Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-16
sEIzBD WRIGHT HERE.

SEIZED WRIGHT HERE.
 New York Police Capture London Pro-
 moter.
 NEW YORK, March 16.-Whitaker Wright managing director of the Lon don and Globe Finance corporation, limited, in search of whom twelve Scotland Yard detectives are now securing Europe, unexpectedly turned up in New York yesterday and was quickly apprehended and placed under arrest by Central Office Detectives Lee- son and Moody, acting under instruc- tons from Inspector McClusky, who had received cablegram from the London authorities concerning the missing promoter.
 Wright, who for years was the most prominent promoter in London and the managing director of concern that, with many other smaller affairs, was supposed to represent nominal capi- tai of more than sill 100000, was a passenger on the French liner LOT raine, and it was in less than five min utes after the ship had been berthed and the gangplank hoisted he was placed under arrest.
 MT. Wright said to a reporter:
 T cannot express to you my amaze ment at my arrest. It is an outrage, and those who are responsible for it will be made to suffer to the full ex- tent of the law. The entire charge against me is technical, and in this country no one would ever think of making it."
 The crash of the companies fioated by Whitaker Wright came in December, 1900. There were eleven of these, in- Cluding the parent company, entitled the London and Globe Finance corpo- ration, with total capitalization of $60, 0,675,O00. Wright was the managing director.
 Few millionaires lived in the same prfncely style as Whitaker Wright. Tn Park lane, London, he had miniature palace, in the drawing room of which was a copy of the famous Cabinet du Roi of Louis Xv." It took three years to complete and cost many thousands of pounds. At Godalming he owned a country seat, in beautifying which 600 workmen were engaged. It contains costly fountains and statuary brought from Italy. Wrights stables alone cost a small fortune They have upholstered oak and leather settees and polished gun metal fittings, while valuable paintings and bas reliefs adorn the stalls. His private yacht was fitted up with similar luxuriousness, and at one time he was credited with the intention of constructing a racing yacht to beat Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock.
 One of the victims of the crash was the late Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, formerly governor general of Canada and British ambassador at Paris. He consented to be chairman of the Lon- don and Globe and had 25,OO0 shares in the different companies. With Lord Dufferin on the board of directors were also Lieutenant General Cough Cal thotp, who was colonel of the Fifth Dragoon guards, and Lord Edward William Pelham Clinton, master of the late queens household and son of the fifth duke of Newcastle. When the crash came, Lord Dufferin was severe iy oensured for his connection with the Wr1ght companies, but in frank speech to the stockholders of the Lon don and Globe corporation he declared his position and won the sympathy of the country His wealth, at one time large, was believed to have been swal- lowed up in these companies.
 MHDh American money was lost in the failure of the Wright companies. There was great outcry against the attitUde of the authorities in not pYos- ecutapg Whitaker Wright and his 'fel- low directors of the London and Globe, and in January last a petition was cir culated on the London Stock Exchange signed by many influential men de- manding the prosecution of Wright, as 1t was considered that the credit of the City and of the London Stock Exchange demanded thorough investigation.
 On March 10 action was taken against Wright. Justice Buckeley in the chancery division of the high court of justice made an order directing the official receiver, as nquidator of the London and Globe Finance corporation, limited, to prosecute on a criminal charge Whitaker Wright and utilize the assets of the London and Globe to pay the costs of the prosecution. The following day warrant for Wright's arrest was issued. When the police officer went to his home, he was in formed that Wright had gone to the continent on account of his health.
 How Wright Was Traced.
 LONDON, March 16. - Whitaker Wright was traced to Paris by the bank notes which he cashed there at the offices of the French steamship