The sun., 1907-08-27
PROMOTER LOST His STOCK
WAKES ar To FIND m At A
POEICE STATION.
Allison Thinks Re Was Drugsed After
Mecting CompsnionsbIe stranger But
VINO WINS the sleepy Person VINO Left
Certificates ss the Amherst Hotter

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Walter q. Allison. promoter, walked into
the West Forty-seyenth street police station
yesterday afternoon and said he was the
owner Of 1000 shares Of International
Motor Vehicle Company stock. PAR value
$4,000 (market value not spscified). which
had been delivered TO the police early
in the morning by James r. Connell,
proprietor OF the Amherst Hote, at
Seventh avenue and Fifty-third street
Allison looked little the worse for wear.
but he know the stock certificates all right
as soon az he saw them. Nevertheless
the police. acting on the advice OF his
friends, decided TO hold them little longer.
Allison remembers that he had the stocks
when he entered q saloon in Church street
last Friday afternoon. He is naturally
compunionable and easily fell into q con-
versstion with a stranger who was leaning
against the bar. He ia certain he must
have been drugged because he couldn't
recall a thing that had happened after
that until he came to his senses yesterday
morning in a hotel in the Tenderioin.
The stocks came into the hands Of Pro-
rnetor Connell OF the Amherst about i:s0
O'CLOCK yesterday morning, when one OF
Es dodgers. j. Luke of Chicago. walked
into the barroom and handed them over
Luke told the proprietor that he had found
tine man with tho stocks in Third avenue
ealoon Sunday afternoon and had taken
him to his room to protect him. After
they got to the Amherst Luke asked his
companion where he had got the stocks,
and the helpless companion. according
20 Luke, said he had made touch over
ia Jersey.
lhat was enough Tor Luke. He didn't
want to be mixed up in any scrape. and,
besides. there might be reward. He
would leave his friend who was snoring
away at good clip by that time. in the
room and ne would go out and look into the
matter OF a reward. Perhaps he would
find friends who would advise him what
q do. He was gone an hour or two. and
when he returned To his room his com
panon hSd disappeared, leaving his hat,
the stocks and handbook made out in
the name Of Jane Goblin Allison OF Leonia,
y. j.
The bankbook showed deposits amount
ing to $1,000. Luke knew it was up to him
then to report the case 1t cnce. reward
or no reward, and he brought everything
down to Proprietor Connell.
Jim. the colored bellboy who had heard
the conversation between the proprietor
and Luke. began to scratch his head. and
then he recalled that he had led : trouble
some man down from the floor VIII ere Lake
has his room and steered him through
the door into the street. Jim had found
the man sleeping in the hallway with his
coat on in front OF LuSes door. His hat
wasn't in sight and he couldn't tell whore
he had left il. Jim didn't know whsre 70
look because the man said he didn't have
any room in the hotel.
Luke said that the description Of this
ran tailed pretty well with that OF the
one he had been protecting. Whereupon
Proprietor Connell got busy at the tele-
phone and Luke went up to his room. When
two detectives from the West Forty-seventh
street station arrived Luke was not to be
found and he hasn't been seen since at the
hotel.
The first Allison knew about his stock
cortiAcates being in the hands Of the police
wss when he picked UP paper yesterday
afternoon. The II 900 shares were in two
certificates. one Of 10000 shares being In
the name Of NJ. z. Baird. The other was
in the name OF John Chisman.
Allison gave hiu address as ii5 Broadway.
csre Of the Carnegie Trust Company. The
officers Of that company said they had
nothing to do with Allison. He was
bookkeeper for the company when IL was
organized and had served az one Of the
dummy directors merely Tor the purposes
Of organization Business directories give
'liison as director OF the Carnegie Safe
Deposit Company. but 10 was denied that
lie was connected with that company.
The Carnegie Trust Company officers said
that Allison had represented them Tor
few weeks as a solicitor OF business but
lad been let go.
The Carnegie Trust Company people re-
fcrred reporters to the international Motor
Vehicle Company's offices at 2O3 Broad
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