The sun., 1908-04-04
A YEARS CHASE FOR A THIEF
DELANEY, 4 TRUSTED MAN.
TOOK S1O.OOO FROM n. =. COZ.

THE Races and Nali street Got Him aud Ne
Kept on Raising Cheeks kS-PlnAlly He
RkIpped-RVaded Arrest = Year, but
Now Hes Broke and very Near Death
Daniel X. Delaney, formerly confidential
clerk 10 Henry n. COe. a lawyer at ~ wall
street was looked up IN Headquarters
last night charged With grand larceny,
Delaney'E arrest at Mountaindale, Sullivan
county. early yesterday, followed q chase
through the West Whioi haa lasted since
his Disappearance about year ago with u
shortage in his hooks estimated Ut $4,000.
Delaney Is also charged with having OBJ
tanned y, rs by means Of forged checks
from the Beaver National Bank. al Beaver
and Pearl streets.
Delaney who lived at as Lincoln place,
Brooklyn, was employed Ia Mr. Goes o1ice
for several years. He was a confidential
clerk and as such wes Ia charge Of several
large estates Mr. COe looked after and
VI tha making out OF checks. lie had
an experts knowledge II real estate
values
One day Delaney did not appear
al his desk as usual No word was
received from him and AIr. Coe was ia
/ The dark ~ to the reason for he clerk a
absence, until next day he received from
his own bauh - check for 5000, marked
paid 10 which his signature had been forged.
Mr.. Zoe PIT an examiner on bis books and
found that they had been extensively
lalsiGed Delaney had al easy job of
liking the hooks, a. SIR. Goa trusted him 80
thoroughly that lac never looked at them,
Nol only were there forged checks, the
proceeds Of which we're converted 10 De
lanevs use IN this connection, Zoe alleged.
but Delaney opened a separate account
10 his own name with the Beaver National
Bank Oh September 10, and deposited
81 22j worth Of checks there indorsed with
/ Mr.. Goes name. He concealed these
forgenes 10y Juggling The books again.
just before he lefl he drew out this whole
sum.
DeIaney's trouble had been speculation.
and il is believed that he lost all but a 70"
thousands of the t4OOOO.odd which Mr.
Coe believes he embe22Ied. Mr.. Coe said
over the telephone Yesterday that Delaney's
peculations would certainly reach that
! figure, II not u greater one.
Lieut.. Dliscoll Of tho Wall street bureau
found that Delaney had married only re-
Gently and was being accompanied through
a number Of Western cities 10y his wife
| Detectives Wilbur and Geohegsn Of the
/ Central Ofice worked with the nostal all-
! thorities and finally found out from a letter
Delaney sent TO a relative that his money
was running Low and he had heen com.
pelled 10 send his wife back TO her folks
He had been suffering from tuberculosis
all along aud recently this had made
such rdyages that Delaney took up his
lodgings with a farmer named Boyle In
| the hills Of sullivan county near the village
Of Mountaindae.
Tue detectives went IN there q week
ago disguised as farm hands looking for
jobs They knew they had TO use caution,
FOR Delaney had written that he did not
have long to live anyway and he was resolved
10 kill himself rather then be captured
The detectives couldn't get jobs at Boyle's
place. but they hung around the village
and found that Delaney was so suspicious
that he was ready 10 fee from the Boyle
place any time a strange face showed up,
and had fixed up a cabin In the hills behind
the Boyle farm 10 which he could retire
The detectives got him on Thursday after
noon and took him 10 he village lookup
Yesterday they brought him to New York
Delaney admitted st Headquarters last
night that he had taken good deal OF
money frnm his employer bOv much he
a. not know. when II got over s?0,0OH
| stopped counting said Delaney, THE
races and wall street did il, I took a
little aud lost Then | took little more
and tried 10 win 10 make up my losses,
Aud 80 got in away over my head. Finally
the Beaver National called me mp and told
ne III overdrawn my account thought
II was about time TO skin then and did 49,
| guess that's about all
Delaney will 10 arraiRned in Jefferson
Market count This morning.