| Show BOLD SCHEME OF FRAUD PRACTICED IN CHICAGO two men one a waiter make in a few months and cleverly de ceide big business houses chicago 24 more than stolen business houses ir every part of the united states victimized a bank created a waiter risen from poverty to affluence and an cx convict again placed behind the bars these are features in the meteoric career of at least one of two men now under in chicago Pos tonice inspectors made the cap turcs julius M nisson known also by a dozen other names and arthur J II erbst said to have many aliases are the prisoners nisson has confessed but herbst will not admit that lie bad any part in the big swindle postoffice Post office inspector A K genner has complaints against the two men from nearly individuals and corporations who have lost amounts ranging from sa to all of these have been victimized t inac june when ahson opened an office in chicago in previous operations under different names the men are alleged to have secured at least in the last eleven months this was alic modo of procedure according to the inspectors nisan and would go to a city and open an office ostensibly in tha retail W ing fit metal ware novelties machinery or anything which they could secure on credit they would operate under the name of some company well known ia the business world and in ordering goods to the value of thousands of dollars would give commercial agency re ferencek feren ces after the article had been received the bogus company would transfer the consignments consign ments to a warehouse 1 and then ship them to new york where they were disposed of through a fence v which has baffled the inspectors for I 1 months when suspicion was aroused the men would flee to another city 1 one of the boldest moves of the two imn is said to have been to establish a bank to give financial et to their enterprises ona i euch concern called the cook county bank of trade and commerce ia al ceped to have existed on paper only nasson worked for several years as a r waiter and in 1900 owned restaurant i in chicago lie sold this place and toured europe then he returned to lidston li oston and was there to onic i year in prison for shoplifting shop lifting |
