The sun., 1899-11-29
MlLLER'S SAFE Is OPENED.
NOTHING ~ 1T BUT 4 MEMORIN-
DUN or STOCK TRANSACTIONS.
Col. Ammon Says the Franklin syndicate
Manager 1. stiii In the United states and
Reads Doctors Certificate Thnt Miller
Is suffering with Nervous Prostration.

| manager Is still III the tniteU states ana
Reads n Doctors Certificate Tint Miller
Is suffering with Nervous Prostrntion.
| The safe OF William f. Miller and tho
| Franklin Syndicate" which was removed
from tho late headluarter, OF th' Syn iicate"
in Floyd street, Brooklyn. on Mon1ny to the
| Vernon avenue police station. was opened hy
an expert In the prcscncc OF Deputy Chict
John Mark"l'ar. Cant James d Reynolds
and other officers Of tho BROOKLYN police force
at tho station yesterday afternoon. Nothing
OF any value was found In the safe
and nothing OF interest cvrn. except n hal
. ance sheet " stock transact ions between Miller
and tho CONSOLIDATED Exchange firm of Bra
! 2Cau & lics-o. ~ Brond street. OF which tho
present firm NJ Hrssc Jewell IL the successor.
Mi!lcr closed hiI account with Brazrau X li"sso
about two months ago AMI the balance sheet
/ found IN the safe is n record of about all the
, business done by this firm for Miller Tho
! record Ia interesting IA showing thai only in
the circulars issued to tho pubic was VI Her
, the prodisiously heavy a1h success Il operator
IN Wall Street tha, H. represented himself to hc.
The sheet. which was found in an envelope
J In the sa'c. bears no date. hut shows that
/ Miller began to trade In stocks hy purchasing
on mnrsin 40 shares ~ rgooSlyn Rapid Tran
sit stock at So. which wt% imm"da'"y
. followed by another purrha'c o the same
stock NJ SSS4. This stock waI disppscl " IN
the following lots aVl at the following prices:
. - shares at lUi. 10 shares at ~. 20 shares AZ
Slh. 10 shnrrs ~ Sj',. 10 shares ~ Si',. 90
shares at ~. 20 shares At Is b.. - shares a.
. T"',. - shares az 80. ~ shares AT ~
This ,how-. ~ fHE SIS sta'cd the other day
/ in u reference to Miil"rs transactions with
Bralrau 4 licssc. that tn" Syndicate mans
4 "in~,dr Information" vas a VAN thns and that
his "Ea-hiugton wire usually hal kinks In II.
. And all these transactions were made, accord
. ing 70 "a statement ma ls b. Mr.. h"s~c To
a SCS reporter several days ago. ~
tir,e when Miller was nooiing the country
with circulars which proclaimed that II was
taxing tw" or three fortunes out OF Wall stree:
every week There were no books found ia
the safe and. from IN" way In which viecrs Of
paper had been strewn around inside. ths
police got the notion that the safe had been
hastily relieved Of any valuablcs 1t may have
contained The expert hal to ruin the iock.
| practically. In order 10 get the safe open.
new move on the part ot some of Mil!crs
creditors was made yesterday to get back from
his visible assets some OF the money which
they had deposited with him Some half
d,z-n dcpostors. who put into the "Synd-
cate" sums nggregatnG l.iUD. through leiar
A Flash Of 3T5 Fulton street, Brooklyn. inst-
tutrd involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
h.'orc Juag, Thomas Ia the United
S,,ta. district Court against the franklin
syndicate. Incorporated" Under tho law.
baukrGitcy prv,.clIa.s take Irrc" lcnra over
+ ali other claims. even those ot an assignee, Ia
| order 10 have the CORPORATION dec ared a bank
! ru.t Il was necessary to prove fraud on the
part OF tie cotpurat on In proof of fraud the
| following allegation was set up in the papers
fled.
That on or about III" 18th day Of Novem-
bcr. lS,L'. the Franklin syndicate uncur-
| poratcd uahc and rNerutod general assign
mrnt m writing fcy the bencnt nf creditors 10
one J"rr bailey That prior 10 the 2ith day Of
| NNye b p. 1879. the aforesaid corf Grafton.
| Frauknn syndicate 'ncorr Grated. conveyed.
transferred anl conceal I'd u ltree part OF their
! property with intent 10 hinder. delay and
uetraud your petitioners and their creditors"
These bank ruptcy pru'. "d.ngs will probably
avail nothing a. the Az ,i.lmTnt oi r"ce!ter
| II n.OUuced ua Monday. VII aytii n"tni"g, and
Z aHd for III" same reason. Any Iroc-"!lrG>
against CORPORATION snown Ia the "Frans!H
! Syndica'-" ar" aiken. III act. a:ain-' Corior-
a'iou winch doe not exist. A. was o.nt"d "u' IL
a few lav- ago 10 htN" hs .""EC"ru ;ncUrpp-
rated under IN" laws OF III" stat" ~ Nrw
Jcr-ey. 1ut all that wns done wa TO ~" "Sr,;
three lncHrporGtor~ wSr" named. ,Ng Gaii'al
was paid inhni A. orrsrs were "!%G,"d, a,,;
IA the Franklin Syndicate. Incorporated, has
Hub"ft G Taylor. who was appointed on
Monday the receiver o; the Franklin Synii.
cate by Justire smith Of IN" supreme Court
PewSEar"r. informed Ja,t,s" smith yestsr:
day that ne could not th'ns OF accept;
Ing the "mrno!TGtmGcn,; m TniG In hi" letter oil
II icei constraIncd 10 ,'rclnc The honor OF
the @ ~ s. sui, upon hH5e t6
minds OF many oi my fellow ctzors, caused
inc SoSnsSSn MIN T,h In" snn Nm
dicat", And not on y that but the nnnl com
position Of its affairs would l." 80 unsat -iHc-
painful Tor m" 10 witness their Ii-tre-s."
The fraud order issued by the Post ONCE
r"ached "si sI' Pos,'aa,tsr wis@n "f hra"Syn ye,.
tsriay morning. Ihs order ,nhicntc- that tho
hnyIne been mnde 20 app"3r To the
,sc9o1y TO Gm "R"% TGi ha sp
Syndicni". William + Miller. president Cecil
ss.er r" 4S r"ya r%3 t"o aG@t h hroSkyS MT src
engaged in condurtng 4 sGhem" or I"vic" for
Obtaining money THROUGH thS mails ny means
tons and PROMISES In violation ot thc act pf
This OF; order contains the FIRST information
that Leslie, the one.urmed ex.ntyertsinG
ton with Miller and hts, "Sypdi,nte.' Mrs, Les
lie. who is in prIacicaIly destitute cont ton
KIM K s0a avenue e said yest"rday iHat her husband
as"" a%s h' shs was SAID G' S"
was simp,y employed by Miller to answer
correspondence. that the work Of advertIs-
Ing ths Syndicate. was thrust upon
him dur ng the last few daya OF the CON
cern : existence. She said that n man In Bos-
ton made all the advertising contracts, and
that the mysterious nd!vidua! known yari-
oully ns "E hlessinger" and Louis Schles-
singer" was the real head oi the concern, Mrs.
where her husband was. that no had left her
without money and had only few cents In his
said that. IL her husband should surrender
himself. he could not furnish hondsmen, since
he did not know anybody IN New York or
Brooklyn who owned rel estate.
Postmaster wilson will begin to carry out
tn" directions OF the fraud order this morn ing.
although. as a matter Of fact, he has been un-
nco sp,c 10 Snturny any ymorninS In tHst time t,me
l.,5OQ, pieces Of mail have accumulated at
the Brooklyn Post once, including money
orders to the amount Of sl2OOo. There ARE
many r"giS cred letters in he collection. which
" dOubtedly contain money. while 1t IL prob
able that many OF the ordinary ettoys con-
. tain money. In reference to the dispos-
of ha mi ha