The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-31
THE CAR TICKET FRAUD.
Examination Waived by Conductor
InGIeys and His Brother.

When arraigned in the Police Court this
morning on a technical charge of forgery
Frederick Daniel Henry Ingley, and his
brother, Samuel Z IngIe-, who have con
fessed 20 having circulated large quautI-
ties Of counterfeit street car tickets pUr-
porting to have been issued by the Ne
tropohtan Railroad Company, waived an
examination and were held for the action
Of the grand jury
The IngIeys were unable to furnish bond
in the sum Of $500 each and were COM
mitted TO Jail.
Captain BOardman received Il cabIegram
this morning from the Chief Of Police Of
Glasgow, Scotland, in reply to the mes
sage sent last night stating that the
blocks and correspondence alleged to have
been used in connection with the bogus
tickets had been secured from the Nu-
mericai Printing Company and would he
held to await the pleasure of the Washing
tonpolice- The message further stated that
40,eo0 cards, or 100000 tickets, had been
printed and sold to the men If all Of
that number have been received in this
city and the police have recovered ali that
remain in the possession Of the Ingleys
the loss TO the company has apparently
been between SS.0O0 and g. 900 Deducting
the $3.50 tickets recovered from the total
issue Of z40. $50 tickets it is evident that
about 2o2 40 fraudulent tickets have been
disposed of in some manner representing
value Of s., S,447.50
From correspondence found in the pos
session of the IngIeys it appears that they
paid $3.50 for each 500 strips OF six tick
cts each. representing 5000 tickets Dur
ing the time that Samuel Ingley was in
England representing himself as the
president of the Metropolitan Railroad in
this city 1t was necessary for his brother
to furnish him with all of the money that
ne could raise. In one of the letters ap-
pears the sentence: You know I will
send you every cent that / can beg. bor-
row or steal in order to secure the sue
cess Of our scheme
When the brothers were taken to the
photograph gallery, previous to going 90
court this morning. to have their pic
lures taken for the rogues' gallery. they
were in the best of hHmor and asked that
they might be permitted to buy some Of
the pictures They were very Particr3ar
IN arranging their toilet before facing he
camera. While Samuel IHgIey was being
photographed his brother sat at the piano
and played several hymns They stated
that they had read the account of their
transactions in this mornings Times and
that the account was practically correct
The only mistake" said Samuel IngIey,
was that you failed to point out the
moral Of the vicfssitudes of those unfor-
tunates who are subjected TO the tempta-
tons that are thrust upon them by the
American people
Frederick IngIey turned over to Detec-
tive Sergeants Browne and Lacy this
between thirty and forty addi-
tonaI tickets which. he said ne had
found in one Of his coat pockets. Among |
them were several Of the original issue,
which appear 70 have been exceedingly
crude in workmanship. and in which no
was made at scroll work or |
shading
But few Of these tickets were issued and /
IN one Of his letters Frederick IngIey /
states that it was too dangerous to do |
much with them. but that when he got |
the opportunity he would shove them /
on the eoIored people"
On the return 10 the city tomorrow of !
G. H. HaTries, Vice President and Cen /
eral Manager or the Traction Company, /
arrangements viii probably be complet-
ed for sending Detective Sergeant Browne /
to Glasgow to secure evidence against the
accused