Show I SWINDlE CHARGED TO 10 STERll STERliNG DEBENTURE PROMOTER S Six x Men en Are re Arrested by b y Postoffice Postoffice Post- Post office Inspectors in Raid Conducted on Offices Ices EW YORK TORE Den Dee I ec On O.- O. On n a 0 federal feder al NEW V N alt Indictment charging fraudulent t use uso of the malls mails In promoting stock sloe I for or a n mill where linen lineD was t to tobo o bo be made In a R day d six men were ar sr arrested rested In n a n. raid conducted b by flee In inspectors nt fit the offices of ot lit the Sterling Debenture company here bore Jl re to to- to day The authorities estimate that th the e yearly income of the promoters In thi this es s 11 i I land and other ventures has hus been more tha than t n and that nearly 0 of oC the publics public's money has been pal pai paid d over to them since the they began doing doin g business II many parts of tho the country cotta coun tr try are name named In the Indictment a as y complaining witnesses s and tho alleged allege d unlawful conspiracy specified extended over O a tL period of nineteen months endIng end end- ending In Ing December 31 31 1909 1900 Government t 1 t authorities hero here have been Investigating In at ing In- complaints against defendants defendant s for sl six years ars they say Bay Tile The men melt arrested are Frank W. W Shumaker Shu Shu- maker former president of or the tho Sterlin Sterling g Debenture company and Harry II JI Platt Samuel U. U Findlay I Edwin A. A Barren Darron Wilbur M. M Stones and Sidney Rosenbaum They held in hall ball l I 1 n aggregating t OO Throe Three e other uther men arc are named In iii the Indictment One o of f them thorn Jm has haa been arr arrested sted Ill liv Chicago The others are arc believed to be in iu Mays Mass ass According to the thc indictment investor inventors s were induced to send mon money to th the e II Sterling Debenture company for COl lh the e purchase o of stock In ht tho the Oxford lin linen lher er t I mills a l Maine corporation un under er the tile I alleged fraudulent representation that tha t i the tho Oxford mills owned exclusive patent pat Pat- I cut ent and secret processes seR that would woul d manufacture linen tinen from American America n I I grown g flax at third one-third tho cost o of ot f I foreign linen n an and 1 In quicker time i According to th the postal authorities I i the Oxford lIn n mills arc rot not connected with tho the Sterling l in company broken 11 awn from fum that concern |