Great Falls tribune., 1922-03-13
LINDSAY KNEW
WHERE To FIND
SUCKERS: IN NY.
Domino Club Broker s
Secret in Duping So
ciety Folk, Glibness.
By EDWIN r. HARRIS
SpeeiaI Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune

BY EDWIN f. HARRIS
Special Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1892. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York. March 12.-Sophisticated
people live in New York Simple peo
pie live outside Oh. is that so! Then
how do you account for Alfred T..
Lindsay?
If YOU had gold bricks for sale.
Broadway would be the easiest place
on earth wherein to make the sale.
Offer wooden nutmegs to some benlght-
ed rural cross roads and they run you
clear across the county. Hawk wooden
nutmegs in the center of New York
and you'll have to call out the reserves
to keep your customers IN l1ne
| Take the case of Alfred +. Lindsay
| Which is just what the district attor,
ney is doing at the moment. If half
the charges against this man are true
New Yorkers are children and he's the
big boy that took away their candy.
More than S1,OOOOO0 worth of it.
according to the district attorney, has
been taken from clever society danes.
sharp business women and graduates
of West Point In return for the ST.
100000, the police say. Lindsay gave
his clients a number of rosy VISIONS.
some week ends at his country place
on the Hudson. a dinner or two IN
New York hotels-and lately a copi-
ous lot of tears. ..He cries WELL" says
Richard Murphy, assistant district at
torney.
Swallowed Weirdest Tales
SimpIicity. the police say. marked
Iindsay'S methods. Nobody who want
ed to take fortune away from a socl-
ETY. leader would pretend an intimacy
with Rockefeller, StiIman or Lamont.
Of course the society leader would
check up and discover the fraud. No.
body would invent a fanciful tale OF
! about half dozen Of the biggest fl
nanciers in the world putting on masks
ands meeting him once day. to flx
the stock market. Nobody--but a
genius. man who knew the stock
market and his New York. Lindsay
knew both.
And he knows his New York not
| because he's New Yorker. He's a
boy from the rural community: From
/ California. 1t is these wide-eyed
strangers from the simple west who
can sannter into slick New York and
pick the gold Filings from the wisdom
teeth of the inhabitants.
Lindsay says now that he never
heard of the Domino club the mask
ed assembage of stock manipulators.
| Percy Rockefeller, Thomas Lamont and
James Stillman say they never heard
! of it, either. But six women told the
| from Lindsay. and hearing Of it-they
district attorney they'd heard Of it
$500 to S375.OOO. BY their own state
! addcd-cost them sums ranging from
! ments. Mrs. Lillian n. Duke, former
wife of the tobacco king" gave the
gave gave him $3.50. 600; and seven other
Stock broker $3.50, 900 in cash and S25.,
900 in jewels; Mrs. Dorothy A. Tweed
| women and one man gave him sums
! ranging from $1,000 to S3l 900, or,
| for the nine. more than S7o0,Wo.
Pudgy Awkward Man
! However, handsome man OF dis
| tinguished appearance exuding culture,
snappily dressed
Wrong again. There was nothing
of the cotillion leader about Lindsay.
A rather tall, stout man. 81 years old,
smooth faced. blue eyes peering from
behind shell trimmed glasses; somewhat
awkward. making mistakes IN gram
mar now and then: affecting clothes
that showed signs of wear; frank in
manner rather than polished: that's he.
For $4,000 he bought one Of the show
places on the west shore-Mrs. Duke
SAYS she loaned him the $4,000 and
1 wishes she hadn' n't--and there wasn't a
civic activity roundabout South Nyack,
\. Y, which really went big unless MIR.
| Lindsay headed committee.
Reminds One of Doc Cook
| He subscribed literally to the Red
Cross. He collected money for dis
abled firemen. He interested himself
in town improvement. About month
ago, two of the society women became
suspicious, consulted their attorneys
did various unpleasant legal things to
Lindsay's spacious bungalow, garage.
boat house and grounds, and asked the
district attorney TO ascertain where
Lindsay had gone. They found him
later in suburb Of Philadelphia under
an assumed name.
| Indignant, wet-eyed and bent on re-
venge, the crowd Of fashionably gown
ed women began Immediately to gather
in the district attorneys office. They
/ told the most extraordinary story since
Doc Cook was feasted by kings for his
failure to discover the north pole.
just Dropped Hints For Money
| But he told me Mr.. Rockefeller,
and Lamont and the rest would put on
masks and slip into a room at the Ritz
| every night to decide what stocks
| would go up the next day. He even
showed me the key. And / gave him
( $4,000"
''Why, ! met him at a card party in
| the Murray Hill hotel. He was awfully
nice .and brotherly. He never men,
| tio,fed money till Id known him sew
! eral weeks. Then he just happened