The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-14
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE NABBED
BAD CHEtk COSTS JAMES ID.
HtLLEN ms LIBERTY.

trrcN the Latest Chapter H. stormy
Career of Man VINO Dashed Iela,a =
lircam Of Empire 10y Cartridge Swtn
hlr VIE Ignorant Of Ills History.
James D. ilallen who says he is broker,
vas arrested IN the dining room Of a
house at los West Eigh'ieth street whore
hc was boarding. last night charged with
giving Brokaw Bros. bad check for
$685. IN payment for clothing he obtained
there last saturday He was locked up in
the Mercer street station.
In Nicaragua the name of James D..
Hallen is well known in the cafes. for one
James u. Hallen sold in 1907 boxes filled
with copper dross to the Nicaragian
Government and President Ielaya' =
dream of consolidating Central America
10y means of cartridges the boxes were
supposed to contain vanished. Also
Washington was interested enough in
James D. Hallcn to have him arrested
in 1911 on the suspicion that he was in the
I Spying business in the employ of Diaz.
The James u. Hallen who was arrested
last night went to Brokaw Bros on Sat
urday and selected an overcoat. a suit Of
clothes and pajamas and in payment
rendered check drawn on the Manhattan
Trust Company for s89s5. This check.
according to Joseph Burke. who does de-
tecting for Brokaw Bros. came hack
marked no account" Then Burke was
pu, on Halcn's trail.
At the time Hallen rendered the check
he gave the address Of 1856 West i20th
street. But Burke found that he hadn't
lived there for some time and picked up
a trail that led him to the little towns of
Suifern and Tallmau. y. Y. III Tal!man
Burke heard that Hallen had moved to
the Colonial Hotel. at Eighty-tirst street
and Columbus avenue and ther" again he
heard more not ia Mr. Halen's credit.
, They said he had left there without set-
Ting in full and that they had thre" of his
trunks. Then Halen moved 20 the board
ing house where he was arrested.
At the time Burke called last night
Hallen was eating dinner With his wife.
Mrs. Hallen said that she had cnly been
: married t. Hallen n short time. She
lived in SufIern. where she had met him
over two years ago. He never told her
a much abov, hims ,lf and she supposed ne
? was a broker. A short time ago their
, , home in SufYcrn burned down and she los,
~
= She had Only 8! left last night when
! her husband was locked up in the Mercer
u street station.
. Burke in his hunt for Halen ran aCros,
o a diamond merchant. John W. Block o
A II Maiden lane. who said that he ais,
: wanted to find "A James u. Halen. II,
:, said that Hallen had bought a si5i dia
i mond ring on The day that Ia got the cloth
: ing at Brokaw's and had given in paymen
. a check on the Greenhut-Siege Cooper
Z Company bank, and that the check hac
"a not been good.
= The name of Hallen mentioned IL
4 Nicaragua would call forth excited com
Il ment. He was very familiar with CeRtra
= American politics, knew the game SO vel
| in fact that in 1907 when he found tha
the Nicaraguan Government was trynl
\ Ia buy cartridges with which Presiden
5 Ieaya could intimidate all his neiGhbors
= Talcn convinced fchrsarc rcta that he wa
IN" one man Zelaya was looking for. s.
= he got tho contract To supply 1000 ON
;. cartridges at $ilWr. Then he had som,
r nice boxes built which looked Just lik.
Il cartridge boxes and filed them up with
n copper dross which doesn't make goo,
\ ammunition.
The boxes reached the Nicaragmu
Consul-General at Bluefelds and wer,
there pried into with Joyous haste which
changed To wrath against one Hallen
i. when the contents were disclosed. Wher
Hallen drited back TO New York he wa,
arrested, charged with grand larceny II
the second degree A, his trial he Offered
= in defence that Guatemala had heard OF
I Zelaya's scheme Of consolidation and ap
. pointed Hallen to act as it's guardian ano
:, see that the munitions purchased b,
= Ze!aya did not reach Nicaragua, Tn.
g copper dross scheme resulted Haller
6 was hailed hy his counsel rs tD, sayip