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AN ALLEGED INDIAN PRINCE
ARRESTED FOR PASSING n WORTH-
LESS CHECK.

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Advanl of Bombay and Refers 10 Sec
retary of State Hay-His AlIuring g
Offers to oTypewriters--some Now Pre-
pairing to Go to India-Tried 10 Ne
gotinte Drnft on London.
Local detectives last night arrested,
on the charge Of passing worthless
check for $3.50, a man who claims to be
a Hindoo prince and who has been for
the last few days attempting to secure
New Haven typewriters to go to Bonn
bay and accept there positions which
with his glib tongue he described to be
surrounded with gilded environment of
the most alluring kind. The man gives
the name of Anandsing Ajecking Adva-
nj and represents that he is an indigo
merchant of Bombay and London, in
addition to being the holder of a high
Indian title. The specific charge under
which the alleged prince is held is that
| he passed a worthless check for $3.50 at
| the Hotel Garde, where he has been
staying and where he owes bill of $25.
Mr.. Garde took the check which was
drawn on the Yale National bank, and
instead Of giving change for the balances
over the bill owed sent the check i'm
mediately to the bank, where it was
learned that Advani had no funds and
had had nine.
Advani, as the man says his name is,
has the swarthy complexion and other
personal characteristics of East Indians.
He hae represented himself to be the
official representative of India at the
Paris exposition and has been trying to
engage girls to go to the exposition and
to India as typewriters. In this at
portrayed to the girls whom he APP
preached with the offer the luxurious
surrounding of the positions which they
would get in India. He told them that
they would have liveried servants and
carriages and all the other appoint
ments of luxury. Small wonder, then,
that many New Haven girls to whom
he unfolded these glorious things We're
only too glad to accept the offer. Many
of them have done so and are already
arranging their wardrobes and prepar-
ing for the trip to India.
So Kind was the East Indian to the
girls and so anxious to have them ac-
cept his offers of employment that he
invited some of them out to supper.
These facts finally came to the atten-
tion of a prominent New Haven man
who was at one time president Of the
Congregational club, He was suspicious
of the whole business and requested
the local detectives to investigate con-
cerning the Indian gentleman. Not long
after this request was made yesterday
afternoon Mr. Garde made the COM
plant about the bogus check. On this
last complaint Detectives McGrath and
DAILY were sent out and made the arrest.
At police headquarters the man gave |
his card, on which was inscribed. in ad
dition to the very foreign sounding
name mentioned above, Indigo Mer-
chant, Bombay, London"
Yesterday afternoon Advani called at |
the banking house Of Kimberly, Root & |
Day on Orange street and requested the |
firm to negotiate for him a draft on
London. He said that he had lost let
ter of credit for $4,000 on the Agra
Bank of London, a well known banking
institution, which has East India con-
nections. He-said that he had lost the |
letter of credit while in Parsons thea
ter in Hartford. He said further that |
he had been on pleasure trip around |
the world for a year and that he had
Just come from Alaska. He said that |
he had stopped at Quebec and Montreal
and that at the latter city he had deal
ings with bank which he named. He
handed the firm his card on which was
inscribed his name and "Dorest House,
IL Glouchester, London"
He is a man of easy address, some
what polished, and appears to have had
! good education. He had, while in the
house, the air of one acquaint-
ed with banking and familiar with
banking matters. He was informed that
the firm would negotiate the draft for
him if he would secure responsible
names for endorsement. At that he
stated that he was stranger here and
couldn't give reference
1ere. He said, however, that he could
'efer to Colonel John Hay, secretary of
state and former United States ambas-
,ador to Great Britain. This statement
vas not satisfactory, ON the face of 1t,
o Kimberly, Root &c Day, and the firm
to New York correspond
mt who had connections with the Mon
real bank with which Advani said that
le had done business. The New York
communicated with the
Montreal bank and ascertained that Ad-
,ani was unknown there that he had
lone no business with the bank, and
lad no funds there. After receiving
his information Kimberly, Root 6 Day
nuuired about the man from their con-
lectonrs in Hartford. They learned that
,e had made a similar but unsuccessful
Lttempt in Hartford to negotiate
lraft on the same representations. Ad-
ami will so before the city court this
and it is probable that his case
will be continued to enable the detec-
tves to investigate further concerning ,
lin.
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