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QUESTIONOF TITLE
New York Man and Hobo
ken Woman Under Ar
rest for Alleged
Swindle.
WHO IS THE REAL MRS. .DIAGELsTEDT?
N. j. Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, Solicited
for q Loan, Calls in
the Police.
WHO IS THE REAL MRS. DINGELSTEDT?

Ralph Cohen, an alleged New York
broker and a woman Who says she is
Airs Ellen Dingelstedt. fifty years old,
OF No. 6l4 River street, Hoboken, and
who is apparently educated. were arrest
ed yesterday charged with conspiracy to
defraud the New Jersey Title Guarantee
and Trust Company out of 5000. The
woman claims to own property on Og-
den avenue, upon which she made appli-
cation to tae company for loan of S.. co.,
According to the investigation made By
agents of the Title Guarantee and Trust
Company and by the police the lady in
possession of the property is the real
Mrs Ellen Dingelstedt The woman pris-
oner claims thai the woman in charge OF
the property 10 merely woman with
whom her husband lived.
Cohen claims ne was merely acting as
agent for the woman in negotiating the
loan for a commission.
When the application for the loan was
made, an agent of the Title Company
Went to investigate the property. The
real Mrs. Dfngelstedt was highly indig-
nant The agent found out enough to
warrant the company in putting the ap-
piication in The hands of the police
1t gas decided to allow the negotiations
to go on to the point where the schemers
could be prosecuted. The two were te
have called for the loan on Monday. In
spector Arehibold detailed mis- clerk.
William Robinson and Detective Dan Lee,
to watcn for their expected call on the
companys head lawyer, Mr. George w.
Letterst, on the third floor CT the ouiid-
ing, to sign necessary papers. Chief
Murphy had ADVISED Mr.. Litterst to let
courle world never be allowed 10 leave
the building with the money
Lawyer Litterst was to give them a
check Robinson was placed at a desk
in TIE lawyers Office and Lee ia a room
adjoining Beleie noon on Monday. a
telephone message was received from
Mrs Dugelstedt to the effect that sfe
could not call that day. The detectives
we're ordered to stay on duty mill after
business hours. The following day, Mrs;
Dirgelsteat rang up Mr.. Littefst and
said she could not come until the next
day. as Mr. Cohen had failed 10 keep an
appointment With her.
On Wednesday,, just before noon, the
pair appeared. They signed the papers
and Mr.. Likteress gave the woman =
check FOR Ss sS2s225 fhe rest of the loan
having been deducted for the usual eX-
penses. The woman handed the cleck
to Cohen. Before he could put It into his
pocket Detective Lee snatched it OUT OF
his hand and placed him under arrest.
Robinson told the woman she also was
under arrest 1neY MeTG ataktn u ot4CC
Headauarters where they made state
ments to Inspector Archibold- Neither
was allowed TO hear what the otner nad
to say. They corroborated eaeH othef ;
but the police were only the more con-
WINGED that they had cnspired TO defraud
the company. Memoranda, too, found IN
the woinan,s pocketbook. it IS said,
strengthened the testimony which the po-
lice had already Cleaned.
Both prisoners were arraigned IN the
First Criminal Court this morning. They
were represented by LAWYER samuel
postponed until next Tuesday in order 80
secure additional testimony. They were
held in 5000 bail each.
Cohen in mis- own defence made a state
ment saving that he had merely acted as
the representative of hi9 fellow prisoner,
who, he said, had applied to him for
loan of SIS 900 on the property at No. az
Ogden avenue. He called on her at No.
GA R.ver street, Hoboken, on November
81 last and she signed an Application Tor
the loan. Shortly after he made applica-
tion to the Title Company for loan OF
81 60 which was agreed to. Cohen saw
Mrs Dingelstedt and told her that the
It'll Company demanded a deposit OF $lo.
Her lawyer, he said she told him, re-
ceiyed reply to an inquiry of the COM
nany that sS5 deposit was sufficient. Cohen
said he had been offered $500 II he would
negotiate the loan. He went to Mrs
Dingelstedt and ley called at the Title
Company where she signed an Application
for q loan of $4,000. The deposit of $50
was made by Cohen, he said. The loan
was to have been ready on January b.
1fra Dingelstedt was unable to go to the
office of the company then because Of
sickness and the completion OF the nego-
tiation was postponed until yesterday.
They went to the Title Company office
and Cohen identified his companion as
Mrs Dingeiatedt Cohen was then given
a check Cohen said the woman had In
formed him that the deed of the property
had been eaten by mice in the office OF
her lawyer He had no information as
to how she obtained the property.
Mrs DingeIstelt also made, statement;
she said she was widow, her husband
having died at 10. 242 Ogden avenue on
February Is, 1861. She said she was toll
he died there. She declined to talk fur
her in relation TO him. She said she mad
lived in Hoboken for thirty years ana
MAT she owned lot 143 and lot 81 in Block
IA IN ogden avenue. She said that her
husband decided the property to her when
be diad Then she corrected herself and
said that fer husband had decided 1t to
q IJernsan r. Symes and that Synes had
oeeded it to her. She dld not Know
where Synes lived. Al THAT she kneW "
was that he was friend of her husband
She admitted that she never mad the
deeds to the property IN her possession
and that she was not allowed to eoliect
the rents. A woman Collected the rents
for her. she said.
when she was seventeen years Of age
she admitted having had negotiations
with Cohen.
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