The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-30
REMINGTON CO.
CAUSES ARREST
OF AN EMPL0YE
New Haven Man In Tolls
Following Investigation
of Mr.. Davies.

Though the warrant on which no
was arrested in Newark yesterday
charged George w. Gillette of New
Haven, with embezzling $4,000 by
padding the payrolls of the Reming''
ton Arms-U. M. c.. Co.'s Harrison,
N. j., steel mills, the police of Ho-
boken, who locked him up, said he
had made a written confession that
during the 10 months he acted as
chief steel inspector for the concern
he had taken Hetween $4,000 and
$4,000.
r. N. Davies of the Remington
plant in this city, has been on the
lookout for dishonest management
since some time before New York
bankers who have been financing the
cor1pany's huge munitions contracts
assumed, a few weeks ago, full man
agement of the enterprise.
cit is very embarrassing for me TO
talk under these circumstances" said
Gillette after his arrest. Later, per-
haps, may say something"
The Directory of the Living Grad
yates of Yale University shows the
name of George w. F. Gillette in bold
faced type among the graduates In
the class of 1886, Sheffield Scientific
School, indicating he is the Secretary
of the class.
Attorney Kavanaugh, his counsel,
and man he introduced as "Mr. Sim
mons" said they hoped to get bail for
Mr.. Gillette last night, but the bonds
man had not arrived at a late hour.
Mr.. Simmons begged the reporters ito
keep this out of the papers"
"a horrible mistake has been
made" he said ''This man was a
classmate of mine at Yale. He lis in
nocent.'
The name of Simmons does not lap-
pear in the Yale directory among
the graduates of 1895. Mr.. Simmons
was described as "a big Mason in
New York g
Mr.. Gillette's home is at GO Trum-
bull street, New Haven. He has a
wife and one son about eighteen years
old After graduating from Yale he
entered the engineering contracting
business. Two years ago he went into
bankruptcy.
Gillette was engaged eleven months
lsago to become inspector of steel for
the Remington Co. at the Crucible
Steel Co.'s plant, from which the
| Remington Co. has been buying large
quantities of rifle barrels, bayonet
steel and tool STEEL running up to Il so
tons week. Mr.. Gillette's salary was
$50 a week and he was allowed $45 g.
week expenses He made his head
quarters at the Elks Club in this city
and went to New Haven for the week
end.
His Pay Roll $500 Week
Begenning last March, Mr.. Davies
said, Gillette tuned in every Friday to
Arthur w. Bingham, cashier at the
Remington plant in Hoboken, a pay
roll amounting to about $500. This
was to cover the salaries of IL assist
ants and also extra. labor Mr.. Bing-
ham took the voucher without ques-
ton and gave Gillette the cash.
Mr.. Davies went to Harrison and
saw things that made him suspicious.
He engaged the Burns agency In
addition to discovering that the IL
| "assistants'' existed only on the pay
| roll, they found that Gillette was
| charging up labor on docks aid freight
cars for which the Crucible Co. was
paying.
| Last Wednesday Mr.. Davies and the
| other detectives called Gillette to the
Robert Treat hotel and confronted him
J with their discoveries. They quote
him as saying:
sIt's all true, but give me a chance
and II make good" He then went
on to tell, the police say, he had been
spending money too freely IN Newark
'.at the cabarets and such places"
Allow Him Two Days Grace
| Gillette was allowed two days in
(which to make good his peculations
He was to remain at the hotel in con-
slant company Of two detectives. In
| the mean time the agency had also
been looking into Gillette's affairs al
New Haven. Yesterday morning Mr.
Bingham went before County Clerk
EJol,n F. Callahan and swore out the
warrant Detective Sergeant Phelan
arrested Gillette in his room at the
hotel.
Gillette was assistant city engi-
neer of New Haven shortly after his
/ graduation from Yale. The Gillette
Construction Co., founded by his faith
er. had contracts for many large
| buildings in Connecticut before it went
/ into Bankruptcy. Gillette was also
New Haven agent for the Travellers
| Insurance Co.
! Gillette was held in $4,000 bail to
1 await the action of the grand jury
when he was arraigned here today
Testimony was given at the arrange
nent that Gillette had confessed. The
testimony was given by Mr.. Davies
who said that investigation had led
to the discovery that the names III
question were those OF employees OF
| tho Crucihle Steel Co in Harrison.