The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-22
OFFICE BOY.BOOKIE HELD.
FLOYD-JONES TELLS OF HIS
CHECK RAISING GAME.
Employer OF the Ss.a-Week Youth Says
That He Left Him Thirteen 81 Checks,
which Melted o., OOO-siiss Josephine
Jones Heaviest Loser-Bail Raised.

Employer OF the 85.a-Week Youth Says
That He Left Him Thirteen 81 Checks,
which Melted SB, OOO-Mifs Josephine
Jones Heaviest Loser-Bail Raised
Frank s.. O'Donnell, the seven-dollar- IA
week Office boy who was arrested last
Friday at the Brighton Beach racetraok'
where he was making book on capital ac-
CURED without the usual formalitiee, was
held by Magistrate Mayo In the Tombs
Court yesterday in 1880 bail for trial on
the specific charge of stealing Ss7S by means
Of worthless check drawn on the Phoenix
National Bank.
Assistant District Attorney Krotel said
that the total amount stolen by the boy
was about $4,000. OF this sum, Mrs
Josephine X. Jones Of Massapequa, L. l.,
an aunt Of Edward H. Floyd-Jones, in whose
law office at Al Wall street O'Donnell was
employed, is supposed to have lost a3s ,Ooo'
The rest Of the money was taken from
the boys employer and Mrs. A. Daven-
port, Mrs. Jones's companion.
Mr. Floyd. Jones testified that his time was
occupied largely in managing the estate OF
his aunt. O'Donnell was employed as an
the Office whenever Mr., Floyd-Jones, was
out of town. He had no authority, how
ever. to sign checks.
Last spring Mr.. Floyd-Jon had occasion
to go to Europe. Before sailing he gave
O'Donnell thirteen checks for " eaon
away. O'Donnell the witness said, altered
these checks and drew out about 5000
Asked If the boy had an income other tnan
his salary Mr. Floyd-Jo nes said that about
year ago 0'Donnell told him he had IN;
herited 81 900 from an uncle and wanted
Ia
seemed safest and got q card to broker
Whether he followed this advice Mr. Floyd
Jones didn't know.
In answer to another question the witness
said that he had no idea that O'Donnell
played the n5 races until atter the series Oh
Mrs. Jones testified that while her nephe W
was in st. Louis O'Donnell came to her
and asked for her bank book. She has
since discovered that all but about $50 OF
her deposits in the Phenix National Bank
had been drawn in checks made out TO the
order of Frank S. O'Donnell. Mrs. Jones
denied having signed any such checks,
Mr. Krotel offered in evidence three bank
books showing that O'Donnell had ac--
counts In the Title Guarantee and Trust
Company, the Nassau Trust Company and
the Mechanics National Bank, Brooklyn;
The account in the Nassau Trust showed
these deposits: Aug. . $40; Aug. 8. $3.50 :12;
Aug. 8, $685. Aug. l2 SIPS; Aug. IA, 3175;
Aug. 20, S1,175: Aug. %, $50; Aug Is. 1885;
Sept. !, $40. George r. Hagen, receiving
teller for the trust company, testified that
all OF these deposits were made in checks
drawn on the Phoenix National Bank to the
Older Of Frank s. ODonnell and signed
j. Il. Jones. None Of the checks was pro-
duced In court. O'Donnell is supposed to
have destroyed them. together with the
stubs, before he became bookmaker.
Detective Sergeant Flannery, who made
the arrest, was the last witness. He said
that O'Donnel, on the way to Headquarters,
asked what sentence he would get u con
victed When told that II sent to Elmira
Reformatory he might secure his release
after serving thirteen months, ODonnell:
the detective said, exclaimed: 1Geel il
l was sure they'd send me up there think
I'd plead guilty"
O'Donnen was not put on the stand and
no defence was offered. The bail was then
increased from IS coo to 81, 500, and ODon-
nell was taken back to the Tombe.