The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-21
COURT CLASSIFIBS GOSLIN.
KNOCKS IN THE HEAD A SCHEME
OF THAT UNEASY GENIUS.
GriHen Was Goslin's Name when He Spread
the Net for the Western Gold Mining
Company OF OrOvIle-Bu the CailfOr.
I'D bird WasShy n Has winged Away.

MIA bird WasShy and Has winged Away.
schemes was revealed yesterday in a de-
cision rendered by Supreme Court Justice
Greenbaum. 1t consisted OF getting a
mining company TO give him an option
on a big block of its treasury stock, selling
the stock to an associate and then attaching
the property of the company for selling the
stock through Interpretations.
The Western Gold Mining Company Of
Oroville, Cal, is the one, The company
owns / 200 acres near Oroville and ia char
tered under the laws Of Idaho. Werner
Fabian, president of the com has
made an affidavit and submitted others to
the court in which he tells Of the dealings
with Goslin.
Early in December last one Harry Bangs
introduced 10 Fabian a capitalist who
signed his name A. Grihen. Grifen was
recommended az a strong man to have,
and after some palaver GriIen got an option
on 5000 shares OF treasury stock that were
on deposit with the Wells Fargo bank here
and II 900 that were on deposit with the
Registrar and Transfer Company.
Fabian felt assured that Griffeu's con-
nection with the company would be a good
thing. for Griffen had odd him so and so
had Harry Bangs. So when Fabian got TO
New York''about Decemberli2, a week after
the option had been given, he went to the
Wells Fargo people and made some in
quiries.
Alphonse W. Zimmerman. the cashier of
the Wells Fargo bank. told Fabian he knew
all about Griffen and that Grifen was none
other than the uncrushable Goslin. At the
same time, Fabian says. Zimmerman as
sured him that he did not believe Goslin
was half as black as he had been painted
Rather doubtful. but not quite alarmed
Fabian went back to Oroville.
He hadn't been there long before he began
to hear from the Griffen operations. First
he got a letter from "Whiteman 4 Uhren,
| Charles H. Dunn. Thu letter was written
on tho. paper OF a Brooklyn factory with
which Dunn had nothing to do, but which
belongs to a cousin of his.
The letter told how Dunn had bought
a big block Of stock on margin. Shortly
afterward fabian got a letter from A.
Griffen telling of the fine deal in stock he
had Just concluded with Dunn, a big Brook
Ign merchant.
Fabian could not understand this as he
had distinct instructions from the com
pany's board Of directors that no stock
VOC " DO BohNt vi hhhAl So SaS f8N ~ NO-
Griffen. So he wrote to both Dunn and
Goslin to this effect and telegraphed, can
ceiling the ninety day option held by Griffen.
Then he came on here himself.
He got here on March 3 and learned hat
! a suit had been brought against the COM
pany in the name Of Charles Turner. OF 1923
Gates avenue, Brooklyn as assignee OF Dunn,
who lives at 1852 Hewes street, to recover
329, 500, the amount of the alleged invest
ment by Dunn. Because the Western
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ton, the plaintiff had got an attachment
against the c%ompany's property here for
the full amount, pending judgment.
Fabian also learned some other things.
! He found that Goslin, in his own name,
had held 21O shares OF the stock for which
and had transferred the stock to a London
corporation. Fabian also found that
Turner, Uhren, Whiteman and Dunn each
held one share, procured through the
griH1nish Goslin.
Fabian promptly applied to the Supreme
Court for the vacation Of the Judgment,
alleging collusion and fraud, and in granting
that application Justice Greenbaum said
yesterday:
There is strong reason to suspect that no
fraud was perpetrated upon the plaintiffs
assignor DUNN but that this action liz the
result OF a conspiracy between the plaintin
and his assignor and the defendants. white
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Alfred R. Goslin, to defraud the other de-
PENDANTS the company and its officers J.
But assuming that the acts alleged by the
plaintiff Turner resulted in defrauding Dunn.
the undisputed facts show that the fraud
was that of Whiteman 4 Uhren, una authorized
and unwarranted by the Western Gold Min
ing Company and wholly disconnected from
them.
And, indeed. if there was any shred OF fact
that might be deemed legally sufficient to
uphold a cause of action in favor of the plain
tin, it seems to me that 1t would be the un-
hcsitating duty Of the Court in this case to
vacate the attachment for theNtDanifest per-
jurous statements of the plaintiffs assignor.
Dunn. as 10 his residence, his palpable fraud
in writing communicat ions on pretended
letter heads of an apparently reputable firm
in brooklyn. his apparent impecuniosity
and his established relations with an alleged
notorious swindler. who has been convicted
Of fraudulent acts. whose tool he manifestly
is aud who appears to be the prime mover
in a conspiracy to swindle nonresident de-
PENDANTS.
SALARY INCREASES CHECKED.