The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-09
BRIDE
CAUGHT IN BOGUS
q" TICKET PLOT
Wife of TorrenS, Alleged Chief
in Swindle, Married Him
After Sensational Chase.
FOUR PRISONERS HELD.
Detained for As Hours Will,
Police Investigate the
Ticket Scheme.

One ~ the prettiest women that has
been locked mp in the Tombs Of recent
years was taken there to-day. a prs.
oner, charged with being one OF the
gang who planned, by means OF bogus
mprints, to food the Interborough with
I.Oo0.oOo counterfeit subway and IL"
line tickets
The woman was Mrs. Helen Leo.
noll Torrens, a bride Of less than a
year. She was arrested last night
with her husband, Henry j. Torrens
whom she married last September
after an exciting elopement. After the
couple walked into a trap which had
been set for their feet the police
raided their fat at No. 1855 West
Fortyfourth street and seized lot
of dies and plates and about IL, 600 of
tho spurious ticket slips which with
In a day or two would have got into
circulation. Three other arrests fol-
lowed, two last night and one this
morning
Tried to Stop Elopement.
Young Mrs. Torrens says she Is only
eighteen years "a. and she looks 1t.
sne is a little graceful brunette with
Dig black eyes Her skirts are worn
unusually high to show beautifully
turned ankle. She seemed perfectly a.
ease during her arragnmen: with the
other suspects to-day.
She Is the only daughter OF retired
merchant named Leopold, and until
the time she ran away with Torrens
last fall she lived with her father at
hotel In Fourth avenue. Old Mr..
Leopold objected to the match, dis
trusting his prospective son-in-law, and
he tried to stop the elopement. But
the girl was married to Torrens in the
Jefferson Market Court. after a chase
with 50 many spectacular features that
| the newspapers made big story OF II.
The secret service men OF the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company dis
covered that bogus tickets were being
used and sold at reduced prices About
! ten days ago numerous counterfeits
were found In the chopped up tickets
from the One Hundred and Forty-ninth
street stations OF both the subway and
the elevated roads, and II. ]. Deakey,
who is at the head of the 1nterborough
! secret service sent detectives into that
neighborhood to investigate.
Found on Sale at "Club."
The detectives weren't long in find
ing that tickets could be purchased for
two and one.half cents apiece in a
club" near Third avenue and One Hun
bred and Forty-ninth street If 100 were
bought in a lump, or at two cents If
lots OF 100 were taken. Other Clubs"
In Harlem and the Bronx also had
tickets or sale.
Torrens. the detectives say, was In
set abaze, was still burning to-day.
had no suspicion that his scheme would
ever be discovered, for he Immediately
became very confidential.
He told the secret service men that
he believed there were great possibilities
In the business, that he had been in
It only since Wa-hinston's birthday
bu, as soon as he got little money
ahead he intended buying a new and
larger press. The detectives bouSh:
1000 tickets from him and with tie
money thus gained he went to a VIII
Jams street place to get the new press
His wife joined him and the two were
arrested az they were leaving the saoD
The tickets found In the Torrenses'
rooms in West Forty-fourth street
were marked The In'crurban RAPID
Transit Company" and not The In.
tcrborough." aud there were 1860 sub.
way and j.O)o elevated tickets Tor.
rcns said according 90 the detectives
that he hadn't sold any Of thes" because
tho ink was too light on them to TAX,
Inc risk.
How T kets Were .etcc.ed,
The tickets we're stamped az having
been made by the Eastern Bank Not,
Company. which is not the institution
that makes the Interborough's tickets
This difference hrst attracted the a'ten.
lion Of the officials To tn bogus slips