Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-17
WAR WAGED ON
P0STOFF|CE
SW|NOLERS
ARRESTS IN NEW
JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA
Offenses Range From MiSre-
presentation in Patent Medi-
cine Advertisement to Run
ming Fake School.

yBy Morning Journal Special Lsasaa whel
Philadelphia, Dee. 16,-Nineteen
arrests were made today by postal IN
spectors in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey in the governments crusade
against persons accusing Of using the
mails To defraud. The defendants
were given hearings before United
states commissioners and held in bail
for trial or for further hearings.
| Seven OF the defendants We're given
hearings in Philadelphia. These were
! fou1 officials of the Chain Shoe store
syndicate with offices here, two COM
Stitute the Pine Heights company, a
New Jersey land Improvement con-
cern, with Philadelphia connections,
land the seventh Is a local physician.
A list with the results of the hear
chain shoe Store syndicate--Louis
Rice. president, Philadelphia; An
drew G. Patterson, first president,
also president Of the Excelsior Trust
company, Of Philadelphia Edgar
Pohlig@ second vice president ana
treasurer George II. Brooks, third
vice-president. Philadelphia. Each
was held on $1,000 for further hear
ing.
Pine Heights company-Robert q.
McMorris, Philadelphia; Harry f.
stanton, Ocean City N. j. Waived
hearing and held in $500 bail each
for trial.
other individuals arrested were;
DR.. j. B. Hornstein, Philadelphia.
Charles b. Mckee, Huntington, Pa.
j. 5. Lepsch, Ridgeway, Pa.
John A. Weitzel, Lancaster, Pa.
Abram Stauffer and Oscar A. Staut-
fer, Palmyra, Pa.
William s. Lean, Lebanon, Pa.
Abrah S. Stauffer, Palmyra, Pa.
Ira &. Webster, Newark N. j,
Oscar Gustafson, Jersey city, n J..
s. Joseph Silverman, Pittsburg Pa.
Louis Conrad Conrad Lotz ana
William Bingham officers Of the Cor
Iresp0ideite lnlgitHse Of AHferica, az
scranton,
This organization has no connection
with the international Correspon-
dence school
The government alleges that the
Chain Shoe Stores syndicate sold
stock through fraudulent representa-
tons
Or. Hornstein, the Philadelphia
physician, is accused of sending
through the mails circulars advertis-
ing "A remedy, and is charged with
making fraudulent statements in his
literature.
Conrad Lott and Bingham are re-
spectively the president, secretary
and treasurer, and manager of the
Correspondence Institute of America.
The postal inspectors allege that this
concern procured lists of high school
students and wrote to them their
names had been recommended as
those OF persons with artistic talent
on this account the institute offered
a $42 course OF art instruction under
its faculty of fine artists for $3.50.
II was said there was no faculty Of
artists, but there were 10000 stu
dents enrolled in the books of the con-
cern.
Mckee. who was arrested in Hunt
ingdon, traded as the Charles b. Nc
Kee Commission company and the
Huntington Fruit and Produce COM
pany. II IS alleged that he bought
produce of farmers through the mails
and failed to make payments
Lepsch is a jeweler, and Is al
legged to have defrauded the Adams
Express company with a false claim
for $4,000 damages His claim was
an alleged loss of $4,000 worth of
jewelry which he said he had sent to
a Philadelphia jewelry firm, for ap-
prais8l. II is charged that Lepsch
merely sent an empty box through the
express company
w NeltNel IS accused OF DuylnR bronze
ana iron casting through the mail
and neglecting payment.
Gustavson Is said To have sent inn
proper literature through the mails
Silverman Is alleged to have col- |
lected money for supposed charity |
using the names Of Pittsburg people |
their consent
The arrests. IL is said. were ordered |
by the postmaster general. who had |
postal inspectors at work on the cases |
for a month and "A half