The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-18
STOCK FOR TOO SWIFT SALE.
GOODS SHIPPED TO NEWPORT
NEWS TURN UP HERE.
Police Get q Tip on DOinSsi In . store Leased
for Two Weeks and Lock Up Felstein
brothers to Await Developments
Unpaid shipper Heard OF Failure.

for Two weeks ana LOCK Up Fehstein
brothers TO Await Developments
Unpaid shipper Heard Of Failure.
From a source which he refused TO reveal
Inspector Mclaughlin received information
Yesterday TO the effect tina a lot OF mer-
chandise had been moved into a vacant
store at 80 Willett street by two men who
were e~ndeavoring to dispose Of it in bulk.
Mclaughlin sent Detectives Cassasa and
MrKenna TO investigate the matter.
The detectives found the store on the
ground floor of a tenement house. The
windows were soaped so that the interior
could not he seen from the street. Going
inside the detectives found the place Uttered
with packing cases and a large quantity OF
general merchandise, including dry goods,
clothing, boots and shoes. umbrellas, COL
lars and cuffs.
A man in the store who, according to the
detectives, gave his name as Lewis, told
them, they say, that he owned the goods,
having purchased them from a Mr.. Loop
at an auction sale somewhere in Baltimore
street, Baltimore, Md, about six weeks ago.
During the talk a second man entered the
store and asked what they wanted.
who are your" the detectives asked.
MY name is Fell and I'm the proprietor
here he answered, and he went on to say
that the goods belonged to a man named
l. J.. Rapant of %Smithield, Va, a place
about twelve miles from Newport News,
and that Rapant had sent Fell here to sell
them.
Both men we're aiken to Police Headduar-
ters, where they said they were brothers.
When asked to explain the difference in
names they said the detectives had made
a mistake. Both we're named Fell, they said.
the first one being Louis Fell and the other
Max Fell. They claimed to be reputable
business men of Baltimore, where, they
said, they lived at 2e2 North Exeter street.
They and their father. they said, had been
In BUSINESS there for many years.
Inspector Mclaughlin got a Baltimore
directory and asked the men to find their
names in it. Then they said their fathers
name was Felstein. In view of these con-
Trajectory state ments Inspector Mclaughlin
decided to hold them pending investiGa-
ton and they we're locked up as suspicious
persons. They we're recorded as Max
Fell, a tailor, 81 years old, and Louis Fell,
also a tailor, age %.
Going back to the store the detectives
found the lid Of one of the packing cases
marked m. Felstein, 1902 Washington
tanned o~veralls and corduroy clothing
hearing the tags of Sweet, Orr a Co. OF
SIT Broadway, this city. The detectives
communicated with the firm and learned
that Sweet, Orr 4 Co. had shipped a case
on May "a containing 5000 worth Of goods
to Feistein. Soon afterward, according
10 the detectives, the firm heard some
thing about the consignee which made
them regret their action and they requested
the Old Dominion Line, by which the goods
were shipped, not to deliver them, but
10 return them at the firms expense. The
consignment, however, had already been
delivered. When the bill fell due, 40 the
police say, the firm engaged a lawyer to
collect IL, but were notified hat the con-
signee had failed.
Sweet. Orr d Co. sent a Mr.. Clark Of the
firm with the detectives 10 the Willet
street store where. the detectives said,
be declared that the contents Of the pack
ing case seemed TO be the firms oonsign-
ment to Felstein intact. Mr.. Clark was
unable TO tell The police last night whether
or not the firm had ever been paid for the
goods, but said he would let them know
this morning.
Other goods and caaes bore the tags OF
many different firms, among which were
the following:
". q. Marchant Manufacturing Company
Charlottesville, Va; Electric Rubber Com
panv. Baltimore: Linden Mills, Lawrence
MANUFACTURING Company, Safe Investment
shoe Company. Fidelity Shoe Company.
Good Clothing Company. Baltimore; Andes
N''T"H UNI - . ~ ~ ~
and Psntsloon Company. Baltimore. and s.
LOWS, shoes, Saratoga.
Then there were collars OF the Lion and
Ivorybr9nds, Yale and Eagle suspenders.
International. Champion and Quality shirts
and shoas from E~ichengreen 4 Co, 1l3
West Baltimore street. Baltimore.
the police estimate the total value Of the
goods at about 5000. h store was
Irrted on Monday for two weeks. From
tho number Of business cards found in the
place the police believe that the prisoners
were negotiating with jobbers for the sale
Of tho stock.
ON the prisoners were found a receipt
made ont TO Mr.. Fell for rent for the store
and y bundle of storage warehouse re-
Coirts which showed, the police said, that
things stored in April, May, June and July
had been removed from storage for the
most part on October Is. TIL bills were OF
tho United Warehouses Company, ~ Reade
street; Henry !. Stetler's storage ware
house, 52S Washington street. and the Chesa-
peake Storage Company, $50 East Fayette
street. Baltimore. Most Of the bills were
from Stetler. The bills were la out to
j. Korbin, G.. Piatn and H. Bull.
Inspector Mclaughlin has asked the
authorities Of Baltimore and Newport News
70 investivate the case and has also COM
municated with the various concerns who's
names we're found on the goods.
Henry Silverman of the Good Clothing
Company Of Baltimore wired that he would
Re here to-day.