The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-22
POSTMASTER GENERAL
PERSONALLY IN CHARGE
Burr Brothers, Promoters of
Many Mining Companies, in
the Continental Wire
less the Other Delinquent
STATEMENT BY HITCHCOCK

NJ EW YORK, NOV. 2I-En raids 20
important that rostmHster GEN
eraI Hitche0ck took charge in
person, his inspectors rafded two con-
Germs this afternoon which they charge
with sWindlinE the public 0uf of mere
thnn S40,OOO,0OO b. fraudulent use OF
the mails.
sheldon n. Burr, presidents Eugene
II. burr, secretary and treasurer, and
Frank H. I0bey. vice president Of Burr
bF0therz, were arrested in the first raid
and held la S200OO BAIL each. The g0y-
eminent charges that the firm sold he
tween s4OOO0,G0O aud s5O,OOO.0OO of min
ing and oil STOCK worth little OF Meth
ing.
Charles g.. hHuEhan "A director Of the
Continental " ireless Ieieeraph 4 Telr-
phone company Incorporated im Arf-
zonfs was fnisen ira the second raid and
held In aI0,00O bail Inspectors say his
company has sold stock amounting 90
at least si.00O,000. which has brought
no return 10 Investors.
Vaughan is treasurer OF the Column
bia Finance COMPANY which acts as
fiscal agent for the Continental Wire
less Telegraph a. Telephone company,
ana had charge of the Continental Of-
flee I'm this city
Both raids today are further evidence
tnaf RE government iit its warfare
against alleged interstate sWiudlers.
means business and no longer viii be
content with issuing fraud orders
denying them the use Of the mails but
VIII press for convictions on criminal
charges.
The present campaign began some
months go and has resulted in the az
rest of Louis A. Celia of ST. Louis ana
MS associates. charged with operating
string of bucket shops the officers
OF the United Wireless company of tine
Fl PTOgressO Banana company or the
InlteG Exchange or Chicago- of ths
Steel-Mlller Cotton firm of COrintu.
Mass, and of more than sixty other
firms i'm all parts or the country.
Harvest OF the SwindlerS.
Postmaster General Hitchcock estl-
mates that the public has been fleeced
out OF AZ least 100000 600 by get-ricn-
quick concerns ln the last five years.
but he says taeir IeydaE has gone.
Postmaster General Hitchcock said to-
day that other arrests, involving core
porations that have sought investors
throughout the country. are expected
shortly.
THE arrest TODAY by postoffice in-
spectOrs of The PRINCIPALS in TWO im-
portant companies, Burr Brothers, with
olIces IN the Ilallron building and
the Continental Wireless company. with
headquarters al IS Pine street" said
Postmaster General Hitchcock "COn-
stlLute TWO more cases in the series az
Investigations that the postal autnorl-
ties have been making in their crusade
against the fraudulent use of the mails.
with the work accomplished TODAY
. te cases nave HrFA hLbN-iaN TO a llraN
within year IT, is estimated that the
sWindling operations of these IS cases
have filched from the American peO-
pie i'm a period of five years over one
hundred million dollars
Plan Carefully Laid.
"The crusade now in progress is the
result of a carefully laid plan Of some
months ago, the first step in which
/ was a thorough generalization Of the
I inspection service with the selection
OF a new chief pOstOffice inspector.
When certain changes and reorganiza-
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