Show r I I I I r I GET GE ET MONEY MON BY FRAUD Tradesman's Son Aids London London- Swindlers in Extensive Operations S LO London March ra 11 Before Mr fr Lo el Loveland olan Lo K K C. C at the tho Clerk 10 ll 1 Walter Bart Bartlett tt I 37 cl l r a Hl W I er vre rf on i l Cf I rig con spited together to obtain ami nuth 25 51 by by- false pretenses from G C George Jet h j ford Fowler solicitor r. r of BC Bedford row ow W. W II 1 Le Leycester pro prosecuted 1 In September ept Har cy cy called on I Bernard a mOlt mortgage Rge o ot and HI represented I himself IC as a a ll person r on who hind had l Inherited ll GOO his fathers father's fath fath- ers erOs rM wil will 1 He lie said II h ho he had lund purchased l lr two public houses at PI Plymouth Plymouth- mouth an and was desirous of i ral raising aiding ln a n loan hy by mortgage In order to lo take lake over another another an an- other public house at Aldershot He lie le represented that the deeds were In the po possession of o his uncle at nt HI IHler Harp Hampshire hh Bartlett BartU went vent down n there theme and Impel impersonating th the supposed jUppO- jUppO ed Nl uncle answered corr correspondent I and said aid he would bring the d deeds els to London Son of f Tradesman Meanwhile Harvey had hal been intrO intrO- to h the prosecutor and had bath oh- oh 75 i b by plausible excuses e It I was proven pron h by 11 a solicitors solicitor's cleric that lie tho tl prisoners were not the the persons they represented them themselves I es to b. b bo be land and that the they were not entitled t to mon money under the tho will wi Complaints of frauds fraus reaching the police polee Detective Sel Sergeants lants Baxter and kept fib fib- l- l on O nw newspaper letter r cly- cly Ing Jug shops Eventually 1 tile the they arct arrested 1 tho ho prisoners from om descriptions Detective Sr Sergeant cant Baxter wild Mid Bartlett was wa the of a respectable tradesman who formerly carried on onI at Waterloo road For years parR he ho had hd been a neel do well cio and has haq a associated with wih low io characters and Harvey Hal was wn as horn born at Carlisle Car Car- J lisle IC and after being In gentlemen's i service sl and employed In public hou houf ox t ho hr 1 drifted Into the company of B Bartlett and his companions companions Members of Swindlers Swindlers' S Jang 1 The They wore were connected with lh a n regular gang an of men mn who vho ha had carried d out similar frauds and and 1 lived u by heggIn begging lel letter I link At the tho the 11 time of o their arrest th they both hoth carried books hooles in which the they kept hept a carefully tabulated U statement of oC the tho thC money received l In response o to their apnea Is obtaining as much a as 12 2 and SUi 15 lri a day They he had also visited free rree libraries In or order er erto to slean particulars of or the tho histories of well weB known people 5 TheIr lists Included several titled il names 1 9 and also that of oC th the tho common sr fl in il the ca cases es of or notable families In th the tho country tho they kept kelt a recoup of oC the tho name of or th the vicar the coachman anti and every ery on one In th the ma village e ulmo almost t Bartlett Barlt had har alo passed a number of f worthless checks an and Harvey Ha ey had stolen tolen rr hl while employed 1 S William llam Pencil proprietor of nr the time Metropolitan tavern ta I road In AU August 1 1004 nl cP was waR postponed on the I i prisoners a third man who Is 18 nJ i I od Nl to 10 have haw been concerned with wih them I I havIn having boon been arrested |