The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-14

LESLIE MAKES
A CONFESSION
Press Agent Of Franklin Syndl-
cate Tells His Story.
VAGUE IN SOME PARTICULARS.
Declares That Miller Collected as Much as
One Million Dollars.
He TOOK LARGE SUM WHEN'HE FLEO.
Leslie S.l in Hing in New jsrssI Imp sss OF
PisUis That He Viii Surrender Soon Sac
m ut Of LAWYER Ammon.

New York, Feb. l4.-Cecil leslie. who
figured for while, according 10 his
own admission, as press agent FOR the
Franklin Syndicate at No lii FLOYD
street. Brooklyn, before the concern
collapsed on Nov. % last has made an
alleged confession. in which he tells Of
some OF the Things he saw while ait Mil
ler's. headquarters Leslie's statement
lacks the essential elements to make
IL valuable on account of Its vague
ness al looscness. and Il is doubt
full III much OF what he says can be
used by D.s.rict Attorney Clarke in the
prosecution OF Miller. Leslie asserts
THAI Mlgler had as much as sl.000,000.
and that when he left the cty he had
a large umount or money on his per-
son. Leslie Is still "A fugitive in New
Jersey. but IL Is expected that he will
give himself up at the district attor-
neys office In Brooklyn in a day or
two. Among other persoI mentioned
by Leslie as having had connection
with Miller Is Col" X. A. Ammon,
Mler's present attorney of record.
Leslie does not charge that Mr.. Am
mon participated I'm the profits OF the
concern. He only hints that he did.
When Mr.. Ammon was seen he talked
with his usual frankness. and said:
LAWYER AMMoN TALKS.
MY connection With William r. Mil
Ter can be explained in~a few words.
My relations with him have been sim
ply those OF attorney and client He
never consulted with me about the le-
gality of his business and | never asked
him about IT, I never chased after
n m. He came 10 my office and asked
~ no o. a1 Ia
do from day 20 day Prior 90 his re-
turn last week as a prisoner I saw Mil
Ter just seven times altogether. The
first time l met him was late I'm Sep
tember last when he came 10 my office
In company with a newspaper man.
and said that he wanted to have his
business Incorporated under the name
of the Franklin Syndicate. I made out
the papers for him and sent them IN
TO Trenton. They are on file there now.
no doubt. There was some hitch over
the name being similar 10 another com
pany. but after examination was
found that the other company had al
lowed its rights TO lapse, and the name
~ Franklin Syndicate was adopted A
week or two before the Franklin Syn
'dicate closed IT'S doors, Miller came 10
my office and said that he was going
10 close up his Boston branch as some
of the Boston papers were pounding
with him asked him IL the palice
made any complaints against him. and
he said he thought not The first
thing We did when we got TO Boston
was 10 go 10 police Headquarters and
see Chief Watts. | asked him IL he
had anv comDlafnts against Miller. and
he said No Then Miller paid OFF all
the Bosto~ depositors who asked for
their money and returned to this city
He paid me my fee for this work Ii
was a good one, and I'm ready TO take
as many more as I can get old of
honestly / never saw the books OF
the Franklin Syndicate and did not
investigate their methods Of doing bus
tness
NOT CONNECTED WITH DEAN
COMPANY
II understand 1t is reported that |
was connected with the Il. :. Dean
company That is not correct. | was
counsel for Goslin and Eberman after
the Dean company werS 20 the vol
and | am still Mr.. GoslIn's counsel III
a lawyer is 10 be condemned simply be-
cause he defends now and then a client
whose business may have been open TO
criticism. then perhaps lawyers like
Abe Hummel, Fred House, Man
ny Friend. Barlow :. Weeks and my
self Will have TO go out of business
Just how much money Miller had
may be known To some extent when
his case comes 10 trial. The men
named-by Leslie in his so-called con-
fession are unknown TO me- with the
exception of Schlessinger and Gunther.
] saw Schlessinger two or three times.
and have known Mr.. Gunther for years
as an advertising agent"
Leslie is reported as saying that the
Wells-Fargo bank has 500 900 OF Mil
ler's money deposited I'm the name OF
w. +. Zimmerman. At the time the
sheriff's attachments were obtained I'm
November last, Mr.. Zimmerman, who