The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30
CHICAGO, PARIS, SAME GAME,
BLOCK AND BUCHANAN FELL
AMONG CON MEN.
bought stock on the Agreement Of some.
body 10 Take II al Higher Price
The somebody Changes His Mind
Kansas City First to See II Worked.

William II. McNutt held on the charge of
helping TO ,windle william /. Block of
Chicago out of sl3. 900. will be examined in
the 'ntre street police court tomorrow
morning Quite apart from the merits of
the case, it is a bit peculiar that il bears
very close resemblance to the alleged
swndle perpet rated in Paris early last
summer, by which yourg William Buchanan
son of III" American tobacco magnate.
says he was relieved of s3O,OoO. For that
piece of business Larry SoineIfield, some
times called the king of the Winetoppers.
and another American Of the name Of W II
Clark. were arrested in Belgium and held
in SIC, 600 cash bail each in Paris for trial.
Buchanan met SOmeriield and Clark in
Paris through a man who went by the name
If Col. toemy. There used to be man
N Chicago. where, il Is alleged. Mr.. Block
vas swindled, who was sometimes called
col. toemy. According To the Chicago
police. his right name il Murray and TO
MS intimate friends he is known as Kid"
Murray few years ago he was prac-
Using lawyer i'll Chicago. He went wrong,
and his name became connected. after a
while, with shady transactions. He Ia an
acquaintance of James Lontrgan, Edward
SHUTS and Daniel A. Mc,uilum. who are
charged with being partners ii. the alleged
,windle Of Block
Not long after Buchanan met Somer-
field and Clark in Paris, he learned that tn. Y
held a contracting interest in tie Horse
shoe Gold Mining Company of Idaho The
company, Whose stock Block says he bought
with the expectation of selling II to MCNutt,
was the Central Idaho Gold Mining Com
pany. Buchanan was led To believe that
/ ne could sell the stock offered To him by
Clark at som. thing like SO share IN adj
vance of the price Clark Was wiling TO sell
for Accordingly, lt bought about 5000
shares at 50 share. When he tried To
sell lac found that the man he expected
to unload on would not buy. Then he
, concluded he'd been swindled and caused
the arrest of Clark ana Som"rtield. They
gave cash bail. engaged Moitre Labor,
Who defended Dreyfus. the counsel to the
American legation in Be GUM. and Max
! ID. St"uer of this city, to defend them, and
| they are going back for trial IN a fcw weeks
In speaking of the buchanan and Block
/ cases yesterday, a well-hnOwn sporting
| man lad nisto say. Il don't know whether
! tEcs" men, one in Paris and the other in
! chicago, were svindled or not, but the
| game by which it is alleged they were
swind-d was invented 10y an American
| about thirty years ago. II vas first worked
| with amazing success in Kansas ity
short ~ after Chicago lawyer. who throug git
| there was more money in being an honest
| crook than a crooked lawyer. thought it
| out. That man was one Of the srnarte,t
chaps who ever practisad at the COOK
| county bar.
He ana two friends sprung the gene
! IN Kansas City and got away with the goods
| enough to i'll "A carpethag A. far az |
| snow and | think would he likely 10 know,
/ il was NOT tried again until il va. tiled on
/ this man Black, if il really was tIied on him.
! The next We heard of ANYTHING like il was
| when We heard that they had handed
! Buchanan one in Paris lGst summer A.
I | said, | don't know that anyl odv's tecr
lin led ont Of ANYTHING, but ! do know
. that the man who invented the game was
. IN Paris about u 'ime Rut hanan was the e.
3 Ho spent last winter in Chicago. he was
' there last March, when F,o"l' saws he was
lanGcd, and he sailed from he'c ldst May.
-Th" game has never been worked by
/ any but Amer lean crooks, and they have
= always been wiretapper con. men. An
/ other ie'.ilr Thing about this swindle
0ohodv eyer oharged with getting money
( Nv il was ever cot. Nir'Cl