The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-11-26
HELD IN $6OO,000
BANK SWINDLES
EX-Clerk Accused Of Theft
or Forgery of Stock
Certificates.
FORTUNE IN POCKET
Alleged Fugitive Had $97.-
900 Check and 5000
When Searched.
BOASTS or GETTING CASH
One Philadelphia Bank Accuses
Prisoner Of Securing S137.-
600 by Trick.

young man who stepped jauntily
from n train at the Pennsylvania sta
tion last night was put under arrest as
"a fugitive from justice by Detectives
Slavin and Reynolds Of the Greenwich
street station.
Subsequent developments made it ap-
pear that the prisoner had. single handed
swindled a number Of big New York
banks out Of more than half a million
dollars by the theft or forgery OF stock
certificates.
James r. Foye Is his name. the young
man says. and he is a brother OF Police
man c. Foye. who was mixed up in the
police graf, case and the Rosenthal mur-
der prosecution.
He has a room at the Waldorf and
used to be- private secretary to John W.
and Charles q. Gates when they were
operating in the local stock market.
The Pinkertons announced at o'clock
this morning that they had recovered
s20S.0 mostly in cash. that Foye had
put away in different hiding places
Shortly after Foye was put in a cell at
the Greenwich street station repre-
sentative Of Davies. Auerbach & Cornell.
, lawyers Of "a Nassau street. appeared
with summons and complaint in n civil
action to recover $4,000 advanced by
the Corn Exchange National Bank of
Philadelphia az a loan on 1900 shares Of
, General Electric stock. worth $4,000.
which. the cosnpistst says. were forged
or sioleu' by tho defendant
Isad Fortune In Pocket.
In Foye's pocket when he was arrested
was Il certified check for sa7 900 from
the corn Exchange Bank IT Philadelphia
and also Ave 81 600 bills fresh from the
presses.
Charles r Brown. a Philadelphia bond
broker mad. the complaint on which tn,
prisoner was held Brown negotiated tn.
loan with the bank and said 10 detective.
that he had paid Foye more than slo0.oo,
in the last month as loans on stocks
Foye SAID in the station hous" that h,
had worked for the Farmers Loan an,
Trust Company of New York up to thre.
months ago as clerk on a salary o
s,5 a month. When asked wha, he Ina,
done he replied. smiling aud apparent,
in good nature.
well I'd been working for those peopl,
for a dogs salary and | made up m!
mind to get them. and l did"
He said he was 80 years old, hut look I'd
much younger. His clothes We're in tn.
latest fashion and from a notebook II.
carried II was gathered that he was go
ing To Europe as soon AS he could liz
expected to get the certified ss7, 900 check
cashed here to-day and then to take 7
steamer. The notebook gave directions &c
the best hotels abroad, how to tip tn,
foreign waters properly and other trave
details.
Has Room 1T Waldorf.
Foye. for the police record, said he wa
; single but later he told a detective tina
he had been married but was no longe
living with his wife. He gave his ad
dress as II East Thirty third street. bu
the appearance Of A. W. Smith. house de
r tective AZ the Waldorf. showed that IA,
had a room in the hotel A search wa
!, made OF his apartment there late las
night. but nothing was found except /
; bountiful supply of clothes. A big buncl
Of keys he had made the detectives thinl
that he had put lot OF cash away /,
safe deposit vaults and was going to TAX
it all with him to Europe.
He has $4,000 In New York bank
according to "A check book he carried, bu
Supt. Thornhill of the Pinkerton agency
whose clients the Corn Bank of rhiladol
phia are, refused to tell what instItutio
1t was.
Foye will be arraigned in the Jefferso
Market police court this morning as
fugitive from justice, but the complain
4 will probably be- changed to grand larcen,
= Who will make that charge the dete,
= tives refused to say last night Augusta
i V. Heely. vicc-president Of the Farmer
@ loan and Trust Company, said that hi
I institution was not concerned In any wa
with IA criminal prosecution of Foye.
= Samuel Sloan. one Of the Farmers Trui
:. directors, admitted that Foye had bee
@ employed there up to short time az
but would say nothing more.
o Other hanks Here Suffered.
1t In understood that several other banl
Il ing institutions In the city suffered. b'
the PinkertOns would not tell which the
were,
The Greenwich street detectives did NJ
hear of the case until 6 40 o'clock yeste
day. A wire from the Philadelphia poll'
: sent Slevin and Reynolds scurrying up
=, the Pennsylvania station. They got the
- Aust In time and nabbed their man an
: was walking from Pullman car
He took his arrest uncOncernedly al
didn't appear worried. lie wanted to ser
" for William r. jerome TO defend him. b