The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-07
OUTDIDS SYNDICATE MILLER.
PROMISED 1910 PER CENT. IN
HIS POOL-LOCKED UP.
Lived on the Bowery and Ran Three Traps
for "Investors"-Polic Say He Fooled
Hundreds in the West-But He's Sure
He Saw No Harm In sucker.C atching.

for "Investors"-Poiice Say He Fooled
Hundreds in the west-But Hes Sure
He Saw No Harm In sucker-C atching.
The promoter Of get-rich-quick concern
which leaves 52o-per-oent. Miller far be-
hind, 70 far as promised returns 60, was
locked up at Police Headquarters last
night.
He says he is Thomas Byrne and he adj
mits having run at least two concerns OF
the Miller stamp as Clifford Danesbury'
and Charles Hamilton and as the MAN
haitian Banking. Brokerage and Loan
Company. Charles Hamilton, general man
ager' The police say he has flooded the
West with his circulars and has roped In
patrons by the hundreds.
Byrne, IL that is his name, advertised
that he had one Office at Stuyvesant street
and another at 1Ih Sixth avenue. He
has been living at 2es Bowery. The police
went to the Bowery address last night and
seized lot Of his circulars and books.
Byrne advertised he would pay 81 week
indefinitely on every IS sent to him, $50
Oh every 500 and $40 on every 500. You
can withdraw your money at any time
his advertisement said. His circular for
the Manhattan Banking Brokerage and
Loan Company said:
We operate successfully in the fnan cial
markets of the world, Poor people have
Every IS pays you q week from the day
we receive II. Use your money and become
independent.
He described himself as a speculation
scientist He was arrested last night
near the house at Stuyvesant street.
At Police Headquarters he admitted that
he had been running the concerns and
said he didn't see any harm In IL.
My scheme is all right. he said. !
thought it out some time ago. IT was 2
you know. I'm only ~ years old and up
to a few months ago was only an elevator
boy In a hotel here. but j had the thing
down all right. just the same. The only
trouble was that l haven't got enough
'af How ~ much money did YOU put up at
the tracks?' a SUN reporter asked him.
well" said byrne, after some hesitation,
u put up SIS the other day at New Orleans
He declined TO say whether or not any
body else had helped him. The police are
| inclined to believe that he was only figure
head In the concerns.
The arrest was made on the strength Of
a letter sent to Police Commissioner Greene
by a man who said he was Victor Bush
mann Of II9 Main street, La Crosse, Wis.
MI. busnuhnn asked Tue pohcc W P'ooSe
tell him IL -Danesbury' was the fnsncier
that his advertisements asserted he was.
In Byrne's room at the Bowery address
the detectives found a lot OF papers pur-
porting to be receipts. on one OF them
Williamsburg, Pa acknowledge getting
$50 for - which he had invested with elf,
ford Da1esbury.' There were several
similar papers bearing the names and adj
western cities. One .ldck- was discov..
cred IN q letter from Mr.. Belle Reed Of
oos Burr street. st. Paul, who said she
hadn't got anything for her s.
avenue, the address of one Of Byrne's
soffices'' Kleiman told Sun reporter last
night that he knew nothing about Charles
Hamilton, except that such man had been
a customer there for some time and had
recently been receiving mail there. Ham
ilton' received quite lot OF mail. Kleiman
said.