The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-19
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Collected Seven and Then Confessed
Theft of Fifty Thousand Dollars
PARKS FILLED With SKATERS.
Girl Arrested ior
Forgery After Several Successes.
Blackbau Cast Against tho
Presidents Brother,

NEW YORK Dec. 1S.-Expert account
ants have not yet completed the'f 'ash "
examining the books belonging 10 'tio ~ -
Of Frank & Du Bots, which were manspu-
lated for seven wears by William NJ. Gates,
the FIRMS confidential manager, now a iu-
gitiSe from justice, and VINO cohieoeu ~
having stolen $50, COO or more from MS en-
ployers.
Having decided some time aso to content
themselves with charging the amount SIC /
en- to the profit and loss account, fra"A
& Du Bois. who are probably the "eai-
thiest insurance brokerage firm III lhe
world are now concerned only III estao-
fishing the exact amount of their loss.
Gates, who entered the firms employ
ment as an GRAND boy twenty -'ii' .
years ago, and who was prime lsNoiIss
with them, feels himself secure III ti'1
freedom, knowing that Mr.. FRANK anu
the elder MIR. Du Bots would deeply sii0'e
to see him sent to the penltentlarN.
Cornelius Du Bots, the junior mehipel
Of the firm, and to whom Gates conlesSseo
does not altogether share the PFeIutiSe VI
his uncle and of Mr. Frank against prlt!s-
ing the absconder to justice.
Gates said Mr. Du Bots to a frleho.
had just learned that exposure u MS
dishonesty could no longer De aEeiteu'
/ was just about to leave the office Tor my
home in New Jersey when Gates said
that he had a matter of business "hlch ne
wanted to discuss, and, if / would permit
him, he would walk as far as the ieliS
with me. With no idea what was 10 come
l waited for him. and we went ou1 " 'lie
office together. Walking down Inc street
we chatted on different subjects. flnaiS
he turned to me as though the matter
just had casually occurred to nm, ano'
referring to a small TRANSACTION III WHICH
we had both been Interested, he SAID
'''By the way, Mr.. Du Bots. you prooa-
bly- remember that YOU instructed me to
settle that matter up for both OF u.s. dld
SO, and it left you owing me 81
II did remember the transaction, ana at
once handed him the 81, which he tucked
away in his inside vest pocket. In dong
so he exposed a. large roll Of bills.
Having persuaded me to cancel my IN
debtedness, he Immediately and without
a shadow of embarrassment confessed that
he had been ro5bing the firm for many
years.
II was so astounded by the mans ct
frontery that l could hardly speak. You
NAV understand that, while l do not IKE
TO be robbed of $50,c0o [ could not help
admiring Gates nerve in first making
sure of that 81 before he told his story.
SKATING EEGINs.
Thousands of children ad grown persons
were made happy by the announcement
Yesterday morning that public parks were
ready for skaters The red ball siSnaIled
the glad news at half-past nilee o'clock in
Van COrtlandt and Crotona Parks, out
the Central Park pond was pared, 1or
the ice there was not thick enough 10 De
safe. All day long the elevated trains and
surface ears carried boys and girls. men
and women with their skates, and the
ice was crowded.
In Van Cortlandt Park the crowd was
principally from the boroughs Of Ma:lhat-
tan and the Bronx, and from 1cnkefs.
Yn,, ice was smooth, though Z tribe sou.
Not a breath Of wind stirred and the sun
shore all day. \ blue, smoky maze huAS
over the woods and nils lo"ato "usA
the crowd thinued, though by the time
the Jamps were lighted the evening skaters
4,egan to arrive and at eight O'Clock the
non5 was filled with a merry throng. O!d-
time skat ers predicted that the ice would
not last in the mild air, and hoped tor
drop in the mercury
Young GIRL, FOhGER.
Notherless Nellie Moffet, fifteen years
old. whose father is dying and who lives
with her aunt, Mrs. Kate Murray, at NO.
3OS East Thrty-ninth Street. was a prlso-
ner in the Centre-Street Police Court yes
terdav afternoon. charged with forging a
series OF five checks, on which she oo-
tanned $40 at various dates.
The girl until seven months ago was IN
the OrDhanage Asylum for Girls at Fifty
G. Mods z
her discharge from that institution she
was employed at 50 a week by Miss NJ. +.
I.earv, manufacturer OF children's cloth
ing at No. 5l3 Broadway
She left her employment there five weeks
ago, and it appears that she then told
her aunt that Miss Leary had put her in
charge OF her business during her vaca-
ton with instructions to draw checks in
The name OF the firm and to pay the
wage earnerS.
AS the girl is bright her aunt did not
doubt the story.
1t is charged that after her refusal to
work. the prisoner, having taken blank
forms from her employer, cleverly forged
Miss Leary's name on a check for so,
Went to the Mechanics and Traders Ma
tional Bank, at Broome Street and Broad
way, on November 9Th last, and had it
cashed
Emboldened by her success, it is charged
that the girl took other forged checks to
the bank on various dates, and for vari-
Gus amounts, as follows: November 21st,
$40; November 2Ith, $50; December 9Th, $50;
and December 18th $50
lhis last mentioned checked was detect
&c oy Miss Leary. who informed the bank
OF the forging of her signature. On the
same day the girl obtained a new book
or blank checks by informing the paying
teller that Miss Leary's check book was
exhausted
Meantime Miss Leary informed the De-
tective Bureau, and Detective John F.
Tinker was detailed 10 the case When
the girl called at the bank vest erday at
ternoon and presented a check for 800
she was arrested.
In court the girl said she had to do
something to enable her TO pay 81 week