The evening times., 1899-01-10
ACCUSED OF THEFT
FROM HIS FATHER
OLD ROBBERY COMES TO LIGHT
Alfred ID. Fellows, Brooklyn school,
Teacher Offers for sale Bonds
stolen Years Ago.

New York, Jan 16.-There came to iigLt
| yesterday afternoon. by tn arrest OF
Aaron II. Fellows. of No. o. Linesln
I Avenue, Brooklyn, d teacher IN th Lof :
Island Business College. the p0ssib So
luton of a robbery which was comm tied
nine years age IN the ittt.e village Of
Waits River near Bradford VI wh n
Nicholas Fellows. Of that place was roJ-
bed OF Se20 in cash and tinted sta 5
bends To the amount of 81 601. The b1aCs
ere registered bonds. and after MIR. Fe.-
lows had gone through the cessaly
forms duplicates were issued TO hi.n
the Government thus reducing his &ctEat
l'As 10 the amount of cash "nich Was
stolen.
Mr.. Fellows heard nothing more
about the robbery until ore day in F=b-
ruary, 1884, he received . letter from q
strange man in Toronto. O4J-. saying t. t
il ne would send $10O in an envelope %
Ia King street, West TCFo.IO o L..
Can, ne would receive hack stolen bones
amounting in face value 10 s. Geo Nj
Fellows paid nc attention TO the IeIter,
believing that the writer was an impO t1T.
but in foGr years more, that IS in August
last, he received another letter. this NE
dated from Montreal, renewing ths p'O.o-
stion. This letter, too, purpOrted % have
come frcm the same 'B- Jerome" hut Nj.
Fellows paid no attention To- T.
On December IS last i man call d Il III
office cf George c. Davis, a broker in min
ing stocks. in the G,ob- Bu.Iding Boston.
and said that he had some United States
bonds 10 dispose Of. J. n. Ail1u. a IN NJ
Der OF the firm. saw him, and TO Mr A
len the man said he wished 90 make some
purchases CT good mining stocks bur Fad
no ready money. He had, EoS5v sr. s2.G %
Of Government bonds he would Ike 10
sell
As the firm does not deal in G0verume-t
bonds. Mr. Allen tool, the man 10 the bank
ing house OF Foote & French, az No :
Congress Street. Boston. He pretended -
be Nicholas Fellows, the original owner OK
the bonds, in whose name they stood, AMI
easily secured a oertIfics tion from the cash
Ter of the Massachusetts National Bank o.
Boston. Then Foote 4; French bought The
tOlds giving him 81 iJ0 ia cash and four
$500 Government bonds, together With some
United States bonds of smaller deGnmina-
tiOu.
In The regular course Of business the
banking house of FoOte & French seat the
bonds they had bought from h. Supposed
Mr.. Fellows 70 their correspondents in this
city, Harvey E Fisk x Sons. No. - Nassau
Street On January >. on referring 10 their
records OF ulteu states bonds. this 1FIE
found that the bonds had been stolen in
1899. and hat duplicates had been issued
for them. thus making them absolutely
vaiueless. and they SO informed the Bos-
ton firm. That firm cJInmuHicate5T with
Waits River, Vt, and learned that Mr..
Fellows had q son Who answered the de-
>cription Of the man who sold the stolen
bonds and that he was a school teacher in
brooklyn Inspector Watts. of Boston. and
Perry g. CrOcker. a clerk in the Boston
banking house which boUsiAJ The bonds.
came 10 this city. and with Detective Flay
and Strausky, of the central Office, ~eGt
yesterday afternoon 10 5rTest their man He
was not at nome when the detectives yeIr
to mis- house but walked toward the house
d few minutes later. ana was al once r6cOg-
uiZed by the BOstCI bank clerk. tie had
handbag in his possession. At first he de-
MED all knowledge of The transaction. but
finally admitted that he was the man VINO
sold the bonds IN Boston. He refused TO
say anything about the original robbery,
and the police are not certain whether he
robbed his Own father nine years ago o:
whether he got possession OF the bonds
from the actual thief. The authorities in
Waits River have been informed, and the
Boston inspector went hack 20 that city last
evening 10 secure an Indictment against the
prisoner preparatory 10 eNtraditiOn.