Show A GANG OF SWINDLERS discovered BY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE or OF A GIRL forged notes and checks to the ex tent of halt a million and lived like nabobs nabors on the proceeds new ness york nov 9 the attempted suicide of may alay WInta ec a miss of 0 17 yeats in a furnished room in brooklyn followed by the arrest of lier her lover edward valentine has hai ha i brought to light tile the operations of a cans balig of swindlers lers who have been in this city the girl arl made an attempt upon her file after a iv warrant arrant had been issued lisuch charging charelle chare lne her with having passed a worthless check upon a brooklyn dry goods merchant after silo bho had partially recovered she he told tile hie authorities thol that the check had been riven given to her by valentine lie was waa arrested and Is now in jail N valentine alentine vr in the hope of aming himself elt has made a confession in which he tells felts in detail the operations of the sang gang tiie the most prominent members were ble big ed nice charles 11 abbott C H mclaughlin 11 II K white isaac Helden helmer Ro lindale smith walter waller B D peters connors and william thomas the swindlers lers saw last summer that in consequence of the money mar hot forged papers could be easily floated providing tile the names of those on the paper had a rating with the commercial acon cles at tills this stapo stage of the proceedings charles 11 abbott who bad operated with the gang banff in other felds appeared with a bright idea lie ile was the junior member at 0 the firm of 0 john 11 baker co forwarding agents by somo some means the firm had secured a high rating upon the strength of this rating abbott set to work and made out the firms notes tor for probably these notes were kiven given to the members of 0 the adf gang with Instruct instructions lons to negotiate them outside the city at least of the notes were sold in philadelphia other notes were disposed of in chicago find and other faraway far aw away cities valentine and mclaughlin made mad so much money that they leased cottages cot tasea at long dranch branch a and nd lived like millionaires they drove e fast horses and valentine even went to the extent of leasing a steam yacht may avint age was his companion emboldened by their success the cang became reckless they set to work to pass forged forced checks in this city and brooklyn and this proved their downfall abbott has ruined the inn firm of J IT II daker baker aco co mr baker Is a man well advanced in years who trusted abbott entirely supposing him to be an honest bonest man abbott lias has disappeared it Is claimed merchants manufacturers and farmers have lost by the operations oper allona of this gang cans they are sald said to have been the promoters of two or three fictitious companies one called the standard coal and oil company and olao also of 0 a hanking banking concern which they used as a a decoy it is slid sald the gang eane bought on notes and then sold for cash the material they had tot or anything they could get for it A favorite scheme was to get possession of bicycles from manufacturers and jobbers and then to raule the wheels or sell them at a great creat sacrifice |