The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-09
WHERE STOLEN BOND CACHE?
SECRET SERVICE MEN WOULD
LIKE TO SEE JIMMY HOPE.
Don't suspect That He Ia Samuel War.
rem Miller" but Are Curious-Dr. VII.
coXon. Who sought to Negotiate a
stolen Bond, sim Unable to Get Bail

! Don't suspect That He Ia Samuel War
rem Miller" but Are Curious-Dr VII
coxon. Who Sought to Negotiate q
stolen Bond, sim Unable to Get Bail
Dr. Lewis o. Wicoxon. the promoter
who WAS arrested on Tuesday on a charge
of having conspired to dispose OF slo,OOC
United States bond. which was among the
! securities stolen from tho Manhattan Saw
ings Institution twenty-six years ago. did
not get out of the Tombs yesterday. being
unable to raise $4,000 bail. Wilooxon'e
story ls that he was the dupe Of an ac-
quaintance named Samuel Warren Miller
whose name as payee is forged ON the
bond and who signed the assignment on
the back Of the bond in the presence of
President Meyer of the National Shoe and
Leather Bank. Wilooxon introduced mil
Ter to Mr. Meyer who had never seen
Miller before and who describes him as
a man about 6S years old, about feet 8
inches tall, rather thin, with an iron gray
mustache.
By what the Secret Service men say Ia
only coincidence Jimmy Hope. father Of
Johnny Hope. who did time for the bank
burglary and who common report has
ties, is just about the age of the man de-
scribed az Miller and fits the description
except as to height Hope is not over
5 feet 8. He Is es years old and had beard
when he was last seen. The Secret Service
men are known to be looking up Hope,
but they say that they do not suspect him
OF being Miller.
According to Secret Service Agent Flynn
this is the first of the stolen United States
bonds that has turned up. The bond that
Jack Cannon. one of the burglars, tried to
negotiate in Philadelphia fifteen years ago.
was a Yonkers city bond What Agent
Flynn and his men would like to get is the
history of the wanderings of the bond
just recovered.
Agent Flynn and a lot of his sleuths were
around the Waldorf Astoria on Tuesday
night armed with IA description OF Miller
He didn't show up. George =. sheldon,
who IL a business acquaintance of the doc
tor called and was very much SURPRISED
when he learned where the docto was.
Sheldon was assistant to Ferdinand Peck,
who was Commissioner-Genera to the
Paris Exposition. Sheldon was In charge
of the Offices of the commission here. He
says that Wilco1Cn also is friend Of Peck,
having met him in Chicago ten years ago.
Sheldon said Yesterday that he had met
the doctor thirty days ago, when he called
to gee him in connection with a deal in which
Mr. Peck is said to be interested. This deal
had to do with a railroad 300 miles long
on Vancouver Island and about 900, 900
acres of timber lands. in which he says
Wilooxon owns controlling in terest. Re-
Gently, Sheldon says, Wilcoxon had been
working on plan 10 finance this and had
got n bank here to back him.
THE deal was just on the point OF consum-
nation eaid Sheldon, when the doctor
was arrested. DR. Wicoxon's property
is worth at least 81 ,0OO. 600 and when this
thing goes through it will be worth several
things seriously and l hope that he will
get out in order that the deal may go
through. Mr.. Peck knows DR.. Wilcoxon
very well and has had business relations
with him for years. What little l have seen
of him has convinced me that he is per-
fectly square man. and l do not believe
for a minute that he has done anything
wrong"
Mr. Sheldon said that he had inquired at
the Waldorf and learned from a detective
there that man who said he was Miller
had been around the hotel last week looking
for Wilcoxon. The house detective when
asked about this said he had never seen
Miller.
Wilcoxon has told Agent Flynn that he
met his friend Miller on the Dawson trail
III AldShd III lbbl anu lflefl tDNlll bt-e MN
again until last Friday. when he got his card
at the Waldorf. Miller came every day
to SEQ him after that until Monday, but
the doctor didn't learn where he lived.
DR.. WilcoXon said with tears In his eyes
yesterday that he was innocent of any
wrongdoing and that IL was all a trick of
MilleT's.
If had any intimation that the bond
was stolen do you think that / would have
gone to President Meyer of the bank with
it2' he asked
Information was given to THE Sun two
or three years ago to the effect that several
hundred thousand dollars Of the securities
stolen from the Manhattan Savings lnstitu-
ton were then in the possession Of man
who twenty-five years ago was regarded
by the chiefs OF detectives all over the
world as the most daring bank burglar OF
his time This burglar grown elderly and
enfeebled by disease. was supposed to be
In the lsst stages OF consumption.
THE Suns informant was soldier Of
fortune Of international reputation, and,
after telling Of what was supposed to be the
last Illness Of the old craftsman, he said
that II the possession Of the long cancelled
securities was Of any importance TO the
Manhattan Savings Institution he would
see that they were returned, and would
also see thar whatever the bank saw fit to
give for their recovery, whether 1t was
81 or s. COO was given TO the family OF the
burglar for use, as was then supposed,
to help defray the funeral expenses.
But the burglar DIDN'T die. Tho LESSONS
in his lungs healed. and almost any fair
day now he may be seen walking rather
feebly along upper Broadway or sitting
in retired corner in one Of two or three
hotels along he Ratio. SO far as ID known,
the securities which were stolen from the
Manhattan Savings Institution, and which
were then in his possession, he still has.
The officials of the bank, when they heard
OF the proposition to return them, declined
il, saving that the cancelled bonds we're
absolutely OF no value TO them, and they
declined to enter into any sort of dicker
with anybody who admitted that he had
participated in the robbery.