The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-03
TALE Or HANKy-PANKY
IN L|TH0GRAP HING
Arrests Sought in London, With o
100000 Civil Suit in
Sight.
SCOTLAND YARD is WARY
Ottmann Concern Put Up the Cash and
Says Motley and Miller
Deceived II.
SCOTLAND YARD is WARY

JT., ana Clork n. huIlofs WeuVoo u0IO
on . larceny charge involving 500. 900.
unless the request was indorsed BY the
American Embassy. Tho embassy there
upon cabled the State Depar tment in
Washington for instructions. When j.
Howard Ford was arrested recently BY
mistake for Julius H. Ford. alias Doc
Waterbury. It was explained that only
requests through the embassy would
be honored BY the Yard.
The request for the arrest OF Motley
and Miller came originally from District
Attorney Whitman. who on Monday
asked Gov. Dix to request the State De-
partment in Washington to ask Scotland
Yard to pick up the two men. Who cabled
the request does not appear. The COM
plainants are William Ottmann. president
Of the United States Lithographing Com
pany. and John Omwake and James NJ.
Hutton Of the same concern. II Is al
legged that Motley and Miller. represent
ing the Print Weave Company. obtained
, two sums Of $50. 900 each from the COM
plainants as the result OF misrepresen-
tations in connection with an alleged new
process for the making Of lithographic
plates. The amount the United States
Lithographing Company was to pay
for the rights to use the new process was
very much larger than the si0O. 900. which
is merely the amount alleged to have been
paid over before tho contract was COM
peted The contract was never COM
plcted, it Is alleged. and has since been
repudiated by the lithographing com
pany on the ground of fraud. 1t Is under
stood that civil suits are to he brought
TO recover the money paid over and pos
sibly for damages.
The dates on which the money was paid
over were February and May of last
year. Some time before the first Of these
two dates Motley and Miller were intro
duced to Mr.. Ottmann. They brought ex-
cellent intrOductions Miller was repre-
sented to be grandson of the founder Of
the American Surety Company and Motley
as for some years connected with the
| American Tobacco Company.
The Print Weave Company. they rep
resented. had process for the making
of lithographic plates which effected a
great saving in time. labor and cost.
Certain photographic prints and zinc
plates. they represented. had been made
in q few minutes The cost Of the new
process Motley and Miller are alleged TO
have stated to be lilo of the present
Heebner- Blestein process and plates Of
any size could he made by their process
as then perfected from a small label up
to n poster a by ~ inches. All colors
could be handled.
Mr.. Ottmann and other officers Of the
United States Lithographing Company
went into the matter thoroughly with
Motley and Miller and decided that the
process. when perfected. was good. But
they did not believe that at that time II
was perfected. The first payment Of
$50. .OOO was made and it was understood
that a beginning should be made on
getting together the necessary plant for
the United States company. The work
on the machinery was to be done in the
Print Weave concern at l?4 White street.
| Among the statements alleged TO have
been made by Motley and Miller were
that Joseph Knapp Of the American
photographic Company had offered 3lOO =
OOO for the rights to the invention and
that they had refused the offer: also that
an Elizabethport concern had bought an
interest and was using the process. But
the criminal charge appears to rest chiefly
ON allegati ions that the men at meetings
with the Ottmann people pretended to
show plates made in remarkably short
time by their method.
The complainants would see the plates
60 into the dark room and see them come
out again completed products. and all
much more quickly than could have been
done Ivy present methods. But it 10 now
alleged that this was an optical illusion =
that the completed plate had been made
beforehand by q regular lithographic con
Germ using present methods and that the
change had been made in the dark room.
On one occasion. 1t il alleged. an orna-
mental heading from the National Lsho.
grd dpher was reproduced ON . plate In
ten minutes--by q plate which. It 10 alleged
had been made beforehand. Several
plates OF a picture labelled .Simplicity'
it is alleged. were similarly exhibited a
the work Of the new process. and litho-
graphed posters for violet Superba'
in many colors were exhibited 40 made In
one afternoon.
Soon after the second payment wa
made. it IL alleged. Motley and Muller lsst
town. Efforts were made by the Ottmann
concern to get them to como back and
finiah the contract. but these failed. Then
1t was found. 1t is alleged. that no Offer
had been received from the American
Lithographic Company that no concern
In Elizabethport was using the process
and that the plates exhibited were not
prepared by the new process at all.
The matter was reported to the District
Attorneys Office last month and indict.
ments were found charging grand larceny
in the first degree. Motley and Miller
II II understood. have been spending some
time in tho Mediterranean. They 70.
Gently established themselves In Londor
at 10 Cursitor street. Chanoery Lane.
In New York To-day.
American Horoiogicai Association, conyen.