The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-27
WHO WAS BEHIND MILLER!
PLAN TO CARRY 7HROUGH an IN
TEREs7ING INVESTIGATION.

yesterday. and. therefore. the Brooklyn police
were unable oven to guess where the young
man was keeping himself. The police knew
Just rs much about the whereabouts OF
Cecil Leslie tdiller's advertising agent. as they
did about Miller. II was thought at the
Brooklyn Detective Bureau that Col. Robert
| A. Ammon. Millers lawyer. might call up Police
Capt. Reynolds during the day to say that Miller
would loo at his Office In Brooklyn az usual this
morning. Tho Colonel didn't do ANYTHING Of
| the klnd, however. and Capt. Reynolds IL re-
| ported to have expressed himself with much
| feeling on Col hmmon's lack OF consideration
| for the pulicc
The day did not pass. however. without sew
| ctal pieces 81 no. unintsrestng Information
about Miller and his operations turning IN. II
was pretty well settled. for instance. that
Miller IN spite OF his statements to the con-
| trnry. did not begin to operate the Frank
lin Syndicate" which took Its name. II Is said.
| from the middle name OF tho man who man
| aged II. until the fall Of 1904. II was learned
that. In March, 1Ssss. he was discharged from
the employ Of Joseph II, Lester 4 Co. tea mcr-
| chants at ~ Wall street Previous to working
| Tor Lester 4 Co. he was employed by T. J.
| Hcratv Co. tea merchants at III Front
| street. by whom also he was discharged.
| Miller got employment with both these firms
through a tea merchant named Adams who
| lived In williamsburg and who had taken an
| Interest In tho young man. After HIS dis
| charge from Lester 4 Co.'S. Miller was heard
| OF after while a. n frequentcr OF bucket
| shops IN New street and vicinity. IL was
| learned Yesterday that at ono OF these
| bucket shops he met one OF the men
| who figured In the L. s. Dran Com.
pany and was arrested on account OF his
connection with that outfit. Several months
after he was dismissed by Lester 4 Go. he
drifted into Hcraty 4 Co.'S office ana showed
| to L. ". Payne. tho manager. u chart upon
| which was laid out III. up and down cour,e Of
| certain stocks. Miller told Mr.. Payne the
names OF the men who wcro said TO control
these stocks and predicted that. within certain
| times. they would go up or down. as the case
! might 10.
Mr.. Payne dill not avail himself. for
| speculative purposes. OF tho predictions
| OF Miller. but he watched the quotations
| Of the stocks which the young man mentioned
| and found that. In nearly every case. tho
! predictions came true. At that time. that IL
| tho spring Of 1898. Miller was living with
| his parents at Park and Marcy avenues.
| In little Hat on the top floor. The parents
| live there now. Miller never had any great
| amount OF money In those days and some
| people wondered how hs was going to
| get along when. in the lato summer OF
| 1885, no got married. In the early
|
| street house. living In the upper part After n
short time the lower part OF the house was
turned into ofices aud the Franklin syndl-
cate" was nrst heard OF.
| This Information was obtained In part from
| Police Captain Lees OF tho Vernon avenue
| police station and from acquaintance OF men
| who have known him for the past ten years
1t proves that Miller was wrong when
| he said last week that the "FranSln
| ..ss ~ "A -,
| II also indicates that story published yes
| terday morning. to the effect that Miller was
| convicted OF forgery In Lynn. Mass, and sent
| to the Concord Re'ormatory, in whose gallery
! his picture was No. 3IS. Ia without foundation
| Several Of Mi'lers friends sail yesterday that
| the Syndicate" man hasn't been away from
| the vicinity OF his home for any great length
| OF time-a few days at the most-ln the past
dozen years. They also said that had he
| been convicted OF a crime anywhere they
would have known II.
| The Franklin syndicate" had evidently not
been doing a rush business IN to september OF
| this year. This II indicated by the fact that
! few persons. oven In the immediate vicinity Of
| Its headquarters. knew OF It's existence. Fur
thermore. IL was learned yesterday that
Miller had about that time an aux
| Hilary scheme to help boom the 'Syndl-
! cate" This was a scheme known rs the Paris
Exposition Club" which. according to cir
culars describing 1t, had the following
persons for officers: President. Charles +.
Rockstrom OF l43 Magenta street, Brooklyn;
Secretary. John .walthsr. e,.2 Gates avenue.
| Brooklyh and Treasurer. William F. Miller,
ia Floyd street, BROOKLYN. The office Of
Manhattan. Rockstrom was the foreman OF
the sSSmpS%T.nGS room 81 some magazns
employed at NJ Fulton street. Manhattan.
The club guaranteed TO all members who
Paris Exposition and return. give them iirSt-
| class hotel and steamer accom- modations, per-
NIT them to stay as long as they pleased aud
When Miller was questioned about the club
las, September he said y was a perfectly ev,i-
Son wS,hsg sHi4 he he 4aai .HST %pSh
went into 4; ~, RocsstF"m said that 10
SiOO to make good the cubs guarantee.
but that tho promoters expected to make
SiOU ' reserved in the "Franklin Syn'iicate."
! from which Investment the returns would bs
8" large H, that h the promoters Of ths Gns Would
ErCht, !!or ihsnss ms Not !Oag %l,sr ihs The
nothing morr was heard OF Il,
To those TG2 are noE giving Son1hsr1ti2n
one reason or another, discovery was male
ysSterday that rather in,srested them. Il was
/ SIMPLY lnht, IN hIlTll, 1921, o. hHnHlOu was
Interested in II brokers' Office at ~ New
street and associated with him was man Of
! Il name OF Nathaniel W. Nj Her. No ono even
suggests that Nathaniel W, Miller MAs related
e., CONNECTED with or eyer henrh OF William r
! Mi Ter, The fact that Col: Ammon SHOULD have
had partner named Miller IN q brokerage
business, and that william +. Miller should
| also be advertised 10 bs In the brokerage huSi-
| ness WAS simply taken as strange coinci-
| dcnCe.
| II what Brooklyn detective told sun re-
| porter yeste Tday bo true. some half q dozen
bankers and hank presidents in, BROOKLYN and
| Manhattan are going Ia take hand IN the in
| ycstignr ion Of the affairs ~ the Frank In Syn
dictate" this week. According to tho
yoke tho aid OF the, Bankers Protective
! Association and the detect We force which
that association commands in all parts
Of the c9untry. in locating and arrestlng VI IL
Who the other persons were who were tho
| silent and nameess partners in the Frank in
! Syndicate" Thcs" bankers are going to at
| tempt TO discover these things according TO
the brooklyn detective. Tor two or three roa-
| sons
They havo recalled. according to tho de.
! tectiye. that Tor the past ten years, ut almost
! regular periods. banks and the general luhIic
| Lave bpen hupGl by some such rDncprn