The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-25
MESSENGER BOYS
''GWAN'' EXPOSES
BIG sW|NDLE
BANK SECRETARY vAiNLY TRIES
TO BRIDE YOUTH TO GIVE UP
cA8LEGRAM WHICH MEANT DIS.
covERY OF FRAUD.

NEW 1Ohh, MarCn IA meSsSu-
ger boy who turned up his nose at Il
bride was the means OF putting the
Hoboken police in touch with a $751;
600 swindle, for which Fritz Marx. Of
No. 1862 Riverside Drive. and Leo MAJ
tin. who lives in West Twenty-ninth.
St. were promptly arrested.
The prisoners locked up a. Hobo
ken police headquarters. broke down
and confessed everything. They had
fleeced the banking house OF John
Stennick a. Co. OF No. % River-st.. Ho-
boken, out OF $4,000 by means OF false
letters OF credit. and would have got
the balance OF the $4,000 had not the
trick been discovered.
Marx has been living in fine style
with the money obtained from the
banking house. He told the Hoboken
police that Martin. who was coniden-
,ial secretary for Stennick 4 Co, had
obediently turned over all the cash To
him and that he paid Martin $50 4
week Tor doing IL.
Marx said he had laid his plot TO rob
the banking house last fall. lie made
a trip 10 Europe early I'm September:
and few weeks later Stennick Co.
were notified by the banking house OF
NJ. Scldenburg. OF Frankfort-on-the-
Main. Germany. that Marx had depos-
tied $4,000. upon which he was priv
legged TO draw.
In few weeks Marx appeared AT
Stennick's and drew out most OF the
money
Begins $4,000 swindIe.
The last OF the $4,000 was drawn
out i'm December. aud few days late:
Marx went again to Frankfort -on-the-
Main This time he obtained letter
heads of the firm of Seidenburg, ana
In some way that he has not -divulgea
got paper with the signature OF the
president OF the concern.
On the same steamer that brougEt
Marx back To New York was a letter
bearing the name OF the Seidenburg
concerns president, saying that Marx
had fallen heir 10 $4,000 and that "
had been deposited with SeidenOurs,
10 be drawn against as Marx saw m.
The letter went TO Stennici1 * Co. anu
soon Marx called He wantea $25,OOo
John Steihnick looked up the letter
decided il was all right, and paid ths
money through Martin.
Marx made half a dozen other visits
drawing various amounts upon the
S75 600 inheritance. John StehnicH
had occasion to write To the Seiden
burg house about the transaction sew
eral times. Each time he would re
. ceive a reply saying everything wa
all right. Martin handled all these
; letters.
t, Marx might have kept on until the
limit was reached had he not sent
: word to Stennick & Co. that he wante'
$4,000 at once. John Stennick
? thought he would first find ON
t whether the balance of--the SI5'oes
, was still at frankfort-on-the-M Main
He wrote out a cablegram 10 the house
of Seidenburg ana sent for mes
senger.
The Honest Messenger Boy.
, Here is where Patrick Carmody, II
years old. the honest messenger
comes into the limelght. Carmody
shambled TO Stonnick's office and took
, The message. As he sauntered up IN;
street 10 give II in at the main tele
, graph Office Martin. who had sat be
, side John Stennick, while the message
was given To the boy. stepped up be
hind him.
Martin held out his hand with a bit
In IT,
Here's five dollars. sonny. II you !.
give me that message he whispered
Patrick Carmody looked at him am
replied: -,
rGwan, | don't want nothin' like
that. | eotter hand this in.
Martin pleaded with the boy unit
they reached the telegraph Once aho
Increased his bride TO $40. AS the boy
entered the Office he snatched 80 hi
from Martins hand, dashed up TO thf
desk and threw 1t down, exclalmins,
This here mutt offered me this lei
\ bribe. Here's a message 10 SEND.
The clerk in charge sent for po
liceman. Martin. taken before Chic
of Police Hayes. told all about the
swindle.