New-York tribune., 1920-04-28
100000 Bond
lheft.Bare(2 as
Clerk Is Held
Securities Taken
From Wall ST. Banking
Firm; Loss Kept Secret
Under Orders of Police
Arrest in Safe Looting
Chauffeur Accused Of Ma
maroneck Raid; Hero
Charged With Auto Fraud

A theft of bonds and securities
valued at 100000, committed prior to
April 1G in the establishment of the
banking firm of Henry l.. Doherty &
Co.. go Wall Street, was revealed yes
terday with the arraignment in Gen
erai Sessions of Donald Burgess, a
clerk, twenty-five years old, of 601
West 135th Street, who had been in
dicted on the charge Of stealing $1,000
worth Of bonds. Burgess pleaded nos
guilty. He was committed to the
Tombs in default Of $4,000 bail
The 100000 theft, it was explained,
had been kept secret by the Doherty
firm and the police in the hope that
the secrecy might help in the appre
hension of the thieves. All of the
bonds arc numbered. and so far as
known they have not yet been offered
for sale. and no arrest has sbeen made
except that Of Burgess.
Service OF Accused Clerk
Burgess acrved the Dohclty firm as a
clerk for more than three years ard
prior to the theft he was promoted to
cancellation clerk His new duties in
volved handling all the securities,
bonds and certificates that came to the
office On April 16 the Cities Fuel and
Power Company, subsidiary Of the
City Security Company, sent 200 GER
tifcates by messenger to Doherty &
Co. The certificates were received by
celled receipted and exchanged for
bonds The firm maintains they were
never cancelled. At the time Of his ar
rest Burgess was charged only with
the theft of $1,000 of bonds.
\ request has been forwarded to
banks and police officials in all large
cities of the United States and Canada,
co keep a lookout for the securities.
A man who said he was John Fas-
cir ney, thirty-one years old, of 2270
Second Avenue, chauffeur, was taken
yesterday from the East 104th Street
station to Mamaroneck for arraign-
ment on suspicion of being one Of
several men who, on Arril 24, ripped
opened safe in the department store
of John H. McArdle in MamaronccH
cash and securities. Fascigoney was
arrested on description furnished by
the Mamaroncck police last Monday.
lie denied all knowledge of the
burglary.
Thieves who visited the home Of Max.
we'll Shallow, 10 Pulaski Street, Proot-
lyn, yesterday. in the hope of stealing
several thousand dollars worth Of lib
ertY bonds and an equal amount Of
Jewelry, had to content themselves with
S125 worth OF silverware. The Liberty
bonds and iewelry were taken bv Mr..
Shallow a few hours before the thieves
arrival to q safety deposit vault. fol-
lowing robbery at the home Of Ern est
hnr i Dn1
Lewis Swart, twenty~nne years old,
q salesman, OF 1910 Simpson Street,
the Bronx, entered the grocery store
of Nalento Cresci, Is Mott Street. yes
terd,'y and, approaching the proporie-
tor. announced himself, il is alleged, rs
an inspector of the Health Department
wfo had come to inspect the stock No
opposition TO this was offered by Cresci,
bu: when Swt :, so it is charged, ven
tured 10 examine the interior Of the
cash register Crcsci went out and in
formed Detective James T. Collins. of
inspector Fennellv's staff, of the mans
strange IDEAS Of food inspection. Col
Inns put ;he man under arrest. When
q raigNed before Magistrate Edgar V.
FrofhlnGham S"art declared that he
was working for a Bronx paper, and
That being engaged in writing a series
OF articles on the cost of living he
went out to collect material Swart
admitted that he did not ask the pro-
prietor Of The store for prices Of his
goods. lie was held under $500 bail for
trlal on the charge of unlawful entry.
Longshoreman Loses Savings
Martin Sec eniac. thirty eight years
old. Of 4S9 Third Avenue. was held in
S 800 bail by Magistrate Brown. in tlo
fltth Avenue Court. Brooklyn. for a
hearing tomorrow on the charoc Of
grand larceny brought against him fol-
,o"ing complaint of his cousin. Ludwig
Na'ayzryk, thirty-fiye years old, Of the
same address. According to the latter.
ne ofc" > 800 from a bank and gave ;he
money with 5000 additional, TO Scctc1-
vac Tor safekeeping. Last Friday
;ScGhten'ac Gee informed him that thieves
mad ransackcd his house and taken tho
money. Investigation by detectives
convinced them that the money could
not nave been taken by burglars.
no Emi,h Roth Jr., twenty years old. Of
~ hlghth Avenue, Brooklyn, star foot
b&l4 player and all-round athlete ~
ioi'.echnlc Institute, who served as an
American aviator in the war and was
wounded when he brought down thrcc
Gc'hah ~ alrplanes, was ARA igncd in the
riaeoush Avenue court yesterday on y
charge OF grand larceny. He was held
IN $1,000 bail for examination next
Tuesday, - !
Roth lives with his bride of cipbt
weeks at the Eighth Avenue addrcss
''He was formerly Miss Isabelle Denman
kotn was arrested by Detective VIII
iam =. O'Connor. u the antomoh;lo
squad He is alleged to have failed
TO TO return the machine of Arthur w
"'epnens, gwen to him TO repair ON
Aprli o. and is alleged to have traded
~ lor ,n, another car with Lester W.Ecalc.
" izlo bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. The
pollce declare they are invcstiqatinr
several similar complaints against Roth
because Of their good records in tbn
var as members Of the A. n. y win
,am baum, twcnty-three wears old If
.Io Haven Avenue, the Bronx. and Ed
o yard Gross, thirty-onc years old of
VIZ Union Avenue, the Bronx, worn
released With suspended sentences arter
p,eha'ngg guilty to grand larceny before
J1udee Louis d. Gibbs in the Bron.
county Court yesterday.
5-Cent Fare to Concy