The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-26
TOO MUCH
MONEY
TO COUNT
How "520 Per Cent Miller"
and Partners Divided Spells.
Guessed as 10 Amounts.

New York. Feb. s6-District Attorney
John f. Clarke. OF Brooklyn, who con-
Quoted the prosecution OF william #.
Miller, the Franklin syndicate man. was
much interested in the confession OF Mil
Ter. Mr.. Clarke said yesterday that NIL
lers statement was true In the main. but
false where II attempted to tighten the
guilt of the man who is now dying at
Sing Sing.
Not Edward Schlessinger. Mr.. Clarke
said, but Miller himself was the origi-
mater OF the scheme IL had been IN mis-
mind long before he really opened the
office at No lA Floyd street. 1t ger
minated in the Sunday school OF the Cen
tral Congregational church in Brooklyn,
Fof which Miller was member. The
other young men in the Sunday school
were the first subscribers 10 Millers
scheme.
Mr.. Clarke said all this was shown in
evidence gathered by his ofice. but which
was not produced at the trial because
Miller never went on the witness stand
in his own behalf.
SECRET IS REVEALED.
The Floyd street money mill began to
grind for Miller I'm March, 1899. Mr..
Clarke showed yesterday the following
receipt the possession OF which up to
this time has been a secret OF the dis
trict attorneys office;
New York City, May 9. 1898:
I hereby sell to william +. Miller AL the
furniture and fixtures and good VIII OF
Lyon & Co. for the sum OF one hundreo
anu Lyon & Co. per NJ. W. LYON:
Note the date OF that receipt; salo MT
Clarke. 1t is almost year before the
reer. Lyon. you will recall. is the man In
whose office Miller says he mrs met
Schlessinger. The fact is that Schiesslng-
did -Het-eetae into the Franklin syndi-
cato until October 49, little more than
a month before the place was closed up.
Schlessinger was not speculator, not
he was simply a ragged race track trout.
MILLER had started the game. and ne
only let Schlessinger In when the flood OF
nerve. and the nights spent without sleep
because he had to count so much money.
made him n physical wreck. Added TO
this was the great responsibility, and he
felt that he must share this with some
body or he would become insane.
I'VE got at the very terms upon which
SO set snsims and Eer a
of the income. There was no pretence OF
making any OF the investments Of which
vestment was made in the whole his
tory of that gigantic swindle and that
was simply a little $1,000 flyer that Miller
took in the market. There was left of II
50 cents after the deal had gone through.
MONEY BY MEASURE.
AT 10 O'Clock at night. after closing
the doors. Miller and Schlessinger would
start I'm to try TO count the money. for
the divisions were made every night.
They would count and divide two dollars
utterly tired out and then they woun
stack the great bundles of bills that was
left and measure them. By the bulk they
would try to tell what was I'm the stacks
and Miller would take a stack twice as
bulky as that which he gave to Schless-
niger.
"Thereis a big saloon and hotel In
Broadway, Williamsburg, In which
Schlessinger was known. He stopped
there to empty his pockets OF great heaps
Of one dollar bills every night and ex-
change them for bills OF large denomina :
tion. The proprietor was surprised to see
Schlessnger with much money. and
asked him about It several times. Schless
niger said he had patent cement out
OF which he was making a fortune.
LAS TO Korn, OF whom Miller speaks in
his confession. Korn put $1,000 into the
concern. but before the crash schlessinger
returned to him his $1,000. We heard that
a man named Korn had taken n great
bundle OF money away from the Floyd
street place. but We soon learned that II
was this 81 600 he had taken away
we figured at the time Of MiIIer's ar
. rest that there was $500, 900 he must
have. or this he says now he spent about
800. 900 I'm his defence and $4,000 has
been accounted for in the investment In
Seymour. Johnson & Co
"Gosin was not I'm the scheme until
afterward. During the trial ne called me
up on the telephone and said he had a lot
OF information which would be valua-
BILE TO me. but ne wanted To have a pri-
vate interview with me. / told him I
would not see him except IN the presence
OF the chief OF police, and he replied
that he would not call under those cir
cumstances.
Miller Is dying now. He carried ty-
phoid fever to Sing Sing with him and
consumption has developed. do not be-
lieve he will recover"