The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-20
THREE MOUVQUVVES ARRESTS
GOLDNER AND BURKE m GRAND
JURYrS GRAFT NET.

KFeuseher Ineluded AlaO--IndletmentI
Charge Forgery and Grand Larceny
-The Thres Accused Men Appear
IN COurt and Are Released Oa Dan.
Matthew J. 0oldner. former sheriff
of old Queena county. Cornelius J. Burke,
who about a month ago resigned a. gu
perintendent Of sewers Of the Borough
OF Qusens and Robert Kreusoher, q
hotel keeper % ROokaWay Beach. were
arrested and nrraiRned before Justice
0arrstsOn in the Queens county supreme
Court. Long Island City. yesterday after.
noon on indictments charging them with
grand larceny. forgery and attempting TO
collect false olAims
Two indictments were returned against
Goldner. One charges him with grand
larceny in having appropriated 10 hia
own use a check Of t5SO given BY the
Mathews Realty Company on September
"a. 1913. when GOldnsr was Superintendent
II sewers. for permission 10 connect
certlAn houses with the sewers. A second
indictment charges him with having failed
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sworn report OF the receipts Of his oIhOs
fled with the City Chamberlain weekly.
- require by the Charter.
Of the two indictments against BJTks
one charges him with forgery in the
third degree in forging the name 81
ThomAS Brown TO four alleged reports
made Of sewer inspection work. which
the indictment AYERS was new r performed
The second indictment charges him with
trying 20 audit and collect from the city
the alleged false claim made in the name
Of Thomas Brown.
Three indictments against Kreusoher
grow out Of the inspection Of a privat
sewer in Channel avenue. Rockaway
Beach. According 20 the indictments
KPusoher was appointed a sewer in
spectOF on this sewer but never per-
formed any work. He Is charged with
grand larceny and presenting fraudulent
claim 10 the city for work alleged 10 have
been done a. an ms pector on tho Channel
avenue sewer
The Grand Jury took a recess until
Monday. and bench warrants were issued
for the accused men.
Burke was the first 10 he arrested. He
was quickly followed by GOldneT, but
Kreusoher. who was at ROCkaway Beach.
did not get 10 court until after O'Clock.
0oldner was Rrraigned first He was
held In q. 500 bonds on each indictment.
Former Borough President Joseph Ber-
mel went his surety.
Burke was tho next 10 he arraigned.
He also gave bonds II = 500 on each in
diCtgnent, Peter Hauck hecoming his
surety Kreusoher was held In 1850
on each II the three indictments. and
John KreusCher Of ROckAway Beach be-
came his bondSman. All three pleaded
not guilty. They have ten days in which
70 make motions
For more than twenty years 0oldner
has been prominent IN politics in Queens.
He was Under sheriff Of Old Queens county
and IN lseO was elected Sheriff. When
consolidation took place in isoS he was
made Superintendent II Sewers u Queens.
which position he held for eight years
and it was for his alleged Illegal acts while
in that Office during the administration
u former President Joseph Cassidy that
his indictment was brought about. He
IN about 50 years old and lives In Elm
hurst He is married.
Burke married the widow Of q well
known hotel man In NeWtOwn. and the
recent rise IN real estate values in Queens
has made him wealthy KreusOher IL a
well known politician and Democratic
leader at ROckauay Beach.