The evening world., 1903-07-17
His Arrangement Quickly FOL-
lows the Suicide of G. B. 0s-
borne, Manager of the Claims
Department of Two Concerns
at Portsmouth, N. H.
DETECTIVES SEARCHING
FOR A THIRD SUSPECT.
He Is a Builder, Who Is Alleged
to Have Been Implicated in
the SWindIe, and Insurance
Officials Declare He Will Soon
Be in Custody.

Alfred r. Tong, a decorator. who lives
at No. i06 Monroe street, Brooklyn. said
TO be implicated In the robbing OF the
Commercial Union Assurance and the
Palatine Insurance companies with @.
b. Osborne. manager OF the claims de-
Dartment, was arrested to-day and
X before Magistrate Breen In the
centre Street Court on a charge of
grand larceny. Tong was released in
$i.bO ball fo- trial mex Tuesday.
Ihe suicide OF Osborne by blowing out
his brains in the Buckingham House
at Portsmouth, N. H.. yesterday dis
concerted the plans made by Col. A. w.
Wray. manager of the insurance COM
panies which have offices at No. 5S WILL
IAN street. to arrest the three men
whom he believes to have robbed the
companies of thousands of dollars.
The publication of Osborne's method o.
escaping arrest in The Evening World
was the first intimation the insurance
people had that the former head of their
claims department was aware tina no
had been indicted by the Grand Jury OH
wednesday. Warrants for the arrest of
Osborne, Tong and the third man. said
- be . builder. were Issued by the Dis
tr.ct-Attorney's Office two hours before
Osborne took his own life.
The third mar said to he implicated
IN the swindllng of the insurance com
panies evidently has fed. Detectives
have been searching for him for the
past twenty-four hours, but cannot find
any trace of him since early yesterday
morning.
c. ]. Holman. assistant manager of
the insurance companies, talked freely
Of Osborne's method of robbing the COM
panies.
osborne was very bold before we dis
covered that everything was wrong. His
position Us head of the claims depart
ment made 1t Easy to steal what he
wanted. All that was necessary was
20 I'LL out Gains for fake losses, GER
tify them n bring them with a draft
for the amount for Col Wray or myself
to sign.
No Check on Robbery.
''This act of his has shown every dis
honest manager OF a lain department
how easy 1t is to rob an insurance com
Upon the man in that position, neither
Is 1t possible to place one there. / am
positive that every office on the street
Is shaking over the discovery Of os-
borne's ~wrongdoing. There will be A lot
Of books gone over on this account and
many an honest man will be placed in
an embarrassing position for a short
time.
THE last draft Osborne put through
was for something over 81, 500. We have
gone over his books for the past four
years and find our losses to be about
5000 for this length of time.
"As Osborne was in our employ in
the claims department. as Its head for
nine years. we are going over three
sets of books for thai length OF time,
! suppose that Osborne found that his
salary OF $500 a year was too little
TO support himself. wife and Young
daugtter. who Is a beautiful girl, so
he evolved the scheme of stealing from
1--WE are informed that one OF the
men implicated with Osborne is a dea-
con in the same church which he at
tended"
w. G.. GarSee His Bondsman.
When Tong was arraigned before Mag
,strate Breen he was represented e.,
Robert Goeller; lsadore Wells apnsoyry
ing for the insurance company. Ran
was furnished by William G.. Cargo
1ainter and decorator. at No. 23g seve,a
feehth street, Brooklyn.
"A friend who knew Osborne In Enc
land, left for Portsmouth. ". Fl. ab5d
will see that his remains are ouIetiv
buried there.