New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-17
SAY BOY STOLE $4,000.
THEN BECAME "BOOKIE." !"
44Tested at Bnghton-Has Made
81, 200 an -Four Days, He Says.

On complaint of his employer. Edward H.
Floyd-Jones. lawyer at No ) WaIl-st aIleg-
ing forgerT and embezzlemeut. amounting to
S2ooO0 Frank ODonnen eighteen years old.
or No. I66 ClermOnt-ave., Brooklyn who until
ten days ago was bookxeeper in Mr.. Floyd
Jones's Office. arrested yesterday at the
Brighton Beach racetrack by Detective Ser
seant FlannelIy and locked UP in Police Head
quarters Manhattan. He was making a book
there. employing seven sheet writers and run
ners, ard said he had been doing well at it
since he disappeared from the law Office
ODonnell failed TO appear for work in the
office on the Tuesday after Labor Day, and
has not been seen by any Of his former business
associates since then Mr.. FIoyd-JOnes who
had been in Europe and at the ST. Louis fair all
summer. returned TO his Office four days later,
and then, according to the complaint, he dis
covered the alleged defaIcatiOns He told the
police, and yesterday detectives found the boy
at work as a bookmaker at Brighton Beach. and
arrested him. just after the third was fin
ished.
The young "bookie' was in his stand in the
betting ring, with seven sheet writer's and run
working at top speed. and evidently doing
a prosperous business. When the detective told
ODonnell his errand. the latter did not seem
disconnected. He merely asked permission to
remain until he could settle for his bets on the
fourth race. which was then about TO be
FlanneIly consented. and O'Donneu returned TO
his business calmly II nothing unusual
had happened When the race was over and
ODonnel had paid the bets against him, he
told FlanneIly that he was ready to go. After
making arrangements TO close his stand for the
afternoon and taking leave Of his subOrdinates
and his fellow bookmakers. he accompanied
Flannelly the train and was brought TO
Manhattan.
O'Donneu told F4annely that he had been
making a success at bookmaking- Since Tues
day. when he established himself at the Brighton
Beach track he said that he cleared 5000. $IOO
of which he made on the first four races yes
terday. Fannelly says that the roll OF bills
O'DonneIl carried led him TO think the story was
true Up 70 late last evening one had ap-
peared to bail O'DonneH
According TO hts employer. O'Donnells defaI-
cations were made by raising the figures OF his
salary checks and "doctoring'' the figures in the
books OF the Robert b F1Oyd-JOnes estate at
Aass4pequa, Long Island, with which he had 20
do. Il is alleged that he was able 20 do this
without detection. owing 10 Edward H Floyd
Jones's abserCe from the Office for so long
tIll-- Ine young man. X Is said, mas been en-
ployed by the lawyer for several years, and has
heretofore been trusted thoroughly.
The prisoner lived with his widowed mother
and sister IN part OF a small frame house at
No 1856 Clermont-ave.. Brooklyn. The mother
and sister We're IN Manhattan when a Tribune
reporter called last night az the house. Friends
ot the family who were seen said that the boy
and his sister, who IS a dressrnaker. furnish the
suis support for Mrs. O'DonnelL The boy. thew
asserted. has always had n good reputation IN
the nelghborhood and WAS not known 10 have
any expensive habits or tastes Consequently
they were loath TO believe the serious charges
against him. They also asserted that the lad
is not more than seventeen years old