£800.800 FOR SWINDLING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 10 November 1911, Page 8

£BOO.BOO FOR SWINDLING.

FURTHER EFFORTS FOILED. New York, September 14, Swindling operations to rob Englishmen of £ 1,000,000 have been foiled by the arrest on Tuesday at Chicago of S. A. Potter, alias Post, a "get-ric liquid;" confidence man for whom the police have been searching for fifteen months. Tlio annonncemi'nt is made by Inspector Stuart,; of the Federal Secret Service, who made the arrest. Stuart says that Potter interested a wealthy Englishman in a valueless mining scheme. They were arranging the final details for the payment of the money for the worthless mining stock when Potter was arrested. Stuart adds that the rich Londoner (whose name he gives) has already arrived in America, and was awaiting the landing of his associates. now on ilie ocean, before pay--1 ing the money. I Potter's confederate, E. A. Starklofl', 1 escaped arrest, and the detectives, fearing that lie may meet the incoming Englishmen and secure the money from them, will warn them as soon as they arrive. • Potter was already on bail of I ,£30,000 owing to the extent of hi* : swindling operations. i J He and SUrkloff arrived in Philadeli phia last year, and began swindling | Englishmen and other foreigners by [means of the "gold brick" game. They ''jumped' their bail and resumed openl' lions, which culminated in Potter's arrest this week, just as he was consummating the £IOO,OOO swindle as the greatest feat of his career. | Potter was arrested in a handsomely furnished apartment in Chicago's fashionable residential quarter, where he posed as a millionaire. The policy say he has cleared over £300,000 during the twentv-live years of his "get-rich-riiiick" operations,