The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-04
INDICTMENTS FOUND
YESTERDAY AGAINST
PZz|N!, SEVENTEEN
Grand Jury Will Continue It's
Work and May Bring In
More Charges Today
PINKERTON SLEUTHS
ARE NOW ON TRAIL
Every Effort Will be Made to
Capture Absconder -Receiv-
ers Named for Pizzini Com
pany and Pizzini Personally

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Richmond police. with the aid Of
the Pinkerton Detective Agency, have
begun worldwide search for Will
liam B. Pizzinl. whose almost I'M
believable embezzlements have come
to light following his sudden disap-
-pearaaee from the city last Thursday
night. Yesterday the grand jury of
the Hastings Court indicted him on
seventeen separate charges, sixteen
for grand larceny and one for forgery,
and it is said that other indictments
will be. brought today.
Suit after suit is being ffled in the
Chancery Court by creditors whom he
has defrauded, bringing to the surface
an unique system OF bogus invest
ments which is almost unbelieva Bile.
Sixteen indictments for grand larceny.
totalling nearly all the money given
Pizzini by w. P. Nuckols for invest
ment, were brought in the Hastings
Court yesterday, for the following
amounts; Four indictments for So
900; one for $4,000; one for $4,000:
four for $4,000. one for $1,000: one
for $4,000; and two for $4,000. These
amounts. the indictments, charge
Pizzini did take steal and carry
away"
Receivers For Company.
Receivers for the William b. Pizzini
Company were appointed yesterday by
Judge Moncure. OF the Chancery
Court, at the request of William f.
Word, secretary of the company. On
motion OF Lamb & Lamb counsel for
Nuckols, Allen G. Collins was appoint
ed receiver. and gave bond for $4,000.
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appointed receivers of William II,
Pizzini. individually, and gave $4,000
bond. They have been ordered to take
immediate charge of all the effects Of
Pizzini, and make an inventory OF
all the estate found, reporting as soon
as possible to the court
More Suits Filed.
Two suits were filed yesterday after
noon in the Chancery Court. The Ma
tional State and City Bank ailege that
ii is due $4,000 from Pizzini. being
the amount OF five notes. which are
as follows: $4,000 due January III
st3.500 due January 30; $4,000 due
April IL; $4,000 due April Is, and
$4,000 due March IS. The American
National Bank filed suit to recover on
four notes, as follows; $4,000 due
January 6. payable to Anna g, Pizzini.
and signed by William b. Pizzini ST.
$50 due January Is, and drawn in the
same manner; $4,000 due January 20,
the same; $4,000 due February 13.
All of these notes are signed by
Pizzini, and endorsed by him along
with the signature of Anna G.
Ptzzin.
Ptzzinis Statement.
At the time of negotiating the loans
on the National State and City Bank.
Pizzini's statement declared that tho
william b. Pizzini Company had
surplus of s29,971.65. and that the
unattached valuation of Mrs Pizzinps
estate was estimated at S33l,232.
Pizzinl said that ne had Sl47,59753
of his own. and carried "A life insur-
ance of $40. 09e.
Attached to the indictment returned
yesterday for forgery is the note for
$4,000 with the fictitious signature OF
NJ. Rifkin, and endorsed with the
same forgery. The execution OF tho
signature Is a curious EFFORT, showing
much care, which was evidently taken
with the name. The endorsement on
the back of the note also shows that
great pains have been taken to fol-
low closely the imitation OF the name
signed to the paper. The note reads:
Three years after date / promise to
pay to myself or order without onset.
Ave thousand dollars" The note y
signed m. Rifkin." and is negotiable
and payable at the National State and
City Bank.
A Unique System.
From the evidence gathered around
the case. 1t Is shown that Pizzini In
augurated and operated an absolutely
unique system of transfer OF real e.
tate, at times acting as his own no.
tary public and court clerk, and act
ing In the role of borrower. lender
and broker all in the same transac-
ton. In regard to the funds OF Nucn-
OILS placed in his hands for invest
ment, Pizzini used system OF ncu-
tious names. stating that he had
loaned money to certain persons who
did not exist, and when the necessity
for official signatures arose. he exc
cuted the desired forgeries in order
to make the documents seem genuine.
A remarkable phase of the transact
ton is that he worked his system abb
solutely without the aid of any second
person.
1t is not known as yet just how
many persons have been swtndled by
Pizzini other than those who nave
already filed their complaints. 1t VIII
take much time to dig up all the old
deeds he has filed during the past
wear or two, but until this Ii done II
will be uncertain as to the number
OF persons he has defrauded. Gilbert
Pollock. well-known local attorney
and close friend Of Pixzini. appeared
in Chancery Court yesterday ana
stated that he would fiie suit against
the missing man for $4,000. to cover
loss from endorsements he made Tor
the alleged swindler.
1t is said that the night befOra
Pizzini left the city he played cAsde
in his club until a late hour. An0
seemed in the best Of spirits. Wh14
he disappeared. he left behind evogy
possible article that might lead 70 -
detection In another city. Il II -
all his jewelry he cast on ana eyNn
the tailor's label from the inside poo1S
ct Of new coat being removed.
few personal belonginep we're caxxlo4
In ! brand new euitpaae tha1 begA M