The sun., 1919-10-04
WALL STREET BOY
QUITS WITH $4,000
Stock Certificate Is Recovered,
but Messenger Still Is
Missing.
THREE MEN ARRESTED
One Attempted to Borrow
Money on Document, but
Waited Too Long. $50

Another Wall Street messenger boy
dropped cut of sight yesterday with y
stock certificate worth about $4,000.
Although the boy still is being sought by
the police, the certificate, which Is good
for 100 shares OF American Tobacco
Company stock. was recovered a few
hours after its disappearance when q
man who said he was Frank McHenry
Kltchiag of 294 Dean street. Brooklyn,
in alleged TO have attempted to borrow
$1,000 on it at the brokerage office Of
Rardos q Co, CT Exchange place. He
was locked UP as a suspicious person in
connection with the theft: ia n.
Two other men also were taken into
custody. One of them, who described
himself as Joseph c. godfrey, living 1T
the Dean street address, IS said by de
dectives to havo been IMPLICATED in a
statement made. to them by FSitching.
The third man. John ]? Myers, who told
the police he was a mine broker living
at az East 125th street, Is being held
AZ q material witness. J,a ~. al =.
Boys Name WithheId.
The name Of the missing messenger
boy Is being carefully eoneealedsby. the
police, apparently upon the theory that
i,s publication might cause him to sus-
pect that his disappearance with S$35, 600
worth of property belonging to his em-
ployers might Have been noted and a
search started. AS things are, however,
the detectives hope he may be lulled into
an entirely false feeling of security
when he reads this mornings papers and
finds his name is not printed. |-s 4.t.
A couple of other unidentified niessen-
ger boys figure in the case. The first OF
these was sent by Greer Crane & Webb,
brokers of 7f Broadway. TO deliver the
certificate to a neighboring Arm at IL
o'clock yesterday morning. The youth
presently returned and said he had
turned it over to a second lad. whose
uame Is also unrevealed, who promised
TO see that 1t reached its destination.
Upon being questioned this boy said he
had passed " to still a third--the one
who is missing. About this time word
was received by Greer. Crane & Webb
shat the certificate had not been re-
ceived. An alarm was Immediately sent
out and the number of the certificate
flashed over the news ticker.
When Kitching entered Kardos & Co.
office along in the afternoon and asked
FOR loan the clerk. SO the police say,
as once noted that the number on the
Certificate he proffered corresponded
with that on the missing one. He
ecaftily engaged the caller in conversa-
ton. at the same time arranging for
fellow employee to telephone Police
Headquarters. Detectives Mayer and
Brown hurried downtown. and Kitching
was still talking when they arrived.
Called Himself Broker.
Mayer represented himself to be a
broker and asked where the certificate
came from. Kitching Is alleged to have
told him that he received 1t from .
man standing in front OF 100 Broadway
whom he described Brown Immediately
went to the Equitable Building and
found Godfrey. who answered the de-
scription Kitching had given, he says
Godfrey was talking to the person who
afterward said he was Myers, so the
detective took them both.
According to Detective Mayer, Kitch-
ing and Godfrey each accused the other
OF being the first to have the certificate
Kitching is said by Mayer to have
admitted that he had served five years
in Sing Sing, for passing two worthless
checks and six months in the peniten'
tiary for driving a motor car while
intoxicated.