Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-19
May be ''Fence'' For Messenger Thieves
David w. Sullivan, Member of N. Y. Consolidated Stock Exchange, Arrested For Lar ceny.

New York. Nov. 1S.-David W. Sul- livan, d member of the Consolidated Stock Exchange. was arrested here to- day on a charge of larceny. The !! American Surety Company, which has been working on the case with the district attornc~,s office. declared in a statement toms it that it is believed | the arrest will reveal 8. number of messenger thefts among downtown l brokerage offices totalling at least $500,000. e
 Sullivan. who is in partnership with Norman Bowles under the brokerage name of Sullivan and Company. was arrested in his office at 10 Wall Street. on orders of Alfred J. Talleyi acting district attorney. The prisoner. ac- cording to the surety company, was accused of acting in concert with Frank Parnell. a messenger. whose name is mentioned in the warrant for Sullivan's arrest, and others not yet apprehended.
 Sullivan was arrested in his office by Detective Sergeant Grover C.l Brown, upon the Identification of De- tective Sergeant Pat O'Brien of Wash .. ington, who knew him as a former bartender" read the company's state ment.
 "B. J. McGinn, manager of the claim department of the American Surety
 Company, who worked in conjunction
 with Detective Sergeants Brown. Ma
 yer. Mindheim and Ransburg on the
 case, states tonight that Sullivan ad- mits giving a certificate for 100 shares
 of Crucible Steel stock which had
 previously been stolen from Clark
 Childs and Company of this city to an unidentified individual.
 Other firms in Wall Street who suffered the loss of securities through
 messenger thefts and to whom securi- ties found with Sullivan X Company have been traced are Bamberger Brothers, F. B. Keech and Company ! Josephthal and Company. Hayden, l Stone and Company. B. H. and F. w..
 Pelzer and Post and F'lagg. The I stocks include fifty shares R. J. Rev I holds Tobacco Company, 100 shares U. l $. Food Products. 100 shares Stude- ! baker Corporation, 200 shares Cruel ble Steel. 300 shares Pennsylvania
 Railroad and 100 shares Republic Iron |, and Steel Company.
 "The manner in which it is believed l that Sullivan secured the stolen cer-
 titicates is through an Intermediary | operating in conjunction with messen- | gers employed by stock brokerage houses. One of these messengers is alleged to be named Frank Parnell. | who is mentioned in the warrant. At | the time the losses were sustained by these and other brokerage houses in- volved in the case no publicity was I given to them. Until the apprehen- sion of Sullivan there was little or | no clues to the persons identified w1th l the loss.a- ssss < aas.s..i'
 The police said tonight that, in, the
 last. six months. they had reeellNee lcompiaints from the financial district ,t of thefts of securities with tota
 value exceeding s1.000,000
 The first progress in solving tht mystery of the disappearing bonds is said to have been made in the case O Clark, Childs & company. hich report ed last October that messenger glv- , ing the name of Frank Parnell had dis appeared with two certificates for 1O' : shares of Crucible Steel stock wortl ; $45. coo.
 : No trace has been found of Patnell
 but New York detectives picked up ; l trail leading to Washington and fount there that a loan of $14 009 had beer l obtained from the National Saving : and Trust company on, one of the cer ) tificates.
 t According to the police, the loan wa 5 obtained by q man giving the name 0 $ Winfield Williams. who. it was alleged r said he had received the certificate
 from Sullivan. The latter was arrested l on his arrival here today from Wash s ngton, where he spends part of hi ' time.
 cl Sullivan is said by the police to hay I admitted he gave the certificates t
 Williams. He claimed to have re t cefved the certificates from three ner l sons with whom he previously had l/ . dealings but about whom he k/sy = nothing.
 fl After examining Sulivan's hocks f Po'sce Commissioner T.ahey said h s had found other securities, stolen fror e twentv-seven firms and totallinr 2 = least s50o 900, had nasse dthrough Sul f livans hands in manner which tn e prisoner could not eyplain to the com o missioner's satisfaction.