New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-08
MANY COMPLAIN OF HIM.
IMMENSE sWINDLING OPERATIONS AL
LEGGED AGAINST A PROMOTER.
SAID TO HAVE GOT NEARLY $4,000 IL THE LAST
IN TIE MILLS BUILDING-JoHN wANA-

---iD ~ nav L bOA $fv'''' ~ 4A'-@ .@-
FOUR YEARs-IoCKED OUT OF MS OFFICE
~ TIE MILLS BuIIDING-JoHN WANA-
MAKER AND HENRY crEws SAID
TO BE- AMONG Ills VICTIMS.
The police have in their custody prisoner
who. II all the charges made against him are
true, Is one Of the most remarkable swlnders In
the criminal annals Of this coun.fy. According
to Acting Captain McClusky. the Chief Of De-
tectlvcs. his depredatlons amount to nearly. If
not over. 100000. and extend all over the
United States. His name Is Emmett B. Gibson
he IS OF middle age and bears the alias Of George
a. Sherin. He says that he is a lawyer by pro-
fession. a railroad promoter by choice. was at
one time a Judge in the State OF Ohio. and is
vice president Of the Akron (Ohio) Street Rail
way Company. OF which he was at time
president
Up to few days ago he occupied Room G, in
the Mills Building. but paddock is on his door
now and he will not be permitted to enter the
building again.
The complainant against him Is II. T. slim
son, auditor FOR the Hotel Netherland. Imperial
Hotel. Of this city and Hotel Walton, OF fniia-
delphIa The specific complaint against him IS
the laying down of a bogus check for SOio on
August 70, 1896 and defraud!ng the Hotel In
perlal. this city, OF that amount. in addition 70
falling TO pay hotel bill OF 500.
He is accused OF having laid down bogus
checks, noated bogus stocks and worthless
bonds and carried on general swlndllnS opera
lions for a period extending PACK Tour year =
and IL IS said that in that time he has succeeded
in obtaining. by means OF various iraudutsnI
designs and devices. sum not far from StUV'o"'
Gibson is well known In railroad and noteI CIR
cles and was identified with Luke Clark the
Chicago promoter. his business WIFI Ni"' II
was the promotion OF the new street railway
companies and the consolidation OF competing
companies. His Office in the NILS Building was
next TO that of Henry Clews, and IL IS aAeseu
that he succeeded In swindling Mr.. Cle"s out OF
500 lie is in arrears for five months rent
John Wanamaker is numbered among PiDsoh
victims. 1t is alleged mat MI w anaii'dN o
cashed a bogus check for 500 for Gibson. On
July Il. 1897. he beat the Hotel Netherland OUT
of $50 81 board: on October he passed cneck
for so on the Continental Hotel. Philadelphia,
and received the difference between ms board
bill and the amount Of the fraudulent check.
He beat the Hollander Hotel. In Cleveland says
McCusky, and the Bristol, in Akron, ONO lie
pascsd bogus check for $50 on the CadllIac'
in Pittsburg. and 5000 on the Lincoln hotel III
the same city.
complaint OF the proprietor OF the Parker House,
In Boston, for rendering a bogus check for 5000
with which 10 pay a board bin OF 500. and re-
ceiving 500 cash In change. He Is said TO have
beaten the Hotel STAFFORD In Phiadelphia; the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. in this city. ana his private
secretary. W II. Campbell. who cashed a $3.50
check that was worthless. 1t is alleged that ne
swindlcd a widow In Cleveland. Ohio. out OF
$1,000 all the money she had.
The list f. q long one. and complaints have
been pouring into the Detective Bureau from this
CITY and from all over the country for many
months. The police have been after him. ana
every time they thought they had him Gagged
he would manage to eude them. Detectives
Evanhoe and Conway managed to capture him
Yesterday afternoon.