New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-02
{. c. H0LLINS ARRESTED
ACCUSED OF PERJURY.
Promoter Of Companies Charged
zcith GiJing False Testimony

Frank c. Hollins. OF No Il Wal street. was
rested on a warrant late yesterday afternoon
charged with perjury. The complainant. Joseph c
Blanch of Highwood Park n. ], in his affidavit
to Magistrate Corrtgan says that Hollins gave
false testimony In a suit in the Supreme Court. in
which stock of the Blanchite COMPANY valued at
S4cH was in question. The Banchite Company is
bankrupt concern, OF which James T. Haviland
secretary.
The prisoner was arrafgned before Magistrate
Corrigan in the Tombs Court and paroied until
October in the custody of his counsel G. Wesley
Abbott, Of No. Rector street. BlanCh was ac-
companied to court by his counsel. former Judge
'" NJ h Olcott. OF Olcott, Gruber. Bonynge &
McManus. Mr.. Hollins declared that he was in
nocent Of the charge and that he would be cleared
by the examination before the magistrate.
Frank c. Hollins is brother CT II. g. Holllns.
and until 1886 had charge Of the foreign ex-
change department Of H B. Holllns & Co Since
then he has been a promoter. He is fifty-s years
old and lives at No. 60 East seth street In the
Supreme Court, March %. he made defend
ant TO three suits, aggregating more than Slen,WO
all resulting from his promotion Of certain paper
pulp schemes.
The charge of perjury made by Mr.. Banch grew
out of a suit brought against him by " lillian De-
laney for $4,000, the price Of three hundred shares
in the Blanchite Company. Limited, which, Della
ney asserted had never been delivered. In his af-
Adavit Blanch says that Hollins testified that
Blanch had never turned the stock over to him,
and, in fact, had made settlement and also that
made. Blanch that he has in his possession
a receipt in full for the stock from Hollins, given
in November. 1907 and that tire whole transaction
with Delaney cleared up through Hollins on
November 4
As promoter Mr. HolIins has been connected
with we'll known enterprises When only twenty
years old he was in charge Of the Coles estate
in Jersey City. and in that capacity sold to the
Erie and the Morris & Essex railroad companies
most of the dock and terminal properties now occu-
-zgo7 In n ma 4 mariner
in H B. HoIlins & Co and in 1886 became director
Of the Lake Erie & western Railway Company
He was chairman of the stockholders committee Of
reorganization. and carried through their plans
successfully. He became connected with several
other railroads and built the St Louis Chicago
and Iitchfeld & St. Louis railways. As president
Of the Central Missouri & Cleveland and the St
Louis Kansas railways he completed them and
in 1891 sold them successfully. He successfully re-
organized several other properties, and put them
on a paying basis
The Blanchite Company. out Of the troubles OF
which grew the perjury charge, was a paint
scheme based on patents held by Aquila Rich, a
promoter who had been in the paint business
James T HavIland, who was arrested O. year ago
last March fifty different warrants IN scranton
was secretary of the company. Right after HsVl-
lands arrest AQuila Rich. who was MEMBER OF
the Consolidated Exchange, suspended. a peuuo'l
in bankruptcy was flied against the Blanchlte COM
many on October s. 1906. This was fought Tor Two
years, the company continuing to 90 business, until
this wear the officers admitted il could not pay its
debts and in February another petition was filed
AGAINST II The corporation had a Maine charter
and was capitalized for S4,350o00.