Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-23 | Page 5 | Two Sought as Ringleaders of Antique Racket

SOUGHT Hl AS RIN RINGLEADERS Of ANTIQUE RACKET 13 Secret Indictments Are Returned ned in Alleged Alleged Alleged Al Al- Frauds BOST Oct pet 23 AP The AP-The The alleged al al- al alleged geniuses of ot an antique an tique J. Wilbur J. J Cooke Coole and Mrs J- J K R E. E C Caroline Saunders o or of New York were tho the objects of or a nationwide na na- na- na police search earch toda today Thirteen Thir- Thir teen sc secret indictments were returned re 10 turned yesterday against members member of or the racket jacket Cooko and Mrs Saunders are salli salt said to to i havo have escaped Monday I from th the homo borne in Holyoke of or Mrs Ir Briggs Doran at the time Mrs Doran DorRn was arrested and charged with will h having sold China which sh she represented to be of ot antique origin olIg to n. n a Bost Boston n art connoisseur for COt 51 Police charged that the ware war was of or modern manufacture an and had bad been artificially aged With the arrest of oC Mrs Irs Doran police disclosed sed tho existence of ot th the ring through which they believe victims havo been mulcted out o o of millions of or dollars Operations have Navel bc been n so o clover clever and antI on such a a. lar large scale le that even cven noted collectors were were victimized Heads of or museums here are now checking their collections to deter deter- deter I mine mino I If any spurious works are arc I among amons tb them m and purchases at re recent recent recent re- re cent antique sales arc are being examined examined examined exam exam- ined b by police who have enlisted the aid of or Edwin in E. E an authority on chinaware A nun nuns ber her bf f local antique dealers are mc un under del der surveillance Mrs Doran who was held In jail because e sho she w was wa's was s unable to post OOOO bond yesterday esterday told police she h had d merely acted as Cooke S 'S secretary and had been una unaware varo varo of any fraud mud In the gathering ng and sale of or paintings china and amI other arU ar ar- U cs