The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-07
STOCK RAIDERS. IN JAIL
The Rapid Transit consFirato's In
dicted by the Grand Jury.
Six Men Charged With Manipulating
the MarSet-Circu!atcd False Re
Concern - Caused Shares TO De-
clinc-alI Have Criminal Records.

NEW YORK, March 6.-The speca
grand jury which has been considering tbs
| conspiracv to lower the market price Of
| Brooklyn Rapid Transit stock, that cui'
| minated H. the raid on that stock on De
cember 20 last, returned indictments to-
day against six men. Some of them are
| charged with feloniously circulating false
and misleading reports to affect trade anC
commerce, others with committing mis-
demeanor by conspiTing to affect the pub
lie estimation Of certain properties. Sew
eral of them were charged with both
offences.
The indicted men who have been arrested
are: Alfred r. Goslin. two indictments
for felonious misstatements and two for
conspiracy; Henry ]. Alexander, of the
Herald Square Hotel, one Indictment for
felony and two for misdemeanor; Charles
Thomas Davis. editor of the Wall Street
Review" two indictments for felony and
one for misdemeanor; Eugene L. Packer,
of Brooklyn, two indictments fer CON
spiracy.
Goslin was arrested ut the Hotel Walton,
in Philadelphia. on Monday and Alexander
as he was returning to his hotel from the
theatre very early this morning. Davis
was arrested at his office, "a Broad Street,
today, and Packer was found by detective
at the Office of his lawyer Frederick
House of House G. Friend Bogart. an as
sociate of Goslin, was anxiously enquired
for by the police today. 1t was learned
that he was out of town. Warner T.
Allen was the object of some police solicit
tude also, which had not been relieved up
10 late hour tonight
Detective Sergeant Cuff went to Newark
today and arrested Warner T. Allen, aged
twenty-four, for participation in the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit affair. Allen was found
in the Continental Hotel. and quietly sub
mitted TO arrest He was permitted to
send for counsel and friends. He was
charged with being fugitive from JUS
tice. Bail was fixed at 81, 500 which was
quickly furnished, and Allen went away
with his friends.
Every one of the men under indictment
has a criminal record Deputy Attorney
General John Proctor Clarke said today.
Mr.. Clarke describes the complications of
crimes of which these men stand accused
as IAN intricately interesting Interviewing
of plots and counterplots."s
ut was lie said, only by the pulling
apart of a closely woven texture of little
things, of apparently immaterial things,
by an analytical study-of-th the means and
men and institutions which were used that
at last one could find the place where the
head devil sat, like great black spider,
watching things come his way.
Asked directly whether the head devil"
had been indicted, Mr. Clarke said, with
great positiveness, that every man against
whom there was any legal evidence had
been indicted. A certain broad distinction,
he said, must be made between the men
now under Indictment who had broken
the law, and those who are not under in
dictment and who, believing that the stock
of the company was held too high, said SO
and backed up their expressed opinions by
their transactions on the market It mai
tered not that some of the criminals were
known TO be friendly with the other crowd,
and even had financial relations with them.
Unless the grand jury could find that the
were under the direction of the
other crowd it could not indict any other
than the men who were indicted.