New-York tribune., 1912-04-03
CHARGE 100000 FRAUD
Three Members Of Lithouraph
Concern Say They Were FIeeced.
ASK LONDON POLICE AID
District Attorney Cables Scot.
land Yard to Arrest Alfred II.
Motley and Clark A. Miller.

William Ottmann, director Of the United
States Lithograph Company, OF the .Etus
National Bank and Of the William ottmann
& co. beef house and president and direct
or Of the Peek Flaming Lamp Company, has
complained TO the District Attorney that
he has been swindled out OF $4,000 Asso-
: cisted with him in the loss are James "
Hutton, OF the brokerage firm OF ". L.
Hutton & Co. who Is vice president. Of the
United States Lithogrsph Company. and
John Omwake another member OF tho lith-
ogrsph COMPANY
! Acting OF his complaint tho District Al
torney has asked Scotland Yard TO arrest
! Alfred ii. Motley, jr.. and Clark 4. Miller.
who are now believed 10 he in London. Mr..
| Ottmann told the District Attorney that
Motley and Miller persuaded him by false
| representations TO invest with his two ss-
sociates sj0.G00 on two different occs slons
in new process Of lithogrsphing. The
new process" It is alleged. was a myth.
! II WAS on February ., te1i. that Ottmann
/ and his friends were persuaded 70 part
with the first $4,000 Motley and Miller
/ told the representatives Of the United
States Lithograph Company that they wet'
/ the propretors Of tho Print Weave Com.
! pany. the owner Of a new process for print
ing and rthographIns. Llthographic prints
and zinc plates, they said, could be made
bv their process within a few minutes 81
one.tenth the cost Of the Heebner Bls'.
stein process then in general use.
| Certainly Sounded Fine.
! Mr. Ottmann was told. he said. ths,
nrint. Of anv size. from labe 10 the lars-
! est posteE. s. inches by 81, could be rnads
and the label could be enlarged TO the sizs
of the poster. Autographs containing sry
number of colors could be run of on
single sheet. he said. The process vas 10
! ouick that orders could be taken In the
morning and the Autographs delivered In
the afternoon. Joseph F. Knapp, president
Of the American Lithographic company
Mr.. Ottmann says ne was tod. had tired
n b,Iy the process for $4,000, but Wss re-
! fused.
| Mr. Ottmann stated that Motley and NIL
ler showed him Autographs Of good WORK
manship which purported to have been pro
durod by their process. They told him n"
said that a concern in Elizabethport y. j,
had houebt 49-IO0 interest In the process
for 800 Ooo and was turning out samples
thev showed him. Twenty-seNen htAo
ora mis- could be turned out AT time. Mr.
Ottmann understood. Among the "samplaS
/ which he saw was picture onutleh 0lH-
pricitv". another was a tide from The
National ithographer.' a trade paper.
| These. he said he was told, were tVrnep
out inside of ten minutes.
Tho two promoters. he said, picked eht
| an advertisement. apparently At ranoorn.
of tho Violet Superbs" face powder ano
| said that they would reproduce " for MN
| nv afternoon BY their process IN 'hH
afternoon they showed him lthograph o.
the same figure. saying. he alleges, mat y
had been turned out through their process
The talk ended in the investment by MN
and his two friends Of 5000 in the process
So Easy, They Return for More.
| on Nav Q he says Motley and Miller
came around again. This time thsy
claimed. lie alleges, that they had founh
that the process was applicable 10 WORK on
| cloth as we'll as on paper. They shoTso
him some more samples and again hs
with Mr.. Hilton and Mr.. omwake. Invested
! $4,000.
| last month. when be reported the mat
tor 70 the District Attorney. he sain thst
| investigation showed tho two promoter'
had no new process; that thelr Hiho
praphs we're made by the ordinary metno1
and that the samples shown him AMI
which he believed 10 have been made on
tho spur of the moment, had really been
made several days in advance. Moreover
no complained, there was no such concern
| a. that they had named as being in blzs-
bethport. and Joseph Knapp. president ~
tho American Lthosraph Company' han
never offered tho promoters $4,000 for ta'
! process.
Motley he described az thrty-fva "rsr'
old six feet tall. slender and with gray
! mustachc. His companion. Miilsr' hs sam
was thirty nine years old, about thA Sams
height. stout and deaf in one e9r.
Mr.. Ot,mann lives at tho Apthor7 apsr'
ments. At Broadway and 18th street "
was said there last night that he was not
I'm and would not return before TO-DAY
Jnasmuch as the District Attorney had no'
been notified Of the arrest Of Motley sn'
Miller. no explanation could bc had AZ nis
office as to why the complaint was dNlay"n
for nearly year after the last 'So"V ha'
been paid The United States LithosraP"
Company is an Ohio corporation