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Show THREE MEN ARRESTED FOR SELLING BOND TAKEN IN $3,000,000 ROBBERY brought him into contact with Dr. Wll-cexson Wll-cexson and that the latter had author-lied author-lied him to negotiate a loan for $9500 with the bond as collateral. Smith and Taylor were to receive a commission. On the back of the security It appeared ap-peared that Miller had on Monday morning transferred the bond to Wil-coxson Wil-coxson In the presence of President Moyer of the Shoe and Leather National Nation-al bank, as required by law. The secret service agents proceeded to th Waldorf-Astoria hotel and received re-ceived Taylor. He expressed great astonishment, as-tonishment, as also did Wllcoxson, who came in after an evening at the 1 theater to find himself under arrest. The doctor said he made a large fortune for-tune in Alaska and Dutch Guiana mining mi-ning property and that Miller recently entered Into negotiations for some of the former. Miller, he said, offered to make the entire payment In United States 4 rer cent bonds. "Those are as good as gold to me," Wilcoxson says he told Miller, and Miller Mil-ler thereupon produced the one which caused the trouble, explaining that by uElng it to bind the deal he could save brokerage. "I accepted the bond." said Wllcoxson. Wllcox-son. "and went with Miller to the Shoe and Leather bank, where I have had an account for some time. I Introduced Miller to President Moyer, who remarked re-marked that the security was gilt-edged gilt-edged and affixed his signature and the bank's seal to certify the transfer. I have not se?n Miller since Monday afternoon. af-ternoon. Our understanding then was that he was to see me again In a few days, when he would turn over the other nineteen bonds and receive from me his stock." Capt. Flynn found that the description descrip-tion of Miller tallied with thAt hi... NEW YORK. Feb. 8. Dr. Lewis O. Wilcoxson, who is under arrest here, trith Joseph A. Taylor of White Plains. N. Y. and James A. Smith of this city. In connection with the recovery of a $10,000 United States Government bond stolen from the Manhattan Savings institution in-stitution in 1S7S, has resided with his wife and child at one of the leading uptown up-town hotels here for nearly three years. t& claims Chicago as his native city, fays he owns extensive mining interests inter-ests in Alaska and has an income of $-.000 a month. Nevertheless, he spent the r.ight In prison 1n default of $10,000 bond required by the Federal authori- " The recovery of the bond was made through the sub-treasury in Wall street, where It had been delivered by a bank messenger. Thirty of the same series were taken in the Manhattan robbery and this is only the third one fcund. Two others were recovered in 1SS0 by Inspector Byrnes. In addition to the three prisoners mentioned, all of whom claim to be capitalists and promoters, the complaint com-plaint on which they were arrested served also as the basis for a warrant tor the arrest of one Samuel Warren Miller. Secret service detectives who are busy unraveling the case say they are in doubt whet'.er Miller is a real or a mythical personage. The only evidence evi-dence that such a man exists rests upon the fact that his name, written out in full, appears upon the bond In the place where the name of the Manhattan Man-hattan Savings Institution should better bet-ter appear and the additional fact that Dr. Wilcoxson describes Miller as the man from whose hands the bond came into his possession as the result of a business transaction. When Deputy Assistant United States Treasurer G. W. Malor received the message from a bank messenger In the course of business he Instantly recognized rec-ognized It because of the number and called Capt. Flynn of the secret service. They examined the paper and found no disfigurement except In the perfect substitution sub-stitution of one name for the other. The name Samuel Warren Miller ap-reared ap-reared to have been written many years ago. The Ink had faded nearly as much as that In which appeared the name of United States Register Allison v.rltten below. Capt. Flynn went directly to the Aetna Aet-na bank and there found waiting James A. Smith, who had presented the bond, aid who had been asked to. wait while !tws referred to the Treasury officials. Eolith said Joseph A, Taylor, & friend. by Mr. Moyer. but no trace of him has yet been discovered. The doctor ex-plained ex-plained that he gave the bond to Taylor for negotiation in order to do him a good turn. Recovery of the bond recalls the robbery, rob-bery, twenty-seven years ago, of the Manhattan bank, one of the richest hauls ever made In America. The burglars bur-glars secured nearly $3,000,000 in cash and negotiable securities. |