Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-19
ARLINGTON MAN IS
HELD IN NEW YORK
Frank w. Allen Pleads Guilty
to Forgery Charge in Man.
haitian Court.

Frank W. Allen, of 106 Linden ave-
nue.. Arlington, who has been en-
ployed for more than twenty years
by the Swan g. Finch Company, a
subsidiary of the Standard Oil Com
pany at 161 Maiden lane, New York,
pleaded guilty yesterday to an
Indictment charging him with
forgery in the third degree. Behind
the indictment on the charge was
his confession that for the last eight
years, since his promotion to the
cashiership, he had systematically
robbed his employers.
Just how much Allen took during
these years will not be known until
accountants go over his books. The
man himself does not pretend to
know, and the surety company which
exposed his defalcations is interested
only in establishing that 1t was at
least $S,000 the amount of the bond.
Those who investigated the matter
believe that Allen used the money to
maintain himself and family in cir
cumstances not warranted by his
salary of something more than $4,000.
He refused yesterday to comment on
TINS, but those who know him scout
the IDEA that he was a Broadway
spender.
Allen, In statement to j. Whit
more Barry, claim agent of the FL
deity and Deposit Company of Mary
land, said he had been taking cash
from cash payments and covering
such taking of cash with checks re-
ceived later, which | would not
credit to the customers sending in
such checks and depositing the checks
to offset the cash which l took" He
confessed that in April he deposited
checks to the amount of $5,SS7 in this
way.
Allen went to New York from his
home yesterday, and knew when he
arrived in Manhattan that he was to
be arrested, although he did not
know what the specific charge would
be. He Is f1fty-two years old. mar
ried and the father of two children.
He was dressed we'll and rather
spruce in appearance when he
stepped before Judge Mulqueen In
General Sessions. He broke down
and wept bitterly when the charge
was read to him. He pleaded guilty
and was remanded to the Tombs for
sentence next Friday.
His wife did not learn of his arrest
until late yesterday. When told it
was intimated that he was fond of
women and life on Broadway, she
said:
mat Is aDSOluteiy raise. No man
could have been truer husband and
better father than Mr.. Allen. l cam
not deny the embezzlement charge,
because I know nothing about it, but
/ dare say 1t Is as groundless as the
other.
Mr.. Allen has not failed to be
home from business by Z o'clock In
the evening twice in the last year.
He never went out at night unless /
went with him. We attended the
Trinity Episcopal Church at Arling-
ton together, and 1t was the rarest
thing that he was away from home,
unless at church, except when he
went to business"
Allen recently contributed liberally
to a fund raised by the church
The information brought to As
sistant District Attorney Pfeiffer,
who presented the case to the grand
jury, is that Aliens downfall was
due to his fondness for women and
the white lights of Broadway, and
that in his desk were found letters
which threw light on his activities.
Finding these letters, however, was
denied by an officer of the company.
Since May 10 Allen has been under
suspension by his employers, and dis
crepancies were found in his ac-
counts The specific charge is that,
April %, Allen failed to properly
enter q check for $3,779 received in
payment. Behind 1t, however, is a
story of, defalcations covering seven
or eight years, the total of which, ac-
cording to Aliens confession. is 10000.