New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-03
YOUNG FORGER .BUNGLED
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scrption Of the youth who gave the order for
| the stamp. Detectives were sent to No West
| 125th-st.. a branch of the Young Mems Chris
| tian Association, but nothing was known Of
| III A Berg there
Mr. Erdman, of Halle & stieglitz. was called
in, and said he thought the writing OF H. A
Berg" resembed that of Leonard By that time
Leonard had left the office of Halle & stieglitz
| for the day, but the detectives found some of
his writing, and were pretty sure that Leonard
! was the forger, particularly the stamp
makers description tailed with the description
| given by Leonard's associates
| Leonards home is not far from the house in
| which Acting Captain McCauley lives. and Nc
| Cauley and Brinckman with several detectives,
| watched near Leonard's home until late Satur
! day night without seeing the youth Sunday
! morning early the watch was renewed and, when
! Leonard left his home and was walking toward
| a subway station he was recognized by Brlnck-
man, who was In company with Detective Ser
! geant Woodbridge.
! There's your forger now" said Brincknan.
/ dropping a handkerchief as a signal to Nc
/ CaUley and Do1gherty who at distance.
Leonard taken to the Alexander-ave. police
! station, where he was questioned for two hours,
! and confronted with Brinckman, but he refused
] then TO admit his guilt
why. the man must be crazy he said. look
| ing Brinckman squarely in the eye as Brinck-
| man insisted ne was the who made the
! false certtfcatlOn stamp for the Hanover Bank
! CULPRIT MAKES FULL CONFESSION.
1t was not until after Leonard was taken to
| Police Headquarters a prisoner that he broke
down and confessed his guilt At the same time
the police learned that Leonard har sent by mail
securities of a face value of $269000, addressed
to Dyer Pearl at No. "a West 73d-st,, Satur-
day. The bulky enveIop containing the secur-
tiles was delivered to a servant at the house
Saturday evening and remained unopened until
SUNDAY Mr. Pearl is in Europe. His son,
Dyer Pearl jr, student at Princeton. went 10
the house Sunday, saw the envelope and teIe-
I hon Sloy ri = I'M
at MOntcair, saying he suspected the envelope
contained some of the stolen securities MI.
Pearl opened the envelope at Mr.. Slaybacks
request and found his suspicion verlned- he
took the securities over to MontclaIr, Wnere
Mr. Slayback took charge OF them at ne same
time telling President StiIlman OF the NatonaI
City Bank that he had them
There remained to be accounted for $4,000
of American Tobacco IS 100000 OF WABASH de-
benture bonds, 100 shares of metropolitan
Street Railway stock and 500 shares OF United
States Steel common. 1t was not until yester-
! dav that Leonard told the police where the
missing securities could be found He declared
that il had been his intention to send them
back to the owners also, but McCauley thought
il had been the youths intention to sell them
later $3.50,
! hers of Pearl & Co. were informed late yester-
day afternoon that the police mad recovered
the rest Of the stolen securities but the securl-
ties were kept in the possession OF the ponce
Acting Captain McCauley was away from 70
lice Headquarters all the afternoon ana even
ing but he sent a statement ABOUT the recoV-
ery of the remaining securities to the detective
bureau by telephone.
T1bis vas to the effect that he had met Mr..
TAonard sr at 23d-st. and 3d-ave. by appoint
ment and that the ex-sergeant had turned over
| The Securities saying he had found them in his
sons wardrobe. the place where the prisoner
said thew would be found. McCauley said the
fa+ber 6atlv contradiCted report that the Sc
curities had been in the CUSTODY OF a girl with
whom Leonard had been keeping company TOT
a sister Of Leonard said yesterday that she
believed her brother got into trouble by giving
/ Cafb running q
Protestant girl. Mrs. Leonard said:
NV son has always been good boy. He never
drank or smoked and always had good compan-
tons The onIy friend he had. as far as know,
vas an elderly man. q teacher in a law school
Three months ago ne passed the examination Tor
/ -+re,ca 70 the Columbia Law School I be-
Tiave his Joining the Y. NJ c. A. and his asso-
eating with that girl were the cause sf his trou-
/ HE The girl not Protestant, as my
daughter has said. but understand she is q
| Tewess I was told last night that she is I'M
| nIicated in the robbery. l was told that when
| nv son got the securities he gave them to her
| She got keys Of Bronx safety deposit VauIt
| and nIaced the other bonds which he didn't send
/ hack in this vault Captain McCauley found
! them there, believe.
| A report that Leonard was engaged TO mary
/ Miss Lulu Schrader. daughter Of Park Commits
/ sioner Henry C. Schrader. was contradicted last
evening by cLr schrader who said:
Mr. Leonard was cIassmate Of my daughter
! At the 152th-st Public School He Is not now
| nor was he ever engaged TO her He was a
/ visitor at my house and welcomed there IN the
/ same way that my daughters other schooIIIlates
/ were both boys and girls We knew MIN "a a
! noIi+e and gentlemanly young man, and beyond
| his we had no knowledge Of him
with full knowledge of how it all happened.
I Wall street bankers and brokers We're thinking
| Yesterday how repetition Of Leonard's theft
~ securities by means Of forged certified check
/ r,teb+ be prevented Several OF them said that
! +bera nrobabIy would have to be change in
/ the manner Of making memorandums on the
! envelopes containing securities that are pledged
/ for loans the banks
/ II has been the custom 10 Write the amount
~ The loan the interest charge and list or the
/ securities pledged on the outside OF the enve-
! lope and send the envelope with a messenger
n the hank Another person standing near
/ the messenger at the bank could easily noto
| as Leonard did the amount check would have
TO be written for in order TO get the securities
pIedged It suggested yesterday that the
| Information could be written just as well on
slip Of paper placed in the envelope
BANKS WILL BE MORE CAREFUL
\ cashier of thirty-Ave years experience said:
! .STo nv mind the best way to prevent such
thefts Of securities would be TO have every clerk
who is sent 20 a bank to take up loan present
q ful list Of the securities pledged and have the
( bank officer go ever the securities and check
I them off on the list before returning them.
That would take only three or four minutes
! As a matter OF safety in business ii should be
done every time -,
be caught that way again. said Frank A van
derlip one OF the vice-presidents Of the institu-
ton but I do not care TO mention the means
Of prevention we have adopted 1t might De
! that some other ingenious scamp might ma d
wav to get over the new difficulty -,
! The arrest and imprisonment OF the youth
who worked the game so successfully az the
National City Bank will deter oLher scaInps
from attempting the same game Ior d llile'