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Show NEW YORK, March 27. In a raid on the stock brokerage offices today In Fifth avonuo, occupied by Wlsner & Co. and the Standard Securities Co., postoffice Inspectors charge that Irregularities Ir-regularities amounting to more than $2,000,000 had been brought to light. Transactions In oxcess of $10,000,000 throughout tho country are credited to tho two concerns In the last few years. Owners Placed Under Arrest. Archie and Emraott S Wiener, constituting con-stituting the ownership of both concerns, con-cerns, and Grover S. Trumbull, chief clerk, were arrested. A United States commissioner held Archie Wlsner In $7 000 ball for the federal grand Jury, Emmett in ?5.000 and Trumbull In $,-500. $,-500. They were committed to the Tombs The charge Is using tho malls to defraud by selling worthless stock The specific charge Is that the Wis-ncrs, Wis-ncrs, through mall correspondence, represented to stock purchasers that the California Diamond Oil company was actively at work when, as a matter mat-ter of fact, according to the charge, tho company was dormant and had lost title In 190S to the property It was claimed to be operating. Dealt In Western Oil Stocko. Tho principal stocks dealt in by Wlsner Wls-ner & Co., according to the postal Inspectors, In-spectors, were those of tho Thirty-three Thirty-three Consolidated Oil company, Mutual Mutu-al company, Homostake Gold Mining company, Little lindser Mining company, com-pany, Sycamore Oil company, Valencia Valen-cia Copper Mining company, Black Oak Gold Mining company. Eureka OH & Gns company, Mount Jefferson Mines Consolidated. Murchle Gold Mines Consolidated, Empire Gold .Mines Limited, California si New York Oil company Consolidated, California Monarch Oil company. United Tono-pah Tono-pah & Goldfleld Mines, Manhattan-Nevada Manhattan-Nevada Gold Mining company, Phlllp-Elnes Phlllp-Elnes Plantation company, California ilamond Oil company, Murchle Extension Ex-tension Mining company and the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Mining & Oil company. Of tho Inttor corporation Wlsner & Co. Is alleged to have disposed of stock to the amount of $5,000,000. |