New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
Bucket Case To
Be Pressed in
Nassau County.
N. Y. District Attorney
Fails 10 Find Proof
Against C.. W. Shewry.
in Stock Transaction

| The complaint against Charles Will
| liam Shewry, of the bankrupt stock
| brokerage frn Of Shewry Falkland,
| ias Broadway, caught in the February
wave of failures, that he hypothecated
| cash and securities belonging to DR..
| W. E. Wheelock, of Rockville Centre
| is to be taken over by Distric. Attorney
| Charles r. Weeks of Nassau County,
| it was learned yesterday. This action
! il TO be taken because the District At
torney's office here has been unable to
find proof that grand larceny, if any,
was committed in New York.
This will be the second case of this
nature to be taken up by county out
side of New York. In the Dillon g. Co.
bankruptcy the authorities of Mont
gomery County obtained the Indictment
of Philip j. Kastel and three others
for grand larceny, New York County
having failed to do so. With the Hall
e. Co. case the District Attorneys of
fee here finally agreed to push the in
vestgation after three conferences
with officials from Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire.
DR.. Wheelock says that shortly be-
fore the Shewry & Falkland failure
FIVE shares of American Telephone and
Telegraph stock, and to Mrs. Shewry
for delivery to the firm $50 shares
of General Motors, all for the purchase
Of 100 shares of Columbia Gas and
Electric and 100 California Petroleum,
the first on partial payments and the
second on margin. The telephone stock
was deposited merely as security for
future payments, DR., Wheelock says
and was not to be sold.
A few days before the failure Dr..
Wheelock asked that his account be
closed out. This was not done, he says
and he has never been able to recover
his money or his securities.
DR.. Wheelock went TO the District
Attorneys office here He was informed
that the crime, if any, had been COM
nitted in Nassau County, as Dr. Vince
lock had given Shewry the property
In Rockville, Center. District Attorney
Weeks of Nassau County exchanged
letters With District Attorney Banton.
at the clos of which Assistant District
Attorney Geraty advised Mr.. Weeks
that New York County had jurisdiction
and would proceed.
Although Dr.. Wheelock appeared be-
fore the er~ad jury, with other wit
nesses, including the transfer clerks of
the General Motors Corporation and
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, he says he heard
nothing more about the matter. After
several months he learned, he says,
from Mr.. Gcraty that there was no evil
dence of any crimc in New York
County.
MIR, Geraty said he was unable to
prove that Shewry had disposed of the
securities in New York and that the
records of Rodney & Co., another
bankrupt brokerage concern, through
which they were supposed to have been
sold. did not show the sales.
Dr. Wheelock. however. said he pre-
sented as evidence receipts for money.
confirmation slips of purchases and
also confirmation slips of sales, all I
of them dated New York, and he also
says the records of General Motors
and American Telephone and Tele-
graph show that certificates had been
transferred from the name of Wheelock
to that of Shewry. He declares that
although he impoytuned the District
Attorneys office here for week to
return the receipts and confirmation
slip to him, that he may turn them |
over to Mr.. Weeks, he has not lecn |
able to obtain them