Show 0 I STOLE 0 MILLION II Sensational ConfessIon of a Man Arrested Ar-rested For Forgery He Had Confederates Con-federates NEW YORK Nov 10 William E Valentine who was arrested here recently re-cently for complicity in the forgeries for which William Peters was arrested In Chicago has made a sensational confession claiming the swindlers with whom he was connected had stolen over 1000000 They fleeced merchants all over the country by fraudulent checks He said he was draw into the scheme by a man whose name he gives who ran a Worlds fair hotel In f Chicago He beat all his creditors and obtained 7000 worth of jewelry from one store by false pretenses He had a partner named St Clair and they lived high the year after the fair by the use of a counterfeit certificate cer-tificate stamp of a Chicago bank Within the last year they extended operations and one of the firms swindled nost heavily according to Valentine was that of A G SpauldIng Co The confederate named has not been arrested |