The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-12

pay up, and that IL he didn't Topn Topics
! would print the whole thing on Thursday
this week Mr.. Post had conference with
MIR krotel, and arrangements were made
Tor the meeting Able was at the Stock Ex-
change at the close of the market and so
were Post and Detective Flood. Post had
five 500 bills which had been marked by
Flood
Post invited Able upstairs, where they
could have conversation in private Flood
wasn't in the same room, but overheard
the talk. Post took out the money.
I'm going to give you this $500, he said
ION this condition. That the article you have
spoken of Ia not printed"
You have my assurance, and that ia as
good as if you got Mr.. Wayne's assurance.
If you pay .he money you will never hear
of it again, either now or at any other
time" said Able.
Il don't know about giving 1t up said
Post, without some assurance"
why, we know more about this thing"
said Able. A woman has written to us
with additional details. and it is all in a
piceonhole in Mr., Wayne's desk. All the
| additional details will be printed IL the
money is not paid"
But l haven't got any assurance that
they won't be printed .hen,' persisted
Post.
'Why, certainly you have replied Able
'Tona Topics makes most of Its money
out of just this sort Of thing. We have
had scandals worth $4,000 each. There
is one man in this town mentioning the
mans nainc) that we had scandal on
worth $4,000, but he was let off with a
| $3.50 subscription to another book. Fads
and Fances.'
Post got from Able a receipt saying that
for $500 at Is understood that each section
/ of the above work il to be delivered to the
/ subscriber in portfolio form, as soon IA
issued" The names Of Daniels, Wayne
and Wooster were printed on the receipt
as officers Of the Society Editors Assoca-
ton.
AS soon as Post handed over the money
Flood arrested Able. He was taken at once
to Mr.. krotel's office, and the first thing
! he did was to produce the blanks that a
number Of we'll known persons had signed,
subscribing for the book, to prove that he
was legitimately employed "a a solicitor.
he had on the blanks:
i~Buldi'i piil, W. n.
Jr., j. j, Aston, H. Mex. Twombly, A. G.
Vanderbilt, A. Van Rensselaer,. Eighteenth
and Walnut streets. Philadelphia; Lloyd
Phoenix, c. A. Postey, Eugene Higgins.
Mrs. Alexander L. Van Nest. W. p. Thomp-
son. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore; Mrs.
George Westinghouse, Lenox; F. II. Cary,
and Harrison l. Drummond, st. Louis.
blank signed Linda Thomas Is marked
copy number 1919 reserved for Mrs. E. r.
| Thomas A blank signed Bertha Honore
Palmer reserves copy for Mrs. Potter
Palmer On a blank signed Josephine
Brooks the copy reserved is for Mrs. H..
Mortimer Brooks Able told Mr.. Krotel
that he had never demanded $500 for the 6ii1s
preston of scandal. He told Post tlIaQL
he subscribed Wayne might give him lite
free advertising and that Wayne was good
friend to have.
Mr.. krotel then sent for Wayne, who said
that he knew Able. but only as a solicitor.
He didn't know Post and had never told
Able to make any threats to Post. In ad-
dition he said that Topn TORIES didn't have
any such information as Able pretended
it had.
Wayne admitted, however, that he had
written the letter that Able carried to Post.
He also said that Able had showed him
the telegram and letter from Post. He
didn't pay much attention to them. but
he remembered that Able asked him to
write letter to Post saying that he would
try to get an article another paper had
suppressed. Wayne said he told Able he
wouldn't write any such letter.
Able had bank book showing that he
had $839.5s on deposit at the New Amster-
dam Bank. At one time his account was
as high IA $4,000. He was locked up in
the Elizabeth street station and will be
arraigned in the Tombs police court this
morning.