Show social leaders interested in society ay LAWRENCE editor of F FRANKLIN society a weekly publication devoted to the doings of fashionable folks in which many women widely known in the four hundred are said to be stockholders was locked up at headquarters the other day Ii arged with obtaining 1000 by trick and device among those who are reported to have purchased stock in the magazine at a share are mrs airs stuyvesant fish mrs airs paul morton mrs clarence 11 mackey mrs theodore and miss coille lynch of lakewood the plan adopted by lawrence to bring tits hla publication to the notice of the four hundred and show the value of the stock according to the story told was to send a solicitor to the home of society hostesses before a ball or function of any kind and explain that the paper desired to treat it in a dignified mannor manner and in accordance with the wishes of those interested then it Is said the question of et the persons interested becoming a stockholder was mentioned and a share or two of stock was sold in this manner to those who felt kindly toward the publication mra airs became a stockholder shortly before the marriage of her daughter to the ducco due do chaulnes she purchased two shares at each the lakewood section of 0 society contained a very beautiful halftone half tone portrait of miss shonta on its first page the arrest of lawrence was made mada on the complaint of harry 13 harris of brooklyn harris was engaged in october last as an advertising solicitor and put up a cash security of 1000 he be says in return he received shares of society as security the par value of the stock was harris says he solicited advertising until told he was getting too much of the kind that was not wanted then lie he was put to work to increase the circulation of the paper he worked on commission and says he obtained only 1760 1750 and was unable to get any more money or to recover his bis 1000 then he consulted the district attorney who had the editor arrested on the charge stated and also on the further charge of violating the penal code in connection with run ning a corporation unlawfully |