Show ii lIS IS BROWN VICTIM Of MONOMANIA Friends Declare He Has Acte c Wildly on Subject of Stocks PREDICTS BIG ADVANCE ADVANCES 3 Expected to tu Win In iti Fabulous J ll C In lii Iw Weeks N Xo ks No Complaint Is 15 Yet S Filed No formal complaint charging Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Drown Brown with forgery was ns flied filed I Ii It Is rumored that yesterday Yc neither I l' l hl his employers or tile the Commercial National National Na Na- bank Where wore were deposited Ui tho C. C alleged spurious lous cheeks checks s. s will vIll prosecute I- I the c case fe This could not bo he verified I. I however ho last lust night Chief Sheets e f the police pollee dOI department said raid yesterday ey y that In the event e no on one else would woul d swear to the charge c Police Captain Ii would lie He declared that a 0 crime had evidently been committed d and the p perpetrator should be pun pun- shed Browns Brown's acquaintances sa say that hi hiis he heIs hes C Is s tho the victim of a u monomania The They y I say L that on numerous occasions the thc they y have noticed that he was greatly ex ez excited excited ex- ex cited over mining stock manipulations manipulation S and that at times he would act almost almor t Irrational In his discussions regarding g tran transactions Ie He has been known lwon I to tomake I make wild fOI forecasts fore and to wager wage r I mono mone money upon tho movements mo of nr stocks stock S In the market marlot In the greater S number r of or cases l losing his bets Wild on Stock Advances Ad In one case casc ho Is said to have offered il to b bet t that a n certain stock sellIng sellIng sell sell- Ing for tor less titan than 1 a n share would g go 1 Up UI to 20 O a share within a stipulated stipulate ii time which was vas only a f few w weeks week S ahead Ho lit was so o Insistent that a friend finally wagered 1 10 0 with bItton him bItt himon himon on th the proposition There Thole was I not hot the slightest prospect of that stock advancing lie He lost and paid the bet bot cheerfully Ih Other similar cases are cited Indi eating cating that Drown Brown was almost con con- picking stocks which he Im Jut were about to make nal advances His Js trl friends bell believe ve that tha in tills HUS is mania led lea him to LU conceive e th the run Idea of ot using his employers employers' nameon name names on checks to cover covel the purchase o ot ot stocks which he firmly he believed cd would make moke him fabulously wealthy before beor it an accounting would h have ave to be made He of course count counted upon the checks chieck h being taken at the tho bank without question ques ques- tion and reasoned they believe that thai t before beCore the firms firm's bank account would I have been up at the end of ot the month he lie would have o sold th tin the s tocks stocks and then explanations would I hn have hayt been comparatively comparative cas easy Friends Would Give Gin Bond Until a a. complaint Is filed against t Brown Drown It Is Improbable that any bond born I could be fixed b by a court Many Inny visItors vis vis- vis tem i were vere at the jail yesterday who I were solicitous for Cor the young man welfare nut and man were the Inquiries made as as to the amount of ball which would be bex be x required The Tho They were nit nir greatly disappointed when the police officers stated that It had not been beer 1 fixed In the event of the amount amoun being named by Judge DIehl Diehi It Is said salt that It will ihl be but bUl a matter of oC a few fei minutes before It Jt Is placed In the hands of the thc clerk of the court and antl an Brown Is r released lea His friends have hav t th the he utmost confidence In him and ex express ex- ex press the belle belief that he lie will yet et re re- re deem m himself At At his cell In the city Jail Drown Brown I ate ute he heartily rU yesterday though his Iris face fac was as drawn rind and showed unmistakably that h he was nH Hutc suffering great mental I distress To 10 none would he make mako any statement regarding his offense To Tc I his family he may have entered Into I an explanation but thc they have been beer beener very ery er careful not to let anything escape them regarding the tile nature of ot their theiu Information i Last night shortly before midnight Brown was taken from the city Jail by detectives etE t es and arul 11 was ivas absent for tor some I me it H is 15 saId Mia at ar police h quarters that he was taken to the CommercIal National bank batik and that whilo there ho assisted In lii an un Inspection of his books which kept while holding tho the position of ot receiving teller Tho The nature of ot the work or 01 Its Purpose uros Js Is t n not l known arid and tire the officers upon the ho matter are silent After Actor returning to the Drown Brown jail Mr 11 communicated with his molher by telephone assured her that e was nil all rIght |