New-York tribune., 1906-03-22
n. r. GOSLIN Il PRISONER.
With Brother and &. ". Dunn
Taken to Police Headquarters.


Alfred r. Goslin. lawyer notorious through
his connection with Bob Ammon. now serving
a term in Sing Sing prison. and with the "52C
| Per Cent Miller" swindle Of a few years ago, was
arrested at the Manhattan end Of the brooklyn
Bridge last night by Detective Sergeant Hughes
Of the Central Office. on a warrant issued by
| Magistrate Steinert sitting in the TOmbs police
/ court Goslin's brother Edmund was arrested
with him.
Both men were taken to Police Headquarters
and were locked up just a few minutes after
Charles NJ Dunn was brought in from Brooklyn
by Detective Sergeant McConvIle. Dunn was
arrested at Lee avenue and Hewes street,
Brooklyn within a short distance Of his home
at No. 152 Hewes street. Werner Fabian, pres
ident Of the Western Gold Mining Company. Of
Orovllle, Cal, swOre out the warrants on which
the arrests were made. it is said.
Alfred R. Goslin is charged with violation of
that section Of the Penal Code which prohibits
doing business under a fictitious name. His
brother was taken into custody as suspicious
person. while the charge against Dunn is con-
spiracy.
Shortly after the three men were locked up
MI Grossman of the law firm Of House. Vor-
haus & Grossnlan went TO Police Headquarters
and had a short conference with the prisoners.
He refused to make any statement concerning
the arrests or to indicate whether or not an eff
fort would be made to obtain bail for the men,
although it was then after II o'clock Alfred B.
Goslin, before being taken back to a cell, de-
nounced the arrests and declared his intention
Of getting even. He had $4,000 in cash in his
pockets while his brother possessed, among
other valuables two 10O-franc notes.
1t is believed that the arrests were based on
stories published in yesterdays newspapers al
leging that the Goslns and Dunn we're con-
nected with a scheme through which over
$4,000 was obtained from capitalists in London
Rotterdam and Denmark by the sale of shares
In the mining company Of which Fabian IS the
head. It was alleged in the published stories
that GOsin in this scheme, masqueraded under
the name Of another man, and that Edmund
Gosn who acted as the foreign representative
of the DEAL of the chief promoters.
The scheme according to the police was to
induce the foreign capitalists to purchase shares
in the mining company. then quoted on the curb
in New York at SAB share. The shares were
sold, the promoters Of the scheme depositng
a certain amount as security for the balance
they to pay on the shares. After the shares
were purchased by the foreigners it is alleged
the GOslins and the others alleged to have been
in the scheme failed to take up the stock,
which had been ostensbly purchased in their
interests. The cOmplainants say that the curb
quotations on the stock were fictitious, and that
although they still have the shares, they are
practically worthless, the stock having dropped
out Of sight so far as quotations con-
cerned. Immediately after the foreign purchases
were completed. The deal, alleged to have been
conducted from New York. was carried on by
cable. The amount deposited by the foreign
representative of the promoters Of the scheme
on each of the three transactions was $3.50,
and the amount paid out by the foreign capital
lists $28 500. leaving the net profit 10 the pro-
moters over $4,000 it was said.
Justice Greenbaum on Tuesday handed down
a decision in which he severely censured Alfred
r. GOslin, Henry Whiteman, Charles I'd. Dunn
and Charles Turner I'm a suit brought by Turner.
as assignee of Dunn. against the Western Gold
Mining Company. He accompanied his censure
by a decision vacating an attachment against
the mining company which had been ordered on
an affidavit made by Dunn in which he alleged
that there had been a conspiracy to defraud
him out of S29,700, which he had placed with
Whitemau & Co. margins for the purchase Of
stock.
The purchases by the foreigners of the stock,
which are alleged TO have led up to last night s
arrest, were made through New York Stock
Exchange houses, 1t IS alleged, on orders from
Whiteman &, Co., who recently had offices at No.
43 Exchange Place. The firm is said to have
been composed of Henry Whiteman and Ber-
nard UhTmsu, both Of whom, according to the
stories published yesterday morning, are
charged IN affidavits on file in the Supreme
Court with being IN conspiracy with Alfred R.
GOslin to defraud.