These lads, instructed by clever Jewish principals, applied to Wall Street messenger agencies for employment in brokerage houses. It was part of the plan for them to assume good, honest-sounding Anglo-Saxon names. The “cover name”—how often we meet it!
These lads turned over their stolen stocks and bonds to the heads of their organizations, who in turn passed the securities on to the Jewish principals, who were for the most part members of the criminal band of “confidence men” in the White Light district—the “bank-roll men,” whose immunity from punishment has always been one of the standing puzzles of Gentiles residing in New York.
These Jewish criminals were aided by Jewish lawyers in their transactions. The stolen stocks and bonds were taken to Cleveland, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and parts of Canada, where they were pledged as collateral for loans in an apparently legitimate course of business.
One of the messenger boys refused to deliver his stolen securities for the small sum he was offered for them, and ran away to enjoy alone his ill-gotten wealth. His hiding place was discovered and members of a band of Harlem assassins were sent for him, with instructions to find where the securities were. If they were on the boy’s person, he was to be killed at once. This band entertained the boy with drinks and women for several days until they learned that the securities were sewed inside the lining of his coat. They took him for a “joy-ride” into the country, and his dead body was afterward found, typically slain, with about two dozen dagger wounds in his body.
In one instance a non-Jew was inveigled into the nefarious scheme, and the method was also typical. The Jewish principals wished for another clearing-house through which to dispose of their securities, and were “tipped off” that a young non-Jewish broker was on the verge of bankruptcy. He was “helped out” and given what appeared to him to be a very profitable piece of business. Once in the power of his “friends,” and deeply entangled in their game, he tried to get out of it. He was threatened with death. The Jewish principal said to him: “I don’t want any
