Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-05
NELLIE BLy RUINED
 BY EVIL EMPLOYES
Robbed of Over S1,500,00C Through Forged Checks
 on New York Banks


 NEW YORK. July 4.-Mrs. Eliz- abeth Cochrane Seaman. who cireled the globe as Nellie Bly" and then became known as a leading manu- facturer, served notice yesterday upon Appleton l.. Clark, the re- ceiver in the bankruptcy proceedings against her Ironclad Manufacturing company, that he must proceed at once to bring suit against four banks. which she alleges have cashed forged cheeks for her employees amounting to more than S1 .6S0.000. The banks named by Mrs Seaman are the Broadway Bank of Brooklyn. which, she alleges, eashed s1.4O0.0oO of these checks; the Guardian Trust company of New York, S200.000; the First National Bank of Jamaica. Ss2. 800 and the Union Bank of Brooklyn, small amount.
 To back up her assertion that the checks were forged. Mrs. Seaman exhibited last night more than two hundred checks. many of which were made out in favor of Assistant Cash fer. Stanley Gilnick by Charles w. Caccia. Cashier of the Ironclad company. Both Of these are now under indictment.
 District Attorney John F. Clarke of Kings county showed a package consisting almost wholly of checks which had been cashed by Caccia a saloon keeper, with a place of pany's plant, and the amounts were often well up into the thousands of dollars. Many of the checks had the appearance of having been re ceived from customers in payment for goods.
 There many be some question about a few of these cheeks" sad District Attorney Clarke. We can not tell until we examine the com pany's books very thoroughly.
 Systematic Looting, Says Clarke
 'But this much is absolutely cer- tain from the evidences as now clearly established. there was Q sys tematic plan at work by which the company was footed. In half a dog en cases at least-the first half dozen l examined exhaustiy yely-l found evidence of forgery and grand larceny on which l convinced a grand jury in a very few minutes that. it ought 10 return indictments for both the ofTenses against Cassia and Gilnik.
 There is one thing the public ought 10 know about this matter. feel that Mrs. Seaman has been treated outrag ageousiy by some peO- ple among them several creditors I was SO impressed by this fact that did something very unusual in Kings county procedure in bringing the indictments on which the two men are now held.
 T first became interested iu this case when Mrs. Seaman was moving through the Adams Street Police Court to get action against these two men. She had her owu lawyers, but one of my assistants went to ia see her. I found the lawyers for Caccia and Gilnik demanding that Mrs. Seaman bring her books to court. found process servers lined up there trying to waylay her 10 serve papers, so that she feared even to make her appearance.
 Now there was absolutely no cause for the production of Mrs. Seaman @ books in this criminal case aginst + Ieged forsers- It would hve been vastly to the advantage of the group Of creditors. however. to have Mrs. Sea mans books in the courtroom.
 For that reason-that elements not essential to the case were being drag ged in-I took the case out of the pO- lice court entirely ! found some six checks about which there could be no question whatever. and moved directly with the grand jury. It was an unusual proceeding but 1t was necessary tO meet an unusual situation.