The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-09
z TRUSTED MEN
ARE IN CUSTODY
AS DEF AULTERS
New York SIeuthS Lodge Cap
tured Private Secretaries in
Salt Lake Jail.
EN- ROUTE EAST WITH
HIGH CLASS PRISONERS
GREEN AND HAVENITH ARE
CHARGED WITH RoBBiNG
EMPLOYERS.

Two private secretaries of New York
miiliOnaires spent last night in the Salt
Lake, city Jail They were Howard
Carter Green, private secretary Of Jas.
c. Fargo, president of the Wells Fargo
Express company, and Albert o. Have
NTH, private secretary of A. 5. Nal
lett, president of the A. 5. Mallett Con-
struction company
Both of the private secretaries are.
charged with forgery and grand lar
ceny. They are being taken back to
New York for trial by Lieutenant Der
nard A. Flood and Lieutenant DOminick
G. Riley of Inspector McCaffertys STAFF
of detectives. Their achievement in
capturing the two private secretaries
was one Of the best pieces of detective
work done in recent years
Green and Havenith fled from New
York before their alleged criminal op-
eTaCiOns were discovered. Each of the
men passed through Salt Lake in his
flight to the west When they were
here before they stopped at leading no
tells Last night they listened to the
dim hum of traffic lin the city's streets
from cells in the city Jail
Green, il is said. has confessed 10 a
shortage in his accounts amounting 10
$500, but it is believed that he stole
a much larger sum. His downfall was
due to speculations in Wall street. it
is said. He was a lamb" and be-
came so deeply involved at the begin
ming of the financial furry in the east
that he was compelled TO take to
flight.
Says He's Baron.
Havenith is said to nave misappro-
priated between $4,000 and $4,000 Of
Mr.. Mallett's money. He claims TO be
German baron and a former lieu
tenant in the German army. He is
described as a sort of social highway
man. 1t is alleged that he stole Mil
lionaiIe Mallett's money to defray the
expense of an effort to break into New
YORK society and capture an heiress
On his salary of q private secretary
he kept blOOded trOtting horses and
a steam yacht. In Los Angeles, where
he was captured, his mania for sOci-
ETY. again showed itself. When ne was
taken into custody he was paying at
tentlons 10 a wealthy woman of that
city.
Green's father is a wealthy man. re-
siding at Passaic, n. J. He is general
manager of the Goodyear Rubber COM
pany. Young Green moved in good so
clety in New York and the New Jer-
sey suburbs of the metropolis. He is
q years ola, and, UP to the time of
MS hight from New York, had every
promise of a bright and successful ca
reer His populations are said to have
extended through the greater part OF
last year, beginning as early as last
April. But when he disappeared about
SIX weeks ago, suspicion that his ac-
! counts were in a tangle was lust be
ginning TO dawn upon Mr.. Fargo. All
expert was put on his books. and tho
alleged Irregularities revealed resulted
in four indictments being returned
against young Green by the New York
grand jury.
Operations of Green.
Green is accused of forging Mr.. Far
COS name to checks received through
the mail Instead IF depositing them
at the KnickerbOclIer Trust company.
where Fargo had his account, il is said.
he took them to the New Amsterdam
bank, where Green had private ac-
counts. One of the duties of the pri-
! Vate secretary was TO collect the rent
on number of houses in West One
Hundred and Thirty ninth street. New
York, which are owned by Fargo. The
rental aggregates between $1,000 ana
$4,000 month. IT Is claimed that for
four months before his flight. Green
| pocketed all the money received from
| this source. This was in addition tn
the checks on which he is accused OF
forging Fargo's name. One of these
checks was for 1900 and another for
| s731.
The private secretary disappeared
/ from New York on the day President
Barney of the KnickerbOcker Trust
company committed suicide. He
dropped completely out of sight Then
the New York detectives working on
/ the case learned that he had gone TO
Oregon and was at a town called
Rainier. twelve miles north of Portland
Lieutenants Flood and Riley were sent
west to catch him They found him
working in an engineering party of the
/ Portland Lumber company, under the
name of Howard Carter When taken
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