The times., 1901-06-01
A CORNER IN BAD TICKETS
Detectives Confident That Only
Two Men Are Implicated.

Making of the Ceunt erfeft street Car
Coupons to BE Thoroughly PrObed
to Go to Scotland for Evidence
After a most careful and minute inves-
tigation of the alleged statement of Sam
uel Ingley yesterday, the detectives in
charge of the case We're able to state posi-
lively last night that none of the other
employees of the Washington Traction
and Electric Company are involved in
the scheme to defraud that corporation
by means of counterfeit tickets.
Detective Sergeant Browne, who has
worked continuously on the case from
the time that Captain Boardman was
first asked to undertake the inves-
tigation, and who knows more about
the case than anyone else, stated last
night that he could be quoted as
authority for an unqualified denial of
the statement that members of the Office
force of the corporation were involved in
the frauds.
After Frederick d. II. Ingley and his
brother, Samuel E. Ingley. had been com
mitted to Jail in default of 5000 bonds
each, to await the action of the grand
Jury on the technical charge of forgery,
they were visited at the Jail by Detective
Sergeants Browne and Lacy, but posi-
lively refused, on advice of their attorney,
to discuss the case in any way.
When pressed for some further state
ment about their transactions Samuel
Ingley said to the detectives: Il will talk
to you about the weather, horse racing,
chicken raising, or whatever else you
uViSh hut
anything further about this unfortunate
business. We took chance and lost, and
we know that we are up against it. AS
far as we are concerned the matter is
closed and we have nothing further to
say"
Acting under Instructions from the vice
president of the traction company, Pri-
Vate Secretary Whitehead visited Fred
erlck lng.ey- at the jail vest aday after
noon and learned that lngiey desired that
his two little girls be placed in Prot
estant German orphan asylum until he
could again look out for them. The rail-
way officials have interested themselves
in the welfare OF the little ones and have
seen that the rent of the house on Fiji
teenth Street southeast is paid up to June
y. and that suitable provision has been
made for the necessary supplies
Detective Sergeant Browne was told last
night to hold himself In readiness to leave
at any time for Scotland to secure the
evidence at that end of the line, 1t is
thought that he viii sail from New York
either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Captain Boardman received a cablegram
yesterday from the Chief of Police of
Glasgow Scotland, Bin REPLY TO a message
sent the previous evening. stating that the
blocks and correspondence alleged to have
been used in connection with the bogus
tickets had been Occurred from the Nu-
merical Printing Company and would he
held to await the pleasure of the Washing
ton police. The message further stated that
10000 cards. or 2fg00o 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 all that
remain in the possession of the ingleys
the loss to the company has apparently
been between 5000 and 1900. Deducting
the 37, $50 tickets recovered from the total
issue of 240.0 tickets IL is evident that
about 2o2 140 fraudulent tickets have been
disposed OF in some manner representing
a value of SS.is7U).-
From correspondence found in the pos
session of the Ingleys 1t appears that they
paid $12.J for each 5gco strips of six kick
ing the time that Samuel Ingley was in
England representing himself as thc
president OF the Metropolitan Railroad in
this city II was necessary for his brother
to furnish him with all of the money that
he could raise. In one of the letters ap-
pears the sentence: You know / win
send you every cent that l 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 to
court yesterday, to have their pic
lures taken for the rogues' gallery. they
were in the best of humor and asked that
they might be permitted to buy some of
the pictures. They were very particular
camera. While Samuel Ingley was being
photographed his brother sat at the piano
and played several hymns. They stated
that they had read the account of their
transa ctions in The Times and that the
account was practically correct.
THE only mistake" said Samuel Ingley
was that you failed to point out the
moral of the vfcissitudes OF those unfor-
tunates who are subjected to the tempta-
tions that are thrust upon them by the
American people"
Frederick Ingley turned over to Detec-
tive Sergeants Browne and Lacy yes
terday between thirty and forty addi-
tional tickets which, he said. he had
found in one of his coat pockets. Among
them were several of the original issue
which appear to have been exceedingly
attempt was made at scroll work or
sh ding.
But few of these tickets were issued and
in one of his letters Frederick Ingley
states that it was too dangerous to do
much with them. but that when he got
the opportunity he would shove them
on the colored people"