New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-14

elaborate scheme had been used 10 OBJ
| tain the signature of Wilmerding. Nor
! ris & Mitchell. Livingston, they said.
| had obtained desk room at No. ~
| North Stockton street. Trenton, y. j..
! as John Heinberg. From there he had
written 10 Wilmcrding, Morris ~
Mitchell. saying he was woollen mer-
chant and was shipping them some
goods to be sold He actually shipped
, a quantity OF woollen goods
An aocomplice, it is said. had gone
to an office building on Broadway and
obtaining a mailing privilege from a
tenant for 81 Livingston then filed
out a removal card for the authorities
at the Trenton postofce, directing that
al mail for John Heinberg be sent 10
Room 200 in the Broadway Office build
ing. To make sure his plan would be
successful he sent a postcard TO John
Heinberg at Trenton and had it called
for at the Broadway office.
A letter containing a check for ~
for the goods sent them was received
from Wilmerding. Morris & Mitchell.
The check has not been found, ana
whether It was turned over 10 the pen
man to be copied is not known.
one supposed accomplice says he was
in five such schemes with Livingston.
all OF which turned out successfully.
Two or three more were not success
full. The five. however, he says, Melted
them more than $4,000, Of which he
got about $1,000.
Ii is alleged that one Of the checks
Of Barnett Brothers, jewellers, was OBJ
tanned in similar fashion, and that on
It after II had been certified the United
States Express Company paid to one
OF Livingstons accomplices $500 in
travellers checks. These checks, he
said. he took TO Montreal and there had
them changed into Canadian money.
After a few DAYS stay at a hotel he
had the Canadian money changed for
United States currency and came back
TO Livingston.
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& Dole. auctioneers, was treated in the
same fashion. II was drawn on the
Chemical National Bank and was pay
able TO Zimmerman & Forshay, bank
ers and brokers. In that case Living
ston, it is alleged, hired desk room in
Broadway Office building and adver-
tised In the papers for reliable young
man for office work. The first one that
came got the check for $1,000 to get
certified. IL was certified, and an ac-
complice got $1,000 in cash and q let
ter of credit for 5000 from thinner
mann g. Forshay.
To get check Of the /. b. Kleinert
Rubber Company it is alleged that
Livingston opened a letter which had
been left at his Office by mistake. II
was addressed TO an engraver in a
neighboring office He held it up to
the light. IL is alleged, and, seeing that
il contained a check, opened it. 1t was
check for So but the signature was
there. In that case the accomplice
registered 1T tue Ao'o' houSo "S
Charles Brown and got boy 10 get a
check for s50l2 30, certified by the
Broadway Trust Company. In ex-
change a draft on Toronto. Canada,
was obtained by the accomplice. Then.
IL is alleged. Livingston sent the ac-
complice II Toronto to get the cash.
IL is that last transaction which posi-
lively Identifies the gang Of which Liv-
ingston is said to be the chief, as that
against which banks all over the coun-
try were warned more than year ago.
The attention Of the banks was drawn
specifically 10 one certified check for
| S5.012 80 which had been forged.