New-York tribune., 1922-07-04
Woman of II
SentLifeHOartl
TOFuller &Co.
Relied ON Investment to
Care for Her i'm Illness.
She Writes District Attor-
ney; Complaints Pour I'm
Affairs Badly Confused
Counsel for Receiver of
Bankrupt Brokerage Con-
Germ Is Going to Europe

The loss Of $1,000 in the failure of
the Consolidated Stock Exchange firm
Of F.. NJ Fuller & Co. was reported to
Assistant Distric. Attorney Benjamin
+. Schreiber yesterday by woman of
sevcnty-one. who wrote from her home
IN Highlands. Mass, that the money
In question had been her reliance in
case of sickness or death.
The writer, whose name Mr. Schroeder
withheld, said that she had purchased
600 shares of stock in the Nepissing
Mining Company in December, 1921. at
s. share. paying a small amount on
them and giving Fuller & Co, 400 shares
Of Nipissing Mining and LOO shares of
First National Copper as collateral,
She stipulated that these shares were
to be returned to her upon payment for
her purchase, but now, she declared, the
company has failed and she has neither
her 600 shares nor her collateral.
Il was so happy TO give my last check
of s751.42 on last Monday, June 26.
which they have since cashed,' she
wrote. Then on the 2Sth, two DAYS
later, they failed, and they are still in
possession OF over $1,000 worth of my
stock, fully paid for
Nest Egg for Old Age
The letter added that S. f. Scott.
Boston manager for Fuller & Co., had
promised to have the certificates trans
ferred to ner name at once. but had
said her check must be sent in advance
IN order to assure that she receive the
dividends, and that for this reason she
had sent the final check a week ago
yesterday.
81 am sew - ty-one years old and was
buying the stock to get the dividends
and sell when | could receive fair
profit in order to have money in case
adding that she had all the checks and
receipts and would forward them to
Wr. Schreiber at any time.
Mr. Schreiber. who is in charge Of
the investigation of the affairs of the
brokerage houses that have failed
lately, spent yesterday with his as
sistants going over the complaints re-
ceived against f. NJ. Fuller &, Co.
Receivers Attorney to Sail
Considerable information about the
defunct concern was received in the
mail yesterday. At the same time, &C
cording to Francis l.. Kohlman, attor-
NeV Tor heCelVeT SlFaSDouTPor, great
amount of work must be done before
it can be determined exactly what the
Fuller assets and liabilities are, owing
to the large number cf accounts held
by the bankrupt firm and the fact that
the records which it will be nee
essary to inspect are scattered all
over tho United States in branch
Offices. Mr.. Kohlman is leaving for
Europe to-day. ~but his vestigations
will be carried on by Carl J Austrian,
his partner.
Dier Fails to Surrender
Expectations that fillmore d. Dier
and three of his associates in the firm
Of f. d. der e. Co. would surrender
yesterday to Judge Mancuso in Gen
eraf Sessions failed to materialiZe.
DER and his co-defendants, Harry J.
Lawrence jr., Benjamin +. Shrimpton
and Adam Recklein. all of whom were
indicted on sixteen counts of grand
larceny and conducting a bucketshop.
were reported to be unwilling to give
themselves up until after the Fourth
OF July celebrations were over
DER himself, it was said. will ur-
doubtedly appear at the District At
torney's office on Wednesday or Thurs
day an will have Il bondsman with him
to furnish bail. The other three de-
fendants are also expected to appear
at the same time, with the possible
exception of Shrimpton.