The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-26
SAYHE'S GRAND CENTRAL PETE
MAN WIFE BORROWING AND
WEEPING HABIT PINCHED.
Chase Through Trolley Car Over BuncO
Came OF Six Years AgO-Prlsoner White
Coated and Chubby-Dear Birthday
CelebratiOn-He Says He Isn't Pete.

Chase Through Trolley Car Over BuncO
Game OF Six Years Ago-Prisoner White
Coated and Chubby-Dear Birthday
CelebrauOn-He Says He Isn't Pete.
A chubby little man with red cheeks
and a white goatee, who was said by the
police to be none other than Grand Central
Pete, past master Of the art Of bunco,
was arraigned in the West Side court yester-
day charged with %swindlng Max Beeber, a
retired glove manufacturer, Of 800 West
1o9th street. out Of $40 six years G and
with obtaining the same sum IN Saturday
afternoon from John H. Davis Of 229 West
Ninetieth street in the same way.
The prisoner, who talked in a fearful
voice, said he was Peter Bollack, a mining
Spectator, Of sll West T~wenty-ninth street.
He said that while the police persisted in
calling him Grand Central Pete, he was
not the real one who established his reputa-
ton twenty-five years ago.
Beeber, who caused the prisoner arrest,
is also a portly man, somewhat advanced
In years. He said in court that he first
met Pete six years ago on the street, when
Pete was accompanied by a m
AT that time this man ran up to me-,
grasped my hand and said that he had
just returned from Cuba" declared Beeber.
He told me that he had some gifts with him
to send to some friends, but had nothing
but some checks to pay the messenger
charges. He put up a good talk, and finally
l let him have $40, the woman promising
me a beautiful piece Of bric-a-brac FOR my
trouble.
THAT was the last I heard Of him until
two years G Then he met me on the
street in the same way and was just going
to touch me when he remembered my
face and ran away. I tried to follow him
but couldn't catch him"
Beeber said that he met Pete again yester-
day on Amsterdam venue at Ninetieth
street. Pete was just beginning to hand
out his talk when Beeber asked him about
the original loan. The TOUGHER made for a
surface car as fast as he could. with Beeber
in pursuit. They both caught It, but Pete
ran through the car and jumped off the
front end. His pursuer hoped off the rear
yelling Stop thief as loud as he could.
Beeber saw a lot of men take up the chase,
so he waited until Pete was brought back by
Policeman Seamon of the West Tooth street
station.
After the prisoner had been locked up,
Davis walked in and told about an old man
who went into his store with an alleged
gold watch and a near diamond ring which
he was willing to leave if Davis would let
him have $40 until to-day. He identified
the prisoner as the man.
he said that he had been on a little tear
with some old boys in Philadelphia, and
had lost two teeth, said Devils; He wept
when he told me how ashamed he was to
20 home with his teeth out, so ! lent him
the money to have the teeth fixed"
When the alleged Grand Central Pete"
was arraigned, he told Magistrate Breen
that he had bought the watch and ring for
So so, and said that it was Davis's own look
out if he loaned $40 on phony jewelry.
Pete denied that he ever saw Beeber before.
Yesterday was my SEVENTEEN birth
day" he said, -and l merely wanted enough
money to celebrate a little"
He was held in $500 bail for examination.
According to Byrnes's Professional
Criminals Of America" Grand Central
Pete, if alive, is now IS years old.