The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-17
ROBBED NELLIE BLY, COMPANY
STEiISNGS or EMPLOYEES NAY
REiCH SIlbD.OOO.

Cashier and Assistant of American steel
Barrel Company Locked lp on Fors.
cry Charge Many Irregularities An.
pear IN Books Of the Concern.
Caccia Of IS Hemlock streot. Brooklyn.
cashier OF tho American Steel Barrel
Company. a concern affiliated with and
having the same address "a the Iron
Clad Manufacturing Company. which
Mrs F.. C. Seaman. who used to be known
a. Nelly Bly,. inherited from her husband,
the late Robert Seaman. disclosed to the
police series OF forgeries and other
transactions by which the Steel Barrel
Company has been robbed OF at least
$50, 900 and perhaps several times that
sum.
Mrs Seaman il president. treasurer
and director OF the Iron Clad Company.
and In the complaint against Caccia she
appears as the treasurer of the Steel
Barrel Company. Both concerns are at
20i Varet street. Brooklyn.
The specific charge against Caccia is
the forging OF Mrs Seaman's name to a
check for $3.50 drawn on the Peoples
National Bank of Brooklyn on January 27.
1911. csshing the check and appropriating
the $3.50. With Caocia was arrested
Stanley Gielnik Of ~ Woodland avenue.
Woodhsven. l.. J.. assistant cashier OF
| the Steel Barrel Company. He is charged
with acting in concert" with Caccia
Both men had been in the firms employ
for about seven years.
Both men were locked up at Police
Headquarters. They were arrested by
Detectives Wilbur. Talt and Oswald
The particular check transaction men,
toned on the police record was one of
many, unearthed by the Audit Company
OF New York. which began work on the
/ Steel Barrel Company's books week
ago Monday After working several
days the Audit Company experts turned
up certain accounts which were irregular
on their face in that they had been charged
of az bad debts or to profit and loss wher
they should have been carried as assets
for the amounts charged.
As soon a. the irregularities were dis
covered the thirty Office employees were
questioned, particularly the cashier anc
his assistant. Two days ago. according
to T. Ludlow Chrystie OF IFS broadway
counsel for Mrs. Seaman and for thu
company. Gielnik. the assistant. made
confession involving Caccia. Mr.. Chrys
tie refused last night to make public tn
details Of the confession.
The check in connection with which
lCaccia was arrested was taken from 1T
proper place in a check book and inserted
between numbers S9i and SS5. the inserted
check being numbered 3si A.
Mrs. Seaman. as treasurer. signs al
the company's checks. Caccia. according
to Mr.. Chrystie. admitted that he signe'
Mrs, Seaman's name TO the check II
question. explaining that he had don
SO many times in the regular course
business when Mrs. Seaman failed 4
come to the Office. He denied that h
had appropriated the money TO his ow
use. as Gielnik had said in his confession
but said that he had told Gielnik to de
post the money to another account
, Caccia, Mr.. Chrystie says. failed TO pro
duce any record to prove his assertion an
il was found that Mrs. Seaman had bee
in the Office and had signed other check
I on the day when the alleged forgery wa
= done. Mrs. Seaman's name did not az
= near on the cancelled check and Caccl
a explained that the banks recently rt
r ouested their clients to tear on the sif
+, natures on cancelled checks.
Other checks were found to whicl
a Caccja had signed Mrs Seaman's nam
? but which appeared to have been put
X legitimate use in the company's business
. But Caccia it is said. had no anthorit
4 to sign Mrs Seaman's name at any time
= Mr.. Chrystie said that il was impossib
o to tell how long the Irregularities ha
= been going on, but that the report OF II
Audit Company which will soon be read
=. would show There We're, he said. gre'
, many irregularities not yet explained
He added that the investigation indicate
q that various other methods besides Tori
= ing checks had been used to steal none
/ from the company He refused to ga
(, whether others besides Caccia and Gieln
we're involved or to give an estimate
= the stealings beyond saying They W
= run over $4,000"
r From other sources IL was learned tn
It the Audit Company's Investigations IND
|. Gated that the sum stolen from the Ste
n Barrel Company might he in excess
$500 600.
n Mrs. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman b
l. fore she married the late Robert Seam'
ID was a newspaper writer under the nan
=. Of Nellie Ply She did many picturesq
d things and duplicated the feat of Jul
Q Verne's hero by making trip around q
il world in eighty days. a record at that tim
= She was doing newspaper work in Chica
M when she met Mr.. Seaman.
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