New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Police AIIege a Full Confession
from Accused Enploye of
w. R. Grace & Co.
NO CASH LOST BY THE FIRM
Method Used Said To Be a Fake
Gable Order Purporting to Come
from Peru, on Which Cash
ier Gave Check.

/ No. Hanover Square was arrested at
| his desk yesterday afternoon by Assist
ant Superintendent John w. Rogers OF
/ The Pinkerton Detective Agency and De-
! tcctive Michael Reith of the Wall Street
squad. and was locked up i'm the Old slip
/ police station, charged with forgery.
/ The operations leading up TO the deposit
Of check for s1255O with the New York
Trust Company Monday morning were
what sot the young clerk into trouble.
The police say Monet MADE complete
confession and described with the great
/ est detail the lengths TO which he went
/ 10 get the firms money.
| The young clerks confession and com
posure, however. followed a theatrical
| demonstration in the Offices Of w. X.
/ Grace & co. yesterday afternoon, in
which Monet was by no means equal 10
! his part BY prearrangement the de-
| tectives walked in and accused another
/ employc OF forging the order and collect
! ing the money. The accused clerk pro-
/ tested that he was innocent. As the
scene continued and the detectives and
/ the versatile clerk warped up to their
work. Monet. near whom the sketch was
being acted, began to grow pale and
show signs OF agitation.
Trick Is Followed by Admission.
/ lust as the accused employe seemed 10
1 be on the verge of collapse as the result
/ Of the seeming third degree work of the
idetectiles Rogers suddenly whirled
around leyelled an accusing finger at
! Monet and exclaimed:
you know you are the man we are
/ talking about"
I Monet the detectives say. collapsed
and nodded his head weakly. He was led
! Immediately into private office, where
| the detectives say he made a complete
confession, which was heard by J. Louis
| Schacfer, the cashier and treasurer Of
! the firm.
/ According to the admissions which
! Monet is said TO have made during the
two hours that he was closeted with the
detectives and heads Of the firm, his
fight into the realms of high finance by
way of the forgery route was put in mo-
ton about ten days ago. The young
man, who speaks six or seven languages
| nuently. was employed to decipher cable
messages. so that nothing was suspected
when he appeared before the cashier Of
| the company on the afternoon of Novem-
Der IS and presented a money order from
Lima, Peru.
This order which was written in Span
ish. was translated by Monet as follows:
"Pay SO. 800 i'm United States gold or
equivalent in care Of British Consul.
Payment is TO be made at buying rates
Of exchange for commercial bills on New
York. three days sight in Philadelphia,
t. Francisco Munoz'
Attached TO the order was the name OF
w r. Grace e Co s agent in Lima
Cashier Makes Out Check.
i check was made out by J. Louis
Schaefer. the cashier, for S12,jJO and
forwarded To the British Consul in Phil
adelphia. The cashier noticed that the
original of the order had not been turned
I'm. but the matter was not mentioned at
The time. Monet's first move, ii is said,
was to go to HCbOken and call up a Mr..
BatZ. cashier for the Philadelphia branch
of w. II. Grace & CO. To him Monet
represented himself as Munoz, a Peru
Wan. ana inquired for money for him
from Lima. He was told that the check
had been sent 70 the British Consul.
Monet went to Philadelphia on the fol-
lowing day and presented himself before
the British Consul with letter Of ideu-
! tifcation purportns to come from Batz,
the cashier. The identification was so
unsatisfactory. however that the inter-
view ended in an arrangement whereby
the check was to be returned to New
York. whittier "Munoz" would 80 ON
Monday and be Identified by w. Il. Grace
. s. Co
Monet was in W. r. Grace q Co.'S Of
! fee bright and carly on Monday morn
ing. and as the Office boys sorted the
mail Monet, so the detectives say he told
! them. saw letter from Hollngsworth
& Peterson. Of so. 131 Chestnut street.
PhiIadelphia, ". Y. Grace < COS agents
/ IN that city. Tearing open this letter
/ Monet found the $3.50 check inside.
! He mdorsed il. the detectives say he ad-
rlits. and deposited it at tho New York
/ Trust Company. AT No 26 Broad street,
and received "A check book and a deposit
book
/ Yesterday .IIollingsworth and Peter
son communicated with w Il. Grace *
co relative TO the check. and the new
York firms suspicious were aroused. y
detective agency was Immediately sum
! .oned into the case cafle message
20 Lima brought back the r:ompt reply
thai no order to pay Sl2,j"0 10 Fran
cisco Munoz had been sent. and about
This time. however, the New York Trust
COMPANY asked the cashier of w. r..
Grace & co. If the So, 80 check was all
right Monet's desk adjoins that Of the
cashier. who talks in a loud voice, and
hearing the conversation over the tee-
phone. Monet. it is said, left his office
and hurried To a public telephone booth
Iat No. - Broad street. where he called
nm ~. Il. Grace * co aud represented
: himself as an official Of the New York
/ T.ust Company. and. making one more
desberatc effort Ia the matter lac told
cchacfcr over the telephone that the
/ .AIunoz" matter had been arranged
| tiafactorily.
Monet lived with his parents az %.
90 Kingston aveuu", Brooklyn He was
! soop 10 bo cent to La Paz. Holi'ia. as an
accut for the firm.
I N,rct did not fc1liho cent ol cash "n