The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-04
MEN GOSLIN LEFT BEHIND Him.
DUNN EMPTIES HIS MEMORY ALL
OVER COSMIDES.

There's q Girl the Fugitive swtndler Left
Behind, Maybe, Whom the District At
torney Would Very Much LIKE TO Ques-
ton Occasional DoinGs OF the Bunch.
Charles Milton Dunn, long an accomplish
of Alfred r. Goslin, the fugitive ~swindler,
went on the stand in the West Side police
court yesterday and told in detail how he
stole a certificate for 100 shares of the pre-
ferred stock Of the United States Steel Cor
p~oration under the instructions OF Goslin and
turned 1t over to Goslin. His testimony
was given In connection with the examina-
ton Of Christopher Cosmides, another pal
Of Goslin, who is charged with receiving
the stolen certificate and raising 81, 800 on it
In Boston. Dunn's testimony was prao-
tically a reiteration OF the confession he
made to Assistant District Attorney Lock-
wood. Dunn got a job in the office of De
Coppett 4 Doremus. Goslin had promised
to surrender a mortgage on Dunn's uncle's
property in Brooklyn and pay him hand
somely besides IL he succeeded in making
a good haul. For several months Dunn
said he saw no chance to separate the firm
from any Of its certificates. In the mean
time Goslin was nagging him and demand
ing to now when he was going to make
good. Finally, on August 20, 1901, Dunn
had a chance to steal a certificate, sealed it
in an addressed envelope that Goslin had
given him and mailed it. The letter was
addressed to a post Office box which Goslin
had hired. Later Dunn vent to Goslin's
office and told him. Goslin sent a clerk to
the post Office for the letter Dunn re-
manned until the clerk came back. saw the
letter opened and saw Goslin take the GER
tificate from it. Goslin put the certificate
in the safe. Later Dunn saw Cosmides at
Goslin's.
See the mustache Cos is raising" Goslin
said. well, that is to help him to dispose
Of the certificate"
The matter dragged along until the fol-
lowing April. when he went one night to
Goslin's house in West End avenue to ask
about his share of tho DOT. Cosmides vas
there and showed a handbook with an ap-
parent deposit of 81, 900 in a Boston bank.
How much did you finally get out of
the deal?' asked Magistrate Wahle.
Dunn said that he got back the mortgage
on his uncle's property and $l2O in actual
cash. The mort ga sc was for 1920. He
had understood that only 5000 had been
raised on the certificate, until he saw an
account in a newspaper of a suit for $500
brought by the Boston house that had negO-
tiated it. When he spoke to Goslin about
the discrepancy, Goslin replied:
We'll, Cosmides must have got the best
Of me-"
Dunn said that Frederick Jobelmann
was in the deal.
Herbert f. Larrabee of Boston identified
Cosmides as the man who under the name
of Rorroughs rented desk room from him
at 178 Federal street in the latter part of
August or the first part Of September, 1901.
1t was Borroughs who negotiated the GER
tifcate in that city. Jobelmann Larrabee
recognized as the man who came to Boston
and settled up for the rent owed by Cos
mides. Jobelmann took away all the papers
that had been left in the desk.
When the hearing was adjourned until
this afternoon Magistrate Wahle refused
to reduce Cosmides's hail. He said that
the defendant was involved in other pro-
ceedings OF q nature that might dispose
him to flee. Cosmides is under indictment
for perjury In the United States Court. He
was recently charged in a police court with
abduction. Subsequently he married the
girl, and she is now suing for the annulnent
Of the marriage.
Bernard uhren. a partner Of Goslin in
many swindling games, was arrested last
August at Breton Hall, Broadway and
EiEhty-sixth street. where he lived, for
annoying Mrs. Ida Johnson Of $50 West
1l5th street. She accused him of calling
her up or the telephone repeatedly and
begging her to meet him in the street. He
was held in $500 bail. The bono was fur
nished by Annie Irene Magher, Goslin's
stenographer. Assistant District Attorney
Lockwood said yesterday that he was very
anxious to interview Miss Magher. but up
to date he has not been able TO find her.
The expert who broke into the two safes
In Goslin's Nassau street Office on Saturday
succeeded yesterday in opening the Harvey
lied steel compartment in one of them.
Nothing Of importance was found in it.
Deputy Sheriff 0'Neill received an exc
cution yesterday against Cosmides. The
execution is on a judgment for 1857 in
favor Of Albert Freeman, doing business
as Albert Freeman d Co., stock brokers.
and grows out Of the purchase for Cosmides
Of fifty shares of the stock Of the Snap
Hook and Eye Company in December, 1901
The Sheriff went to POO Greenwich street,
where Cosnides was formerly manager Of
the Oriental Fruit Company, but found
nothing to levy on as the business thers
was claimed by Spiro ~Coundouris, an uncle
Of Cosmides.