The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-12
FRANCIS G. BAILEY GUILTY
NE as THE RRtINs 0F THE
GOT DSn0Rp SWINDEE.

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Francis q. Bailey. the leading spirit
IN the GolisborO venture q year ago last
spring. ives found guilty u grand larceny
la the first degree yesterday in the Crimi-
nal Branch Of the Supreme Court. The
jury was out less than fifteen minutes.
u was the windup Of string % circun-
stances oE unusual nature beginning In
March. IS0s. when the Export shipping
Company az ~ hroadwHy y. of which Bailey
was president. and his brother. Albert W..
was treasurer sent oua q lot of circulars
to manufacturing firms in this country.
They were In the field. u appeared. to hay
everything from machinery and tools
10 phonographs and champagne for the
osoeral Supply Company az Townsville.
Australia. They placed orders. directed
tho Foods ssat to Me- York for trans
portatiOn. and in most cases made Ilrst
paysnonts.
Tnen Bailey aud his brother secured the
former Clyde liner 0oldsboro in Phila-
dslphia and brought her to this city.
where she was loaded With about taSyG.OO
worth of msrchandise. They drew on the
General Supply Company. discounted the
chipping drafts. and with all the ava'la-
bic ready money in English gold on hoard
the Goldsboro sailed away. not 20 Aus
tralia hui TO Honduras.
What was left of the Export Shipping
Company went bankrupt and the National
Association Of Manufacturers got busy.
The brotheFp were arrested In Puerto Cor
t~s. Honduras. and consented 10 give up
their projec OF dealing in mahogany to
come back tn New York. That night
Francis hAiley clipped over the side.
stole a boat and escaped. He wrote Co
Trend IN this country that he was so
night that he could have touched one
of them. Police Lieutenant Beery. who
had him in charge, lost his Job.
A year lateT Albert Bailey vas brought
back and convicted. He vas sentenced
letter sent Ia the prison tho elder brOthsr
was traced 60 Vancouver. He was pos
ing a. Col. Edward shannon kilconnel
on . ranch near whennock. New West
minister One afternoon last spring De-
tsotive wilber % the Central Ofsce saw
him hoetng corn with Japansse laborer.
Bailey denied his identity. hut he con-
sented Ia ~ To Vancouver. There he
admitted that he was Bailey. hut declared
that he couldn't be extradisesi for mis-
crime; he had had lawyer hook it mp. he
esid. When WILDER showed him the law
Bailey found that his solicitor had con-
suited an out Of date code. IL he had
known the law he would not have settled
there. he told the detective
Assistant District Attorney Mott pick ed
out from many tho complaint Os the Key
stone Driller Company. which had lost
~ .e1e Is Bailey lawyer tried Ia show
that the ooldn6OTO might have been On
tts way tO Australia for all the Court could
tel and declared that there were sixty
Ave days sra0e. allowing for mail trans
pOrtattOn TO Australia. before 10 could
be said that q crime had BEEN committed.
Bailey was arrested before this time had
elapsed
Mr.. Mott brought into evidence letters
allowing that haley had secured a s.OoO
acre c0nceasi0n In HJnduras q country
the United States had no extFaditiOn
treaty with &c that time The goods on
board the 0otdnlD0r0 SEEMED tn the
prosseut0r to sllow that Honduras was
the ultimate destination. Salch thinGs
as haInmOcks. seeds. Photographic sup
plies and other thlnGs that were rare down
thsrs hut could b bought In Australia
made mp the cargo
D.issy vii - Sentenced 81 Justice
Davis on Monday.