Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-08-18
FINA..,>~-ER PoNzI ARRESTED.
VIII Give cuI No Further Inforn,a-
don Regarding; III. Schemes.

ton Regarding III. Schemes.
Boston, Aug. 12.-Charles Ponzi
to-day surrendered to tho nited
States Iit,rshal, and /, W. iran. for
his arrest is being prcpa.ed. Dis
trict Attorney Gallagher said tha;
Ponzi sul:chdered because ne fel,
himself unah'n to carry out pro Mise s
he made for he ret,em o;iun OF his
notes tomorrow.
At the time po03i gaYc himself up
nearing was being held before the
Judge Of the municipal court. who
was sitting in chambers G." 2 police
application for the arrest of the f,nau-
cier. The hearing was secret.
A creditors petition asking for the
appointment Of a receiver for Ponzi
was filed in the Federal Court to-
day.
Ponzi halted In the midst of his
sensational financial career to-day to
rest and recover from the nervous
strain caused by the events Of the
past few days. The man whose $50
per cent in 45 days" Investment pro-
position has been under Investigation
by Federal and State officials, and
whose principal known depository
the Hanover Trust Company, was
closed yesterday by Bank Commits
sioner Joseph A. Allen, retired to
MS home at Lexington and denied
himself to all callers.
My nerves can't last forever" Mr..
Ponzi said. "I've got to have rest. T
am not going to give out any more
staten ents for while. I am going
to keep away from people, am not
even going DOWNTOWN"
Bank commissioner Allen announ-
ced this afternoon that the capital
or the Hanover Trust Company has
probably been completely wiped out.
the bank was closed yesterday by
the commissioner. Ponzi had been n
director up to that time.
Ponzi was arrested this afternoon
Dy the Federal authorities, the charge
against him being that Of using the
mails to defraud.
After his arrest Ponzi issued the
Following statement:
II had an agreement with the dis
trlct attorney to go tomorrow AMI
meet my liabilities with cash, with
the closing Of the Hanover Trust Co.
and with other funds tied up. 7 find
myself unable to do so. l felt it my
duty to tell him, and to ask him to
detain me-"
Saved Alabama Girl from Death.
atlanta, Ga, Aug. 12. Charles
Ponzi. OF Boston, who admitted he
mad served term in the Atlanta
Federal penitentiary, worked in the
ONCE Of the record keeper while in
the penitentiary here and was noted
Tor his Guickness at figures and for
MS various plans to make money
"hen he got opportunity, according
10 a. &. AlderhOld, who is the record
keeper at the Federal institution.
Alderhold said he could not posi-
lively identify Ponzi Without the
Bertillion measurements, but he felt
convinced that he was the same man
rom the pictures and descriptions
OF him. He described how Ponzi gave
skin from his leg to save a young
woman IN Alabama after he was re-
leased from the Federal prison.
"We never had man who was
more help to us in the Office" Alder
hold stated. 81 never knew him to
be ratified or flustered, and he never
made mistake. He was always con-
cocting some peculiar scheme to
make money.
"One Of the finest things he did
was after he was released from the
prison in 1912. He went to a little
mining town in Alabama by the name
or Blocton, and the people in that
town will never forget him for the
deed which he did there to save the
hfe OF a young nurse. The young
lady had been badly burned by the
explosion Of a gasoline stove, and the
doctors decided that the only way
to save her life was to graft skin on
the burned place. Ponzi volunteered
to let the doctors take skin from his
body, and 72 inches were removed
from his thighs. He came out Of the
hospital two weeks later and the
doctors came to him and said that
more skin would be necessary. He
did not hesitate moment, but al
lowed them to take SO more inches,
that time from his back. Citizens of
Brocton endeavored to bring the
matter before the Carnegie Hero
commission, but nothing ever came
OF the matter, believe"