Show ft as a young 0 with a record of s M confession is made to new Yorks Police new york oct 2 henry A leonard who was employed by halle a prominent firm brokers as a cleric made a confession that it was he who robbed the national city bank of securities worth leonard had been for several years a trusted employed 0 bajie Slie glitz and lived quietly with his mother in harlem he Is about 25 ears of age leonard told the police today that he conceived the idea of tho theft some three or four months ago and bad been planning during that time to execute gicand show bow easy such a could bo practiced on tho banks of on the of september tour blank checks on the Hanover national bank that was in the forenoon later in the same day he said he was in the corridor of he national city bank and among the men waiting ln line he saw a man holding in hla hand an envelope marked 41 2 per cent on the envelope he said he heard the loan clerk tell the messenger that the interest wag 4 12 1 2 not 41 4 then he said the messenger departed leonard then had his cue and went to the bowery and there ordered a rubber certification stamp but before doing so he cut out the certification of an old check from which the stamp was to be copied he secured the stamp and then filled out tho body of the check drawn on the hanover national bank then he said he went to wall street and a passing boy and asked him if he knew where the national city bank was the boy said he did not leonard said he lold him take this check to no 62 wall street and hand it to he loan clerk leonard then stood opposite the custom house take the package and came jou wilh fhe securities leonard e took the securities to his houe at street and with no ilnay put them in a wrapper affixed the necessary stomp and took it to a mall box in the neighborhood of west ninety second street and mailed them to dyer pearl of 34 west seventy third street who is a member of the firm that owned the securities there were however only worth of securities in the package which were received safely the next day by mr pearl there were worth of missing and leonard explained that by saying to have enclosed them all in a package by mail would hae made the package too bulky and he therefore kept them out and only mailed worth in this connection it was noted by the police that only about worth of the securities curi ties was negotiable august of the brokerage firm that employed leonard made tha following statement concerning him henry leonard or harry leonard as he was known in our office has been in our employ three or four years he is 20 or 23 ears of age he has always behaved well and we regarded him as thoroughly honest and trustworthy I 1 believe it will be found hat this thing was not done dishonestly but lather that the young man wanted to show how easy it was to perform such a trick mr Slie glitz declined to aay mor than this in another quarter however it was learned that the young man was in the stock and loan employment of halle who aie operators on the stock exchange leonard is said to have been at the office a late as saturday last halle and arc depositors in the national city bank leonard was arraigned in tho tombs police court and held m for further examination he was not depre belted by counsel As he left the court room he said to a questioner 1 I did it on a bet new york oct 2 locked up n headquarters with his full confession in the possession of captain john mccauley Is the young man who by means of a forged check last wednesday obtained from the national city bank securities valued at he was just as he stepped from his home and waa on his way to church four hours later he broko down and in a flood of tears told the complete story of his crime 1 captain mccauley of the detective bureau has in his possession more than one halt of tho stolen securities the remainder have been located and will be in his hands today in order that the full ends of justice may not be defeated and because of the fact that the father and mother of the young man have not been informed of his crime or of his arrest his name is withheld he has not been connected with the national city bank which was rob bednor with pearl co the firm of brokers which had hypothecated ted with the bank tho securities curi ties that were purloined he has tor several yeara been the transfer clerk in one of the beat known brokerage firms in wall street he Is 24 years old and has been regarded by his employers and by his friends as a model of propriety and honesty his position wa one of responsibility and trust his engagement to a young woman well known in society of athla city was recently announced and he was soon to have been married according to the confession he signed the crime was all ot his own from its In cepon to tta execution he had made arrangements to dispose of the stocks and bonds which he had stolen but at the time of his arrest not one of them had been hypothec bated by him after he had completed and signed his confession he said that until the moment of his arrest he did not deem it possible ho could be detected the ambitions of the young man have been great they led him to devote the greater part of his time not given to business to study and he would in a short time have graduated from the columbia law school he told captain mccauley yesterday the idea first found formation in his mind when he began to study how to make it impossible for just such a chott to be committed he was present when pearl co hypothecated ted tho securities upon which they of he knew was at the rate of interest of tour and one halt per cent right then he determined ter mined to take advantage of his knowledge of the banking routine and obtain possession of the stocks and bonds which had been used as collateral after having seen the transaction completed be went to the hanover national bank where from a desk he picked up a pad of ordinary blank checks instead of using a stamp for the purpose of numbering the forged check he used an ordinary pen and red ink it was not any of his crude methods however that brought about the arrest of the young feiger he know that no check would be accepted by the teller of the national city bank unless it were properly certified accordingly he went to an obscure stamp maker from whom he obtained a die such as is used by the banks in pro paring tor the certification of checks jt was this die which led to bis arrest after all other clues had been exhausted the detectives made a search of the city visiting every stamp maker in each of the several boroughs it thus came about that the description of tho forger was obtained that description crip tion was taken to wall street and an attempt was mado to fit it to some one there employed the right clue was discovered and the man who made the stamp was taken to wall street and identified his customer when the young forger gave the order tor the certification stamp he directed that it should be sent to him in care of one of the local branches of the young mens christian association cia tion the clerk who delivered the stamp to him made the identification complete the arrest followed after he questioned his prisoner tor some time captain mccauley had almost concluded that it would be impossible to persuade him to make any cont eslon when suddenly the entire attitude of the young man changed it is true captain ho said you have me right I 1 am the man I 1 got aba securities from the national city bank but none of them has been disposed of I 1 will return them all I 1 am glad that I 1 have been captured I 1 have been a fool he then made a complete statement which was down in writing and signed to captain mccauley be said it had not been hla desire at any tarr to commit a crime but he had been ii welled to show the fallacy of the present surface methods of banking |