Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-25
Supposed to Have Been
Lost, Two Are Located.
Newark Man Is Called
Their Attempted Prey.
G. E. HENRY STENCIL WAS
VICTIM THEY SOUGHT
One of Trio, a Woman, Is on
Way to- Europe; Another Is
Caught in Ohio, and Third
Still Is at Large.

Iured to the Hotel SeVllie IN Ne"
York. it is said, on the pretense that
he was to be reimbursed for his loss
when the steamship Titanic went
down. c. e. Henry Stengel, OF this
city, found himself in the grasp of
two of the alleged confidence men
who were on board the steamship
and who, 1t was thought. had per-
ished. He was an intended victim of
the old overlapping game, 1t Is
claimed. Following a free-for-all
fight in a room on the fourth floor OF
the hotel, Mr.. Stengel, after knocking
out both men, managed to make his
way to the street. They got away.
One of the men has been arrested in
Columbus, O., by the federal authori-
ties, while his companion still is at
large.
1t was generally supposed that all
the crooks who We're ID the steam
ship persisted. Last week, however, n
OF the supposed swindlers. who under
tie name of Smith," met Mr.. Stem
gel on the Carpathia, appeared in
this city and succeeded In having Mr..
Stengel accompany him to Manhat-
tan. Here they met a second one.
who was supposed to be a superln-
tendent of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, and who was to de-
wise the ways and means by which
Mr.. Stengel was to recover all he had
lost on the boat. 1t was after they
had explained their plan that Mr.
Stengel started the rumpus which re-
suited in both men being laid out for
the count. 1t was the same plan by
which William J. Mason. of Norfolk
Va. was swindled out of $4,000 by
the same pair.
Mr.. Stengel, after he had failed to
find the two alleged crooks when he
returned to the ROOM. took the mat
ter up with Deputy Police Commits
sidher Dougherty, of New York. He
later got into communication with
the local authorities, with the result
that Lieutenants Tuite and Mafer, OF
the detective bureau, have been work.
ing on the case during the past week.
They have located the woman in the
case, who is now on her way to
Europe on the steamship Crown
Prince wilhelm, accompanied by
woman who alleges that she is her
mother. The younger woman, who is
known as Edith Rosenbaum, Is
thought to have worked with the men
on the Titanic and later on the Car
pathia.
The woma is said to have been re-
sponsible for bringing Stengel and
the other man together. All being
survivors of the wreck, ct was an
easy matter for her. From the start
the man, who was afterward known
as George A. Brayton, complained of
his losses, and said he was without
a cent to reach his home In Los Ange-
les. Mr.. Stengel told him thai II the
White Star line did not give him
Transportation to his home he wouls
personally attend to the matter. AS
a result, Brayton was in almost daily
communication with MI. Stengel.
They became quite friendly and
Brayton was invited to- dinner at the
Stengel home. He accepted only
after Mr.. Stengei had promised to ae-
him to New York the next
day.
Last week Mr.. Stengel carried out
his promise and was met at the Hud-
son terminal building by Brayton,
who took him to the Western Union
building. On the fourth floor they
came across a man in his shirt
sleeves in the corridors. The latter
was supposed to be the superinten-
dent of the company, but was too
busy al the time to talk with the
pair. He advised that they go to a
hotel, where he would join them
later.
Stengel and Brayton had been in
the room at the hotel only a short
time when the third man appeared.
He is said to have outlined a scheme
whereby the trio could clean up a
fortune with an Investment of $1,000
each. In his capacity as superinten-
dent of the telegraph company. he
was in a position, he said, to hold up
the results of the horse races for as
long as eight minutes, time enough
for the other two to place their bets.
He was to notify them of the names
of the winning horses over his pri-
vate telephone. Stengel. however.
would have none of the scheme, and
when he attempted to go out found
that the door was locked.
Before he could make his way out
1t was necessary for Mr.. Stengel to
knock out both of the men. He left
them both lying across the bed and
made his way to the ground floor.
Here he waited for about a half
hour and then went back again. The
others, however, had gone.
The mar Smith who is arrested
In Columbus, Ohio, is wanted by the