Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Broker Lyman
 Back in New York
CLAIMS FIRM OF J. Fl. PUTNAM
 & co IS SOLVENT
WIFE ACCOMPANIED HIM
Declares Persons Who Sent Money to Him Were of More Than Average intelligence - Would Have Made More by Dealing Straight.

New York, March 1.-John Grant Lyman, who was arrested several days ago at St. Petersburg, Fla, where he fled from this city Feb. 8, after the discovery of an alleged oil stock swim dle said to have netted him more than $500, ,O00, was returned here tonight in the custody of government agents. Deputy United States Marshall W. D. VinZant of Florida, who accompanied the party. declared Lyman conhded in have operated six weeks later as John H. Putnam & Co.," he would have cleaned up a million dollars" Dupes of More Than Average InteIIi-
 gence.
 Lyman, who it is believed, was about to leave for Spanish Honduras on a motor boat when he was apprehended, boasted that persons throughout the country who sent their money to him for investment were above the average in intelligence and that 'it was a pleasure to him to know that he got the best of them" according to Vim zant. Lyman was locked up in the Tombs on his arrival here.
 Will be Arraigned Today.
 He will be arraigned tomorrow in the federal court on an indictment charging him with illegally using the mails His wife accompanied him here from Philadelphia, where she went earlier in the day. She was per mitted to sit with him during the two hour journey.
 Lyman is quoted as stating that his disappearance from New York was not due to postoffiCe inspectors inves- tigation of Putnam & Co.,, but to the fact that Gorham Tufts of Los An geles, who was on his bond of S2O,0O0 when he fled from the California city two years ago after being convicted fhara iY1 md fY-or rR1 As o1- and secret service men were trailing a chauffeur formerly in his employ in hope of learning his whereabouts. Protests Company is Solvent.
 PostoffiCe inspectors who went to Florida to get the fugitive say he l protested to them that Putnam & Co. was solvent" and that he would also told them, they said, that once when he was an honest broker" be was cleaned out of a fortune of S3o0,- 000- He then became "a sort of get rich-qufck operator" they said he boasted of having reaped soft bonds in Switzerand
 Would Have Made More by Being Straight.
 Vinzant asserted tonight that I,y- man told him if Putnam & Co., had | invested the money entrusted to the | firm during the boom which it ere ated in oil stocks. Lyman would have realized a great deal more money. $2o,ooo in Bills Taken From Him. The prisoner complained that S26.OOO in bills of $1 900 each was taken rom him by the arresting officers in F1ori- da and has not since been accounted for. Fifteen thousand dollars in cur | rency and one hundred shares of Steel stock, which captors say they found | on his person have been forwarded here from Florida, it was announced. $1o,ooo in Philadelphia for Wife. Lyman, who journeyed most of the way to Florida by automobile after his disappearance from New York says he deposited $1O,OOO in a Philadel- phia bank to his wife's credit. She failed to get 1t, he said, because she did not correctly interpret a code mes sage he sent to her.