Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-01-12
TWO ALLEGED STOCK
FORGERS CAPTURED
Arrests Are Made in The Norfolk
and Western Bogus Stock
Certificate Crime.
ORIGINAL PLATE IS RECOVERED
Securities Were Flcated in Blocks OF
One Hundred Each-One Of Accu.
sed Led Meteroic Career in Goth.
am Where He Has Been Behind
Prison Ears.
,fy Associated prca~.,

,Fv Associated Prose-
NEW YORK. Ian Following
the arrest today of Samuel llumpa.
reys, 4 newspaper Writer. on charge
OF selling bogus certificate OF 100
shares of tho Norfolk and Western
halfway Company 10 a dealer in Sc
cllritieS in this city. il; was learned
that 800 OF Inc bogus certificates were
printed and that tho operations ap-
pear 10 have been planned on Il large
scale
As only tour or live OF the ccrti-
ilcatcs have been discovered and each
Cf them is FOR 100 shares with an ag
gcoSatc market value OF about $4,000.
it Is evident that Tho amount realized
ny The operators is large il lhcy haze
disposed Of many oil tho certificates
Tho police say that they believe that
ar least throc men had a hand in The
transaction.
Sale Made Last September.
Humphreys was arraicacd on an at
fidavit, alleging that he acted in c0n-
cert with &. augustus Seton, in sell
Ing q. forged certificate To Barpuri
and Clark, OF this city, las. SepteM-
her, for $4,000. lie vas held in So
500 bail for examination tomorrow. In
default OF !ail be was remandod TO
rolicc hca ,QuaIterS
According 10 Information given ont
at The detective bureau Humphreys
Went 10 the office of barnard and
Clark, Of This CITY with u letter in
Producing himself as Mr. Collins Il
wealthy builder OF Philadelphia, and
presented Two forged certificates OF
the Norfolk and Western which he
wanted disposed OF al the market
valoc, between $1,000 and s15,oon.
O";cinai Plate Recovered.
lc l:thograph from which the hn.
2'.5 ocr:iiioaJcs were made, together
with terminating correspondence
nave hcel ,urued over 10 Tho district
attorneys tffi"c. a proof OF the CO..
titi"alos and n forged order Tor stock
certificates addressed TO tho Hamilton
Pant !SoLe Company and purpor'ins
10 20 :isncd by the president OF iii.
.>orIcIi; Ind Western Railway WIS
iulnG the detectives declare i'm 4
wall street office ,,tine Il scarce
;:nGN': lha effects OF j. suspect in "a.
Other case. last September.
Used an Official Letter.
Humphreys. tho police say, went ~
the Hamilton Bank Note Company.
i'll this city and showing ~ Ielusr
written on the stationery OF the Nor
folk and Western ana p,irporting 10
como from tho President Of the No.
folk and Western Railway Company,
ordered 500 certificates Uf loo shares
of ccmmoii stock each. They were
made in two blocks.
That Humphreys should have beca
able 10 present the forged letter from
the President oil The Norfolk and
Western on the roilroad's official sta
tionery causes The police 10 believe
that there was another accOmplice
AMI that he is probably an cmplOyc
i'll the Office oil The Norfolk and West.
crn. The police say that this Sus-
pact"l act"mniict probably secured Il
blank stock certificate and station
or. Of :hc Nc,iolll and Western rail
way for Humphreys.
The Bank Note Company assisted
| the railway company in bringing the
guilty parties 10 justice
Seton Arrested Too.
Seton. VINO was arrested last night
near Elkton, Md, charged with grand
larceny. comes from Cleveland and
is said 10 be we'll known there. He
inherited Sio0t0 from his father.
Soon after he came TO New York
he got ny the National India Famine
Relief Fund. lie was arrested twice
in connection with that. One charge
was that he had collected money
from lot OF young wOmcn who had
applied for work as stenographcrs,
and another charge was that he had
forged the name of n society woman
to his subscription appeal. He was
in tho TOmbs for two months and
was then discharged, the complainant
having gone 10 Europe. That was in
1900.
Seton's wife was n Miss Crum, Of
Columbus. daughter OF former post
master. She is his second wife
They occupied expensive apartments
in Fifth avenue here while Seton was
banker and offering to float bonds.
They left the Fifth avenue place last
October.