The sun., 1903-11-06
TWO ARRESTED ASSWINDLERS
MEN WHO APPEARTO HAVE MADE
MONEY IN BOSTON.
sold Many stock Certificates. AS would
Appear From Stubs In stock Ger
tihcate Book In Their Possession
t--Their Main once Vacant store?

Close watch is kept by the detective
department in Newark upon newspaper
advertisements which convey any slIs-
picion OF q swindle in them Last night
Detective Sergeants Tuite, Wriggins and
Carroll went to the Continental Hotel, IN
that city and arrested two men, against
whom Tute made a complaint OF consprins
to defraud. The prisoners said they were
Richard Rossyun and George Dexter, but
subsequently admitted that they also used
the names of f. j. Hollngsworth and Will
liam ID. Emerson. They would not give
addresses. The detectives seized stock
certificate book Of the National Union
Light, Heat and Power Company OF ProVi,,
dence, X. l., from which a lot OF shares had
apparently been sold.
Attention was attracted to them by an
advertisement in the Sunday eau, asking for
men with $40 security and signed Mr., Dex-
ter A decoy was sent to see Dexter, ana
was told that If he put up $50 security he
could have twenty of he certificates at
par value of 81 each and would receive $40
for every twenty ne Q, sold. to ,1adn ne promised
That afternoon an advertisement from
the same source appeared in the Etenihg
Neps asking for a man with $500 security
to take charge of a business The detec-
tiyes sent a man to see about get ting the
were about to open place i'll Newark Tor
the display and sale of gas saving device
and il he put up $500 they would open the
place, stock it and give him $40 week, be-
When he said that he could not raise $500
Immediately they told him hat they would
carry out the compact for 500 down ana
he could pay the rest when assured that the
business paid.
ttari iiplnr CON silprat ion and he WAS
leaving the room he said: II was here at
noon and there was an old man waiting TO
see you. Did you see him?" There had been
no old man there, but Emerson spoke up
promptly and said:
sOh, yes; we had talk with him and he
ID anxious to close with us. but we would
rather have younger man like you:
When the visitor departed he hurried TO
police headquarters with his report;
County Prosecutor Rker was consulted
and he told the police TO arrest the men.
They said that the main Office OF the
company was at 494 Westminster avenue,
Providence, and the Providence police
said over the telephone that that number
was vacant but had been kept by Arend
Akerson as a pawnshop and second-hand
jewelry store. and that Akerson was wanted.
His description did not tally with either
OF the men held in Newark.
The stubs in the stock book indicated
that the two men had been doing well IN
Providence and Boston
The stubs showed that on July 81, y.
F. Pearce of 10 Bancroft street, Providence,
had given up $500. Next day they got
$3.50. ostensibly from George A. Rowland
of AZ Warren avenue East Providence.
On July l5 the name of George Dyer OF
1880 Cranston street, Providence, appeared
for 500, and the same day Mary A. Gard
ner of 80 Orchard street was put down for
s225. On Aug. IL Herbert Kennedy Of
400 Cranston street went down for 500 and
next day Alvin K Jordan of Boston fell in
for s45O and Frank c. Bell of the same place
for $3.50 On Aug. 27 Sergius A Benot Of
979 Westminster street went do :, on the
stubs for 5000 and there were a score Of
others, all in the two cities.
The Newark police will hold the men as
long as possible for the New England
authoritie ...