The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-19
FREY JAILED IN
BALTIMORE ON
FRAUD CHARGE
BIG SHlPBUILDlNG PLANT
MAN, WHO TRIED TO OP-
ERATE HERE, GETS IN BAD.
NEWPORT NEWS Is NOW
WORRIED.

Th dorore A. Frey. the $5.000,0 900
tiated with the Brunswick Board of
Trade for several months. and who
proved to be a sChemer, has been ar
rested in Baltimore. Frey. after try
ing almost every port along.the coast.
finally succeeded in getting the people
of Newport News, Va, interested in
his scheme, and here is what the
Daily Press, of that city, had to say
about his arrest in Baltimore:
News from Baltimore yesterday that
THEODORE A. Frey and George A. Hill,
general manager and secretary, re-
spectively, of the General Erecting and
improvement company, were under ar
rest in that city on charges of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, was
received here as one of the sensations
of the year. Following right on the
heels of the action of the common
council Tuesday night in agreeing to
contract with the General Erecting
and improvement company for the es-
tablishment of $5,000,000 shipbiulding
plant at the city boat harbor it caus-
ed shock and literally came as
''bombshell." Although public opinion
is much divided, and there is no end
of speculation, a majority of the mem
bers of the city council are inclined
to await the outcome of the hearing
as, they point out, the men are pre-
sumed to be innocent in the eyes of
the law until convicted and the char
ges have not yet been proven.
From telegraphic and long distance
telephone messages it is learned that
Frey and Hill maintain offices at No
10 East Fortieth street, New York city.
Recently they went to Baltimore
where they inserted the following ad-
vertisement in the Baltimore Sun on
December 8:
Observation-Disclosures, craftsman,
foreman and bookkeeper fog plant in
Virginia; small investment required
For appointment phone St. Paul 4400,
room 1907"
On December 10 they were arrested
on complaint of Alton Stump, a Bal
timOre man, who charged that they
had obtained money from him under
false pretenses. They were held un-
der bail in the sum of 81 900 but were
released yesterday after a preliminary
bearing, the result of which caused
them to be bound over to the grand
jury. According to the story told by
Stump he answered the advertise
ment, applying for a position He
said he was told that before he could
secure the job he would have to take
5000 worth of stock in the company
and also go to New York to take a
complied with the stock requirement,
he says. giving the men check for
5000. Later he became suspicious
for some reason not stated in the dis
patches, and had them arrested.
In a long distance telephone mes
sage yesterday the states attorney
in Baltimore said that his office was
now thoroughly investigating the case
and until his inquiry was completed
could not discuss the merits of the
charge of conspiracy against the two
reputable lawyers, he said, and the
lawyers stated that the defendants
proposition was bona fide The men
were released on nominal bail.
An attempt to learn something
about the General Erecting and I'm
provement company and its officials
brought the following dispatch from
the Daily Press New York represent
ative last night:
"At the office of the General Erect
ing and Improvement company at 8
east Fortieth street, no information
could be given because Thedore G..
Frey, the general manager, and George
A. Hill, the secretary, were out of
town and could make no statement on
| behalf of their company. Theirs are
the only officers whose names appear
on their sign. The nature of their
business, further than their title is
a description of it, our representative
found 1t impossible to learn from their
office anything more"