Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-13
MAY ASK ARREST
Of SEVERAL IN
BANKRUPT'S CASE
Charge Made That Snyder Con-
ceaIed Assets and Was
Aided by Others.

Several arrests, it developed today,
may follow as a result OF the charges
preferred against Louis Snyder, the
bankrupt haberdasher, of this city,
who left Newark before he could be
arrested ON Federal warrants charg-
ing concealment of. assets and per-
jury. The expected arrests will be
based on Investigations made by
George Furst, attorney for the Sny-
der creditors. The last of these i'm
vestigations consisted of an exami-
nation of N. o. Woodruff, freight
agent OF the Pennsylvania railroad
before Referee Atwood l.. De Costel
at o. IN. Thursday.
s. T. Klawans. Of the United State,
department of justice for this dis
trict, today received a communities
tion advising him to prepare war
rants for the arrest of Louis Lesser,
a. local tailor, and father-in-law of
Snyder; Aaron and Seymour Snyder,
sons of the bankrupt, and Louis
Mendelsohn, who had charge of
Snyder's Elizabeth store The letter
suggested that all these persons be
charged with conspiracy to conceal
Snyder's assets in anticipation of
bankruptcy for the purpose of de-
frauding creditors.
The letter also advises Mr.. Kla-
vans to further investigate the con-
nections of I. L and H. Lapidus.
cousins, of Rochester, n. Y, who
are said to be implicated in the al
legged conspiracy. 1t is alleged they
took charge of twenty-nine cases OF
clothing shipped from here to NJ.
Raefels, Rochester, and reshipped
them to B. Friedman, in New Haven
and Boston. 1t is asserted that these
twenty mine cases were shipped f~cm
either one of Suyder's stores. Both
Raefels and r'edman are fictitious
names, 1t is alleged.
Snyder's sons, Lesser and Mendel-
sohn are charged with assisting to
ship the goods to Rafaels The sons
and Mendelsohn admitted before
Referee De Coster that they had
shipped goods from Snyder's store
in Elizabeth, but declared they did
not know where it was going or why
it. was being shipped. They said they
thought It was being returned to the
manufacturers Mendelsohn said he
understood that Snyder was opening
another store in Rochester with the
stock shipped away.
At Thursday nights examination Mr..
Woodruff declared that Louis Lesser
shipped case of clothing to Rafaels
in Rochester on October 2s. He ex-
hibtted the way bill, which was No
1880, and called for one case of
clothing Weighing 1.500 pounds. billed
by Lesser to Rafaels. II is on this
testimony that the charge against
Lesser Is to be based.
Toby Furfit. acting for his brother
George, returned today from a "trip
to Rochester, Boston and New
Haven, in which cities he located
eighteen out of the twenty-nine cases
alleged to have been shipped away
Twelve of these were found in New
Haven, four in Boston and two in
Rochester. Eleven additional cases
had been taken away from the
freight station at New Haven of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, Toby Furst alleges, by a
man representing himself TO be B.
Friedman. He further alleges that
these cases were sold TO an auc-
tioneer in Canada, whose identity he
could not learn.
He located twelve cases in a ware
house in New Haven in care of B.
Friedman. The two cases in Roches-
ter we're still in the freight station
in care OF NJ Raefels. The four
cases in Boston were also in the
e'ght station. George Furst az
reared before Federal Judge Thorn
of Connection, who was sitting in
New York last Friday end obtained
an order on he New Haven wa G.
hors' to turn over the cases held in
Fr'edman's name.
On Thursday of this week George
Furst examined Jacob P Craven. of
70 Clirtcn avenue. Rochester before
Bankruptcy Referee Nelson in Ro-
chester. Craven is step-brother of
Snyder's. Craven admitted to the
referee, Mr. Furst says that he pur-
chased 81 400 worth of goods from
SNYDER during the last part Of No
vember. THIS was about two weeks
before the petition in fankrupt ~
was filed against Snyder This
amount OF money did not show on
Snyder's bank books, which he ex-
hibited in court