The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-09
SWINDLED BIZ WHOLESALE.
soHy1DIa AND GERRIsH CHARGED
WITH sEzTINa GOODS BIZ FRAUD.

WITH EzTING GOODS By I'D.
They ana Their Cenrsaorates Sale to Have
Obtained Tens or Theusands or Dollars by
Dishonest nrethods-Gst Goods on Credit.
Sold Then, and Left tho Creditors Moth
Tag 10 A~ttnch-Exposed to No Purpose.
On tho charge Of grand larceny, preferred by
Gerald Strntton, tho New York agent for the
Whitney Glass Works, So Murray street, Louis
NJ. Schnadig and Frank l.. Gerrish will DO OK
amined in the Centre Street Police Court this
morning before Magistrate Meade. II the In
formation obtained by Capt. McClusky. Chief of
Detectives, DO accurate, Schnadig and Cornish
are only two Of q gang OF swindlers who have
boon preying upon wholesale merchants in
almost all lines OF trade. both in this city and
elsewhere, for the past two or three years.
Tho warrants upon which Schnadig and Ger
IRISH were arrested were issued carly in October.
That they wero not served before is explained
by the fact that tho police wished to obtain as
much evidence against the mon as possible be-
: fore the warrants were served. According to
the complaint In tho case the Whitney Glass
! Works received a letter from Schnadig on March
10. In that letter Schnadig asked for quota
tions on twoounce ball-nccked panel bottles
and ammonia bottles. Tho main Office Of tho
Whitney Glass Works is in New Jersey. On re-
CclDL OF tnlB leJUcT IL WAS lOTWhTucu w VI VI
ton, tho New York agent, with directions to call
and soc Schnadig.
Stratton called as directed. and Schnadig told
the agent that he was in the business Of bottling
flavoring extracts and of putting up ammonia
for the trade. 1t was for this reason that he
wanted bottles. but, he said, he muot have them
at tho lowest price. S~tratton took Schnadig's
order for fifty gross Of bottles at $3.50 a gross.
BY the terms Of tho sale Schnadig obtained a
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from tho works via the Pennsylvania Railroad
on March %. They arrived at Pier 1 on the
morning OF March 20. and on the same day they
were delivered to Schnadig ut his place of bust
ness, so Vestry street. On the same day Selma
dig got a man named Henry 7. Crosher to offer
the bottles for sale. According to the complaint,
Crosher sold the whole fifty gross for $s7, or rs
cents q gross less than the cost, and $37. so less
than the cost Of the fifty gross.
Tho complaint against Cornish, who repre-
sented himself as a general merchandise broker
at 100 Greenwich street, charges him with hav-
ing fraudulently obtained several gross Of am
monia bottles in much the same way on Feb.
81. Tho Same credit was extended to Gerrish
as to Schnadig. The lawyers for Schnadig and
Gerrish are Friend, House g. Grossman. They
assert that under the complaints their clients
have not been guilty Of the crime charged.
They say that it was en- ordinary commercial
tranSaCtlOD, ana tnaU II inc nlIntg uldSo
Works saw fit to sell goods to Schnadig and
! Gerrish without investigating their financial
standing, 1t was their fault and not the fault Of
the men who bought goods OF them. They
contend that 1t Is not material whether
Schnadig represented to the Whitney Glass
Works that he was bottling ammonia or bot
Ting pickles. They add that it does not matter
whether Cornish represented to the Whitney
people that ho was O general merchandise
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sentationsa as Schnadig and Gerrish made. they
argued, do not constitute. In the meaning OF the
Criminal Code. false representation.
Since tho arrest of Schnadig and Gerrish
Capt. McClusky has been devoting much of his
time to finding, out. IL possible. the names of any
GUILTY was Ma not in getting the names Of a few
firms, but in making a list OF the names Of tho
firms who say they have been swindled by these
eVen SURPRISED rI Capt. Tec!1sky. Here are the
names OF those firms already obtained who say
they have been swindled:
Union Distillery Company. Cincinnati.
John DeWar & Sons. aa West Tweniy:iouiih
street. New York. Scotch whiskey .;;:u:.. 800 90
street. New York. Wines and liquors."... SO 90
A.. Goldstein. Produce Exchange. four. ....... 575 90
Otto Huber Brewing Company. New York.
Dykes 4 wilson. SIS Front street. teas 14a 90
Moore & Brady, Baltimore. oysters. ........ 40 90
". j. Judd. JE. Hoiyoke. Mass. paper....... 80 20
Charles sShlcssinssr's Sons. i2o Liberty
street: New York; liquors n.."m.. 80 %
Gravy & Martin Company, 300 East TWEEN .,o
ty-second street, cocoa 70 52
y. katz, 22? Eighth street: New York. cigars. % 90
J, W. Lowering. Sandow. N. H., woodenware. 90 40
soaps 200 90
ps sw'Hs Mills: Kssas: \. H.. wa sSd;i;yiIs: :::::: y 81 80
Potter Parlin Company. 100 Reade street.
New York, coffee roasters. ................ III 90
1t will he seen from this list that. If the state
ments of the firms mentioned be true, Schnadig
and Gerrish confined their operations to no one
line Of trade. They were willing to buy any
thing, evidently. which they could got on credit,
e e5s9GnS u TO ~ t2r 'aSni n HeTOf 4 the b police.
Schnadig and Gerrish would simply. represent
to anybody from whom they thought they could
business as the firm with which they wanted to
deal. Then an order would be given for certain
Usually be asked. When the time for payment
came the creditors would be put off, and, this
would continue until the creditors got tired and
brought a civil action to recover the amount OF
their claims.
According to the police schnadig has been in
business at one time or another in Front street,
in Vostry street. and in Greenwich street.
Judgment was obtained against him.. but when
had moved out, and nothing would be found
worth attaching. II SchnadiG, because of tho
line of business in which he happened to be en-.
to some wholesaler that he was in that whole.
snler's line of business. he. tho police say, would
simply call upon Gerrish. or Crosher, or any OF a
number of Others. who never pretended to be
anything else than general merchandise
their confederates, have swindled firms in this
city and in different parts OF the country, In the
past two or three years. out OF tens OF thousands
Of dollars. Letters are comirg. TO Capt. Nc,
Clusky from s~windled firms In this city alone
which swell the amount to an immense sum.
When il is known that the trade papers have
exposed Gerrish and Schnadig many times
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