Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1922-02-25
10 Women
Swind led
by Broker
Prominent New York Society
Leaders Are Among Victims
of Latest Get.Rich.Quick
Scheme.
Losses Over 100000
Nv III. Associated Press.


New York. Feb. 2i.-Ten women,
several prominent socially. who claim
"a have put more than 100000 into
rt ythieal pool" promoted by ~.
irsd L. Lindsey. broker. with a psll-
lial home at South Nyaek. today
were summoned 10 appear before a
supreme court grand jury Monday
aud help piece together the details
OF a remarkable story OF high
finance" ON which Assistant District
Attorney Murphy will seek lindsey's
Indictment.
= he list OF alleged victims OF the
missing broker is headed by Mrs.
Lillian n. Duke. divorced vile OF
James l.. Duke, tobacco king who
claims she entrusted S525.000 to the
engaging Lindsey.
Others on the list with their con-
tribu,ions to the pool include:
Mrs. Dorothy Atwood, $4,000;
Miss Catherine Adams. $4,000; Miss
Charlotte Nillson, actress, 10000;
Mrs. w. II. Arnold, $4,000; Miss
Margaret Bogart $4,000: Mrs.
Helen Burnett, $1,000; Mrs. AIDE
laide V. Rice, $4,000; Mrs. Josephine
a. Cornell. $4,000, and Miss Flor
cncc James. $4,000.
Turn Over Cash.
Siren songs OF quick and fabulous
profits induced the women TO dispose
OF securities they held and put their
cash in Lindsey's hands, Mr.. Murphy
said. Lindscy's iavorite story, he
declared, was that he was fellow
meTtcr with George +. Baker,
.THomaS w. Lamont. Charles T..
81 piu Percy A. Rockefeller, James
Stslillman and other giants OF the
iinaucial district. in millionaire
domino club, where the time not
spen, in playing dominos was given
over to planning big killings in
WALL street.
This club was supposed to main
tain secret rooms at the Ritz-Carlton
hotel, 10 which Lindsey displayed
pass key.
II was to gather money into
pool operated BY these men tha,
Miss Nillson parted with her $4,000,
Mr.. Murphy said she had told him.
Similar stories, he said. were told
by the other women.
The rebonair Lindsey, Mr.. Murphy
declared. was one OF the "smoothcst
workers" New York has seen in
woine Show Place.
His home at South Nyack was one
OF the show places along the Hud-
son river, and Lindsey was leader
in civic affairs, having taken
prominent part i'll the raising OF Red
Gross and other funds. But when
lie was on the make all the
sympathy dropped out OF his nature,
according to the stories told Mr..
Murphy
One of his victims--Mrs. Rice.
is Is years old and nearly blind,
and the S25,000 she put into the pool
va practically every cent she
The $4,000 Mrs. Cornell said she
gave him represented the proceeds
OF her husbands life insurance out
of which she had been supporting
! her four children-one a cripple.
Gets Back S5o,oo0.
Mrs. Atwood, who gave up S50,-
900 in cash and $4,000 in jewelry,
. has been reduced from comparative
aifluence to raising pedigreed dogs
ior living. So far as he could
. learn, MIR. Murphy, said. the only
contributor to a domino club" pool
who succeeded in getting anything
back was Maj. Redondo Sutton,
former president OF the Pacific Min
ihg and Chemical company, who
happened to know that Lindsey was
out on bail, under an indictment
charging violation of the Mann acr.
When he threatened to complain
to the United States Department of
tnstice, Lindsey, quickly returned his
'.ss;ys-7So0, Major Sutton told Mr.. Muir
ply.
The indictment, returned in 1918.
was subsequently dismissed on rec
Z omncndation of the district at
tornev's office. Later when special
grand jury made the dismissal
+. subject OF inquiry, the district at
tornev's office explained the case
had been dropped because Beatrice
t. Weile. the complaining witness,
had disappeared.