The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

lives with Him when He went Back
IN net wI. ID On John ". Gates Class.
A patrol wagon arrived at S13 West Fifty
fifth street yesterday afternoon and twelve
men from the parlor floor were assisted
into il along with the equipment OF an
Nh tn date wireless overlapping plant
The twelve men were taken downt TO Head
quarters and locked up. charged with
acting in concert in an effort to swindle
Martin Winter Of 50 North William street
and Il2 West Eighty-ffth street out OF
$1,000. Five Of the men have their photo
graphs in the gallery, and are said to be
pupils OF Prof. Larry Summerield.
The prisoners were recorded as Horace
Nelson James W. Harvey, Henry j. Rob
bins, George Wilson, James Bailey, James
HAYES, Frank Rivers, George Friedman.
John Eckerson, Frank Parker, Thomas
OCounor and Frank Stanton.
Inspector Mclaughlin first heard OF the
Fifty-ffth street room yesterday morning
when Mr.. Winter. looking like a prosperous
German business man, came 70 Police Head
quarters and said thar an attempt was to
be made in the afternoon TO swindle him
and that he'd like to ave the police there.
Winter said that he read an advertisement
IN a New York German newspaper last
week asking for a reply from some one
who had about SIS 900 with which he would
like 10 clean I'D a small fortune. winter
replied. asking for information, and on
Wednesday night a man, said TO have been
the prisoner Friedman, called at winters
home and said he would introduce Winter
to the advertiser the next day, making an
appointment to meet him in the General
Post Otsce. Winter says that he met
Friedman on Thursday afternoon and went
with him 10 a building near the Western
Union Building. where they took an ele-
vator TO the sixth floor.
They had just stepped out OF the car
when a man walked up briskly and was
introduced TO Winter as the advertiser.
The three vent to a restaurant in Cort-
landt street. where the third man told the
old story Of being the superintendent Of
the Western Unions racing news bureau.
He explained how easy il was for him 70
slip Winter the news Of a race a few
minutes ahead Of anybody else, and he
PROPOSED trying the scheme thas very
afternoon.
Winter agreed. and the tip given him
was on a horse race in New Orleans. Winter
went along with Friedman, he said,
was taken 10 a place in West Fifty-second
street which was rugged up "a a poolroom-
He was advised Ia make a SO bet first.
Winter says he put dow SO and quickly
won SIS. His guide then advised him TO
pass a little money around the room TO
show the boys that he was a sport. Winter
passed around $50.
At this point another man. who seemed
TO be running the place, appeared TO grow
angry and remarked TO tho guide:
Say, Friedman, l don't mind it this
time. but we can't stand a piker bet OF SO.
II you can get any good sports with money
bring them around. As long as John W.
Gates and his friends are putting down
their money with us we'll have 10 cut out
the small bettors.
Winter a v that he and Friedman left
then. and that he himself began TO have
suspicions, because he knew John W. Gates
and didn't believe MIR. Gates patronized
the place. He promised Friedman, how
ever. that he would go back the next day
with $1,000 and show them that he wasn't
a piker. He didn't meet Friedman Friday
afternoon as he had promised, and Fried
man called on him that night to tell of the
good things that went over that he might
lave scooped up a wad Of money on. Win
ter promised that he would meet Friedman
Yesterday afternoon and go TO the pool
room. He told Inspector Mclaughlin about
his appointment yesterday morning.
When Winter met Friedman at the Corr-
landt street restaurant yesterday afternoon
four detectives from Headquarters were
trailing along. just a. Winter and Fried
man left the Fiftieth street subway station
aman met Friedman and handed him = note.
The detectives ran up and arrested Fried
man and the other man. said TO have been
Parker. The note said 20. X. 81 West
IS. Dick The detectives went on To
that number and broke trough the front
and rear simultaneously. They said that
the prisoner Rivers seemed to be in charge
OF the place. Winters also declared that
Rivers was the man who took his So bet.
Winter ciphered out that be had lost only
So and received the congratulations Of the
police. They ooh away a telephone with
no connection. a lot OF slips of paper OF
green goods size and a few memoranda OF
bogus bets such as -Creei. 500 90 % siOO.-
COO: -Bazel. 5000 20 S2.OCO'; Select, $50
10 81, 900 The police say that these slips
: we're used to give visitors an idea of the
volume Of business the place was handling.
Winter said last night in hts boarding
house at liz West Eighty-hfth street that
he carae here from Germany eight months
aro with $50 900 which he had made in
Z mercantile business there. He said ne has
since been looking for a chance to inyest
the money.
BLACK HAND EXTORTION.