The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-24
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 SPINDLE CAUSES ARREST OF.PAIR


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 The newly patented machine would reclaim all the waste oil and gasolene | which runs every day into traps be- low New York's thousands of garages. The process was to separate an appre-. ciable amount of good commercial gasolene and other bi-products from the waste. A factory could be start ed in Boston and later. if this proved successful. one could be installed in 1 New York, after which, the business growing, factories would be placed everywhere. The cost of running | would be nominal. The profits would be enormous.
 l But the Fire Commissioner of Bos- ton would have to be bribed before such an institution could be started there, for, you see, he would have to give his permission before they could violate the fire laws. How much would it cost to Ibribe him? Well, in the neighborhood of $7,500. But that's a small figure. We've got a Boston banker who wants to invest s40,000 just as quick as we can show him the fire commissioner won't object to a factory in his town
 Two Promoters Arrested. This is what Reginald Beecroft and John McVickar Richmond of the Oil and Waste Products company, or the OH Reclamation company, a corpora tion with offices at 1 West Thirty | fourth street, who were arrested at the Vanderbilt hotel, are ac- lcused of having told Jesse B. Wilson, Wilson is a coke and coal dealer at Broadway and lives in New Brighton, Staten, Island.
 Wilson admitted he had as much as s7. 800 in the Port Richmond bank. But would it be right to brfbe pulp lie official? To. ease his conscience, says District Attorney Swann, the men permitted Wilson to "buy stock in their concern to this amount.
 'Tn order to carry out the con- spiracy," said MT. swahn, ''they brought in McPherson, who was a down and out hotel clerk. He was shabbily dressed, but the claim is that MT. Richmond bought him suit of clothes and an outfit, so as to have him dress the part of a banker. When the conspirators got ready to pull off the deal they took Wilson first to the Manhattan hotel Gin Manhattan) and explained the scheme to him and in. troduced' the alleged Boston capitalist I-McPharson who had been instructed what to say, and Wilson agreed to put up $40.000 in cash provided the Bos- ton Fire Commissioner could be fixed so as to get permission for the conn pany to do business in Boston.
 Richmond and Beecraft took Will son to Boston on one train and had McPherson follow on another. They stayed at different, hotels in Boston, as follows: Wilson at the Copley Plaza, Richmond at the Touraine, Nc Pherson at the Commonwealth Hotel, Beecroft at the Copley Plaza with Will son."
 When they arrived in Boston they experienced trouble in cashing Will sons check, so Wilson opened up personal account in the Shawmut Na- tional Bank there, depositing the certi- hscate. This was on Saturday, Dec. II, last. On Monday Wilson drew out $7,500 and handed it to Beecroft and Richmond. Two witnesses, 1t is said, saw the division of money. That night, says Beecroft a big dinner was given to celebrate the fact of the re- puted bribery of the Fire Commission CT.
 After the men returned to New York they had McPherson give a dinner in honor of the occasion at a hotel. It was at about this time, the District Attorney says. that McPherson began 0 suspect he was not being sufficient ly paid for his work as banker, and put in a protest. accompanied by a threat. Richmond and Beecroft there upon each give him $250 of their half of the $7.500.
 Beecroft. who is a solicitor for the National Highway Protective society, escaped prosecution by turning states evidence. Richmond was indicted by the Grand jury yesterday and later released on bail. He lives at 12S East Fifty-frst street McPherson also was indicted. Wilson recently was in the Bankruptcy court.