The San Francisco call., 1905-03-23

WINCH ellt1eE- 10 use the mails, the
scheme was at once adopted and
launched by this gang under the name
Of The. Storey Cotton Company.
HIS LATER DEVICES.
This concern was chartered under the
laws IF New Jersey on December Z,
1900. +. Ewart Storey. the blind Marin
had put forward and who was known
q S Franklin +. Storey in the operations
Of storey & Co. being the president
One Of the incOrporauors was Patrick
]. hearns. who resides in West second
street. near Neptune avenue, Coney
Island. New York Kearns is a brother
Of Marrin's brother-in-law and at the
time of the incorponat ton of the Storey
swindle he was given the name and
title Of Thomas Harper, - E, and put
into The organization as the first treas
urer Another man was an individual
who passed under the names of Walter
r. Riggs, w b. Raymond and w
Beach Richmond. 1t was under the
latter name that he was known in the
Storey Incorporation. This man has,
with Judge Franklin Stone, Marin s
last alias, maintained offices at 1o2
West Forfy-second street, New York
where they have passed as financial
agents.
In the last three wears Marin has
appeared as the originator and man
ager of the Kentucky Mutual Sweep
stakes Association, all of the litera-
ture for which was prepared and the
copy furnished TO the printer. by the
man Arthur S. Foster Francis, now
carrying the name Stanley Francis and
doing business here under the title of
Francis Brothers. publishers of num-
Der Of manufacturers and importers
gazetteers Of the world, all of which
are cheap reprints of unrevised editions
of similar English works.
GOES IN FOR POLITICS.
Marin went in for politics in West
Philadelphia, and in the rooms of the
West Philadelphia Republican Club
met in 1902. William Henry Latimer
known to gamblers as Handsome
Harry" Z professional who was run
out Of Wilkesbarre and Scranton about
fifteen years ago. Latimer then went
10 Danville, Pa, eloped with the
daughter of a prominent citizen of that
place and after the return from the
honeymoon was arrested and tried for
bigamy on charge preferred by 4
WilkesbaTre woman. He escaped con-
viction.
Latimer came. to Philadelphia a lit
tie more than three years ago, and
after their meeting Marin put him up
in business as manager of the Provi-
dent Investment Bureau, the latest of
this nest Of swipdles to go to the wall.
Marin, or Judge" Franklin Stone,
has pretended TO be president of the
Lucas Light Company, an English cor
pOratiOn. which is represented in this
country by Moffatt, Limited, a New
Jersey corporation chartered last year,
of which Stanley Francis, the Arthur
5. Foster-Francis OF the Foster fraud,
is the president.
RUNS INTO MILLIONS.
There. are other ramihcations of this
gang Of sWindlers, involving banks
trust companies and mary other con-
Germs and carrying operations that
mount into the miIlions.
The Philadelphia North American
cOrnered Frank c. Marin in its Office
one week ago and confronted him with
his record. He admitted the accuracy
of its discoveries and said he was
game enough TO take his medicine The
next day, however, he fed from Phila-
delphia with his family and all his
household effects. His last act here
was TO throw a list Of his real estate
at an agent and tell him to. sellsit for
what il would bring and hold the
money subject TO his order. Marin
and his family are believed to have
sailed for Europe last Saturday
The man W. r. Bennett. of the Chi
cago swindle, terned up here as o =.
Howard, general manager of the Storey
Cotton Company, and has been missing
ever since the North Americal nailed
its record against Marin. He was re-
ported to have skipped with large
amount Of the Storey fraud cash The
woman. Sophia Beck. who fed from
Chicago with Marin and was arrested
with him. has been his representa- tive
IN the Storey cotton offices. This
woman. who is a hard drinker and
highf1yer, married a respectable young
man here some months ago. and both
she and her husband are now missing.
Stanley Francis is the only man asso-
ciated with this outfit who remains in
Philadelphia.