New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-04
WOMAN FOOLS BROKERS
Gets Bonds nth Worthless Check
and Tres to Beat Hotel Bill, Too.

Chicago Nov s-with $4,000 Of bonds which
she is said to have obtained from the firm Of Bah
cock. Rushton & Louderback. bond dealers in the
Rookery Building. woman known as Alice Cheney
Brown arrested last night at the Union Station
and made to the securities. She had ticket
for Denver and aboard the train waiting for
its departure when Detective Frank Repetto found
her preparing 10 retire for the night
Repettos instructions from the brokers were not
TO detain the woman II she restored the 100000
worth of bonds. This she readily assented to. and
she took them from handbag the seat beside
her
The woman had also passed a worthless check. II
is charged, for $50 the management Of the Con-
gress Hotel Company Repetto. who is employed by
the hotel company had this little score to settle
with the woman She made good the amount OF
the check and was allowed to go her way.
The method by which the woman obtained the
bonds by passing a worthless check on the
brokers s1s.72o- Soon after the transaction Or
vile E Babcock of the firm, became suspicious
Of the genuneness Of the check and telegraphed TO
the Farmers Loan and Trust Company, Of New
York, On which bank ii was drawn An answer
received that the woman purporting TO be Alice
Cheney Brown had no account with the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company
II was known to the firm that Mrs Brown
staying at the Annex and a messenger was sent
there TO find her At the hotel It was learned that
the woman had paid her bill and left She had
paid with a check on the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, ard had ordered carriage to take her
to the Lasalle street station
Mr.. southgate. manager Of the Annex, examined
the check passed on the hotel and, inasmuch the
check the brokerage firm was worthless. he de-
clared that me smaller one worthless also
Repetto was called in. and with Mr.. Babcock
went to the municipal court, where warrant was
sworn out charging the woman with operating
confidence game
The cabu1an who drove the VIC nan from the An
mex was found, and he said she discharged him at
the LasaHe street station It was learned that a
answering the description OF Mrs. Brown
bad engaged another cabran. and that he drove her
70 the Northwestern depot After discharg1ng the
second cabrnan she entered third vehicle and was
driven to the Union Station.
In the baggage room It was discovered that the
had checked a suitcase 10 Denver, pre-
sentIng her railroad ticket the time The
Burlington train for Denver was not TO leave Chi
cago until 1870 o'clock, and Repetto remained IN
the station until shortly before the time Of its ds
parture How the woman got past him and aboard
the train without being is mystery to the de-
tective When questioned on that point by RepettO
she looked out OF the car window and laughed
At first Hrs. Brown pleaded for leniency, asking
that she be permitted to pay the hotel bill and
tinue on her trip to Denver. The detective agreed
to accept the $50 for the hotel BILL and she paid
him in cash. Then she turned the bonds
When she did so she told. amid sobs. that she had
planned to obtain the bonds which she hoped to
sell in Denver, so she could get funds with which
to aid a brother who is under arrest in the East
for some offence
The securities were turned over later TO Mr. Bah
cock, who was waiting FOR Repetto at the Audi
forum Annex Mr.. Babcock said the firm would
make 10 effort TO prosecute Mrs Brown. The
bonds were twenty in number and Of $1,000 each
They are first mortgage per cent bonds Of the
Madison River Power Company.
Mrs. Brown went TO the Annex last Thursday.
She registered as Mrs. Frank z. Brown, New
York" The day following her arrival she called
on Babcocx, Rushton & LOuderback with letters,
presumably forged, purporting TO be from New
York broker. Negotiations were begun for the pur-
chase Of the bonds, but the deal was not closed
until yesterday. II learned after the Denver
train had gone that Mrs Brown got through the
station without being seen by Repetto by clever
r7lse Outside the station she saw alfred woman
holding baby and engaged her IN conversation
without arousing the woulan's suspicious. she in
duced her TO let her hold the baby and then ac-
company the child and its new friend TO the train.
In passing through the station Mrs. Brown was
seemingly intent On the child. and. she not
supposed to have a baby, passed unnoticed-