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Show ON OFFICES Brokers Arrested in Various Var-ious Cities For Using Mails to Defraud Cincinnati, Nov. IS. In simultaneous simul-taneous raids In six cities today a score or more oi persons wore arrested, arrest-ed, charged with usiug the mails In defrauding a large number of individuals individ-uals and corporate companies out of sums which, federal officers say, may aggregate $1,500,000. Federal marshals raided offices in Cleveland. Chicago, Now York City, BoBton, Newark. New Jersey, and Rochester, N Y , and took Into custody cus-tody men indicted by a grand Jury a few days ago, ns well .as others said to bo connected with the alleged frauds. The defendants, It Is said, guaranteed guaran-teed to dispose of stock in various enterprises, charging as a fee in ad-vanco ad-vanco a sum equal to one-third of the value, on the slock. Upon receiving this commission, the government charges, tho defendants made no efforts to sell the securities. Tho prisoners will bo brought to Cincinnati Cin-cinnati for trial, it Is said |