Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-20
The GREAT A, & ?. TEA CO.,,
 % EAST MAIN STREET. Phone 177-5.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Harry Silberberg, an Interna- tional Crook, Captured.
POSED AS J. COLEMAN DRAYTON.
3Iayed Confidence Game In Pennsyl- vnnia. Mexico, Germany. Russia, China and kOrea-Married
 Under False Name.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2O.-Harry Silber- berg, who has score of aliases, a swlndler who has found his prey in three continents and whose greatest exploit was his impersonation at diff ferent times of ]. Coleman DraytOn. a lawyer of this city and son-in-law of Mrs. William Astor, is held here on the orders of Acting Inspector O'Brien of the detective bureau. The arrest has some connection with swindling game of large proportions even for Silver berg and that was to reach its climax today, when the prisoner was to re- ceive $500O0 from one of his latest dupes.
 Siberberg at one time hired pri- vate car and, with several accomplices. went to Lancaster. Pa. and other Penn- sylvania towns ostensibly as pro- moter for the Arizona Consolidated Mining company" which was later found to have existed only in the lit erature which the supposed q. Cole man Drayton" issued about it. He gained the confidence of many wealthy Pennsylvanians. including J. F. Pardee and H. C. Prick. He addressed the prospective investors in Arizona Con- solidated' at meeting in Lancaster. at which great enthusiasm was raised for awhile in the supposed mine. Un- fortunately for the expected coup knowledge of the airy character of the property began to leak out. and Silver berg disappeared.
 He was heard of next in Germany. where he became acquainted with members of the nobility. and when they feted him handsomely he returned their hospitality by swindling them right and left. He was in Jail in Munich for awhile. but through some influence he was pardoned.
 He appeared next in Mexico, and aft CT relocating his tactics of getting ac- quainted with well to do people and then swindling them he was put in jail there too.
 He then went to St. Petersburg, where he married a Russian countess. and, according to his confession. he stole her money and jewels and de serted her
 China was his next hunting ground, and. after finding good pickings there. he moved on to Korea. where he was received wi;h open arms by the em- per0r For awhile he talked of estab- fishing a railroad company in Korea. and he represented himself there as a nephew of !. Coleman Drayton. His wonderful projects for the extension and improvement of the possessions of his friend the emperor fell flat. how ever. when he decamped with as much of the emperor's funds as he had been able to get
 Silberberg. under the alias of J. J. Carlisle. last year at Minneapolis. Minn-. married Miss Bonnie HinkIe. step daughter of a millionaire lumberman cf Minneapolis. and was arrested in Washington while on his wedding tour charged with swindling a Minneapolis stenographer out of several hundred dollars. He was iu jail there for sev- eral months. and then. on the plea that he was dying of consumption. secured his release on Sl.ooo bail. which he for feitei. The case against him there is said to have been compromised
 Miss Hinkle secured a divorce and restoration of her maiden name. Sill berberg's mother is said to he wealthy.