The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-27
SAYS Other MAN
MADE HIM STEAL
Secretary Of c. d. Morgan & Co.
\ Is Declared to Have Taken
Thousands.
CASE is MADE A MYSTERY
9Haviland, on Police Books as
Treasurer and Accuser, De
mics Being in Firm.
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New York. August a7.-Behind the
arrest of Alfred j. Connolly. secretary
of the brokerage firm of c. Morgan
& Co.. of No. 30 Broad street, for tue
alleged larceny OF a cheek for SIG,
there appears to be some mystery that
the police department and the District
Attorneys office have not yet solved.
To add TO the mystery the man who
is said by the police to be the complains
ant positively denies any connection
with the case.
Connolly, who is twentysix. lives at
7a1 Carroll Street, Brooklyn. He
was arrested at the Broad Street office
upon an order from Assistant District
Attorney Moss. by Detectives Flood
and Leigh. and was taken at once to
the District Attorneys Office. where he
was closely questioned by Mr.. Moss
and Assistant District Attorneys La
velle and Du vivier. Then he was
locked up in police headquarters. and
there was a long conference between
one of the men from the District At
torneys Office and an official of the
Carnegie Trust Company, where 1T was
said the check had been cashed on
August 3.
Bigger sum Mentioned.
1t was afterward admitted that there
the alleged appropriation of $4,000 OF
the FIRMS cash on August l and that
the amount missing from the strong
box of c. D. Morgan & Co. Is much
greater even than that sum. Accord
ing TO the detectives, Connolly con-
dded to the assistant district attorney
that he had been yictimized by another
man whose influence over him was
strengthened by threats of exposure.
To this other man, the detectives say,
Connolly admits he turned over secur-
is not yet known.
According TO the police, the complain
nnt in the case is James T. Haviland.
treasurer but Mr.. faviland. at his
home at 1919 Bedford Avenue. Brook
Ign, positively denied that he had made
the charge or was connected with the
firm of c. D. Morgan & Co.
Denies Making Charge.
This is the first / have heard OF
err II cannot believe that he is guilty
of any crime: but if he has reall,
stolen anything 1 am positive that HI
must have been merely tool in tn
hands of some other man.
Il resigned from the firm OF 2
Morgan & Co. on May IL. had beel
treasurer until then. l am now II
business at 20 Broad Street. but nay
no connection whatever with the OF,
firm. Upon my resignation the firm
was reorganized, and F. w. Davis, VIII
is now in the West was made presi
dent and Connolly secretary. ha
sOd my stock in tns eS %sS my at mann TN
is; drawn into this matter Is some
thing that ! cannot ~. unde ,na naisore
gave the District Attorneys office tn
name of the other man" whose IN
iiuence led to the alleged thefts, and tina
another more important arrest VIII fol
low soon
Incorporated in 1908. Connolly wa
then a clerk in the Office, but on Feb
ruary s last he married Miss Ma.
Ford. a school teacher. in the Eri
Basin District, to whom he had been en-
gagged for several years, and as ;
the firm, with the title of secretary
Airs Connolly IS now stopping at Rock
away Beach. -,
Connolly is very popular in the dis
trict of Brooklyn In which he, lives
He is a member of the Cathedral Gu
and regular attendant at st. Franci
Xavier's Church