The sun., 1906-01-13
TRACING BOGUS STOCK BOOKS
rORGED n. q ". CERTIFICATES
NAY be IN SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT.
Humphreys, setOn's Helper, Makes . Par
tiaI Confession and Promises to Tell
More-SetOn Arraigned and Recorder
Asked to Make His bail S2S 900.

MOTe-StlOu III" A.sNo'No'
Asked to Make His bail S2S 900.
Samuel Humphreys. the Brooklyn man
rho has been an associate Of Charles Angus
mo Seton and posed as his client In loan
rbicb Seton tried to make on the forged
Norfolk and Western securities, has In
forned Assistant District Attorney Garvan
,bst he is ready to make a complete state
uent covering his relations with Seton.
uumphreys had talk lasting more than
,wo hours Yesterday afternoon in which
Ia gave Mr. Garvan and the Pinkertons
who pumped him, some of his story. He Is
N make a more detailed statement to day.
Humphreys apparently does not know
what Seton did with the certificates that the
Hamilton Bank Note Company made for
him, only one Of which has turned up in
circulation so far. Until these certificates
have been found Wall Street will feel a
bit shaky.
Late yesterday afternoon the Pinkertons
cot on a trail which may lead to the dis
eoyery of the rest of the certificates. They
learned on Thursday that last September,
vhen Seton was doing business as q banker
With elaborate offices at 49 Exchange Place,
hs had safe deposit box in the Standard
Safe Deposit Vaults in the Broad Exchange
Building They found out, also, that right
Alter his arrest he had this box transferred
10 man described as broker with Offices
aid TO he on Pearl street The detectives
landed this man yesterday afternoon and
he went with them to the safe deposit COM
pany, but there hitch occurred.
The safe deposit company did not want
the box opened without a court order,
fearing that they might be held liable.
The box was not opened. but the police and
the Pinkertons, together with the District
Attorney expect to make some arrange
ment to-day whereby they can get look
In the box. They are not at all sure that
they will find the two books of certificates
in the box, but they think that Seton would
be more likely to have put them there than
anywhere else.
From the little that leaked out concern
ing Humphreys statement 1t would appear
that he is trying to pose as an innocent
dupe Of Seton. He says that he is con-
Sinced that Seton was the head OF the plot
but that there were others in it. The man
whose identity is still an absolute mystery
ISL. l.. Green of Pitt sburg, who sold through
Duke Co. of Cleveland the only one
Of the bogus certificates so far found Ill
circulation.
Green was not either Humphreys or
Seton. That has been settled. Humphreys
Goes not know who he was 4 host of
rnkerton men are trying to find him, for
1t j. not known just how many OF the bogus
certificates the mysterious Mr. Green mad
or still has. That is something the bank
ing community would like to KNOW just as
soon a. possible. Although the Plnkertons
have been after this man in Cleveland
and in Pittsburg the statement was made
yesterday that no trace of him had beeli
discovered. He did business from Pitts
burg with Duke Co., and that Is ali they
know about him."
Humphreys is a big. fat, blond haired
young man. He insists that he is honest,
tut admits that he assumed the name OF
Collins for Seton, adding that he didn't
know that the deal wa Crooked one
He says that he had known Seton for SIX
months and that he never suspected any
thing was wrong when seton asked nm
to assume sucn a liaiLe ana pose as tle
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