The sun., 1900-07-14
RoaERs, PEEr ~ CoMPAN
SWINDLER WITH MANY VICTIMS.
Misds eds Of Three Years In the Reck onins
teing Paid by Francis, Alias Leroy.

befn8 PAId Dy rTanCit, Ahas Leroy.
Walter !. Francis, alias Walter Leroy, was
held by Magistrate Cornell in the Yorkvtlle
police court yesterday for trial In General Se,-
sions on charge Of having hypothecated IN
evening suit belonging to Victor M'celi. q
tailor of 493 Third avenue Back OF Francis lies
a record which In three years has brought him
within the pale Of the law over many times and
has caused his photograph To be feature Of
the Rogues Gallery.
Fra cis's misdeed~ as far a the police know.
began when he wen, TO board In the house OF
MIR, Bridget Leonard. at 46s Second avenue. in
1897 He was known to his landlady as Leroy.
After boarding In her house for four months he
gave her Ave bad checks aggregatng sos a nd
disappeared. Mrs. Leonard in good faith gave
the checks in payment for goods to store
keeper in the neighborhood When they
came back stamped mo good" the store
keeper, bad the woman arrested and
Tombs While there he gave birth to child.
which, since Us BIRTH has been afflicted with
cOnvulSlons. Her prosecutors finally consented
to her rel are on condition that she make good
thsiT loss on the checks. This Mrs. Leonard
did, paying So a week from her earnings until
Alter Francis disappeared from Mr.. Leon
There he me-, Mis- Mabel Trymayer the seven-
ltpU-NfdT -Olil hdlEUlpl Ol HERMAN
Of ?32r Lynch street. friend told him that
she was the 1eiress to $4,000. and he married
her. Then he ,cured 500 from her father on
BOGUS check and disappeared again.
Bv this time Francis and his doings began to
Interest Mulberry street Central Office detec-
tives heard Of score. Of bad checks passed by
ing out OF forty bad checks-many more were
afterward found he was tried in General Ses-
SONS and was sentenced by Recorder Goff to
Francis was paroled from, the reformatory.
M word was received by the police of his re-
lease and las Saturday fr end Of the Try
maculaiely dressed seated at a table in a resort
al North Beach before an elaborate cold
luncheon and bottle of wine. The Try
ton with the Long Island City police by tee-
phone and Francis was again in be clutches
Of the law lie was held for trial for passing
the bad check on Tryma' er.
Detectives McCauley and Quinlan OF the East
Thirtv-iifth street station had been waiting for
four to make EraTcs m
prosecutions n mind Mice il had rented the
iut EraHes while he wa, vas boarding at Mr.
lect the suit the day after the ball. the
young man, and the suit were gone,,
travel. in police circles. McCauIey and ouinisn
heard that their man was TO be exapned last
"Wednesday in the Long Island City police
Magistrate held that Trymayer's complaint
against his son-in-law was outlawed and dis
charged Francis the detectives stepped up and
arrested the young man once more
While thev were bringing him into court yes
terdav morning Francis received still another
blow from the PAST AZ the policeman marched
him NJ the steps ~ the Yorkville court house
they met the Trvmayers, Mrs Francis and
lawyer. The lawyer slipped the first papers In
a divorce suit brought by Mrs Francis into the
prisoners paCle' When he was arraigned
Francis said he was "a year old and That he
lived at se9 Broadway. Magistrate Cornell
fixed his bail at 81, 800.