Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-31

cheeks. One was for $3.50 and one for
- 500. Maier did not have that much
money In the bank This money was
used to finance an automobile garage
deal. in which Mailer and Smith were
involved.
Scarlet figures in a joint Indictment
with Jennings, Smith and Thompson.
which shows that from July %, 1912,
to the close of the bank, Scarlet was
able to get 81, SO from the bank by
means of checks certified by one of
the three officers. Scarlet, apparent
ly, did not need to have any money in
the bank as long as he could reach one
of the officers and have a check certi-
fed.
Charles Mindnich gets into the mix
up on March %, 1912, when 1t is al
legged he removed a page in the bank
ledger holding the account of Jacob
and Catherine Dover. The account
had evidently been used as an emerg-
ency one by Smith or some one else
and showed an overdraft on the
original page of $1,012.75. On the new
page alleged to have been substituted
by Mindnich a credit balance of this
amount is shown. Another indict-
ment charges him with having on
December %, 1912, entered a credit OF
5000 to the account of John B. Scarlet
when 1t is claimed he knew the de-
posit of $500 had not been made UNI
til three days later, December rs.
Harry W. Foster is charged with
having overdrawn his account sS64.76
on August 8, 1913, and on August
$19S.17, both these dates being only
q few days before the close of the
bank Scarlet is charged in indi-
vidual indictments with the follow
ing overdrafts: December %, 1912,
$29s70; February 10, 1918, $500; March
4. 1918, $500, and March II, 1918. $3.50.
Charge Smith Took Funds.
Coming down to Smith, the thirty
six indictments against him show
among other things that on March
/, 1912, Benjamin J. Hughes deposit
ed check for 1000 In the bank.
Just 81 of this amount got on the
bank books, Smith being charged
with embezzling the other 1899. On
September 6, 1912, it is charged that
Smith embezzled $1,000 deposited by
Pietro Soda; on January 5! 1912, IS, 500
deposited by James Crumps went the
same way, and on December Is, 1911
check for s5,112.S0, given by the
city to the Sharwell Contracting
Company. was never credited on the
banks books, but was embezzled by
Smith.
On June II. 1912, Smith and Jen-
nings are charged with embeSzling a
check of $1,000 deposited by John B.
Dwyer, while the following embezzle-
ments of cash amounts are also
charged against the pair: March 10,
1912, 500; June q, 1912, 1925: same
date, $500. and July IA, 1913, 50, 600
This latter amount is believed to have
been the deposit of woman who has
since the failure of the bank COM
mitted suicide.
In other indictments Smith Is
charged with having certified checks
amounting to S13.960. for Scarlet,
Maier and Haag, seventeen separate
indictments covering these transac-
tons. Thompson, in eleven indict-
ments, is charged with the same
crime. most of his illegal Qualifications
having been made for the Home Prod
utcs and Ice Company.
As told above thirteen men pleaded
today to a total of sixty-five indict-
nents, a total of seventy-seven pleas
being taken. The number of indict-
ments pleaded to by each of the men
arraigned was as follows: Smith. So;
Jennings, IL; Thompson, IA; Scarlet,
5; Foster, .; Mindnich, 2, and Haag.
Armstrong, Melia, Maier, Fike, Moy-
Dihan and Odell, one each.
The amount of bail required from
each man and their bondsmen is given
below:
Bail and Bondsmen.
Augustus Randolph Jennings, 20
Hilton street, East Orange. bailed by
Rudd G.. NOVEL;, "A Watson avenue,
East Orange, $4,000.
Charles Mindnich, SIC South Fiji
OF, t-o,l
Grimm, Sai Thirteenth avenue, Sc, 0O0
Antonio Miele, q Livingston ave-
nue., West Orange bailed by Frank
sMiele, 35 Chapman street, Orange,
S., 600.
Harvey w. Foster. 1913 Fourth ave-
nue., bailed by James e. Bathgate. 254
Roseville avenue $4,000.
William j. Thompson. IS Jay street,
bailed by John j. Haggerty, 80 Wal
lace place, $1,000.
Casper j. Maier, 343 South Sixth
street, bailed by Mrs. Barbara Maier,
S45 South Sixth street, $4,000.
William Armatrong, IS Abingdon
avenue, Bloomfield, bailed by Charles
Wittkop, So Pennington street.. Rob-
ert Boa. LAT Pacific street, and Joseph
J. Messer, 463 Central avenue, $500.
Michael r. Maynihan, Dunelien. n.
j., bailed by Fredic Harrington, 1860
Central avenue, Plainfield, N. J.,
5000.
Arthur c. Feke, 95S Gland avenue,
Plainfield, hailed by A. M. Edwards
314 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge.
$4,000.
william P. Odell. 179 North Sixth
street, bailed by William Fairlee, 1859
Roseville avenue, 10000.
Lowell Haag, 163 Main street, Or
ange, bailed by F. r. Hupt, las Main
street, Orange, $1,000.