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Show 8 HELD AS II. Y. NICKELPIRATES MEW YORK, Jan. IT UKight maa war arrtd ea eharga of grand laroany and forgary today a District Attorney Thoma E. Dwy praaaad aa Investigation of what h daerlbd aa th ayatamatlo looting of M million alckala 11.100.000 from th elty-ownd subway during th mat flvo year, i Th eight suspect war book ad at a nolle statioa after all-aight questioning. Tea other queatloned during the night war permitted to go home with Inatructiona ta return later la th day for further examination. Dwy ald th aubway, th larg-aat larg-aat munlclpaJlyopratd utility In the world, had been ayaUmattcally looted of S per cent of It f roe recelpU about Il,t2g.OOO total farea annually by a ring of 0 i emtio aganta and snalntsneno men. avers! tired Several of th auapetd nlckl pirate" war found to hav "retired" "re-tired" before Dewey' aid xpod th huga-acal theft. The eight men arrested war listed list-ed aa Henry J. A rone tain, 33; Jama J. McOovern, M: Isadore Kadleow, 98; Charlea E. Cox. 33; William A. Keuhl, 45; William O'Brien, S3; Georg Walla, IT, and Joha H. Carlson. 44. A Dewey aid aald that on of th men warrtod fled th city after reportedly having banked $100,000 In the laat few year oa a petty aubway employ' salary. Th daily take of the nickel chls-elere, chls-elere, a a pokes man for th dietrtot attorney offlc aald, often reached 1S00,. Mrthed Explained Investigators said th scheme worked this way: A dishonest station agent would phon the company that a turnstile waa out of order. When the maintenance main-tenance maa arrived ostensibly to repair it he would turn back the registering device so that th turnstile turn-stile recorded fewer than th actual number of nickels deposited. Station Sta-tion agent altered their record to conform, pocketed th excess farea and later split with ths maintenance man. The theft ware bared by two aubway detectlvea, John E. Cody and Cornelius Callahan, after a three-year Investigation. They re- porta a tno ring naa tnea te anno them with a soar of th stolen , nickels. ' Th board of transportation had treated th case aa a departmental matter until Dewey heard of it and began hla own Inquiry. |