Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-02
2 SUITCASES
OF MAHLOOT
RECOVERED
Stolen Securities Confront
Business Genius and Aide
in Court.
SWINDLE RING CHARGE
Chicago Offices of Securities
Company Raided and
Leaders Held.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-Two suitcases
bulging with 100000 worth of secur-
tiles, some of them identified with
various mail robberies, confronted
John w. Worthington, business
genius gone wrong" when he and his
aide, Owen E. Evans, were arraigned
in Federal Court today, as the
brains" of a gigantic swindle ring,
which has been implicated in many
of the recent large mail robberies
and schemes to defraud the Govern
ment out Of great sums of money.
The two suitcases were seized in
Worthington's office, the Central Sc
curities Company They had been taken
in charge by an under cover" man who
had been planted in the office two weeks
ago, it is said, and who knew of the cor
respondence which Chicagos u. Rufus
Wallingford' had with his New York and
San Francisco confederates.
Bonds for Worthington ana his aide
were set at $4,000 each by Federal Judge
X. NJ. Lands. Both men declared them
selves innocent Of the charges
TOLEDO AND WALL STREET
LOOT IN EVIDENCE.
The bulging grip of evidence accord
ing 10 government men, contained part
of the loot from the Toledo mail robbery
and the Chicago Deaborn station mail
theft. There was also among the Sc
curities some Of the Sinclair Oil stock
said to have been stolen in a bold raid
on Wall Street some time ago. A pro
fusion of war savings stamps and a
large amount Of washed" internal rev
enue stamps were among the grips Goa.
tents
We have the goods on Worthington,
declared Col. John Y. Clinnih, assistant
United States District Attorney
Several well known business men Of
Chicago and New York are said to lie
involved in a gigantic thieves trust
which is alleged to have looted the
/ United States mails and banks of mil
lions OF dollars in cash and securities
during the last year.
The arrest here Of John W. WorthinR-
ton. who, the police say, is the "brains''
( OF the band, and owen E. Evans, said to
/ be his assistant. revealed the fast that
blanket Indictment naming tHenty-sfx
I conspiratOrs had been voted by the grand
jury. Names of others accused in the
indictment are withheld pending their
arrest.
f <ANNu4hLhS 10 L tuGIdl OnlCIdlS Q0Zen
robberies Of tanks and of the malls dur
ing recent months have been planned by
Worthington and his associates Worth
ington. it is alleged, maintained the
Central Securities Company in an elab-
crate suite of offices here as the sell
ing organization" for the disposal of the
stolen securities. Altering the numbers
on bonds so that they might be disposed
of more readily is one of the practices
charged to the trust"
TOLEDO MAIL
ROBBERY LISTED,
Among the robberies said to have been
planned and executed by the band were
the Toledo mail robt cry of Feb. II last;
the Pullman (ll.) mail robbery; the
Dearborn station robbery in Chicago last
April, and 4 score of lesser robberies in
cities of the Middle West and South.
Government agents are examining
books and papers seized with the arrest
Of Worthington and expect to uncover
new evidence of the operations of the
trust" According to Assistant United
States Attorney John V. Clinnin the In
vestigation thus far has only scratched
the surface.