Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Steel Magnate Arrested. [ARTICLE]

Steel Magnate Arrested.

Edmund C. Converse of the executive board of the United States Steel corporation, formerly president of the National Tube Company, was arrested at Greensburg Junction, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at 4 o’clock Saturday afternood, taken from the special train in which he had been touring the country for several weeks, ' islting the various plants of the billion-dollar trust with a laige party of officials, and arraigned at Greensburg,. Pa., where he was compelled to give bond for his appearance the first Monday in September. Convexse was arrested on a writ issued by the Westmoreland court at the suit of James L. Devenny of McKeesport, charging him with misappropriating Hie proceeds o' the sale of 3 599 shares .'n the capital stock of the McKeesport, Duquesne and Wilmerding Street Railway Company.