The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-10
trio OF THIEVES.
Royal Chemical Company Of
This City Victimized to
the Tune of 100000.
WILLIAM H. RUFFHEAD ARRESTED
Charged With Issuing Worth
less Promissary Note Sig
ned by Company's
Treasurer.

The Royal Chemical Company, of No. 9S
Broadway, this city, has been cleverly
yietimized to the tune of 100000 by a trio
Of men, one of whom it is alleged is the
head and who is now under arrest in
New York City. That man is William H.
Ruffhead, of No. 241 West Twenty third
street, New York City, who was arrested
by Detective Sergeant Gargan of the Cen
trail Office on Wednesday afternoon at
No. 100 Nassau street and arraigned be-
fore Magistrate Meade in the Centre
Street Police Court yesterday and charged
with grand larceny.
Ruffheads arrest is the result of an in
vestigation which Detective Gargan has
been carrying on for several months into
the standing and methods of the Royal
Chemical Company which was incor-
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The specific charge against Ruffhead is
brought by John A. Hall, the president of
the Universal Paper Bag Company of
Trenton. n. j., who accuses him of OBJ
worthless promissory note signed James
f. O'Brien, Secretary and Treasurer
Royal Chemical Company" This note, the
number which Ruffhead and his cell
leagues have put in circulation through
professional note brokers, Exiting, them
pany OF Jersey City, a reputable CONCERN,
the principal owner of which Is DR.. S. E.
ullman, Of No. sS Broadway, this city.
Notes to the value of $50 600 have already
come back to DR.. Ullman for payment,
and 1t Is estimated that this amount is
only fraction of the sum represented
by notes in circulation.
The first complaint against the bogus
Royal Chemical Company was received
from DR.. Ullman in July last. Detectives
were Immediately put on the case. They
h fla icyfn na1 i1H fnr ,lf
the company now represented by. Ruff
head were Horace G. Stripe of No. 100
William street. DR.. Leonard F. Pitkin of
No. sl1 Seventh avenue, Frederick Par.
ker of No. 2S6 Broadway, c. N. King of
Jersey City and George w. Warder, well
known lawyer of Kansas City. The COM
pany was organized to sell a patent for
the removal of superfluous hair and facial
blemishes but the original incorporators
soon became convinced that the article
was a failure and withdrew without in
Stripe, the inventor. was left in the pos
session of the stock. He says that at
enee Of DR.. ullman.s Company by
receiving their letters through the mail
He offered to sell out to DR.. Ullman but
the offer was refused q and ne subsequently
the sale of the goods he had in stock, left
this city. and went to the Pacific coast
where he remained until March 1873
When he returned he found Cadman in
an office at No 10S Fulton street, New
York City. doing business under the name
of the Royal Chemical Company. Stripe
says that he compelled Cadman to close
up the business as he had been informed
that it's existence was harmful to the
credit of DR.. Uullman's company. Soon
after this hsssold the entire stock and all
rights of the company to Ruffhead for
$3.50 on condition that he should exclude
Cadman from any part in the business.
The detectives who have Investigated
the case say that Ruffhead and Cadman,
in collusion with an ex-convict nameo
James F. O'Brien, who was sentenced in
1898 to two years in the Elmira Reform
atory for secreting and embezzling let
ters from the mails. have been constantly
issuing notes and selling them on the
credit of Dr.. Ullman's. company. Cad
man, they say, is a nephew of Louis F.
Payn, State Superintendent of Insurance.
Detective Gargan has learned that Cad
man was sentenced to three years in the
Elmira Reformatory on Jan: 81 1Ss3,. for
fraud while he was employed in the Cen
eral Post Office.
Ruffhead was held in $1,000 bail for trial
Yesterday, but Detective Gargan at once
made an application to. the District At
torney's office to have the bail increased.