New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-09
PLOT AGAINST BANKER.
DECOY LETTER FORGED.
Ticket Spectator Held-Pohce Sag
He Confessed.

Henry Pillsbury, who said he ticket
speculator living at No. 266 West 43d street,
held in $1,000 bail yesterday in the Jeffer-
son Market Court on a charge of forgery In the
third degree. Pillsbury. according the Cen
tral Of1ce detectives, tried to lure Robert R.
Moore. president OF the New-AmsterdaIn Bank.
to a room in the Hotel Astor. where he had
planned. # is alleged. TO rob the bank president
According to a letter produced in court, Pills
bury forged the name of John Cornish. manager
OF the Pinkerton Detective Agency, TO note
addressed to Mr. Moore at the bank Broadway
and 40th street. Pilsbury himself acting as hts
own messenger and guide
Pilsbury after his arrest at the Hotel Astor
yesterday afternoon. was put through the third
degree. and. according 20 the detectives, broke
down and said:
was down and out and hadn't cent, and I
was ready to hit some one on the head for It
But for a peculiarity In the signing Of the
name. the bank president might have answered
the communication. The signature was .'Jno.r
Cornish Moore~recgled that Cornish always
spelled his nane out-John-and was bit wor-
ried. He called up the detective agency. and
was not surprised to find that Cornish was then
in the office, while the note said he was at tbs
Hotel Astor and would meet Moore The note
written on Hotel Astor paper. reads:
Mr. Moore
Dear Sir: have just discovered what Seams
to be scheme TO obtain a large sum OF money
from you, which has a rather queer look about
IT, and have detained the man until vou can see
II anytnlng is wrong He claims TO be closely
related to you and asserts that YOU understand
the matter He registered last night under an
assumed name, and as am not known to you
sOu M4L meet WIN no unpleasantness. For
certain reasons 1 would advise YOU to come ar
once without delay. 1 have engaged the room
next his apartment, and unless Won wish vour
presence need not become known to him The
bearer my assistant. will show you IT.
Manager Pinkerton Agency
Mr. Moore was In his office when Piusburv
gave him the letter. When he discovered ths
trap he informed Police Headquarters De-
tective Duhain of the Pinkerton Agency hurried
TO the Astor, while Detective Sergeant Carey. Of
the Central Office, went 10 the bank.
II was agreed that Mr.. Moore should follow
the guide Pillsbury was still waiting In the
lobby of the bank. Mr.. Moore went out with
Pillsbury, the detective at their heels Pillsburv
took the banker to the fourth floor of the hotel.
raped several times on a door. then remarked
that Cornish was not in Just now"
But come TO my room and wait" he said
showing the way TO the next room. Here the
detectives, who had already recognized Pills
bury as a ticket speculator. stepped in Pills
bury declared he had pal" and that he had
written the letter himself. The Astor register
showed that Pillsbury had registered as John
Cornish. New Orleans, La"
PiusbUry locked up in the Jefferson
Market prison, and at his request the examina-
ton was postponed until tomorrow morning
Mr.. Moore, the bank president is forty-seven
years old, and lives in Hackensack, n. J.
On June 10. 1885, George H Wyckor. president
of the New Amsterdam Bank, was shot by
crank, who demanded $4,000 the assailant then
shooting himself. Mr. Wyckoff died June 81 at
the NewYork Hospital The crank died the day
after the shooting, and was identified by his
wife and mother-in-law, who said his name was
George H. Semple Shortly after the shooting
they gave his name Charles Clark. Mr..
Moore then cashier of the bank