New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-19
MAN FINDS LAW IN
WAIT AT GANCPLANK
PoStoffiCe inspectors Arrest
Walter G. FurnaId. Who
Arrives on the Majestic.
WATCHED FOR SEVEN YEARS
Prisoner Indicted in Trenton
on Charge of Using Mails
to Defraud-Held in
$4,000 Bail.

A tall, spare, gray-headed man. with an
alert rudy face as the background for
a close clipped white mustache. leaned
upon the rail of the Majestic's promenade
deck as the liner came up the bay yes
, terday morning. displaying a quiet inter
est in the changes which seven years
had made in New Yorks skyline. on
the passenger list this man. who looked
so much like a shrewd Yankee business
man. bore the Teutonic name OF -.
Schrader."
The purser. who makes ii his business
TO know everything of polite interest
about his passengers. would have told
YOU that this rather distinguished figure
was the head of a London banking house.
on the White Star pier, as the big
boat poked her nose slowly into her dock.
Welding 10 the insistence Of a lot Of fussy
little tugs. a small group OF men scanned
the liners decks with eyes which roved
restlessly from stem TO stern until they
aliGhted upon this Yankee with the Ger
man name. They indicated him TO one
another in low voices, without changing
expressions. agreeing finally that they
need look no further.
But they didn't wave and shout greet
ings 10 him as did the other men. women
and children OH the pier who had spotted
relatives and friends aboard. They only
watched him anxiously until he turned his
eyes their way and then they appeared
utterly disinterested.
This little group of men edged over to
the first cabin gangpank. RS the steve
dores prepared to shove II on the ship,
and fled aboard with the steamship agent
and the customs men the moment IL had
been made fast They penetrated imme-
diately to the promenade deck. where one
of the group detached himself from the
rest and approached the spare, gray
headed passenger
Hello Furnald." he said quietly be-
hind the mans back. The one addressed
didn't start. He merely turned quickly.
brushed the metal shield on Detective
Lieutenant Moody's breast with his
glance and then smiled quietly at him.
We'll. what is It this time he asked.
You are looking very well. but little
grayer than when | saw you last" re-
turned Lieutenant Moody. suavely.
What do YOU want me for?' persisted
the other but still smiling.
"For-but first let me introduce you 70
my friends here. j. r. cortejyou. post
office inspector IN charge Of the Philade-
phia district and Inspectors Jacobs and
Brigham. attached TO the New York Of
fee"
Il had a very pleasant time abroad.
thank you" said the gray haired one tn
greeting, "and | am just a little sur
prised at my reception here" lie didn't
ask again for what he was wanted. lIo
knew
You'd better get your grip and come
along" said one OF the inspectors. We've
been watching you in Europe FOR seven
years"
The prisoner smiled again and said:
We'll, that's pretty good. ] wish had
known it
Seven years ago Walter G. Furna.d was
indicted In Trenton for using the mails
10 defraud. II seems the authorities had
identified him with two concerns which.
1t is alleged. advertised to furnish capital
for new companies and pocketcd the fees
received without performing any equiva-
lent service.
John l.. White. the president OF one OF
these concerns the Capital Securities and
Purchasing Company. with Offices in the
Metropolitan Life Building. and Clyde
Cole. an officer OF the other. the Imperial
Trustee Company OF Jersey City. are
now awaiting trial.
Furnald anticipated arrest by departing
for Europe and as the offence with which
he was charged was not extraditable the
government could do nothing but watch
him. This 1t did with "A vengeance. Fur
nald Il Is said, continued his operations
abroad, both In London and Paris.
The postoffice inspectors turned their
prisoner over to Marshal Henkel. at the
Federal Building. In the afternoon the
marshal took him before Commissioner
Hitchcock. who admitted him 10 s.. so
bail on a bond furnished by the Illinois
Surety Company. He will be examined
on October 2.