This was paid, according to Wisner's complaint, and Todd & Company undertook to deposit the money with another underwriting company. Then, he asserts, the bond issue was never made, and Todd & Company failed to repay the $1,500. The firm conducts a banking, brokerage and underwriting business at room 803, 112 Dearborn street. DID HEAVY BUSINESS. Rare oriental rugs, the most costly tables and chairs, and elaborate grandfather clocks, together with an amazing amount of polished brass work and plate glass, were found in each of the imposing offices raided by the deputy marshals. The Central States Underwriting & Guarantee Company did a business commensurate with the costly environment. The books of the concern show that from February 1, 1903, to August 5, 1906, 643 corporations throughout the United States paid money to the Central States concern, and the aggregate amount paid was $340,000. [Illustration: AT LAST!] Advertisements were placed in all the leading papers throughout the country, circulars were distributed broadcast with propositions that capital could be obtained for corporations and manufacturing enterprises by addressing this company. The officers of corporations replying to these advertisements would be asked to call at the Chicago offices of the companies. The brokers acquainted with the scheme would then introduce the corporation officials to alleged capitalists who represented they had available capital to finance business propositions, and would buy the underwritten stock, provided the corporation officers would have them underwritten by responsible guarantee companies. It is asserted that these alleged capitalists would then advise that the work be done by the Central States Underwriting & Guarantee Company, the American Corporation & Securities Company, or the National Stock & Guarantee Company of San Francisco. SCHEME OF THE COMPANY. The brokers in the alleged fraudulent transactions would represent to the proposed victim that they would get no returns for their work unless they actually sold the stocks, and that they would be content with a commission of from one-half to 1 per cent on such stock as they sold. They assured the victims that there could be no doubt that the stock underwritten would be sold, as the capitalists to whom the victims had been introduced would be certain to buy them. The brokers would then take the men seeking the underwriting to the offices of the guarantee companies and arrange for guaranteeing the bonds on payment of a fee of 1 per cent of the amount of underwriting. The men arrested never entered into a proposition on which less than $100,000 was involved, and that they, in some cases, obtained $5,000,000 worth of stock to underwrite.