The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-01-12
HAD 0
Com! HIS DEAL
Sensation For M MaI1Y dany a
Days, 4O0,0 600 Involved.
0FEIER HRRESIS ARE EXPEGTEl IT

NEW YORK. Jan. Besides
cha,ies augustus Seton ard Samuel
Ifiupiphri4s, arrested in connection
Si:h the Norfolk and Western stock
certificate torgeries, the police ase
holding ut police headquarters three
other men and to-day announced that
when a fourth is captured they VIM
Ehave in custody all who can explain
what was probably the largest swtnals
Wall stre,t has known in many years
Wall street and the Pi:ikertons weee
inclined today to harshly- criticize he
iial ilton Eank Note Company which
litlst grsphed and printed the ave huns
dred fraudulent certificates for Seton,
accepting as authority d letter address
ed TO setcn on q Waldorf Astoria let
Ter head and signed &C. b. Franz I'm,
president Of the Norfolk and Western
which is mythical.
0ficials Of the Bank Note Company
blamed itailo on Manager Thomas who
admitted taking the order and litho
graphing ind printing the bogus Ger
,tstates. At police headquarters g,
lay It was reported that Manage.
Thomas would be questioned.
The five hundred fraudulent certlf:
Cales srenresent a present market yaliie
~ about 100000, Tie Pinkerton
men, unaDle,toifnd any blanks believe
that many Of these certificates have
y, en- circulated.
Following the return Of Seton from
7'urkeytown, Maryland, detectives Frs-
terlay and thelarrest Of Samuel 1uas
rhries, of Hrooklyn, the police arrest
ed John Bolghs aged GO. a broke
ing at Number SAG. Greene avenue
1s:ooklyn; Jurdon seeley, a lawyer pta'
Number SS15 West Fifty:frst street
Number Ninth avenue.
Rough Is well known to the police
lie was for three years. from 1861. 10
1siO. a moinber Of the Old HetFopoi
itan police force in this city Just q
years ago yesterday, he was icrnYicted
of forgery and sentenced to serve two
years, In 1891 Bough was afrested
charged Withholding a wildcat insurance
:,u.'ness. In 1904 he served slS
months in Noyamensing prison after
he had pleaded guilty to secrettng
property to defraud his creditors. IN.
r,edlately upon his release ne was
charged with conspiracy and forgery
involving 100000 by the Lloyds Ia
surance Company Of London.
Jurdon Seeley was once a Judge ne z
was at one time q prominent lawyer
in Granville, N. j. He was arrested
in November, 1904, charged with mis-
appropriat!ng ss3s, the funds of 4. eiI;
ent, He pleaded guilty Of grand e
cenv in the second degree and III ApTil
Of last year was sentenced to amontllg
in The penitentiay.
. Thomas Gibbons Is a brotherinIIw
of alfred h. Goslin. In 1901 GibtoGs
wa. made co'deiendant with I've sotlI
ers. including Goslln. III II cfytI suit
|. rooght,b by seeor and Bel, broke
Toledo. ohlo, to recover 81. 1900 alleged
to have been obtained By fraud. II was
charged that Gibbons had induced tie
finn to buy l50 shares of the New
York Electric Brake and coupler stock
for Gibbons, account, Gibbons putting
up $4,000 and secprs 50, 800. secor said
he found that tiis stock was worthless
According to the detectives, Hum.
phrles has been associated with Sc
:oh for a long time and WAS N
his once ID hs$ehange place They say
he was Introduced 70 Barnard
ard Clerk and 11r, Collins the owl.
er Of the certificates and seton,s elis
ent They, say furthermore, TINT
they have evidence that HumphreS
has been l.oslng as setonis client ii ne
gotiations with others In which sthe
bogus certificates figured.
Whether Of not either 81 them
the q. Greens who sold the eestitIs
gate. through Duke 8 Company 81
Cleveland, Nillb be ascerfained leter
A Representative Of Duke VIM DE here
so.day 70 look at the prisoners.
Humphrey who was remanded 70 the
topibs ye lerdsys Is charged With being
daplrated il d torgeFy
Ewor n Warrant.