Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-17
POSTAL FRAUD RAIDS
Nineteen Arrests in PennsyI-
vania and New Jersey.
ALL ARE HELD IN BAIL
Various Forms Of Cheats Charged
Against Defendants.
CONCERN SOLD FAKE STOCK
Remedy Misrepresented by Ply
sician-Art Instruction BY
Correspondence.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, December H.
Nineteen arrests were made yesterday
in towns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
in the governments crusade against per-
sons accused of using the mails to de-
fraud.
The arrests were made by postal in
spectors. All the defendants were given
hearings before United States commits
sioners and held in bail for trial or for
further hearings on charges of "using
the mails to defraud."
Seven defendants were given hearings
in Philadelphia. These were four officials
of the Chain Shoe Stores Syndicate, with
offices in this city; two other constitute
the Pine Heights Company, New Jersey
land improvement concern with Philadel-
phia connections, and the seventh is a
local physician.
List Of Defendants.
The complete list of defendants, with
the results. Of their hearings. follows:
Chain Shoe Stores Syndicate-Louis l..
Rice, president, Philadelphia; Andrew c.
Patterson, first vice president, also pres
ident of the Excelsior Trust Company Of
Philadelphia; Edgar Pohlig, second vice
president and treasurer; George H.
Brooks. third vice president. Phiiadel-
phia. Each was held in $1,000 for fur
Their hearing.
Pine Heights Company-Robert G. Nc
Morris, Philadelphia: Harry F. Stanton.
Ocean City, N. ]. Waived hearing and
held in $500 bail each for trial.
Other individuals arrested were:
DR.. J. B. Hornstein, Philadelphia, $500
for court.
Charles B. Mckee. Huntingdon, Pa
81 600 for further hearing.
J. 8. Lopsch, Ridesway. Pa. $500 for
further hearing.
John A. Weitzal. Lancaster, Pa, $1,000
for trial.
Abram G. stauffer and Oscar A. stauf-
fer, Palmyra, Pa, $500 each for court.
William s. Lean, Lebanon, Pa, $500
Abram 8. stauffer. Palmyra, Pa, $4,000
for court.
Ira c. Webster, Newark, n. j., $1,000
for further hearing.
Oscar GuStaySOn, Jersey City, n. j.,
81, 800 for further hearing.
S. Joseph Silverman, Pittsburg. Pa,
$500 for court.
Lewis Conrad. Conrad Lott and William
Institute of America at Scranton, $1,000
each for further hearing. This organiza-
ton has no connection with the Interna-
tional Correspondence Schools.
Mail Fraud Charges.
The government alleges that the Chain
Shoe Stores Syndicate sold stock through
fraudulent representations.
DR.. Hornstein. the Philadelphia physi-
clan. is accused Of sending through the
mails circulars advertising a remedy, and
is charged with making fraudulent state
ments in his literature.
Conrad, Lott and Bingham are respec-
lively the president, secretary and treas
urer and manager of the Correspondence
Institute of America. The postal in
spectors allege that this concern pro-
cured lists of high school students and
wrote to them stating that their names
had been recommended as those of per-
sons with artistic talent.
On this account the institute offered a
forty-two-dollar course of art instruction
under its faculty of fine artists for $1S 50
ists but there were 10000 students en-
rolled in the books of the concern.
Farmers Not Paid for Fruit.
Mckee, who was arrested in Hunting
don, traded as the Charles B. Mckee
Commission Company and the Hunting
don Fruit and Produce Company. 1t is
alleged that he bought produce Of farm
ers through the mail and failed to make
payments:
Lepsch Is a jeweler, and is alleged to
have defrauded the Adams Express Com
pany with false claim for 5000 dam
ages. His claim was on the alleged loss
of $1,000 worth of jewelry which. he said.
he had sent to q Philadelphia jewelry
firm for appraisal. 1t Is charged that
Lepsch merely sent an empty box through
the express company.
Weftzal is accused of buying bronze
and iron castings through the mail and
neglecting payment.
Gustavson is said to have sent improper
literature through the mails.
Silverman Is alleged to have collected
money for q supposed charity. using the
names OF prominent Pittsburg people
without their consent.