guide. Another of the col
lectorS for the SINE concern, who gave
the name Of Thomas Wills, was taken
In custody on Thursday. Wills at
tempted to collect SIS from the firm of
Marx & Son. on Sibley street The firm
claimed the signature to the contract
was forgery, and as they had agreed
to pay only so cents to the agent who
called in March last the police were
notified and Wills arrested. From in
formation obtained from Wills, Rose,
who is also a collector for the same
concern, was arrested. Wills had his
case continued in the police court yes
terday morning to Monday and being
unable to give bonds in the sum of
$l.OO0 was committed to Jail.
Yesterday afternoon Rose was ar
raigned on the same charge, and the
hearing Of his case postponed until the
same time. The attorneys who ap-
peared for Rose were very anxious to
have the bail fixed in each case at
Si5O, claiming that the men could put
up that amount of money for their APP
pearance, but no more. Rose when ar
rested had on his person $125, and dur
Ing the talk made to the court regard
ing the amount of bail he expressed his
willingness to allow his money, and
that of Wills, who had $68, to be put
together and Wills released There was
some chance of this arrangement being
made until Lieut.. Boerner, who had
been making Investigations since the
arrest of Wills and Rose made a short
talk to the court. Lieut. Boerner said
his Investigations in the matter had
satisfied him that the men were en-
gagged In SW1ndling a number Of the
business firms Of the city. Two firms
who had not been called on as yet by
either Of the collectors, had pronounced
the contracts found in the possession Of
Wills to be forgeries. number of
other firms, who had paid money to
Wills and Rose, were also of the opin-
ion that they had been defrauded. Not
that the firms names were not pub
lished in the book, but that the con-
tracts which were presented, and on
which the money was collected, were
wrong. So far as he had investigated,
Lieut.. Boerner said there had probably
been collected from business men in
the neighborhood of $400 He thought
If the bail was fixed at a small sum
both men would leave the city, and not
appear for trial. In view of this ex-
PLANTATION, Judge Twohy said the bail
would remain fixed at $1,000 in each
case. Rose was taken back to the CEN
trail station, Detective Gruber stating
that Rose preferred being locked up at
the station rather than the JAIL
Late yesterday afternoon Attorney
Kane had a consultation with County
Attorney Butler and Judge Twohy rel
alive to the bail being reduced Mr..
Butler said he was opposed to any re-
duction in the bail for the reason that
the business men had on several occa-
sions in the past been annoyed by the
same kind of work. In each case
brought to his notice, up to the present
one, there had been no evidence on
which to hold the parties. He had been
informed that there was evidence
against both Wills and Rose, and for
this reason he desired that there be an
investigation or hearing before the
court. The question Of reduction of
bail will be taken up this morning in
the police court, although the cases are
set for Monday next at 2 o'clock.
Wills claims that he has been en-
ployed by the concern for which he
was working about five years. He knew
nothing about the contracts, but simply
acted as collector. Rose said the
trouble all started by Marx & Son re-
fusing to pay the amount as set forth
in the contract. He has the same
story as Wills about being only a coll
lector, not having any knowledge of
the making of the contracts attached
to the bills. Lieut.. Boerner stated to
the court that Wills claimed to have
sent 5000 to the firm in Philadelphia on
the day he was arrested, but was I'M
able to show the express receipt for
any amount of money sent to the firm
or any one else. A number Of the
firms who had paid amounts ranging
from So to SIS have notified the police
that they are sorry now that they gave
UP so readily.