New Britain herald., 1922-02-25
75 YR. OLD WOMAN
 DUPED BY BROKER
Others, Including Mrs. Duke,
 Pleeced of S600,000

| NeW 1Ork, Feb. 25.-Ten women. several prominent socially. who claim to have put more than s6O0,0OO into mythical pool" promoted by AL fred E. Lindsey, broker, with a pala- tial home at South Nyack. are sum- moned to appear before supreme grand jury Monday and help piece to- gether the details of remarkable story of high tnance,' on which Assistant District Attorney Murphy will seek Lindsey's indictment. The list of alleged victims of the missing broker is headed by Mrs. Lillian N. Duke, divorced wife of James B. Duke, tobacco king" who claims she entrusted $325,O0O to the engaging Lindsey.
 Others on the list, with their con- tribution to the pool, include:
 Mrs. Dorothy Atwood. s97,OOO: Miss Catherine Adams, $4o,0Oo; Miss Char lotte Nillson, actress, s20,00O; Mrs. w. H. Arnold, $3o,o0o; Miss Margaret Bogart, slS.00o: Mrs. Helen Burnett s31 1000; Mrs. Adelaide V. Rice $25,- .ooo; Mrs. Josephine Cornell, s2o, ,ooo; Miss Florence James, S5,000.
 TIC lJdilIlCu 'NUlHlCS.
 Siren songs of quick and fabulous profits induced the women to dispose of securities they held and put their cash equivalent in Lindsey's hands, MT. Murphy said. Lindseys favorte story, he declared, was that he was fellow member with George F. Bak- CT, Thomas w. Lamont, Charles F.. Sabin, Percy A. Rockefeller James A. Stillman, and other giants of the financial district in millionaire "Domino club" where the time not spent in playing dominoes was given over to planning big killings in Wall street.
 Secret Rooms at Ritz.
 This club was supposed to main- tain secret rooms at the Ritz Carlton hotel, to which Lindsey displayed pass key.
 It was to gather money into a pool operated by these men that Miss Mill son parted with her $20,000, MT. Murphy said she had told him. Sim liar stories, he said, were told by the other women.
 The Lindsey home at South ,Nyack was one of the show places along the Hudson river and Lindsey himself was a leader in civic affairs, having taken prominent part in the rais- ing of Red Cross and other funds.
 Women Reduced to Poverty.
 But when he was Ion the make" all the sympathy dropped, according to the stories told MT. Murphy.
 One of alis pictims-Mrs. Rice-is 75 years old and nearly blind, and the s25,0O she put into the pool was practically every cent she possessed.
 The s2o,ooo Mrs. Cornell said she gave him represented the proceeds of her husbands life insurance, out oi which she had been supporting her four children--one a cripple.
 Mrs. Atwood, who gave up ,000 in cash and $47,000 in jewelry, has been reduced from comparative af- nuence to raising pcdigreed dogs for a living
 One Contributor Reimbursed.
 So far as he could learn, Mir. Mur- phy said, the only contributor. to "Domino' club" pool who succeeded in getting anything back was Major Redondo Sutton, former president Of the Pacific Mining and Chemical com pany, who happened to know that Lindsey was out on bail, under an indictment charging white slavery.
 When he threatened to complain to the United States department of jus tice Lindsey quickly returned his $5,- GOO, Major Sutton told Mir. Murphy The indictment was later dismissed by the district attorney.