New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-20
DUPE REVEALS SECRETS
OF FORCER SYNDICATE
SAYS Livingston Sent Him to
Canada with Password to
Get Checks.
WAS TOOL" he ASSERTS
Clever Penman Who Forged
Names So Skilfully Banks
Certified Paper Without
Question Is Still Free.

Through the arrest yesterday OF Joseph
csst,er ON u bench warrant charshs
ts,r with forgery iu the second degree
the District Attorney learned more u
the methods by which Myron A. lAN-
ingston is alleged to have swindied pa slil>s
all over the country out OF from S0V'V0O
10 500 O0O Livingston was drItS'e" i"''
week as the head Of the gang OF iofEerS'
Three more indictments charging loIse''
81, tho second degree were filed yesterday
seainst Livingston, who is alleged 10 nave
used an elaborate password system loi
his tools
Caetner was arrested al his home AT
W Il; West 10th street BY Detectives
Elooa and Leigh, of the District At'or-
rov,s Office. and Donnelly. of the Plnker-
ION agency lie asked 10 be taken oeio'o
the District Attorney to make eie'"
breast OF his part in Livingstone alA,,s
lie was taken before George H. MeuaN'
the Assistant District Attorney WHO mas
charge OF the Livingston case.
,,,st,er said he was formerly PioS-
,,o.o,,s furrier and had known LlNlhsS'o'
{, casual fashion for years Nhen III
called IN business Livingston came 10 i',''
No said. with an offer Of Work VIM"
,..o,,,a nay well. Cashier did not Know
he said. that the work was H''e'''
though he had his suspicious
Used Password in Toronto.
7, August. 1911. Gastner said he was
.,nt % Toronto by Livingston. lie was
,,,.+~uctad 10 take a check from young
man he would meet in the station VIM
would exchange passwords with MIN
That young man, Mr. Medahe mas olS'oN
erea. was Louis Fastenberg' VINO sup
nosed that the work he was doing Ior
livingston was in regard TO Ieal estate
deals 80.
Gastner said he later learned that not
orlv did he and Fastenberg 90 to toronto
an the same train. but that lAVinss'o"
wont along too, and kept an eye on theH
90 Soc that they carried out their part oil
the deal IT,.
Fastenberg. il Is alleged, took with MN
% drof, nm the ROYAL Exchange Bank oil
Canada for $500. which was issued DE
the Broadway Trust Company III en-
change for a forged certified chech' ~
,be station in Toronto he met Gasther
,rbo was dressed in accordance with
description previously furnished TO Fas-
tanberg Following out the prearranged
plau. Gastner says, FastenbeTg aooresseu
him in the following terms: Hello are
Won q married MANI" Gastner gave IN
rAplv the catchword which he says was
furnished by Livingston: NO, not on
your tintype"
Having thus identified himself to Fas-
tenberg, the latter, Gastner says, handed
him the draft which lie cashed He re-
turned to New York ignorant OF the fact
that LIVINGSTON was keeping a watchful
eve on him and met Livingston in his
Office. There, Gastner says. he turned
over the $3.50 TO Livingston, minus eN-
penses and 500 commission
Foreer Still at Liberty.
Cashier was arrsigned before Judge
O'Sullivan in General Sessions ana re-
handed to the Tombs in default Of s. 800
hail. Livingston is still in the Tomos,
having been unable to find bail, which in
his case was fixed at $1,000. The pen
artist who. II is alleged, forged signatures
ON checks so skilfully that banks never
hesitated TO certify. the checks, has not
been arrested.
Besides the Indictment for the Toronto
affair, two other indictments returned
against Livingston yesterday are in ref
erence to checks amounting to more than
$1,000. one was a check for $4,000 drawn
ON the City National Bank TO the order
Of cash and purporting TO be signed
bv Gaudig & Blum, furriers. The other
was for s72e drawn on the City National
Rank. pavable TO Knauth. NachOd q
Kuhne and purporting TO be signed by y.
Iarnport, a neighbor of Livingston in