The Washington herald., 1909-08-14
MADE DRUNK, THEN
FORGED RECEIPTS
District Attorney UncoverS
Queer Deals in Stocks.
BROKERS CLERKS ACCUSED
Percy G. mason Declares He Was
"Taken Ont and Rummed Up" and
Persuaded 10 Sign Another Mans
NRme-Peesch Asserts standard OH
Agent Was Mixed I'm Scandal.

New York, Aug. l3-HOw an innocent
young curb broker was piled with rum
until he was persuaded 10 forge another
mans name 70 stock, delivery receipts
was one Of the things that the district
attorneys Office learned to-day Ia its in
vesugation Of the Windsor Trust Com
pany and Other queer loan transactions.
OF equal interest 70 the district attor-
ney's Office was a statement emanating
from Donald I. Persch in the Tombs that
IN the Windsor Trust deal he was the
tool Of a stock exchange broker who has
been credited frequently with represent
ing Standard oil. interests
Persch gave no name. but he declared
the Windsor deal originated with this
broker. who suggested that they get f.
Augustus Heinze or Heinze's broker TO
put up his Copper stock on a $4,000 loan.
It has been Heinze's contention ever
since the loan scandal started that the
Windsor transaction represented only part
OF an organized attack upon him lie
has placed his losses in similar loan
transactions in the last six months at
more than s2oO.oOO.
Admits Signing Receipt.
Percy c. Mason. Of q William street,
is the young curb broker who admits
signing another mans name 10 a de-
livery receipt while under the influence
Of liquor. He figures not in the Windsor
Trust Company case. but IN the 5000
loan Of Cram. MillIken & Co. CT 115
Broadway. on $1,000 Of Eclipse Oil Com
pany stock
Mason accuses ". L. Clark. the note
broker who was arrested on Thursday on
a charge OF grand larceny in the Wind
sOr Trust, with having taken him out
and loaded him with booze" Then. ac-
eording TO the unsophiscated Mason Clark
steered him around 20 his Office at q
William street, where he found Donald
l.. Persch. who also Is under arrest now
in the Windsor case. Mason said that
Persch told him he had a receipt that -
would like very much to have him sign;
that the man who ought to sign il was
In Philadelphia. and tuat IT would be a
great accommodation to him (Persch) If
Mason would supply the necessary sigma
ture.
Dictated Receipt.
Persch dictated the receipt to a ste
nographer, and Mason signed Henry f.
Risbrough" in the presence Of an Office
boy and a notary public. The stenogra-
pher. Edith Roth; the Office boy. Louis
Jackalaw and the notary. Edward H..
Carpenter all were called TO the dis
trict attorneys Office to-day and ques-
toned.
This bogus receipt was turned over to
A. A. Reilly. Cram, Milliken & Co. IS
broker when the Sl5,CCO snare or Eclipse
Oil stock was handed by him TO Persch.
Persch had represented that he was
placing the loan of 5000 for Henry f..
Risbrough, of Philadelphia. The 5000
in $1,000 bills was handed 10 Persch by a
tall man whom the district attorneys
Office believed to have been a well-known
broker IN a nearby city.
In the afternoon of the day on which
the loan was made Cram, Milllken *
Co. heard that an effort was being made
in Boston to sell some OF the identical
shares Of Eclipse stock that they had
put up as collateral here in New York,
and they took legal steps 70 prevent It..
II develops now that on the next day
A. D. f. Adams, a banker of Boston, ap-
peared in the Office Of L J. Field &
Co. in this city, with the $4,000 OF