New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-28
French and Five
Others Held i'm
$4,000 Bail
Alleged Members Of 500 Mil
lion Swindle Ring Ar
raigned on Charge of
Using Mails to Defraud
New Evidence From Ohio


CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-Charles W
rrsrch and SIX Of his aids. arrested
isye several days ago in Federal raid
IN French'S headquarters at the Hotel
IA Sale. were arralgned to-day before
lanes r. Glass, United States Commits
s;oner. on = technical charge Of using
the mails 10 defrauG They were held
70 the grand jury. French on bonds of
$4,000, the others on bonds of $50. 900.
Il is alleged by the Department of
Justice and the District Attorneys as
represented by John V. Clinnin, First
Assistant District Attorney, that
French and his party have been in
In engineering millions Of dollars worth
Q: stock and bond swindles.
Evidence From Ohio
John " Sawker, a Department Of
Justice operative from Cleveland, ar
rycd in Chicago this afternoon and
welt Immediately into conference with
Colonel Clinnin. Sawker brought to
Chicago with him sl0,000,0O0 in notes
signed by the Ideal Tire and Rubber
Company, and a list OF thirty Ohio
concerns from which it is alleged the
French OUTFIT had collected $4,000 600.
While an investlg atlon is to be made
to determine the validity of these
notes, the Department of Justice oper-
ati'es began Investigation to discover
lt,'~ o. man found Yesterday
IN Lake Harriet, near Minneapolis, was
tat % =. y. Llttietou. head of the
Consolidated Automobile COMPANY of
Dayton. said TO have been ruined Fl
ranc.ally by the French operations.
The body was Identified earlier as
that OF 4 L. Roberts, an alleged agent
q french in the twin cities.
Those arraigned here with French
we're Charles Renicke, J. H. Leet, Alva
Y. Harshman. Rudolph E. Kohn, J. II.
S.rosbel and Charles H. Hawkins. Mrs.
Hawkins was taken in CUSTODY with
her husband in the hotel raid, but was
permitted to sign her own bond be-
cause Of the serious illness of her
mother Alleged confessions by Kohn
and Harshman, secretary to French. are
responsible for uncovering many de-
tails OF the French outfits work.
French Warns Associate
In the United States Marsba1,s o4,ca
french met Renicke and Leet for the
r-.4NS SACS we're arrested
" nen we are through with the Com
missioner" French said to them in a
low tone OF voice, land are +aken
down before Judge Lands. be mighty
careful what you say-don't talk too
much" wv
TIE French arraienment vas hal+ed
;or 4 while TO take up the case Of
J. Leurs Thomas, arrested few davz
ego on $4,000 stock swindle charge
thought for while to have been con-
aected with the French outfit. Thomas
denied any knowledge OF French ~
lis associates. and insisted that ba
xas local representative OF renuta-
BE concern.
As the Chicago party was beiny ar
raigned, dispatches from Milwaukee
announced that A. A Strelzin. banker
vho was arrested there three DAYS 400
bad been arraigned and released or
10000 bond
From the Pacific coast vesterda,
came statements TO the Federal official
purporting 10 show that this case is not
me only "aircastie" Of finance French
has erected during his twenty-five wears
81 business life.
It vas 7 San Francisco some wear,
ago that French 1oated the 500 600 OOf
Pacific Steel Company, it is said. Trav
sllng IN private cars, spending thou