The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-27
FOUR SWLNDLERS NABBED.
THEY cor LOANS AGGREGATING
Sf,5f5 ON PAWN TICKETS.

The rnwn Tickets Purported 20 Represent
Jeweiry Pledged for 50. IL worth
Apparently OniJ n Small Fraction or That
Ameunt-A PennsJivnnian the Victim.
A gang OF swindlers was baggcd by Central
Office detectives last night, and: locked up In
Police Headquarters. The prisoners arc Fred
erick Woods. alias Gideon Park, OF Hacken.
sack; Myron Treadwell, nlias John e.. Perry,
Of 241 West Thirty.fourth street; Joseph g.
Blake Of 81 West SiXty.fourth street, and Isaac
A. Lawrence OF . West 10th street.
Blake, who is believed to have been the load
or OF tho gang, is, according TO Capt. McClusky,
an old green-goods man, and he and T~readwell
have been arrested before. Their victim is
Frederick Ward, formerly of Wiliamsport, Pa,
an electrician, now living at 255 West Thirty
eighth street. 1t was on his complaint that tho
police made the arrests.
While looking for a way to invest about
81, 500 he had saved Ward read in a New York
paper last August an advertisement something
like this:
ADVERTISER wishes eos for so days; return 600;
give security worth $500; responsibility necessary.
ARRlS, l04l Broadway.
Ward took kindly to the proposition and an
swcred the ad advertisement. The next day he
received an answer to his letter and afterward
by appointment came to this, city and met a
ulhn III cIllln " tAN . ttplt iHo nan
who proved to be Woods, induced W ard to lend
him 500 and gave him AS security what pur:
ported to be genuine pawn tickets for diamond
jewelry that had been pledged for $500. That
amount, Ward was told. represented only, one.
third OF the real value of the jeweiry. While
negotiations were being conducted Ward dis
closed the fact that he had about $1,000 to
lend and Woods promised to find customers for
him. Soon aftcrward Ward met Woods again
and was introduced to Trcadwell. That time
he lent $50 on $2T5 worth of pawn tickets.
Blake and Lawrence were in turn made known
to him and got from him respectively 500 and
altogether he lent the gang 81 $40 on pawn
tickets for jeIvelry pledged for ~ 900. After
enough left to pay his fare home. The loans
were ali well dressed and looked like business
men, Ward was under the Impression that he
about 5000 on, the deal, and he counted the
money as already In the bank.
When the time for payment came, ,however,
ran them down they put him of with various
excuses, and all he ever got from them was
$l5. In order to be near his debtors, Ward
gave up his job in W~illiamsport and came to
this. city. Before he got a new jo2 he tried to
realize on some Of the security. He redeemed
one piece Of jewelry that had been pledged for
$40, but when he tried to sell II had hard work
that everything was not right and went to the
police.
Detectives Valley and Kerr found three Of
the mon near the metropolitan Hotel in Broad.
way last night, and ARRESTED them. Lawrence
was found AZ his home. When searched at
Police Headquarters each Of the prisoners had
several hundred dollars. Each also had bun
dies of pawn tickets and unopened letters which
victims.
Ward went to Police Headquarters last
night and identified the prisoners. They will
be arraigned this morning in Jefferson Market
Police Court.