New-York tribune., 1903-01-22
MARRIAGE SW7NDLE.
Husband to Get Dauorce and $50, 600
Broker arrested.

What the police declare clever scheme TO
fleece the public was brought to light yesterday
bv the arrest of man who the police say is
William G. Furlong, a broker. of NO. 81 TO 90
waIi-st by Central Office Detective Sergeants
McConvlle, Peabody and Clarke. furiohs
picture, they ailege, is No. 1.4l9 in the Rogues
Gallery. He was arrested as suspicious per-
son and remanded for forty-eight hours.
The police say that Furlong has been adver-
Using in local and Philadelphia newspapers 1or
a. man who would be willing TO marry woman
whom he had never met before. and from whom
he would be expected to get divorce as sooii a'
possible after the marriage. The following ao-
vertisement is said to have recently appeared IN
local papers:
Lady to settle estate legally must marry l; neloIe
JIIne Her trustees take this method OF hn0iilg
suitable husband on whom they wn sete eeebe
without restriction on the DAY OF VIE or mar
fic1IIs1g genfiemen' reSpee'a0e' ie9''9' TRUsTEEs
The detectives said that the prisoner had re-
ceived at least five thousand answers at olt-
ferent times to this advertisement. AS soon as
an answer was received he would forward, they
said typewriter page giving full information
and instructing the parties to send 81 for pict-
ure of the woman. This typewriter statement
follows:
The trustees s the aoRsFt B WsS TO d
gentleman who will be willing to marry tne laoS
IN TRat he shall a never meet the lady before
riage. That he will take up his residence den @ III and
procure from her divorce soon as possible if;s
bsnR G this hs 6e2 are VIII p to
gentleman, first the sum of $500 ON the day a oa
sum of $1,000 the day he shall place e IN tnGlr
hands a divorce decree. All expenses OF onda!n, G IN
att attorney rr1ey at law fprnished: -. .x not he
seriously depleted by this large Payment@ men @ So the
order that each applicant may know d US nSmbeT
Of photographs taken of her, and should yeu. de. de-
sire become an actual sutor t4r her % PAM one 1ne
receSed Tle from the sale of these photographs will
he used for paying the gentleman seieo'eu ''''
II you feel after considerations tn that 6r you Togd
to forward you her photograph with her aIi naIiie
ajon direct to- her S to US Awaiting your favor
T2s re are ExsTETE x9TTEIST fsl'R5F OF ROBERT SIMPSON
LIMITED.
In most cases the dollar would be sent anu d
picture Immediately forwarded. This. the de-
tectives say. would close the transaction, as 1aF
as the Robert P. Simpson estate was concerneo'
Furlong the police say. had another scheihe
to get money from the public by inserting In fhe
papers an advertisement that the NeW-forA
Financial Company required a substantal rep
resentative with clean record, ana one "hu
could furnish the highest references and a pahk
guarantee of from $500 TO Sl,oo0 salary "
81 400 was to be paid This adVert1semeht dp
and thousands of replies were received from
time to time.
Ey means of these two schemes ana ~ ~olhet
+he detectives saw Furlong had obtained money
and was in suite of rooms, finely furnlsneo dC
No 50 to IS Wal-st. Postoffice Inspector IhofP
arranged a plan t. have Furlong call Tor MS
mail and when he did so he was arrested Fur
long according to the detectives, is known alSo
under the of William D. Furnalo anu
was arrested in 1892 here FOR passing a bao
check on the Bank of Milan, Italy, for o,ooo
francs He was subsequently released, they say
because the Italian authorities TOOK no aotloI @
On JuIv % 1894 he was convicted and sen
fenced to four years in prison for acting the
part of receiver for thieves who stole dianon0s
He was released from prison on July 20, 1891
When arrested yesterday he remarked TO the
detectives:
Il will tell you one thing, and that is tnat
will furnish the woman and the money as stated
before June -
When arraigned in the Tombs police court be-
fore Magistrate Zeller he declared that his name
was ]. y S. Scudder, and that was all he wouid
say about himself.