The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-03
Chief Murphy Cleverly Cap
lures an Employment
SWindler in the Well
don Building.
OPERATED IN NEW ENGLAND
Policeman Robinson Successfully
Plays the Part Of a Victim
Manager 81. J. Stone
Locked Up.

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| ply has been quietly working up evidence
against him for over two weeks. He
had great difficulty in getting the neces-
sary facts on which to make an arrest.
He succeeded yesterday, however, with
the aid of William G. Robinson, stem
ographer to the Board of Police Com
missioners, who in the quest OF a vic
tim from New England learned the
methods of the swindler. He is H. J.
Stone. of No. 25s Bank street, Newark.
He was arrested this morning, and was
at once arraigned before Justice Potts,
who fixed his bail at $1,000 for examina-
ton On Tuesday morning next. He is
represented by Counselor James Mad
den.
The charge against him is that, under
them, he has swindled a number of men
out of sums ranging from 81 to $3.50. In
this mornings World there appeared
the following advertisement
CARPENTERS d5); UNION WAGES. CALL
after 8; 2S Washington street, I'd floor, Jer-
sey City.
In response to it, fifty men appeared
at Washington street early this morning.
They were met by Stone, who proposed
that they should each pay him 81. If he
got them employment he was to keep all
the money. If by any chance he failed to
secure work for them at Union wage
he was to return fifty cents and keep the
balance to defray expenses incidental to
the negotiation The men who applied in
response to the advertisement came from
all directions. Some were from Brooklyn,
others from Harlem, while the majority
were form Jersey City. One of the men
sharper than than the rest reported the
matter to the police.
BY a strange coincidence Chief Muir
ply mad planned to meet Stone today for
larger operations, He ordered Detective
Dalton to arrest him, however, on COM
plant of the carpenter and did not play
his trump card until Stone was arraigned
in Court. Chief Murphy explained Stones
methods to a reporter for THE News"
after the examination.
s'Stone," he said, "opened an office at
No. rs Montgomery street in the Weldon
Building several months ago. He estab-
lished what he called the Advertising
Exchange and announced that he was
prepared to sell places of business, form
partnerships, organize joint stock com
panies, procure additional capital and
negotiate loans.
ssThis was ostensibly his business. He
soon advertised in the New York and
New England papers offering to secure
for young men positions as clerks, CASH
iers and bookkeepers. He invariably re-
quired a cash deposit for security. Sew
eral days ago / received a letter from M.
Wotton Of Ware, Mass, asking about
Stones standing. I replied, asking Mr..
Wotton to forward me all his correspon-
dence with Stone. He did so. l de-
cided at once that he was q clever swind-
Ter, and set about getting evidence
against him. Yesterday l sent Clerk
Robinson to Stone and instructed him to
impersonate Wotton, who had brought the
correspondence to the point where he
had decided to come on and secure a
a position. Robinson saw him and paid
him a deposit of three dollars. Stone
agreed to get him a position as cashier
in a butcher shop. He sent him with a
man named w. J. w. Green, one of his
dupes, who, it turns out, is also one of
his dupes, to look at the butcher shop
of Charles Hansen of No. 8 Milton ave-
nue.. Hansen has been in business there
for eighteen years. Robinson learned that
he is trying to sell through Stone. The
supposed Wotton inspected the place and
expressed himself as satisfied to work
there. Stone said that as security he
would have to pay $347 in addition to the
deposit of So.
Robinson agreed to pay the $347 at one
o'clock today and with that understand
ing left and reported to Chief Murphy,
who Immediately swore out a warrant Tor
Stones arrest. His clerks were arrested,
too, but will be released. 1t turns out
that they are in reality victims and had
no idea that their employer was doing
crooked work MI: Green. VINO COX
working for hin at $40 a week. Mr..
Green's home is at No. 81 Clinton street,
Perry, of Southport, Conn, h paid
stone $3.50. Stones bank book shows that
he has netted several thousand dollars
by Ms operations. Chief Murphy is in
Communication with a large number of
his victims, who Will appear against him
on Tuesday.
slavery Under the Stars and Stripes
The large Chinese settlement in San
Francisco has made traffic in human be-
ings not merely possible, but a business
ollowed as a means of profitable invest
mert. under the protection and patron
age of two Chinese societies, and here, in
the heart of an American city, we md one
Of the best organized slave marts OF
modern times, fostered by as motley a
hand of criminals as could be produced in
any portion of the unctvilized world; a
Rand numbering at least three thousand,
who derive their support directly or IN
directly from the sale and barter of fe-
male slaves.
co is estimated at 10000. OF these 5000
are factory hands; 5000 claim to be mer-
chants: 1900 are domestic servants; 1000
are the criminals referred to, and 5000
are women and children. OF the $500 fe-
males it is estimated with more or less
accuracy that 1000 are legitimate wives,
fhe remaining 1850 being slaves In the
fullest sense; girls kidnapped in their
homes IN the Orient, brought to America
by fraud and imposture, passed through
the custom house under false oaths, in
fear of death or dire ,eput up
at auction before professional slave mer-
chants, knocked down to the highest bid
der and condemned, in the majority of
Instances. to a life under duress in the
Chinese brothels of ar American city.
"A yoaaug Chinese girl, from nine to
twelve Years of age, in San Francisco to-
day has a marked value of from $3.50 to
500. A girl from twelve to sixteen, If
the high-binders, who constitute the
brokers in this unique American Ex-
Change at from $500 to $500, while for
gffie over this age the prices range up TO
ri 00. which has been paid on the very
GOOD ground that such an investment will
Teturn a profit of twenty or thirty per
cent.-NoTth American Review for Sep
TENDER.
A Mountain Climbing Feat.
Professor Fay. of Tufts, who is in
Club party, in the Canadian Rockies, has
written that not only has Mount LEROY
been assembled, but that his party has
also stood on the snowy summit of Mt.