Evening star., 1932-06-09
CAREY, MAIL FRAUD
| FUGITIVE, SEIZED
IN BONUS APPEAL
TWo-Year Search for Vet.
eran Indicted in New York
With 10 Others Ends.
EX.S0LD!ER BELIEVED
APPLICANT FOR CASH
Alleged Associate of Easterday in
Operation Here and in Gotham
"Flat Broke

What is believed to have been an
attempt to cash a veterans b-nus GER
terifcate has led to the arrest here.
after nearly two years search by postal
authorities, Of David William Carey 81,
who was indicted with the notorious
Wilen w. yesterday and nine others in
New York in November. 1880. on charges
Of using the mails to defraud.
Carey was taken before United States
commissioner Needham C. Turnage to-
day, waived examination and was re-
moved to the District Jail in default OF
$4,000 bond. There he Will await re-
moval to New York to face the 2-year-
old indictment.
Carey was arrested at a hotel yester-
day afternoon by Postal Inspector C. A.
Battles Of New York, who has been on
his trail since the 1880 indictment. ac-
companied by Detective A. D. Mansfield
and Postal Inspector Roy de Ward.
He at first denied his identity.
Wanders on Seaboard.
He has been wandering the Atlantic
Seaboard since yesterday and his COM
panions were indicted, tried and SEN
fenced: During the two years Carey
Is said to have visited Lake George.
Miami, New York, Hartford. Washing
ton and other cities, moving frequently
to escape the untiring postal authori-
ties
When arrested, according to police.
he was fiat broke" without a cent on
his person. He is World War veteran
and has been entitled to $40 a month
peension. He now has some $500 due
him, which he was unable to collect
without appearing in person.
Carey probably will be returned to
New York tomorrow to answer charges
OF using the mails to defraud in con-
nection with the operation of a New
York bucket shop. Easterday, former
partner OF the notorious Jules "Nicky"
Arnsteln, now Is serving a sentence of
3l2 years in Atlanta Penitentiary as
result Of his conviction in connec-
ton with the same case. Three other
men also are serving sentences in At
lanta.
Carey, yesterday and nine others were
indicted in New York in October. 1880,
on charges Of using the mails to de-
fraud while operating in New York as
Sloane, Logan & Co., and in Washing
ton as l.. A. Congdon e. Co. 1t is
said that residents Of the District of
Columbia lost amounts near 100000
through the operation of the two COM
panies. Carey is said to have been the
Logan Of the company. and Easterday
used the name Of Sloane
No Charges Here.
The Post Office Department said to-
day that there are no charges pending
in the National Capital against Carey,
but that the case is being handled en-
al ~
OF G. H. Clarahan, inspector in charge
there.
Carey was held incommunicado last
night at the first precinct station, being
booked held for postal authorities"
He has made no statement as to his
connection with the case, it is said.
yesterday, with whom Carey is alleged
to have been associated for several
years. was arrested in Washington No
vember 4. 1929. in connection with for
gerieS which are said to have cost the
Melrose Bank of New York some S13 1000.
yesterday figured in several cases
with Nicky Arnstein and was arrested
with ArnStein in 1922 in a bond rob-
berry case in which securities valued at
s750.000 are said to have been brought
to Washington. The bonds brought
here were part Of loot said to have
tOtd4CN pJ,OOuUUO. hlIlSlelIl, CdSleIudy
and others were convicted in connection
with that case.
Others indicted in New York in con-
nection with the 1880 case were Charles
H. Greenhaus, formerly known as the
boy wizard Of Wall Street: Harry
Greenhaus. his younger brother, and
Joseph Cataldo alleged "strong-arm
man of the outfit. Cataldo since has
died, it is said.