New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-12
DOC LYMAN HID
In STOCK FRAUD
Continued from page I

undoing In the ferry terminal station
at Market Street Lyman, a powerful
man, nearly six feet tall threw his
200 pounds upan the United States
Marshal and escaped. Handicapped by
sprained ankle. he was taken within
twenty-four hours and guarded in n
hospital in Oakland. There he induced
his keepers TO take him out for night,
and while dining ia "a questionable re
sort made his escape in company with
Thonet, his man Friday, who was ar
rested yesterday.
lie was captured later in Lakeview,
Ore, and sentenced with Thonet 70
serve eighteen months in the Federal
penitentlary at Bee Island. On release
he was taken TO Los Angeles for trial
for escaping from custody.
On his release he went TO England
and returned here about year ago, ac-
companied by Mrs. Lockett, wife of a
prominent British army officer, who was
recently reported killed in the trenches
in France. He was with her at a sum-
mer home in Freeport and there a child
was born. II is believed that she sailed
for Liverpool on July 8.
According TO the records Of the post
Office authorities Lyman was associated
with John ". Gates IN 1908.
His recent instalment plan stock en-
terprise in Broad Street was operated
with apparently honest transactions. the
inspectors declared. and by this means
he inspired the confidence of brokerage
houses with whom he did business.
There was little in the game OF get
rich quick finance that Lyman did not
know. He even did business with the
IL e ~
Thonet was often in the Office of that
firm.
According 20 women employees when
ever Thornet was called up on the tele-
phone at the brokers' Offices he was
paged as mr. Thornton" He was in
troduced By Putnam as the latters
nephew.
Lyman. while doing business under
the name OF Joshua Brown & Co.. at
40. - Broadway, bought a seat on the
Stock Exchange and was admitted IN
January. 1901. When his activities
with the international Zinc swlndle be
came known six months later he was
asked 20 resign.
The firm OF Joshua Brown 6 Co.
closed its doors and Lyman dlsap-
reared. within a few weeks be became
active in Boston as the Junior partner
of Brown & Lorimer and assumed the
name Of DR.. J. G.. Lorimer. lie had
not been long in business IN Boston
when the police got on his trail, but he
evaded them, quitting the city with
50 900 a customer gave him 20 Duy
/ 600 shares OF stock on a 3-point mar
gin.
LYMAN. when he left here ia 1911,
was accompanied, OF followed, by Miss
Maud Lehman. daughter Of wealthy
family here. Several weeks later IL
was said that they had been married
in California.
While in New York Lyman lived FIRE.
quently al the Waldorf Astoria. When
! his boss had flown. Thonet, the Man
Friday. suddenly appeared at the OF
ice Of John Lyttle. OF - Cedar Street
receiver for the defunct company. and
deposited ten shares OF common stocF
Of the du Point de NemOurs Powder Com
pany. worth about $4,000, and i've
shares Of the International Petroleum
Company. worth about S62. Also he
deposited FIVE $1,000 banknotes.
II was found that Lyman, alias Johr
II. Putnam. had S9l5 70 the credit OF
Putnam & Co. on deposit In the Chat
! ham and phpniX National Bank anC
sjl5 in the Atlantic National Bank.
On Wednesday, long after Lyman haC
made his getaway. checks from trusting
clients amounting 10 $1,000 poured into
/ the Office
It is estimated that Lyman drew
about $50. 600 from banks and brokerage
houses the day before he closed w
: shop.
An involuntary petition IN bankruptcy
was filed YESTERDAY i'm the Federal Court
against John II. Putnam q Go.
When arrested last night Thone'
wore costly diamond ring and scarf
pin. which the inspectors declare he ac'
quired within the last three or Tour