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Show HUGE SWINDLE UNEARTHED New York Broker Charged by Pott-office Pott-office Inspector With lining the Mailt to Defraud Stock Buyers. New York. In a raid on (he stock brokerage offices on Monday In Firth avenue, occupied by Wlsner & Co. and the Standard Securities company, postofflre Inspectors charge tliut irregularities ir-regularities amounting to more th:m $2,000,000 had been In ought to light. Transactions lu excess of $10,0fl0,um throughout the country are credited to the two concerns In the last few years. Arohle and ilvnimctt 8. Winner, constituting con-stituting the ownership of both concerns, con-cerns, and tirover 8. Trumbull, chief clerk, were arrested. The charge Is using Dig mulls to defraud by selling worthless stocks. The npe Inc. chargo Is that the Wis-ners, Wis-ners, through mull correspondence, represented to slock purchasers that the California Diamond Oil company was actively at work when, as a matter mat-ter of fact, according to the charge, the company was dormant and had lost title In 1908 to the property It was claimed to be operating. |