Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1914 — TAKE FRAUD CASE SUSPECT [ARTICLE]

TAKE FRAUD CASE SUSPECT

Alleged Member of Storey Cotton Company Must Answer Old Charge. Providence, R. 1., Oct. 6.—Arthur O. Howard was arrested, by Post Office Inspectors Frank W. Smith and A. T. Hawksworth of Philadelphia on a charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with the affairs of the Storey Cotton company of Philadelphia. Howard denied tliat he was the man wanted. After a’ preliminary hearing before United States Marshal Harvey, Howard was held in ,$7,500 bail, which he was unable to furnish. The government alleged that the Storey Cotton company took $7,000,000 illegally from the public through the mails in 1905. Six members of the firm w-ere arrested and sentenced. An-

othdr member of the firm, said to have been Howard, escaped.