Show TO TB FORCE fORGE THOMAS THO T. T RY RYAN AN TO Suits of Metropolitan Securities Securities ties les Stockholders For Millions Milons New York lork Ort Oct Two o Two suits suit aggregating aggregating ag ag- ag- ag moro more than to t compel 11 tie the Thomas Thoma Thomal F. F Ryan Tan coterie of oC traction looters looter to repay the sums o of which tho time Metropolitan S Securities curle company pan stockholders iver defru defrauded In the Wall Vall and Cortlandt str street et ferries ferries ferries fer fer- fer- fer ries paper Val railway deal and ml th the paid John B. B McDonald to prevent prevent pre pro vent pall tie Uie enforcement of oC contracts which would have given ghen the people of or New York a 3 system tem of oC subways with free transfers n erf ha have hae e been begun b by l s 's for Coudert Brothers as aR attorneys Daniel V. Burrows a stockholder of the the company Directory In lie JOb b In the complaints th the plaintiff al alleges alleges at- at leges that tho the directors of the Metropolitan Metro Metro- pat Uta politan Securities company connived whereby where where- at and anel approved d the operations b by enormous amounts amount of tho the company company's compa compa- ny's nys assets wore were wC wasted ted and anti stolen It is also alleged that the tho directors I who are arc merely dummies and nd puppets 31 execute tho ho will wl of or Thomas F. F Ryan and carr carry out Ryan's Ryans s schemes to lo defraud defraud de de- de- de fraud th stockholders arid ad enrich himself and o. o associates a Defendant One sui suit which Includes the estates of William C. C Whitney and William lIliam Wilam II It is Ij to force th the looters to pay paid b by th the stockholders stockholders stock tock holders tot for fol UI lie Wall and Cortlandt which Street F Ferries railway railway railway-a n a road rond only on paper with no assets but hut a franchise which 1 had been declared de the- dared void by b the courts courts The Tho ho Ryan clique a after er paying Mr Ir McDonald divided ell th the balance of 7 10 among thom themselves che The rho fhe second suit ui is begun un to forCA 1 R Ryan an to restore to the time stockholders o pi I th the tie Metropolitan the sum um of or 1 I which W was ivac paid out of or the tho tie treasury to toI tf I John B n. McDonald |