New-York tribune., 1921-06-21
Notes of Sinclair Corp.
Either Lost or Stolen
Over Week End; All
Of Them Are Negotiable
Detectives Refuse to
Name Actual Loser
Three Packets, Locked
In Safe Saturday,. Are
Gone Monday Morning

Notes of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil
Corporation, 100 Broadway, bearing a
face value OF about 100000, all regis
tered and negotiable securities, bear
ing TX per cent interest, were lost or
stolen between noon on Saturday, when
the safe in which they are said to have
been deposited was locked, and a. m.
yesterday morning, when the safe was
again opened, it was announced yester-
day.
The loss was at first reported to
be $3,280,000 but this was shown to
have been due to an error in list
numbers of the securities sent out owe
news wire. While officials of the
Sinclair Corporation were non-com-
municative with regard to whether
they believed the notes stolen or
merely mislaid, announcement was
made by Kenneth Butler, vice-presi-
dent of the concern, thai the loss
amounted to approximately 100000.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency, in
whose hands the investigation was
placed INN ediately on discovery OF the
loss issued a warning yesterday to
bankers, brokers and dealers in ne
sotiable paper to watch for the appear
ance of any of these securities. Two
thousand dollars of the notes are in
amounts of $500 and the remainder
$1,000
As the case was reported to Superin-
tendent Harry Scott, of the Pinkerton
agency, an assistant treasurer who
locked safe Saturday at noon is posi-
tive ne saw and handled the securities
at that time and that they were de-
posted in the safe before it was locked
and the time device set. When the
safe was opened yesterday the notes
were missing and no trace of them
could be found.
Losers Name Withheld
AT the Pinkerton offices last night
the name of the corporation from whose
safe the securities vanished was with
held, hut suggestion was obtained
from other sources that they were in
the hands of subsidiary corporation
dent Scott declared the loss a mystery,
The company involved did not know
whether it had been robbed or whether
the bonds had been mislaid through
carelessness of an official, he said.
The officers of the Sinclair Consoli-
dated Oil Corporation are II. f. Sin
clair, president; j. Fletcher Farrell
treasurer, and Anthony Steinmetz, sec
retary Both Mr.. Sinclair and Mr.
Steinmetz we're declared last night to
be out of town. Mr.. Farrell was re-
ported i'll at his home in Bronxville.
The missing securities are numbere d
as follows:
For $1,000 each-Nos. G96 to 3e5, in
elusive; Ais to 459, inclusive; All tc
483, inclusive; 3,276, 4,132 to 4,138, in
elusive; 4,651 to 4,66O, inclusive; 5,O6S
to SOFT, inclusive; 4,08o to 5,O84, in
elusive; 8,511 to 8,515, inclusive; $3.50
to 1882, inclusive; 10,397, 14,772 to
14,78l inclusive.
1921 to 1928, inclusive; 1902 to
1905, inclusive; 1909 to 1908, in
clusive; 1917 to 1919, inclusive;
19,O39 to 1906, inclusive; 25,3l3,
26,695, 27,142 to 27,145, inclusive; 49,
116, 29,S76 to 2S,8S0, inclusive; 30,O57
to 30,062, inclusive; 3O,217 to 3O,219,
inclusive; 3o,246 to 3O.247, inclusive.
30,249 to 30,251, inclusive, 32,73e, 32,-
955, 34,86S to 34,869, inclusive; 34,8S3
to 34,887, inclusive; 5000 to 35,O91,
inclusive; 1886, 36,973, 37,767 to 37,-
773, inclusive; 38,381, 39o31, 40.474,