The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-04
SUMNER GETS SIX YEARS.
STATES PRIsOS o THE GREAT
hMERICzy ID ENTIFIER.

Counsel Gets n stay on Appeni-MnnJ Psrsons
write 10 tho Prosecutor Accusing sumner
or swindiinE Them In tho Real Estate
Transaction That were HE Speciality.
Perrin II. Summer, known as the Great Amer
lean Identiner. was sentenced by Recorder Con
in the Gencrnl Sessions yesterday to six years
imprisonment. He was convicted last week OF
grand larceny In the first degree on a charge
OF obtaining 81 900 by false pretonces from
Charles II. Goodwin OF Havcrbill. Mass, in .
renl ostatc transaction.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne, who
prosecuted the case. has received since tho trial
began fifteen complaints from various persons
who say that Sumner swindled them. Charles
sawaIdt of Jersey City wrote:
Sumner got mo to sign over to his daughter
my property and bank account amounting to
$l0.9O7."
A man named Clayton wrote: He got three
houses and six lots In Brooklyn from me,
together with a half interest in some Florida
property valued at $50, 900"
Miss Elizabeth Hobart Of 30 West Ninoticth
street wrote: Sumner boarded with me in
1894. and told mo he knew OF $4,000 worth Of
property in Harlem that could be had for $500.
] gave him the money and also my jewelry.
when 1 threatened to have him arrested he
EG MIS-, sH TSe ,ss i9MT NOEL Of sq sr Z G%as Gf nc con mon sent
. letter accompanied by a sworn statement, in
which she said:
81 met Sumner In 1894. He told me he had a
piece Of property in New Jersey that he had been
selling to n woman on the installment plan that
the woman was unable to pay up the full price,
and he could get II back by paying her $500. |
loaned him the money on his promise that he
would Give me tho title. TO the property. This
was after he took me to New Jersey, to Westield.
and showed me the residence of the President Of
tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Later.
when I tried to get my money after learning
that ! had been swindled, he confronted me with
q forged mortgage which he claimed bore my
signature, and no claimed that l owed him
&I,1OO on the forged mortgage
Miss Elizabeth Sharp sent u sworn statement,
In which she said that Sumner. with the, help OF
the Dutton swindlers. had swapped for her
GlI 900 farm a piece OF property, in ,Massachu-
sctts to which he had no title. The late Eliza
both Delabarre assisted in this swindle.
Miss Matte Wicker, Allen Dutton's type
writer. sent "a sworn statement to the District
Attorney corroborating Miss Sharp,,s story, and
adding: overheard Sumner make the deal
10 do Miss Sharp out Of her property. and Mrs.
lolabarrc got $50 for her end of the Job
Allen A.. Dutton, who is in the Tolnbs under
an indictment in another alleged real estate
swindle. submitted an affidavit saying that he,
Dutton, was to get $500 for helping Sumner to
do " Miss Sharp. After inducing Miss Sharp
to release her New Jersey property, Sumner
did me-" wrote Button.
statement to the effect that sumner swindled
him in u real estate deal by getting up II fake
roal estate company.
After sumner had been sentenced his counsel.
James w. Ridgway. got, a stay from supreme
Court Justice Smyth. IL. is ret u TN liable June IL.
In the mean time Summer WILL. be kept in the
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