The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1907, Page 4

BANS TAKEN UP cae Being Looked = Into Critically. ‘The Kings county. farandl Jury. i bus- iy going through the intricate mases of ing methods employed by the om. and ‘directors of the Borough k, the Williamsburg ‘Trust Company and the Jenkins Trust Company. It THE EVENING WORLD. CLERKS ARRESTED borough Concem Is One of Trio, “ dent's ignature Cashed in Salt Lake Guy James J, Graham,: asaiatent cashier of the Interborough Bank, of No. 4 Wali street; James W; Daly, its paying-teller, and Alfred Burrows, a mining, stock ‘promoter, of No. 74 Broadway, were sr- rested to-day on charges growing out of the alleged forgery of a cheok for 62,900. A specific charge of forgery ls’ made years -l4,married, and has long been a trusted employee of the bank. pGrand Jury investigation. ‘bee found ttmt the affairs of too Bor- falertwine that it te fmpoestble ‘to ot the Coney jenkine ‘Trust Lohall erarra inreliakatae a tg hote!-keepers deposited pe. and! it is doors: close) ind) of money ‘y this would rote. Coney condition? ‘in ‘a that eome pany has aroused them. books of the Coney Island Dfanch were|produced before the Grand iJety, to-day. Its openiv mated in aithat favored ters allowed’ to draw money when it known that the bask was insolvent, ee} that deposits were accepted ‘hy of- core who, ‘were petfectiy aware that the bank was te be closed. * Bree since the investigation of the Borough “Bank began there hee been a s@uppoena out calling for the attendance *nefore the’Grand Jury of R. W. Jones, President of the Oriental Bank, at Ney oe Broad Mawhattan. Mr. Jones ia,41! at his home with pleurisy, ant Ais) lawyer veya he {s threatened ‘with pneumonia, Dealinge with Oriental, William Gaw, Hower’ Mexwell and “Arthur D. Campbell, under indictment for."Jooting the Borough Bank, owe méney to the Oriental Bank and had Gedlings with that institution to = con- eidermdin extent. It was in the Ori- ental Bank that Gow, Maxwell, Camp- bell, John 8. Jenkine and others inter- ested in the formation of the Interna- Trust Company: deposited the mythical, capita lof the concern. In the absence of Mr, Jones, Ludwig: Nissen, vice-president of the Oriental Bank, is in charge. Mr, Nissen refused to discuss the affairs of’the institution to-day, beyond’ saying that $250,000, which Gow, Mexwell and Campbell owe, 4acamply nectired. He denieg_ ~about.the quod. Maxwell and Campbest.~ SRR Niseen ee-asked-if-tr-ware true. ‘AR reported, that the Oriental Bank will applicatic William Go: commit himself. It is understood that the Oriontal Bank and other creditors | ” of Gow, will petition to have him thrown - into involuntary bankruptcy, so that ‘they may haye a chance at the money ‘and property he has turned over to the/ Borough Bank directors, Want Some Gow Money. heb fea) that thev*have a ri claim some of -his gasets and t giving everything to the Lorough to ir Mr. |. Detectives Clarke,. Farrell and Raphaal. Clarke did the work that [made the arresis possible and-obiained, he declares, “a ‘confession from the Last month, shortly after the resis- pation ‘from the bank ef David F. ‘Wailkor, ‘its President, the bank cashed ja obeck that bore the supposed signa- ture of Walker, drawn against the cconeern of Walker @ Broa It was made payable to C. B. Wand and in- dorsed by him and also by Cheri Was Cashed In Utah: o) Ue BY GRAND JURY FORGERY CHARGED ‘Borough snaeaiogs Affairs | Assistant Ce rie Inter- a& {xo0d line of -prospective deponttors two state Bank has established a con-| MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1907; CONE MORE BANK ; FOR BUSINESS The United States Exchange Third of the Uptown In- | stitutions to Resume. } i : | The United @tates xchange Bank:| In One Hundred and Twrenty:nrn | street, one of the smaller State inacitu t tions whigh closed temporarily wevernl weeks ago during. the ‘Gnancial /furry gpened for business to-day There was | It ihe third: of: the « suspended danke to resume bustnens. Stake Bank: | ing Superintendent Williams _ turned’) over the asséts and the books to the/| officers early this morning, having fully approved the securities that had been stven. ‘There was a twenty minute delay in starting business because @ tie-up in the Subway held up two mossengers who were coming with currency from the Chase National Bank, where the nection. Untted-Btates Dintnet-Attorney-Henry Stimson, the former partner of Secre- a ‘tically @enied the story that the aed. oral authorities bad decided not to at- tempt to punish alleged vidlaters of the law among nations] bank officials, When a reporter for The Evening World anked him if the repert:werd troe Mr, Stimecn wrote out this: “The Government investigation nat‘onal banks in this c'ty Is still going of FEOPENS DOORS | uptown | SURROGATE OF N.Y. COUNTY WHO SHOT LIFE-LON 10, make any statement.” Ernest Thalmann, of Ladenburs, Thai- mann & Co,, wh is one of the three re- coivers.- of ne Krickerbocker, Trust Company, hed @ conference yesterday ‘Wren the cheek Arives Ue Balt Lake th When the Interberough Bank was notified of this its new president, Mr, Goodridge, made! an inquiry and drew out’ tha¢ the) check tad.’ been cashed Graham. The assistant cashier said’ that the check had been brought to him by two men; who showed him a lotter bearing Mr. Walker's signature. ‘These two men were evidently West- rach he said, both six feet tall, and earing nats. The let- i they presented asked that every |, courtesy be extended to them; as* they: were responsible men. Gra! anata that he examined Mr. Welker's signature on,the letter and it ‘seemed to be genuine. Then the twa men, who were introduced In the letter ‘as C, B, Wand and Charles Mrrill, pre- sented the check for $290, which be cashed on his own responsibility. President Goodridge seemed entirely satisfied with the assistant osshier's ex- planation and asked the police to find the two sfx-toot Westerners. Graham Waldorf-Astoria, went there to see if trace of them. He made many colp- plaints to Police Headquarters over its jnaction in the matter, Two Westerners Myths. | Finally Clarke was assigned to the case and began a careful inquiry inside the bank. He was allowed to compare thy signature on the check with a gea- ume signature by.Mr, Walker, and it aeemed to him that {was not close enough to have decelved the assistant cashier. Then he asked Daly, the pay- Sng ler, if he had seen the two West- erners and why they ‘iad not got the moxey from him when they cashed the check. The answers he got convinced him that it was an Inside job. When he spoke of this to the President, Mr. Goodridge fndignantly replied that all his employees were above reproach. 1 Clarke continued to pound away at firaham, however, and finally got him confused. At last, it is asserted, he wrung a oonfession from the assistant cashier that he had forged the oleck ‘and Invented the story Sf the West- erners, Graham sald, according.to Clarke, that Pthe promoter; Hirrrowe; $2,900 worth of ‘checks. in or. det to torer sthipche shad -forged~tise: check on the former president and put esmoney tis draw apainelthe 7x G Oy checks of Cis” promozeg He had not profitet a cent by the transaction. ‘The arrest of the paying teller was due to the fact that he did not detec; the fraud. Burrows was arrested on the tatements of Graham in regard to the |X G. checks ‘The three prisonera were held in the! ‘Centre Street Court on short afidavits ifor further examination Wednesday, The aMdavit ogainat Graham charged forgery and_erand larceny i he perretraied an uct of fraud upon | ‘others to whom he was indebied. R. W. Jones, jr. came to New York | ~at the Ume of the troub'cs of the Sev sa National Bank, In which he own- Vetiesk. (He waa at that time preal Soot of a bank in Kanras City, New Toi eral Mra Nisken In building up the O fed ‘here, becoming Interested with rental a Was closely Thomas in settling up the ery. Mr. Jo with eR, % affairs ot the Seventh National Hank | and ghowed himself copsideradle of a bapker Th that operation. (i fBad Ozienuil Bank was one of the span vencerne with which the Rothe- a2 ir Federal Bank did busi- fusen ald to-day that the oat she Orlentst sum one of tho ved the concern Hemethina ota Lingatat. ‘A hipgton Stay.) Is your aon proficient in any forelan! anges?! , anmweted Farner Corntossel, fe'a much on French or ke, kin undarmand every x ne Jooked good to him and he re-) “ok WILD BLOOD IN ROOSEVELT'S tlon. THANKSGIVING TURKEY. ! It Weighs Twenty Pounds, | Comes From Rhode Island and | Was Steal Raised. WPESTERLS Nov. Thanksgiving’ turkey whicl, Vore annually. zht Mr, day, This” yeare—binds- Faised by Jeremiah Brown. It wetkhe 28 pounds, ts lyariety and hus mbt Neon ni as a mixture however, of cei il seal LEATHER CONSOLIDATION FORBIDDEN BY COURT. | TRENTON, of Errors and Appe An order restraining the consolidation fof the Central Leather Compa the United States Leather The order will continue untl) a efore the court Seupravan: Aci propor onasile ae ot, Pi pany lompany. Wt now had» put: frm antebeciite tverse (rom hens: lelwweod 4 tlandbio—.methoda..employed _byGow..| Sp bad with: the bank -by.-caghiog with him { Blake owas..called. far. trial by Juatice and | Other than this I do not care to] CHUM IN FIGHT VERY WOMAN} HAS JUST DIED. FT ANTON ALONG LNES First Surrogate of New York County to Be Elected for Fourteen-Year Term. to-day ut hig restdence, No. Mi River- side Drive, following a sickneas: which hak kapt him confined to hjs kome for a protracted. period.” His death came ua a shock to his friends, among whom are numbered many of the distingw {ea *men .in.’ commercial, ;logal politi¢al ite. || Surcowate Fitzgerald never fully re- | Covered from a trolley accident in which Re and his wife. wera seriously Injured in Quebec in Auguet, 1908. Com: plications ariaing from internal injuries Aue tothe accident caused! his death jto-day. * | While he had never recovered from the injuries sustained in the trolley jaccident, he continued to diecharge his Vquties until June last when he bad to give up work entirely. _ As Surrogate of New York County Mr, Fitagerald’s career waa punctuated +) by—=— succesvion—of-—achlevements— in capacity. _ and aati “Reno ww] Hele Surrogate, the Legislature added Seether pions aise for the county decause of the magnitude of litigation of probate question, Frank T. Fitageraid, then a young lawyer of abdiity, Tammany and wes the first Surrogate ever elected for a term of pourtese ii Mosnte Ee. wes born in ed mire (Ward xeveew College and dae Mary Cole lege, Niagara” Falls. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1878 and became « student of law in the office of Smith M. Weed and the late Gen. James Husted. He took an active part TPO A fh HIS WIFE LEFT HIM James Davis Died as He Was ; Being Hurried to ‘Hospital ~ ., in Ambulance. After. writing a note.on the back of al photograph of his wife, James Davis thirty-five years old, committed suicide} to-day by taking carbolic acid in) hjs room at No. 8% Park avenue, Hoboken. Phim ts Mid notel he wroter) ‘ ** “Dear Flo.—I hate to do this, be- cause I love you. “You know how luck has been against us since wo have been here. You could have paved thie, as I told you right along. So don't blame me. Good-by, *31M."- S—Others have done it—not you,” At) the top of the note there was reading: “Beware of | Davis's wife left him yesterday, tak- Ing wth har-two children. Last night Davis bought the carbolic acid at a drug store, saying he wanted to use it to kill bugs. This morhing his. land-) lady, Evener, heard groans in Davie’s room and found him lying on the floor. She called in a policeman, who “notffied’ the City: Hospital” Davia died’ while being taken to) the hospital]. {A an ambulance... 5) i |BLAKE SAYS WIFE WAS NAMED CORESPONDENT. Opposes Her Divorce Petition by Counter Charge and Asks for a Decree. Ruby Helen Blake did not put In an eppeerepce_to-day--when-her sult or-ant fas}ein-ih the Sifpremte Court. Ler. husband did, however, and P. | Billogtan presented ® counter petition ot abeohite silvers wee Preston-F. Fas Supreme Court, last week, at bet husband, Preston F. Prose u flown to other scenes with Phaze, age. ‘plake cclalon waa reserved. ; —$<—<.__ — GRISCOM BACK IN ROME. ROMI, Nov. %—Lfoya ©. Griscom, |the American Ambassador to Italy, j turned here to-day: from the United | Btates, whore ho had boen on a vac 45.—-The | Horace | sends to the Preatdent | of the United States was shipped by Vose .to President Roosevelt to- was the bronze wild Ov, ~The Court to-day granted | | HAVE weECO PREVENTS P. | 180 RACH; | AND STRENGTHENED BY A CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. qt Think She Meant To. Do It. It was a quarrel over the conmoncat cause of quarrele—n woman—that mede lifelong chum, the bs) Cherry street. Gerrity is in Gouverneur Hospital with a hole-fn his right chest Jin Culley shoot his John Gerrity, this afternoon in haitway of the tenement at No. and Culley is n the Madison Stree! Station heartbroken over what he tas done. < : The men a *longshoremen. raised together; came to) America ‘to: gether and for years had lived in the game room of Mrs. house, dawn in Cherry Hill, Th Larkin’s boarding: it up came to-day, when they fell out over @ woman in the neighborhood, who, by the way, also hails from their home ‘gounty in the old country. They wr fled and fought out of ithe roem:= {i the all, There Culley, man, found was getting the worm nd in his gun—and “fired once, Gerrity with his hands pressed his breast rusgered out of the house, Policeman found Culley in tenemnt ravin Fixe a madman in hi. fal,” ‘Gerd , jergaty, probably dic. -senitifieg bf man who shot hin, didn't think i el tal HORSE F SHOW RING who. will ley fe the tea) dort, BECOMES: MART Light eS antl Under the Hammer in Annual “Old Glory’) Sale. ‘Th thirteenth annual Gorten. Edward De Tit “AY Ba are TY ‘of prominent trorsé 0 conaixnora trom all parts of the coun sey.cwere.. present All day. The otm- eet sales were: onatenment trom 5 Sentra E ‘ faab exe Aula Alar, D, h., Alar—Lucy Knapp, ver King. Sol He Thoman B It, Toc, ¢. hy, trotter (6), by Daniel 8., wing, by Leicester; to Mrs. Ewing, New York by: Clty. Dorothy Dale, b. m, ma trotter Qiiartermaste a), ranth, by Alenn: anton & Clothter, by |) Western Heart, Great Heart—Furgo, } ee Thomas T, ,How . trotter (2), Great Wertern; 1, Walden,” Mass, RS ARE STAYED BAR WHICH VULLING OUT. 2\FOR 286, rte atta WH MAKER They | weré.born in thé"ame parié® in Ireland, the fcc Ter blind rage he to ded tthat he “Old Glory | Horse Auction'’ of American light har- nese opened to-day in Madison Square i New York ® yeac later, resigning his seat in- Con- gress for the new duties, Then came his election es Surrogate in 192. @urrogate Fitugerald’s re-election as Surrogate was practically unantmous, as he received the nominations of, the Demooratic, ‘Republican and Municipal Ownership Léague. fea, Surrogate Fitagerald waa frequently honored by compliments from lawyers and judges of prominence on the man- ner of conducting his office, as well as his decisions, which Involved many of 5 times. He was a member of the Man- hattan, Catholic, Democratje and Press Clubs andthe Columbia’ na Alempi ee seats on All ‘the in takin, day. exprenesd deep remret at t sustained by the bench and the legal profeasion. Later they passed appro- priate resolutions. The immediate members of Mr. Fitz- were at the bedside to- gerald's tamil: day whenshe breathéd his last. —-____ CRUISERE-1N-CHILTAN=PORT. | ‘PUNTA ARENAS, “Cntit” Noy, The American cruisers Washington and it thelr way to the Pacific. Surrogate Frank T. Fitagerald died {| hood, looking for authorization to take nominated oy | Francis | o¢ the ee NLLED BA AS the most important will cases of the i burt banch B= | potl. Tennessee arrive’ here yesterday cat DEATH MESSAGE BABUGHT TOBARES IN STRICKEN HOME one Mother ‘Killed by, Fenderless’ Car on* Am: sterdam Avenue, WATERS PIANO Leaving -her two. children, a girl of four years ebd a boy oftwo, playing on a bed inher fat, in the basemént ar!” No, 710) 'Amaterdam avenue, to-day, Mra. |” Mary McCabe, tho Jaoltress, hurried out | a grocery nearby,’ About an hour ter an undertaker of the nelghbor- An artistic piano of: the high- ast-grade,-celebrated-for-fine tone) and: great durability, one of our leading and most popular styles, lonly: 1950 $10 down and $7 monthly until paid, Also Style 85—Chester Piano'y 73: -octave, _3-stringed, overs | charge of the body of Mra. 3 waiked-into--the fiat—and—found—te- children crying ‘for ‘their_mother. i Vithin three minutes “after leaving 1 her home Mra, McCabe wa run down | and killed by a street oar, The body was carried into Halper's drug store, at One Hundred and Bixty-fourth s:reet and Aniéterdam ‘avenue, and as soon as St waa MentiNed thé undertaker, who had been tnformed of the accident, hur- rigd away to get the jod of, burying her, Mrs. McCabe was a buxom young cwoman. Sie tived-in-the basement-ano+ took cara of the house and the children, nde 3 custom. 10 leave the id Bit Ahh ie sang fo. the neig! was crossing Amaterda at One Hundred Perens treat, | |{case. . Warranted six years. when a south Araeriam ma $s 1 9 0 oar ae mere lon payments of only. equipped with a yones eh ib nf ‘$5 Per Month Sate mela without interest. Stool, tuning} land delivery free. Send postal for catalogue with reduced’ prices and terms on the| Rave her and. ane wheels and house kuew where the could be found. The pecttress| ade a neighboring flat house took charge | Jonn Burke, of @1 East One Hundred and Fifty-enled street, motor- to. Harlem Court, mandod to the asthe) Susseay oe Ene of the Coroner. Horace Waters & Co. Three Stores: 134 Fifth Ave., nr. 18th St. 127. West 42d St., nr. Broadway Harlem Branch (Open Evenings)’ 254 West 125th St., nr. 8th Ave, | SHE SAT Bt STOVE! | Water poeta Flames and Escaping Fumes. As- _.> phyxiated Woman, Mary Mever, employed for more than fifteen years at the Zdttle Mothers’ Day Nireery, No, 16 Greenwich street, was fq asphyxiation to- Psi cai waa Mtting inva chalr and a. discovered by Ahnie #mith, another attache of the institution, ‘ res escaping from a gee stove that ‘stood at “her tect. the little stove wax a half Alled with cbt dren's oiled restos: { ‘Mother Mary, a8 she was called, had gotten up at 4 o'clock this morning to | get the wash under way early. 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