Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
B. R. BUCK, BROKER,
RELEASED ON BOND
Accused of EmbezzIement of
$4,000 Intrusted to His
Office by Client.

B. r. Buck. proprietor of the broker
age Office Of Buck & Co., in the Evans
Building. 1920 New York avenue, today
was at liberty under $4,000 bond, fol-
lowing his arrest late yesterday on a
charge of embezzlement of $4,000 in an
Gill OF Warsaw, Va, who says he has
been a client of Buck & Co. for some
weeks.
Bucks arrest was precipitated yes
terday by the Better Business Bureau
of Washington and c. v. Verne Of the
Virginia Better Trade Association, who
was in Washington on business in con-
nection with the dealings of two of the
Virginia body's clients with Buck & Co.
Charges Delivery Delayed.
When Buck & Co. is alleged to have
put of the demand of Gill for the $lO,-
600 he claims is due him, and when
Verne is alleged to have been told at
the brokerage Office that the stock pur-
chased TOR the account OF two other
Virginia clients could not be delivered
before 60, or possibly 80, days. Gill was
advised to swear out his warrant.
Deputy MarshalS John j. Clarkson
and Harry Parker, armed with the war
rant, went to the offices of Buck &s Co.
and were unable to locate Buck there.
They found him at his home, 729
Princeton street, and placed him under
arrest. Brought before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage,
Buck, through his attorney, Harry
B rger, and Milton s. Kronheim, put
up the necessary bond and was freed
from custody.
Commissioner Turnage set the date
for the preliminary hearing of the
charges against Buck at 10 O'Clock
September %.
Gill claims he has been dealing with
Buck & Co. for some time, and that on
August Is he wrote the brokerage ONCE
to sell out his holdings and deliver him
the cash due to him. which he claims
amounted to approximately $4,000.
Says Letter was Acknowledged.
Gill claims that the letter was
acknowledged. but that this acknow-
Judgement, followed by repeated tele-
phone calls from his home, in Warsaw,
Va, failed to produce the money. Gill
claims $1,000 was his total investment
with Buck & Co., and that $4,000 Is
his profit.
Receiving no action, Gill came to
Washington yesterday and sought Buck
at his office. There he alleges he was
told Buck was out of town, and was re-
ferred to Barger. There he conferred
with Barger on his claim. Then he
went to the Better Business Bureau
here and laid his case before that Of
flee. In the office at the time was
Verne. in the Capital in connection
with the case of two alleged clients of
Buck & Co.
Immediately, Verne says, he took up
with Buck & Co. and later with Berger,
to whom he was referred by the COM
pany, the matter of delivery of the
stock he alleges was bought by his two
clients in Virginia, and was told that
delivery could not be made for from so
to 80 days. He did not indicate what
action would be taken in that matter.
Office Open Today.
The Office of Buck & Co., with stock
ticker, board and all the appurtenances
of stock buying and selling, was open
and doing business this morning. The
firm is not a member Of the New York
Stock, Curb or Cotton Exchanges, nor
of the Chicago Board of Trade.
The charge against Buck is that he
did unlawfully, being the agent Of one
z. Asbury Gill, wrongfully convert and
secrete with intent to convert to his
own use, money of the United States of
America of the value of ten thousand
dollars ($10,000). said money being
then and there the property of said 2.
Asbury Gill, which money came into
the possession of the said B. r. Buck
by virtue of his employment as stock
broker"