The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
oHECKERED CAREER.

CHECK FRED CIREIR Has an Unsavory Record in Four States
 Son of Clergyman-Passible College
 Graduate-Record in New Haven.
 William A. Thompson, the young man who was arrested Saturday and is now held for trial, charged with em- bezzlement, comes into prominence here with an unsavory record in other places.
 According to the New York Herald, he has been in trouble in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connec- ticut, and is at present under a sus- pended sentence for grand larceny in Kings county and has imposed upon hundred business men of West Hobo ken and Jersey City Heights. He is the son of a Methodist minister, who left him considerable property, which he soon dissipated. He has wife and child living in Brooklyn.
 Thompson, who is about twenty-sev- en years old, is said to be graduate of Columbia college. On March B. 1896, he was arrested in Brooklyn on a warrant charging him with the theft of two pairs of diamond earrings valued at $225, The complainant was Edward McDougall, a. jeweler of No. 233 Colum- bia street. The jeweler said that on January Thompson asked permission to take the earrings home to show them to his wife. He was granted permission to do so, but failed to return their jew els or make good their value. When the case was called for trial on March "A, before Justice Tighe, McDougall withdrew the complaint, saying his property had been returned. Thompson was thereupon discharged.
 Justice Tfghe again had Thompson before him on November 2 to answer to a charge of grand larceny preferred by Dr. Genaro Morela, his next door neighbor, living at No. 25 Second place. Dr. Morela had said he was going to the country for 8 few weeks, and on July % Thompson suggested that the physician place his jewels in his safe The doctor did so, but when, on Octo- Der 30, he requested the return of his property, Thompson told him it was still in the safe, the combination of which was out of order.
 Thompson stands accused of a bold swindle in New Jersey. Representing himself as agent for the Mercantile Co., operative bank of Newark, he rented desk room in the offices of MT. Benson, an architect, and Joseph F. Kettell, a real estate agent, opposite the West Hoboken town hall, on Clinton avenue, on September g last He said he was the local manager of the bank, which has branches in New York and other cities. He had a sign painted on one of the front windows, and distributed cards giving his name and ostensible business.
 Previous to Thompson's arrival in West Hoboken, Paul Frost, jr., was the local treasurer of the Newark concern, and as such had the handling of d6pos- it's Thompson lost no time in giving Frost to understand that the latter was his subordinate, and that as such he should turn over to him all the depos- it's. Frost says he gave up $1,500 Then he received a notification from the bank to turn in his account. Upon investiga- tion he learned that Thompson had no authority to receive deposits from him,
 having been employed merely as an
 agent to solicit business.
 Thompson left suddenly, but before
 going, it is said, he induced about one hundred merchants to part with sums ranging in amount from S25 to S5 by promising to procure loans upon their
 property, and also by cashing personal
 checks, which were disowned
 Coming to New Haven, he purchased
 suit of clothes of Hendee, arranged to take dancing lessons at Warner hall,
 hired a splendid piano of Shoninger, and, learning by inquiry that Professor Fowler was a good instructor, he said he would hire him to give him lessons on the instrument, He also hired bi- cycle of Benham for a month.
 Several pawn tickets were found up- on his person. One for a sealskin cloak
 bears date at about the time that a
 new boarder disappeared from the house of MT. l.. l.. Camp, a sealskin cloak disappearing at the same time
 Possibly this may be the same cloak
 He registered as student at the Yale law school and purchased a note book in which he had taken the following notes, which are apparently all that he did in the school:
 "The design and object of laws is tc ascertain what is just, honorable and expedient, and when that is discovered it is proclaimed as a general ordinance equal and impartial to all. This is the origin of law, which, for various req sons, all are under an obligation tc obey, but especially because all law is the invention and gift of heaven, the sentiment of wise men, the correction
 of every offence and the general com. pact of the state; to live in conformity with which is the duty of every individ- ual in society."-Demosthe
 "Justinian says that the object of all law is CD to live honestly CD, to hurt
 no one (3), to render unto every man |