The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-01
jDSAY DENIES
FLEECINC WOMEN
| BY FAKE DEALS
its Himself as Faithful Meal
icket TO Those Who Have
Lost Through Him.
kES STATEMENT FROM
CELL IN THE TOMBS
! All Money Advanced Was
Aderstood to Be for Spec
ulative Purposes.
fsx rh. A.soeIatea Pres.l

h YORK. Feb. 2S.-Alfred Lindsay.
al swindler OF New York society
VI issued a statenert from his cell
inhabg prison today, dsnying that he
ht9.eced the women out Of nearly
81 Do, by fake stock tr.nsactions. and
pahs himself faithfil meal ticket
10 r. who had lost Though his spe@
ulak
Tfstatement was in sharp contrast
70 4issued earlier durHg the day by
Disc Attorney Murphy in which Mr..
MuTf said Lindsay hat broken down
and bobingly denied pnfession that
mankf the charges aginst him were
truefid that he and hi wife had de-
cioed cicide as possile way out OF
theiIt fnculties.
AlEhe women who advanced him
mona did 40. Lindsay statement de-
cIared with fun understanding that it
was 4 he used for sto{ schemes, and
all saw. h asserted, tht their money
Rad INn lost honestiy.'i Notwithstand-
ing II lie felt he waiunder no obli-
Estion to them. he saidhe had contin-
ually. advanced them nney until the
greath part of their losls had been re-
yWne to them
lNA brting this contenon he gave out
le .monthly payroll on which
nes or eight OF Is accusers ap-
Is recipients Of sus ranging from
o xAo, and aggreting si675,
lindsay, he sd. although she
: bthing OF the Eociety womens
clai,W was willing tdurn over to a
oredsors' committee thhandsome Lind
sav Ksidence in south Jew York. which,
with Ahe furnishings. fuld bring nearly
500. 40. In addition.le said. he was
wiIit to make goo any differences
hetw&n the amounts realized and un-
Maid balances ON thsums the women
IA savanced him. rs he could easily
do II Sskec to carry q a project he had
undeN way, ne declar
I,inseay took up ed woman's claims
separately, giving hifersion In detail
~ M. transactions h denying vigor
ouslyithe magnitudeE the sums some
or tha women said ~ bsd lost.
Nrrs Lillian n. Dul divorced wife OF!
1aynas r Duke. the fbacco king" who
claims TO have advani him about S37b,-
600. aetually gave hifar less than that
s,.yo he declared. figh he did not
give IN exact figurs
"Intisis I met m Duke, who gave
re st check for 85.i with the under
stznahg that was play the market
for hsr." the statept said During
Apraa and May OF Z year she gave
me bproximntely p,ooo, BY that
time. Mrs. Duse wased. or about TO be
sued Tor alenationl affections. She
was sfraid of j,raent against her,
sold her stock and re me the money
10 SPECULATE with, ich j did, making
repore "a her fronhne TO time as tol
stocSs which 1 inYd In, and which
she kssws was losrnestly
II have alwaysFven Mrs. Duke
r,ones gave hsSoo in December.
iee1. ma as late asn. % or 80 / gave
hgr sBo. Mrs. Duivent to Europe in
1El4 as6 ! gave herr money to so with. |
yach letter asked for money which II
s4nt a. her. Il been giving her
,noney ever since h of 1913, and IL
she wfn figure uue amount have
sfveikher 1t VIII hfnost, il not quite
Tie anount she 4 me. During the
Iifetine al John Esnchfleld, she con-
suited hin, with renee to this matter
snd ho advised pthat she had no
actson against me-
CONCERNING Mrs. sothy Atwood, who
cIaiIaH TO have giwim SsfS,OoO, Lind
say aid:
"Issis ahsolutelYrue. The matterl
was hken up by fhen attorney. He
went over her sEent ana allowing
sor b-ofats made stocks, the total
anlosat due her not i'm excess Of
ss5.oA IL il was figured out now,
ncludIsx the and have given her
sinca would not kher anything.'