The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-26
ACCUSED OF swINDLING.
The President of n HOrseIess Vehicle
Company Arrested.

NEW YORK, June 26.-John w Eisen-
huth, of 10 East Ninety-fifth Street. was
arrested yesterday afternoon in his office,
in the Temple Court Building. on a war
rant issued by Judge Cowing, in the Court
of General Sessions, after an indictment
had been found against him by the grand
jury. The complainant is James Wilson,
Of 81 Montague Street, Brooklyn, who al
iegeS that on December g. 1893. he pur-
chased twenty-five shares of the Eisen-
huth Horseless Vehicle Company. of
which Eisenhuth was president Wilson
alleges that the stock was bought through
Edward c. TalcOtt, on representations
from EiseHhUth that the company was
the first to enter the horseless vehicle
field and that it had many contracts on
hand which would insure a large income.
Wilson paid s. 125 for the stock and says
the money was frauduIenty secured. The
matter was submitted to the grand jury
Of June, 1850, but was thrown out. When
Eisenhuth was brought before Recorder
Gotf yesterday he was held in $3.Gst3 bail.
Among the prominent men who have
been interested in Eisenhuth are William
c. Whitney and Stewart F Chisholm. of
Cleveland, Vice President of the Arneri-
can Steel and Wire Company MI Whit
ney did not. il is said invest in any Of
the schemes which Eisenhuth was pro-
noting, but did send Eisenhuth to the
Pope Manufacturing Company with rec
concentrations that they investigate his
patents. Mr.. Chisholm took 100 shares.
for which he paid $4,000 IN cash and
agreed to pay S20.6)0 more in six months.
Eisenhuth IS alleged to have represented
to Mr. Chisholm that he mad built and
patented an automobile which had iun
thousands Of miles and had gone uD and
down Eagle Rock. y. J.; that he had con-
tracts with an ice company to supply it
with automobiles, and that these con-
tracts would result in a profit Of fully
$3.50. eco
Chisholm brought an action to recovs-
S10Gg0 Of the $4,000 invested by him and
to have the $1,000 contract rrscinGed. This
was tried before Justice Truax of the
Supreme Court. who gave decision on
May q 1851, in which ne said ;jat he rad
found every representation made bv rs
enhuth To be false and fraudulent. H
censured Eisenhuth ana gave judgment
for Chisholm
In December. 1899. F.ss,iilIu,n sold 10
James Wilson, of New York. twenty five
shares Of stock in his concern on what
are said TO be eV -fiy he SIgIa TeaTesS,.H-
tatioBs as he had made , Chisholm. He
was III 81 and taken before IasiStFIta
Hogan Ga Gune >. 49,. and Dy i9islI he'd in
$500 bail for the grand jury. which failed
to indiCt. Then EiseuhCth mad warrant
issued for Chisholm an bad Wilson ar
Taigned before Magistrate Pool CT a
charge OF DlackTnaiL The MAGISTRATE lis
missed the complaint and delivered to the
attorneys OF record. Miller. Decker < Nil
Ter. a written opinion. in which he char
aeterlzed the complainant as being
SWiudler.
Miller, Decker s, Miller then went be-
fore Judge CGWiug OF the Court of Cen
eraI Sessions ard asked for a resubnis-
sion Of the case 20 the grand Jug. which
application was granted unheSitatiaeIy
on the evidence. On Friday last the grand
jury returned an Indictment against
EisenhUth for larceny in the first degree.