The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-07
STOCK RAIDERS IN JAIL
The Rapid Transit cOnsPiratOls In
dicted by the Grand Jury.
Six Men Charged With Manipulating
the Market-CtrcuEatcd False Re
Concern - Caused shares TO De-
clinc-AII Have Criminal Records.

NEW YORK, March 6-The speeia
grand jury which has been considering tn,
| conspiracy to lower the market price o.
| Brooklyn Rapid Transit stock, that cul
minated .u the raid on that stock on De
cember 20 last, returned indictments to-
day against six men. Some of them are
| charged with feioniously circulating false
/ and misleading reports to affect trade anc
| commerce others with committing a mis-
demeanor by conspiring 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 felocious misstatements and two fol-
! conspiracy; Henry J. Alexander, Of the
| Herald Square Hotel, one Indictment for
felony and two for misdcmeanor; Charles
! Thomas Davis, editor of the wall Street
! Review" two indictments for felony and
one for misdemeanor; Eugene l. Packer,
Of Brooklyn. two indictments for con
spracy.
Goslin was arrested at 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. 81 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. It 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 a late hour tonight.
Detective Sergeant Cuff went to Newark
today and arrested Warner T. Allen, aged
twonty-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 a fugitive from JUS
tice. Bail was fixed at 800 which was
quickly furnished, and Allen went away
with his friends
Every one of the men under indictment
has criminal record, Deputy Attorney
General John Proctor Clarke said today.
MIR. Clarke describes the complications Of
crimes Of which these men stand accused
as AN intricately interesting Intervening
Of plots and counterplots."
1T was he said. only by the pulling
apart Of a closely woven texture Of little
things. Of apparently immaterial things,
by an analytical study-of 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 maj
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
criminals were under the direction Of the
other crowd it could not indict any other
than the men who were indicted.