Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-21
LEVIN IN TROUBLE
Was Arrested To-Day By Unified
 StaleS Marshal P9rmalee.

Abraham Levin of Locust street,
 who is charged with having two
 wives, is now under arrest on
 charge of stealing several thousand
 dollars worth of property and con cealing it from the trustee. Mir Levin's affairs are before the United
 States bankruptcy court, and accord ing to a statement made to-day by United States Marshal Parmelee of New Haven to Democrat reporter,
 he has spirited away considerable
 real and personal property which should have been made over to the trustee. The marshal came to town
 this morning armed with fraud writ, and in company With Constable Carmody, started out on still hunt for Mir Levin and found him on South Main street He was detained for short while at the police sta tion after which he was hurried off
 to New Haven, where he Will be given hearing before federal au- thorities. The arrest was made without much commotion, but the
 man was not long in custody when several heard of it and flocked around to know what was up. Many
 knew, but others hadn't given tho
 case much attention until they had
 heard of the presence in town of
 United States Marshal Parmelee and then the wise ones scented touble for
 somebody and kept a close watch on his movements until they learned the
 real purpose of his mission. It is
 alleged that Levin owes nothing on
 his property.
 Two weeks ago Attorney Lewis secured an injunction against Levin
 to prevent him from disposing of a house on Locust street, which tine creditors claimed should go into his alleged insolvent estate.
 The lawyers ascertained that Levin had paid off mortgage of some $3,- 900 to one Chotzianoff, and that
 Chotzianoff had not given a release of the mortgage, thus making it ap-
 pear on the records that the mort
 gage was still on the property. This discovery led MT Lewis to see the
 necessity of taking trip to Pater- son and Newark, N. J., for the pur-
 pose of learning more about Leyin's affairs.
 Before Referee Newton here, Levin had stated that of $5,000 he obtained from his brother-in-law, Nathan Greenstein of Paterson, N.
 J., he had paid 1900 to one Abra- ham Smith of Paterson, and that
 more of it went in transactions ne had with his brother-in-law and one Gottleib, also of Paterson. He ist charged with making false state
 ment in that he did not include in his schedule $200 he received from
 Adolph Sanditz.
 Attorney Lewis ascertained in
 Newark and Paterson, where he has been this week,
 that while Smith says he lid receive $1,300 from Levin there is ne record of it on his books, and Smiths stenographer, according to Mir Lewis, has no memory of ever having made record of such a transaction. He also says that the | receipts on Smiths books which show
 that he entered into certain con- tract with Levin in 1904 were really
 made in 1907 and that the entry of record showing Levin had con tract with Greenstein in 1905 was made in 1907 also. According to Mir Lewis Greenstein has said Levin did
 no work for him in Paterson.
 The warrant for Levin's arrest was
 issued in the name of the trustee of
 his estate. Attorney F. P. Guilfoile
 and the creditors.