Show A GOOD LOOKING FRAUD A 400000 Haul Made by a Fine Looking Chicagoan PARSONS LAST HARANGUE The Strike in Chicago Not as Bad as Represented Earthquake In San Diego CnIA Plot to Destroy De-stroy Vienna A Good Looking Swindler CHICAGO Oct 9N M Neeld partner in the well known packing house of J 0 Ferguson Fer-guson Co is in Canada He has issued bogus warehouse receipts for the people aggregating ag-gregating 400000 He has practically burst the firm The loss will fall altogether on the banks 100000 on a single New York bank The banks here who lose by it said a prominent director are all rich and willnot know the loss The worst loss is on New York institutions Neeld left for Canada the night before last and no one has heard from him Neeld is a fine looking man about 48 years of age He was manag ing partner in the firm of J C Ferguson Co which was very old and rich and came originally from Indianapolis He has been a big speculator on the board and in stocks and has been for a long time The biggest loss has been in Wall Street No particulars at all are yet obtainable concerning the failure Feguson is locked I in his private office and refuses to take any steps to ascertain exactly ex-actly the extent of the failure that has overtaken over-taken the firm The firm is an old one and stood high they owned a warehouse and this was made regular a short time ago It is stated that Neeld issued a num ber of fraudulent warehouse receipts and that the Chicago and Now York banks loaned money on them to the extent above stated Neeld was one of the directors of the Chicago Board of Trade |