The evening world., 1904-03-07
George n. Secor, of the Della
ware, tackawapna & West
ern, Is Said to BE Short Over
$4,000 In His Accounts.
He FLED TO MEXICO
AND THEN RETURNED.
Admits Taking Money, but Says
All of It Went to His Fellow
Clerks, Who SpecuIated in
Wall Street.

George II. Secor. formerly cashier of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railway Company. with Offices at
No. 215 Produce Exchange. was arrested
at his home. No. 2i3 West Ninety-eighth
street. to-day, charged specifically with
the stealing Of SIe from the company.
In the complaint made to the Grand
Jury when Secor was indicted last
month II was charged that the sum OF
no166 was missing.
Secor was an employee for the COM
pany for the past twenty years. work.
ing his way UP from a minor position
to the one OF great trust he held when
he fed to escape the consequences Of
what he had done. He Is now fifty
one years old and gray haired.
When the annual examination OF the
railroad company's books was ordered
last January Secor was in the office.
Supt. C. S. Jewett, OF the company,
testified before the Grand Jury that
when the accountants appeared Secor
put on his hat and coat and said that
he was going to lunch. He went out.
but failed TO 20 back. Instead he took
the first train for the West and got
time. Mr. Jewett said that Secor had
charge of all the incoming and outgo-
ing moneys, which he was supposed to
bank with the National City Bank.
The auditors, declare that they found
total deficit of sl0.166 and that the
books, which Secor controlled abso-
lutely, had been falsified for the past
two years TO cover up the discrepancies.
lob
was arrested was made by clerk in
the office. Charles r. Phyfe. He said
that on the night of Jan. I lie pun
1898 In cash aud a lot of checks in the
safe. The next morning. he said, Secor
gave him the checks to put In the
bank. but that the $40 was missing.
The 80 cents remained in the petty cash
box. he said.
fhe arrest was made through ar
rangement with Secors ATTORNEYS.
detectives McNauEht and O'Connell
went to his home, fine house near
Riverside Drive, where Secor lives with
his wife and grown daughter and son,
and formally placed the man In custody.
He was badly worked up and appeared
20 feel keenly his arrest. He was ap-
parently frank In talking of the matter
and said 1t would all be cleared up sat
isfactorily in a little time. He was
taken before Judge Foster in General
Sessions and pleaded not guilty through
his counsel, Fred House. He was re-
manded to the Tombs in $1,000 bail.
II came back of my own volition,"
said Secor to reporters in court, ''and
I'm ready now to face the music. II
hadn't been nearly crazy at the time l
never would have run away.
After I'd been down in Mexico for a
week or so. pulled myself together
and made up my mind to come back and
see 1t out. 1 arrived here on Saturday,
communicated with my attorneys. who
liked 1t with the police and here j am.
II want to deny positively" continued
secor. that / or my family protted in
any way by this money they say Is
missing. We never realized ON a cent
of 1t. Some of the money was loaned
out to the clerks In the office who were
Epeculating in Wall street.
when called on them to make good
before the examination OF the books
they said II was impossible. That left
me in bad way through my accom-
modating friendship"