The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-24


sweetie" Of the murdered Dot
Tombs, unable to raise $4,000 bal
This may be only the first of many
nights on which Guimares may have
a chance to study the outside world
from an inside view, for he was ar
rested Tuesday on a charge of using
the mails to defraud in the final de-
scent of Federal officers on the free
spending, non-toiling leaders OF mer-
riment after midnight in the lid clubs
OH and off Broadway.
Only Mickey Arnstein, husband Of
the faithful Fanny Br1ce of the Fol
lies-only Mickey, of all that quon-
dam carefree crew. is able to walk
the west side of Broadway now, from
Times Square to the seventies, with
a nod and an unworried time-o' day
for the dandy detectives who patrol
the street.
plants" May Quit
Now perhaps, with Guimares with
drawn from fluent circulation, some of
the coolest little above-stairs plants
where the walls are packed with felt
and hung with heavy draperies to con-
fine the sounds of revelry by night.
will go out OF business because Of
non-support.
Guimares was picked up by United
States Inspector Graham. and rushed
through a preliminary hearing before
Commissioner Hitchcock.
He was game. Guimares was. For
the lack of a mere $4,000, which any
good hustler should be able to pick
up between noon and shutdown in cir
cumstances of sufficient urgency.
Guimares was committed to the tombs
on q charge Of using the mails to get
plenty for nothing whatever.
Dotty's Other Man
Guimares first became prominent,
rot to say notorious, at the time when
Dotty King was found crumpled amid
the silks of her bed in a fat opposite
the Calvary Baptist Church. where she
pursued her career as a heavy sugar
baby, within earshot OF the pulpit
where the famous John Roach STRAIT
ton whanged the Bible with a right
eous fist and preached damnation to
doors of evil.
Guimares had been Dotty's "other
man" While her heavy sugar daddy"
was elsewhere. Guimares was with
Dotty.
After she had been killed for the
rather cheap, but extremely flashy
collection of jewelry. Guimares was
asked many questions by the police
and the district attorney. but in the
end. the Dotty King case Joined the
Gentleman Joe Elwood case in the
files at police headquarters as one of
the unsolved mysteries Of Broadway.
s.ys1 Settled Down
Some time after that, Guimares
married Betty Piermont. red-haired
girl, and settled down to his business
OF getting the money. Hilda Ferguson,
the chorus girl who was Dotty's
room mate before the murder, took a
trip to Paris. returned. and is now in
the same show with Fanny Br1ce-
the Follies.
They have a rather limited circle OF
personal acquaintance. after all, these
characters in Broadway's big cases
CT the last few years, and their field
Ct operations also Is bounded by
few blocks between Forty-Second st.
and prizefghter's corner at Ninety.
Sixth and Broadway.
Had Brokerage" Firm.
At the time of the Dotty's murder,
Guimares was operating one Of his
many brokerage" firms as a sort of
namesake OF hers. This was the firm
Of King & Scott. which, did business
under .Guimares' genius in the same
building with four other of his enter
rrises. All of these were scrutinized
by the postoffice inspectors in their
search for evidence to support COM
plant received from one of Guimares'
customers. Continuing their ex-
plorations in the realm of brokerage.
they found Guimares was also "the
firm" in five other concerns, which
they Investigated also.
Two other men, Henry w. Fields
and William B. Kaas. associates of
Guimares, were arrested and war
rants are out for Henry Guimares,
brother of Alfred, and two others.
On Sucker List
Graham, the Federal inspector, said
the Government had evidence that
S150,0 had been obtained from
number Of investors who had the mis-
fortune to be named on a sucker list
and who were approached by phone
for their business"
According to Graham, Guimares
had more business ingenuity than any
of the others who got into trouble.
When, as the Government Will allege,
Guimares had sold an order of stock
to an investor" he would turn the
customers name over TO his by
product plant.
In this plant. the Government
claims. Guimares utilized even the
squeal, for 1t was a. private stock fraud
bureau. The bureau would offer to
investigate the deal transacted with
the stock brokerage firm and would
charge fee for the service, obtaining
in the process possession of all the
evidence In the customers hands.