The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 01, 1921, Page 7, Image 7
HUGE FRAUD
SCHEME UNEARTHED
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FEDERAL AGENTS SOLVE GIGAXTIC
SWINDLE.
Millions Involved.
Banks, Bond Houses, Brokers and
Wealthy Men Victims of
Clever Band.
Millions of dollars of worthless
notes, stolen bonds, fraudulent deeds
of trust and forged certificates of deposit
have been flung on the markets
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of the country, federal agents declare
after investigation of a band alleged
to have been headed by Charles W.
French and John F. Worthington,
says a recent dispatch.
Banks, bond houses, investment security
brokers and wealthy business
men from coast to coast were declared
to have been the victims or
dupes of one of the most gigantic
swindles ever unearthed by federal
agents.
Six million dollars worth of stolen
bonds, nearly $3,000,000 in worthless
notes and hundreds of thousands of
dollars' worth of trust deeds and
forged certificates of deposit have
I been traced by department of justice
agents, it was said.
Til? revelations resulted irogi a
confession accredited to Alva W.
Harshman who was declared* to have
been a private secretary to French
and who surrendered recently. He was
alleged to have told of . a deed negotiated
by French for the purchase
of a bank in the middle west that involved
the exchange of $800,000.
How Thew Worked It.
A Washington, D. C., man, according
to Harshman, was to obtain ceri
' tified checks for $5jD0,000 there.
These checks, he said, were to be "presented
to the bank owners and when
the band gained control of the estaolishment,
they were to cash all certificates
of deposit the bank ownefl.
The money he said, would then be
forwarded ro the Washineton man
' who would deposit it before the certified
checks on the original transac
tion were cleared and returned. Many
other similar deeds Were also described.
In another case, it was asserted, a
large amount of stolen securities
were placed with a small country1
.bank in return for a certificate of
deposit. The deposit slip, it was said, j
was cashed, and the bank left holding
the securities which would be
identified and reclaimed when it tried
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to realize on them.
Among names of the firms alleged
to have been signed to notes used
I . by the bank were:
P Curtis Publishing Company, Akron,
Ohio, $9,000; MacKay Truck Com
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pany, aKron, }ia,uvv, run-upmc
Mountain Lumber Company, Cievelond,
$10,000; Portage Market, Akron,
$21,000; Heninger Plumbing
Supply Company, Akron, $25,000;
Schwartzer Wrecking Company, Dayton,
Ohio; $100,000; Midwest Automobile
Sales Company, Dayton, $50,:
000; Dayton Financing Company,
' Dayton, $300,000; American Rubber
Company, Chicago, $85,000; 'H. M.
k Strong Metal Products Company,
Cleveland. S6.000: Cleveland Home
^ .Manufacturing Company, $15,000;
George B. Wickens, Loraine, Ohio,
$103,000 and the Portage Packing
Company, Akron, $31,QOO.
\ In addition about $500,000 in notes
supposed to have been signed by the
American Rubber Company have not
been found. The total notes known
' to have been issued was pjut at $1,'
602,000 by federal officials.
It was also revealed that the band
f was operating in Kansas City. According
to John V. Clinnin, acting
district attorney, all of the notes issued
by the band were disposed of
' by the securities company of Kansas
City.
According to the alleged confession
made by Harshman, the band made
considerable money disposing of real
state mortgages. Another deal said
to have been made in Milwaukee by
the band is being investigated by
government agents. It was declared
to have netted the swindlers $500,000.
It was said that A. 2. Strelzin,
who was arrested in Milwaukee,
will be questioned regarding
this tranaction.
^ Worthington was arrested some
A weeks ago and is being held in $100^
000 bonds in connection with mail
robberies totalling approximately $6,000,000.
French, alleged to be his
right hand man, was arrested yesterday
with several of his associates.
B Today C. K. Strobel was taken into
B custody in Akron. Ohio, and A. E.
W Strelzin was arrested in Milwaukee.
Letter ^Yom Millionaire.
Begging the return of "at least a
little of the millions?to be exact $2.".00.000,"
alleged to have been obtained
from him by John W. Worthington,
Charles French, and their associates,
a letter from Z. W. Davis,
former president of the Winto Autof
GHOST WITHOUT MANAGER.
Concern Being Formed to Handle
Problem.
Bristol, Va.-Tenn., Aug. 28.?In
connection with steps that have been
taken to form a company for the promotion
of Bristol's ghost, it was
learned todal .that the promoters
were having difficulty in finding a
manager to take charge of the enterprise.
The family that has been in the so
called haunted house for the past
three months today moved out and
plans for forming a company to exploit,
investigate and control his
ghostship were immediately taken up.
It has been suggested thai ' e new
concern be called the Bris Ghost
Incorporated. The company will specialize
in ghost-craft, the promoters
said.
Jesse Carter Should Win.
This is a day and age of propagandas.
The latest is a boost for
Governor Cooper, on the supreme
bench. It is a political scheme, pure
and simple. The News and Courier
wantc Harvev in the gubernatorial
I chair and it figures, correctty, that it
will be about the only way to get him
there. Not that Mr. Harvey is not
a good man, but he is not of sufficient
rough and tumble caliber to win in
a primary, for such an office. But,
will the scheme pan out? We doubt
it, and yet nobody can tell. We
plead guilty to a strong desire to see
Mr. Carter, of Bamberg, elected, for
several reasons. We do not know
him, personally, but we have heard
nothing but the best about him. He
is self-made, learned in the law and
of high moral character. He has a
judicial mind. With all this as a safe
and secure foundation, we were
charmed to see the legislature, for
once, attempt to get above and beyond
its own membership, for a high
and responsible office. In addition
to thic ran see no reason in the
world?everything being equal? |
why the lower part of the state
shouldn't' have some show in the
sharing out of important positions.
You have a stumpy road ahead of
you, Mr. Carter, but you deserve to
win and our best wishes are with
you.?Calhoun Times.
New Fertilizer.
Urban#, 111., Aug. 27.?The University
of Illinois is conducting experiments
at its experiment field at
Newton, the results of which are
said to be marvelous, according to an
announcement here recently.
The experiments deal with soil fertility,
drainage and crop fertility with
the use of lime and rock phosphate.
The field on which the experiments
are being made was deeded to the university
in 1912 and was said to be
one of the poorest pieces of land in
Jasper county. It is the largest soil
experiment field in southern Illinois.
Such results, the statement says,
as were made in treating land for
growth of cFops will convince the
most skeptical that there are great
possibilities in improving southern
Tllin aIa, form
laiui icixxuo.
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Has Ideas.
"You will never get anywhere unless
you have higher ideals than
this," preached the woman to whose
door the tramp had applied for assistance.
"Are you really content to
spend your life walking around the
country begging?"
"No lady," answered Weary Willie.
"Many's the time I've wished I had
an auto."?American Legion Weekly.
mnhile Cnmnanv. of Cleveland, forms
the letter intercepted by government
officials. It was addressed to French
at a Chicago loop hotel, where a suite
maiptained by French was raided
yesterday. Federal officers say they
recovered securities valued at $1,000,000
in the raid.
DavisVJetter, of si:Cpages, dated
August 5, was a plea for others who
are entirely dependent on him for a
livelihood. Left without aid from
those who obtained his fortune, the
former Cleveland millionaire declared
he would be forced to the
only alternative?suicide." Davis
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Diamond Portland Cement Company
and the Glove Stove Company. The
letter addressed to French said:
"Please do not take what I am
writing you as a whine. I am not in
the habit of crying after I have lost.
If I were the only one to be considered,
I would not care.
"But there are others who are entirely
dependent on me for a livelihood.
It is for that reason that I
am now forced to beg you to return
at least a little of the millions?to!
be exact S2.">00,000?which you and
your associates have taken away from
me in the last two vears."
Worthington, French, Owen T.
Evans and Alva Harshman are under
indictment. Davis also is under indictment
but has protested that he
was made a dupe by the leaders
of the ring.
NO TITLE FOR HIM.
Would Rather Be a Plain Ordinary
American.
Suppose you got a cablegram from
England saying an uncle had died.
leaving you heir to $2,000,000 and a
dukedom?
Wouldn't you grab the first boat?
"Not on your life!" says 'Squire
Philips.
Here's a man who turned down a
rosy bequest just like that! Because
he'd rather be an American citizen
and a country 'squire.
His full name is Thierry Van Castle
Phillips, of Weston, Pa.
"What do I want to be a duke for?"
demanded 'Squire Phillips. "I'd have
to give up my American citizenship.
And I'd have to resign as justice of
the peace. And I'd have to give up
my old home and my elm trees and
my flivver. Xo sir, no flunkies calling
me 'Your Grace!'
"Why, my gosh, I only just achieved
my ambition to be elected justice
of the peace! Oh, no, I don't work at
the job. Haven't held court yet. Haven't
even performed any marriages."
"Heavens, how could you?" put in
the ducal "squire's wife. "There isn't
even a Bible in the house. And the
maiden ladies down the road prabably
wouldn't lend you one because you've
got a reputation for swearing too
much."
"How do you figure a 'squire's job
better than a duke's?" I asked.
"Not for the fees; I don't need
them," said Phillips. "I've been
pinched so often and hailed before a
J. P. for violating some pesky village
ordinance that I yearned to be a J.
P. myself. And, believe me, I'm
waitin' for the first squire that comes
flivvering down this road. I'll plaster
a fine on him?just to get even."
So the title and the estate of the recently
deceased Duke de Moro go begging
while the hereditary duke sits,
unshaven and vestless, on his oldfashioned
front porch, and waits for
>hi? prey.
"Duke" Phillips is the oldest
nephew of the deceased Duke de
Moro. His grandfather was the
Grand Duke Sharvaloski Phillip de
Moro, a Polish nobleman, who fled
Warsaw in 1848, later making a
botch of an attempt to kill the czar
of Russia, and changing his name to
S. Moro Phillips, became an American
citizen, married a Philadelphia
hpiip and hfifame the "fertilizer
king," leaving a fortune of $15,000,000.
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"Grandfather was against titles,"
said 'Squire Phillips, "but when he
died in 1885, Uncle Moro went to
England with his share of the estate
and assumed the title as grandfather's
eldest son. He played the duke,
all right, and he looked just like a
butler."
The 'squire boasts of another title.
He says his mother's father was
Abraham Thierry Van Castile, made
a baron by a former king of Holland,
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himself A. T. Van Castile.
"You see abhorrence of pomp runs
in the family, except for Uncle Moro,"
said the 'squire.
"Even down to me," says Alexand-1
er, the 'squire's youngest son.
The. 'squire is forty-six, married!
and has two sons. He likes to wear j
old clothes and collect antiques. The
house he lives in used to be a school |
house and he bought it because he I
liked the six big elm trees in the front j
yard. It's 30 miles west of Philadelphia.
He only has an acre of ground
because he thinks farming is too hard
work.
His sister, Mrs. Julie Van Castile
Thompson, who lives in Europe, has
just become engaged to Viscount Furness,
wealthy British shipping magnate.
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Battles With Snake in His Room.
George W. Paul, of 1216 Hickman
Road, this city, fought the Hun overseas,
but it remained for him to have
the most exciting battle of his life
right in his own home and in his own
bed.
Paul went to bed as usual Thursday
night, only to awake after midnight
with the sensation of something
cold and clammy across his body.
He opened his eyes, closed them again
and tried to sleep. We was wide awake
when he felt the creeping sensation
a second time, and glancing down he
saw a red-colored snake in coil across
his breast. With a motion of his body
he flung the snake from him, but the
reptile clung to his arm and wound
its body tightly about him. A mad
fisht ensued, which ended with the
snake being hurled beneath the bed.
Paul turned the light on at this
juncture and called members of the
family to his room. The snake had
coiled about the young man's shoes
and the reptile again showed fl%ht
when Paul, reinforced by two men,
attacked him with a broom and fire
rvr?l.- Of
The snake, finally killed, measured
three and one half feet, when stretched
across the floor.?Augusta Chronicle.
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