The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-08-04
CLEVER SW|ND[E
N|PPED IN THE BUD

! Because of the suspicion that hun.
dreds of employees in the dining car
service of the Southern Pacific. in.
cluding conductors, walters, porters
and cooks are involved in a gigantic
conspiracy to defraud the company in
sums that are even now alleged to
reach from $4,000 to $4,000 month,
Frank Rowland, a former conductor,
living at III Ninth street, Oakland,
was arrested yesterday.
Many arrests or at least dismissals
are expected to follow, but singularly
enough Rowland, who has confessed to
practically being the head and front of
the conspiracy, may escape punishment.
The police are in doubt as to what
charge to place against him and it is
entirely possible that he has not com
mitted any offense under the criminal
laws of the state.
Refuses to Reveal Plotters
SO far Rowland has refused to dis
close the names of any of the others.
who must necessarily be involved in the
far reaching crime. Whether the 9th
ers can be reached without a confes-
sion is doubtful. He will not say how
long the thieving has been carried on
or what amounts of money have been
stolen
The method revolved about the Sins
that are given to those who patronize
the dining cars and upon which thew
write their orders.
In part-how much may never be
known-these slips as furnished by
the railroad company to their con-
ductors in the dining cars have been
discarded by the dining car employees
and those furnished by Rowland SUBJ
stituted.
The lithographing plates from which
tne company's numbered and printed
slips were counterfeited are in Captain
Iof Detectives Peterson g possession
having been found at Lemon Brothers,;
lithographing establishment at S24
Athens avenue. Rowlands admits he
used these plates.
Counterfeited by Wholesale.
Rowland, it Is believed, originated
the scheme of successfully counter.
feltIng the books and generally mh-
stituting them.
Rowland has admitted to Captain
Peterson that he disposed of eighteen
OF these books, containing so slips
each, within the last ten days. So
far he has not told how much money
was paid or to whom he sold them.
Rowland was arrested by Railroad
Policeman Wynes and Detective EmiQh
at his home, where he has been living
with his wife and family almost in the
shadow of the Pentecostal Church of
the Nazarene, at Ninth and West
streets; in fact, he has been occupying
the church rectory. He will be held in
detenue while detectives try to iden-
fifty his accomplices.
Nipped in the Bud.
p. J. Kinlelon, chief detective of the
railroad, when asked about Rowland's
arrest, said:
Rowland has been using his sphony'
or counterfeit dining-car checks or
slips in collusion with some of the din
ing-car conductors for four or five
weeks. These conspirators probably
stole $4,000 or $4,000 up to date. Had
they not been discovered they might
have managed to steal as high as $10,-
1000 in a month. Rowland could not
have worked his scheme without collu-
sion on the part of diningc car con-
ductors. Among Rowland g effects we
seized copy of an oath he required
each confederate to take and then
jointly sign with him. BY this oath
they both swear never to divulge to
any mortal being the nature of their
business and relations. .''-Examiner.