The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24
DID GOSLN TALK OR TRADE2
LAWYER SAYS HE WAS MUTUAL
FRIEND IN STOCK DEAL.

President Fabian OF Western Gold Mining
Co. Says He Dealt With tho slippery
Ftnancier Direet-Goslin and Dunn
Rearrested on Conspiracy Charge.
Magistrate wahle sat until nearly 7:so
O'Clock last night In the Tombs police
court attending to various phases Of the
activities OF Alfred r. Goslin, who wa
arrested on Wednesday for an attempt
to tie up some II 900 shares OF the Western
Gold Mining Company, which are In the
possession OF the Wells Fargo bank here
pending the settlement Of one OF Goslln's
peculiar financial transactions.
A hearing was held on the charge that
Goslin had violated the Penal Code In
doing business under the name OF A.. Griffen.
There was another hearing on the charge
that Charles M. Dunn, whom Justice Green
baum described on Tuesday last as a tool
Of Goslin, had committed perjury in get
ting out an attachment through one Charles
Turner to tie up the stock In question.
A third case grew out Of the arrest OF Goslin
and Dunn In the court room, just before
the afternoons proceedings began, on a
charge Of conspiracy.
The proceedings opened with the new
arrest. After some explanations by As
eistant District Attorney Lockwood, Magis-
trate Wahle set down a hearing on the con-
spiracy charge for next Thursday afternoon,
in the West Side police court. He increased
the bail Of both Goslin and Dunn 81 900
each. William j. Lippman Of counsel for
Goslin went to the City Chamberlain's
office and deposited the required $1,000
and the men were released.
Next came the perjury case against
Dunn. He is the alleged Brooklyn capt.
talist whom Justice Greenbaum described
as impeounious, yet who bought the IL 900
shares OF the gold mining company which
were in the Wells Fargo Bank and then
sued to get possession of them because
Of alleged Misrepresentation of facts. He
secured an attachment for the stock, which
Justice Greenbaum characterized as pal
pable fraud.
Dunn was supposed to nave put up s2e, 900
through Whiteman & Co., who had had
painted on their office door thai they were
the New York managers Of the gold COM
pany. He transferred his attachment claim
to one Henry Turner of Brooklyn.
In the affidavits in the ca Sc Dunn. swore
that he had no relations with Goslin and
that he had never worked for him. 1t is
known that Goslin's house in West End
avenue in this city Is in Dunn's name and
several Of the Goslin schemes. City Mar
shal Nj. j. Forbes Of the Lee avenue court
In Brooklyn testified that Dunn swore to
the affidavits in the case before him. and
Dunn was held.
Then came the charge that Goslin had
been doing business under the name OF A,
GrifTen in his dealings with Werner Fabian,
the president of the. mining company, and
that he had used q man who gave the name
Of Bernard Uhren to act as a dummy In the
transaction. Mr.. Fabian told how he came
to this city in November to float the treasury
stock of the company SO as to, raise more
money for the development OF Its property
in California.
He said that Harry Bangs, whom he for
merly knew and who had been arrested
and acquitted of embezzlement in conneo-
ton with a bank failure in Chicago, took
him to 1872 Nassau street, where he met one
A. Griffen, who he afterward learned was
Goslin. and arranged to sell the stock, which
was placed in the Wells Fargo Bank. Crit
fen told Fabian that he was very busy and
that he was out Of town much OF the time
and he presented the man called Uhren,
who has not yet been found by the authori-
ties, to take the stock.
Mr.. Fabian swore that Griffen made all
the arrangements for the contract Of sale
and that Uhren simply sat by and said
nothing.
Mr.. Fabian then went back to California
and while there learned that the stock had
been sold to Dunn on a margin and that
there was a Il wsuit to get possession OF i.
He hurried back here and had the attach
ment, which Dun had secured through
Turner, vacated, and then he had Goslin
| and mi arrested.
Mr.. Fabian said that after he had learned
| through Mr.. Zimmerman of the Wells Fargo
Bank, that Griffen was Goslil, he kept on
doing business with Goslin as Grifen be-
cause he had begun it in that way. He
told of a proposition that Goslin had made
to him that Goslin should put up SIS 900
so as to vacate the attachment, Dunn to
get the money. He declined 1t. Mr..
Fabian insisted that all his dealings re-
garding the proposed sale OF the stock
had been with Goslin.
Moses Grossman, counsel for Goslin,
| occupied most Of the session trying to get
Mr.. Fabian to admi that Goslin did nothing
but talk and whatever business was done
lin was simply the disinterest ed friend Of
both Fabian and Uhren. Mr.. Fabian
swore that most of his correspondence
with Uhren WAS signed with uhren's name
per A. g." He asserted that after the
meeting at which he arranged to sell his
stock he had never seen Uhren.
Mr.. Grossman brought out as many OF
the complicated details Of the struggle to
get possession of the stock as the court
would allow. The Magistrate finally ruled
that the sole question at issue was whether
what had occurred between Goslin and
Fabian was really a business transaction.
That point was not settled, Mr.. Grossman
insisting that many exhibits in the form OF
letters and prospectuses which he intro
duced showed that it was Uhren who really
transacted business with Fabian. With
the termination of Mr.. Fabian's testimony
the case went over until Monday afternoon
at the West Side police court.
Another phase of the case came up earlier
In the day before Justice Greenbaum in
Part II. OF the Supreme Court. A motion
was made to stay the order v~aoating the
attachment Of the gold c%ompany's stock,
pending an appeal from the order, Jesse
| Epstein, who appeared for Charles Turner,
in whose name this part of the transaction
was carried on, said that he had become
convinced that he ought to withdraw from
the case because OF suspicious attached to
alteration of the matter until to-day at the
suggestion OF lie Roy D. Ball, who repre-
sented Mr., Fabian, so that new counsel
might be secured for Turner.
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