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Show ANOTHER GET RICH-QUICK SCHEME IS DISCOVERED NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Adolf Pricken, whose financial activities as : head of a chain of storehouse in Manhattan Man-hattan capitalized ut 5725,000, brought about his arrest last Friday, was arraigned ar-raigned in Brooklyn Tuesday and held in $r.u,ooo ball on an indictment I charging grand larceny In the second I degree Ills trial svafl set lor next . Monday Compiuinis alleging fraud brought about Prlcken's arrest. said District Attorney Lewis He declared Investments Invest-ments exceeding $;.0u,iU0 had been I made in the storehouse companies on Inducements that fiftv per cent dividends divi-dends would be forthcoming. Pointing out that Pricken had been i indicted by the grand Jury. Assistant I District Attorney Goldstein moved to dismiss a charge of grand larceny against him in the magistrate's court. Thts was done. The charge hail been preferred by Thomas Wynes who alleged Pricken obtained i 111,000 Investment from j him a yekr ago. "by color and aid of fraudulent and false representations." |