New-York tribune., 1910-06-01
WIRES DECEIVED AGAIN
As Usual. After Elaborate Pur-
suit, Tappers Got the Money.
GROCER HAS A MAN NABBED
Harrisburg Victim Bemoaning
Loss of $4,000 That Was to
Have Won Him Fortune.

Have Won Him Fortune.
| Cruising In the blue waters Of the Medi
terranean, lolline across the continent ~
| luxurious private cars, in fact, treadins OF
! the soft and even surface of the royal roat
| to wealth and ease, were a few of th'
pleasant prospects held before the trusting
! eyes of Frederic Louster, of Harrisburg
Penn, by select crowd of wire tappers
Yesterday Louster, his dream of rosy hut
dissipated by cold hard facts. caused tht
arrest of one man who, according to hi
plsint, had something TO do with the dis.
appearance of $1,000 that used TO be his
own
THE story recited to the police by Louster
is much like the tale told last April by
Henry Wagner, OF No. 50 Cooper Square
a billiard table manufacturer, who had
caused the arrest of a man who said he
was John Brown. According to the police.
Wagner had been lured TO ST. Augustine,
Fla, By e group of real estate men, who
played the races for pastine, and in
cidentally pried Wagner and s1d,bo4 OF his
money apart
The man arrested yesterday gave his
name as John Hartman, q salesman, Of NO.
15 West 16sth street He vas standing at
the corner OF 47th street and Seventh ave-
rye With Ave other men when Louster
pointed him out to detectives from Head
quarters The others got away.
I<ouster told the police that he vas q
grocer In Harrisburg, and made enough
money 10 dabb1e In real estate The dol
lars continued 20 roll into Loueter's Golfers.
and. as he was looking for new worlds to
conquer, Hartman came aion9-u-ith prop
osition.
Was Louster interested in helping 70 en-
gineer a great real estate deal whereby.
with bis valuable knowledge Of market
values, he might reap riches such as
Cresus never even dreamed of Then let
him 60 TO Jacksonville Fla, where an
enormous deal in choice Southern lands
was about 70 be completed
Louster was agreeable, he said But be-
fore going 10 jacksonville Hartman ex-
plained TO Louster it would be necessary
for them TO stop of at Baltimore, where
they were TO meet a group Of CAPITALISTS
These men of money, according 70 Hart
nan. we're banded together to buy up choice
sections Of Florida land, and it was his
scheme to beat them TO II and obtain op-
ttons on the same land
Having done this. IL would be easv to
dispose of these options to the nniiIionaires
at rich advance. As Iouster had the
necessary experiences in these rnatters-and
the necessary noney-Hartnan pas willing
to share his good fortune
While discussing real estate in Baltimore
II Tas natural that the group Of capitalists,
Hartman and Louster should turn their con-
Tersatacn TO horse racing. Jouster vas told
that there vas some SORT Of match race
on and the men Of money rere reckless
with their Increment, but the man from
Harrisburg had nothing in his head but
the lure Of the land and paid little attention
TO the details of the ponies.
Just because Louster was NOT taken vyj.r
the horses was no reason why he should
not act az stakeholder for those who had
bets down, however, and consequently he
allowed himself to be Official guardian Of
some $4,000 in checks ana real money.
Louster YVES delighted with the trust re
posed IN him, and when the bettors srg-
gested that he ought to prove his standing
he agreed with them, went back to Harris
burg and got certified check for $1,000
Louster was told that the match race had
been called off and that the capitalists had
gone 10 New York, and IT would be all
right II he would follow them and dis
tribute the bets He went TO Ner York
with Hartman and met the rest OF the
gang. All hands retired TO house In West
I'D street. where 10 while away the after
noon the races were played on advance
Louster csshed In on 500
bet
Flushed by Success, Louster grabbed
hook, line and sinker, when he was fold
that a big killing was coming OF. He h,,r-
ried out and csshed his $4,000 check. End
then placed the lump surn on the horse he
1as told to play. Iouster was game and
when they told him that his horse ran
3 good third he accepted the facts as thev
themseive. ard looked about for
more.
The next thing dished up for his con- |
was the information that auotner
sure thing was due, and that he would
surely recoup his first losses If he were tn |
get in on this. He did. TO the extent Of a |
modest 5000. and that was ali il cost him
10 learn that his horse might have won
lad not another beaten him under the wire |
That made him stop. and his next confidant I
was a policeman.