Show COTTON BROKER ARRESTED saratoga N Y aug 23 F A indicted for complicity in the department of agriculture cotton report scandal was arrested here today and arraigned before united states commissioner charles M da eldson who ordered an adjournment of examination until tomorrow morning in default of ball peck ham was lodged in the saratoga county jail at baleston ballston Ball ston boston aug 23 P A the new york broker who was arrested in saratoga today has been one of the most conspicuous figures in the investigation of the cotton report leak ake in the department qt agriculture the indictment is the first which has been become known in connection with the charge against the integrity ot the government colton statistics it 13 understood this arrest was adopted on a bench warrant issued by chief justice clabough of the supreme court of the district of columbia for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the cotton crop report of the department of agriculture the fact of the issuance of indictment had been carefully kept secret in this city mr Peck mans name has been associated socia ted very closely with moses haas of new york and dotti of them de to testify before the grand jury bere secretary allson reported that L C van riper of new york said baat haas acted as a go between in conveying information from holise the dismissed associate statistician to other new york brokers correspondence between holmes and brokers found by the secret service agents contained the initial P which isi said to be the way in which holmes referred to to the report of secretary allson holmes admitted that ha and had close relations and were at one time associated in a business venture in which holmes was to have an interest equal to the sum of which he was to receive as a gift from the other members of the firm secretary wilson said that mr dolroes admitted that when he bad occasion to visit naw nsw york he frequently found that his hotel bills were paid by or van riper secretary wilton report connected holmes wath communicating advance information to van riper and moses haas of new york INJURED IN A COLLISION new york aug 24 two men and two women badly hurt early today in a collision between a trolley car in brooklyn and an automobile returning from both women and one of the men may die the injured are miss emma budge miss agnes rico otto and frank brown owner of the motor car one of the women sustained a fractured ikall while the other was injured internally ter nally brown is so badly hurt that he could not be removed from the cen of the accident |