The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1912, Page 3

LAUTERBACH WAS TRAILED TO WOTEL BYWIFE'SSLEUTHS Divorce Evidence Against Law- yer, Long Concealed, Comes to Light in N Action, o__ FOUND WITH WOMAN. Wife Insisted Register Be Pho-| tographed as idence Against Him. Details in the cessfully brougit by Lauterbach against Edward Lauter- . & lawyer, which were buried ity months ago under a court ruling ich wealthy and prominent New Yorkers always take advantage of, were revealed in the trial of @ small law auit in City Court, to-day. Mra, Lauterbach ts being sued for the balance of fees claimed to be due her in the divorce proceedings, Ransom of No. juel WH. Wandell Thelr joint clatty of $1.42 jed over by them to Walter M nney, a court stenozrapher, and « the plaintiff in the action on tria@ to- day. Testimony showed it wae the evidence obtained by detectives, who had been adowing Lauterbach for months on}! another matter, that was used by the lawyer's wife In obtaining a divorce. ‘Two private detectives, Harry Luxen- burg and Gussie Corey, a woman, made aMdavits stating they had found Laut-| bach with a woman in a room fn the| Hiveron Hotel, No, 7% Fourth avenue. | ‘This was brought out by the testimony | { Mr. Wandell, who read a report of work, to prove his charge for ser 4 to Mrs. Lauterbach was not ¢x- stv “Mrs, Lauterbach came to me in June, 1910, and explained that she wanted a Aévorce,”” Mr. Wandell began, “She said e had employed detectives for years to get evidence against her husband, end also had engaged many lawyers. she was discouraged because she had been able to get the evidence Jed. She said she had agreed to pay a private detective $1,590 for evt- dence he had in his possession. LAUTERBACH SHADOWED TO HOTEL, HE SWEARS. “1 examined the statements of this n, Mr, Lewin, and those also of Bar- Lewis and Abraham Burns, other tectives. They proved to be the re- rts of observations made years be- fore, in an entirely different matter. y told of having seen Mr, Lauterbach a woman enter and leave the El- Hotel. Ut told Mrs. Lauterbach she was foolish to make a birgain to iy these statements, as none of the men saw the couple inside the hotel. sult for divorce suc- Mra, Amanda F. aly 2% Broadway, Rector was Me- eron I spent half a day trying to learn what took place Instde the hotel, and was told that Harry Laixenburg, the vhief of the detective agency, and a voman had been inside and had located Mr, Lauterbach and a woman in a re next day I met a lawyer friend who said he thought he could get the evidence 1 wanted from two women who lived uptown, 1 searched for them in I finaly got hold of Luxen- burg and he told me what took pla, in the Elberon on the night in ques- tion, He gave an accurate description sald he would bring his womap com- panion to my office. “EL patd Luxenburg $250 that Mrs, Lauterbach gave nd reported to She was pping at the Oriental — Hotel, Beach, When I saw her that eve she was much disturbed, to wet ree action himself. it was incredible that a man of Lauterbach's standing would con- but she replied that then 8 Manhatan as evidence to 1 told her hus- band was trying Deing # div rex Mr, sider such a thing, know u hin. 4 me she would like to angement, with no out the ¢ ration I consulted with and he sald he 1 didn he th pet a divor opposition and w of alimony Then former Judge Olcott thought it could be done, His conversa- tion Was to the effect that Me. Lauter- ach would not contest her divorce, SHE WANTED HOTEL REGISTER PHOTOGRAPHED. “When I put his proposition Mrs, Lauterbach, she objected, saying She had just begun to fgit. She sata she wanted ‘some bly man to Lat Mr. Lauterbach.’ ‘Then she retained Judge Ransom, “In the meantime I had arranged to be permitted to inspect the register of the Hotel Elberon. Mri Lauterbach suggested tha: we photograph the res! rt up to ater. She said she didn’t care how muca ft cost, “I finally got another interview with | the detective. nburg. Luxenburs tohd me wo rw me to take the reports of jits ty the office, These reports Mr. Lauter- mov voluminous she sald | | | of the furniture in the room and also} negotiat! bench the Uni € rific tir made daily SFIES MILLIONS sats 0 EXTRA CHARGE FOR It cate toe bbe p {aie . dia wal oP, Ae y | ile being @ cloak for the den Another explanation was the disclos wes of the annual report of the Union Pacitic ve yeas ended June 0 las made pu to-da his showed de- 8 in gross and net income of tween $3,000,00) and $4,590,000, Union Pa elfle was the pivot up oh the beare took posse the market Union Pacifle declined from 162% ° from file to. 88% NO to 198% 6 to 28, ert 4 oth vt ratio, yew that Mr. rkea SAVING LIFE WINS 1X PROPOSALS FOR THIS CHRONIC HERO.' CHARLES KAPLO WILSON IS EAGER TONAME TAFT FOR SUPREME BENCH, | | Expected to Offer His Predeces- sor First Vacancy in Highest Court. lons of t it margin spec between he Presidents?” Mr. Wilson, after reading the speech, to a friend ull do with one ex- be gracious enough to allow me so to dispose of him; I shall ask Mr, Taft to | fill the first wacancy which occurs on the bench of the Supreme Court.” SHARP BEAR BLOW AT UNION PACIFIC SMASHES PRICES All Stocks Tumble, With Over a Million and a Quarter the Yale President of me orporation, the appointment of Mr. Taft to the highest tribunal of the nation would not prevent him from oc- cupying the Yale professorship. ‘The intention of. Mr, Mr, Taft to become @ Justice of the Supreme Court became generally known among his intknates President Taft's speech at Club a few weeks ago. was Mr. answer to the question: States do A report from New Haven that Pres!- dent Taft had been asked to accept the Kent professorship in Law tn Yale Unt- versity was somewhat discounted to-day by those who are acquainted with recent President Taft and Woodrow Wilson, Presidont-elect. It is known to the friends of both Wilson has a keen desire to fulfll the greatest ambition of the life of Mr. Taft up to the time Mr. Taft came a candidate for United States—to take a place on Supi United States. Men familiar policy of ever, declared tha! be- the the the the how- Court of with Wilson to ask umediately after the Lotos My peech Taft's wise and good natured “What with its ould ex: “L know what I resident if he will Shares Sold. A violent ba attack on Union Pacitle of from one to three ‘The selling of Union Pacific was ter- in the forenoon, to-day u tled the etook market to the| that when you get well a point approaching demoralization during | W!!l marry me. the nova hour, Between 1 and 1.00 AA a ey ae: $,00) shares were trated in, and) Now ‘t think, Anna, that young for the whole day the transactions“to-| mr, Kaplow {# unappreciative of your tailed 1,270,474 shar offer, He simply allows this letter to Karly in the afterne some support | be entered as one of the documents In came to the market, out the recovery | the case, was alls and tow the middle of the Then there was snother sweet mise afternoon the m i‘ oft again, sive; this c e in a bouquet of tube- some new Jow leve! ns mad rosea—not a very fancy flower to send fast half hour there was a general ratiy|to a hospt It aid among, other points. It broke the en- Loans were called and the lators began of the market in dozens, Balefuls of We ere th ao siocks were duinped on the market, and dn't $t help you a whole lot on the before 2.9 o'clock 1,101,000 shares had been bought and sok a record for montia backs Various causes are ascribed to the rastack, which followed a gradual | | slump in p.lces that has been going on \ror a fortnigh | On Was thal the exposures of the smoney trust” inquiry in Washington were myst leasing to the Ith jo of finance, and that an ovject ley | son Was ordered, (he ral of ira | BEING BRAVE HIS HOBBY. | Protecting People from ‘Death fo Heo ers | fone of the posies were accompanied! 4 Girect blow at t she was | ia ng enough to read the notes a nurse | poy to jump out _ THE SIXGIRLS PLEADED TO WED HERO WHO SAVED CHILD'S LIFE One “Could Just E for Giving Up Pieces of Skin. ” Kaplow Keeps Him in Hospital Half the Time. Young Mr, Charles Kaplow of No, 1947 Wilkins avenue, the Bronx, recently fost thirty-six neat little squares of skin and accumulated six proposals of marriage in return. Now he's in bet growing some new skin and not con-| | sidering the proposals of marriage at |all; (hey were unearned Increment of a mera act of charity whereby young Mr. year-old | Kaplow saved the life of a fiv enna en you look at th recent history French Hospital and when he was con- valescing some doctor friends of tis se- cured the position of entry clerk for him in Roosevelt Hospital—an easy task for & person who sill fecls the water of weakness n his bones. While he was serving in this capacity a doctor told Kaplow the pitiful story of how trouble had come to the home of Israel Weuch- er at No, 6% Hast Fifth street, SAVES THE LIFE OF LITTLE GIRL| WHO WAS SCALDED. Weucher, a poor tatlor, has a lttle daughter, Bertha, five years old, Ber- tha had dragged # pot of scalding soup from a table and her body had been terribly burned; so great waa her in- Jury, in fact, that she could not recover | unless some new skin was transferred | to her bilstered body by the wiaardry of surgery. Though still a convalescent, offered his hody to the knives of the surgeons, He was laid on the operating table by the sie of the tortured. body of the little girl and thirty-six squares of skin from about his waist and thighs Kaptow were tr ferred to the body that lay beside his The operstion war nplete- ‘| ly successful. Kaplow was moved froin | the ‘hospital to his home to-day, and little Bertha, though still in a clean cot | at St. Mark's, ig well on the road to! | recovery Thoug Kaplow has seen the Inside j}of a good man hospitals he |fessed to an Even World re | to-day that | strange thir the he had never known wha #3 could happen in @ ho} and wounded before. Ww FROM eve nurse who had to read these scattered young man, by lange, you'll] jeaves from Sappho's diary to the brave that life saving Is as much of | young nt? Guess, She got madder with him as playing golf or|and madder and finally she Just said nv stamps Is for others, | she dn't i any more of those ays f that Just because | horrid things. ‘Then she sat down in he goes in thay wort. of thing-/@" off hour and wrote one herself—the snatching people from death—he sj |aixth in the lst. park z : Kaplow be rd of chivatry— expect girls to propose to him. 1 seu our dawa ipplige tO oFore bi Mae te at Merc heel bag it—out in St, Paul last February, when Here is the latest exploit in his chosen| he stopped a bullet with his right thigh fleld, the circumstance that brought] He interfered between a man and his little perfumed notes on peach-blow | sweetheart when the latter was being paper to Kaplow's cot in St. Mark’s| abused, and the bullet was his reward. Hospital After a month in the hospital he got | Six weeks ago Kaplow underwent with | ONt, and stralsttway stopped & horse j ease an operation for appendicitis in the| orphans, Back to the hospital for two w in an on fi tie tho th were always at his bedside | by atr read them as weil ast the love bill HERE sweet little notes. Befc for him—and she read: LETTERS HE GOT. “Dear Mr. Kaplow the only man in this world I could ever love. T heart of how you saved lves!' in St. Paul and now when 1 read | row | you have saved the life of this Httle girl Iam just s that vou are the daiiingest nm in the world. “I came to the hospital the other day and passed the cot where you were ly- {ng, 80 brave and smiling, and I wanted stop. then and kne your bed and whisper to you how T love you for your by 4. But [didn't dare, be- cause others were looking. tut, dear Mr, Kaplow, e than any girl cou burning things “T could just eat up a dear, darling man like you, what Is so brave and self-sacrificing. Will you not marry me 1 you feel strong enough?” ‘ow, leave It to yourself, dear reader: pt blushed | ayainst Here ia the way one of which he was convicted In 8 1S ONE OF THE LOVE |Solmer, jn | Soluner T think you ar0\ the Steinert, Special § hi ty ade w wi n t Don’t Suffer |With clogged bowels, sour stomach, headaches, indi-| | gestion, liver troublesand all other ailments caused by| road to convalescence if the man dropped little notes like this nearly young Mr. Kaplow, HERO'S NURSE WHO HAS TO What do you suppose happened to the weeks, April 1 Max Kaplow, So BY CITY OFFICIALS FOR PARDONING OF ABRAMS Cominissioners ardoned had frequent! put Abrams's sop, The daughter of Abrams, tres#ing circumstances and on whom the penalty fell more cruelly than on the prisonér. ‘s Broadway, Atement for a time covered in a flue in the rear of the kitchen of the Hartholdt Inn, at Forty: fifth street and Hroadway, ‘The alarm Was sounded through the hotel, which ls occupied mostly by theatrical peo- ple, and many of them left thelr rooms in haste. EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, WOMAN OMAN WHOSE ESCAPE SUFFOLK PRISON REVEALS JAIL SCANDAL ESTHER HARRIS. wood post ry day at your bedside? It helped READ 'EM REBELS, Next turn on the programine was on when he rescued Miss Irene tok, a school teacher, from drowning a inke in Coma Park, St. Paul. In 1 out of the hospital once more, ly to rescue his sister-in-law, Mrs, and her ‘newborn babe house in June. now you seo why @ git st eat up this brave man. ee GOVERNOR 1S SCORED om a burning could of Protest Against Action in ccounls Auction Fraud Cases. Dix nad serving a addl- u The pment that J. Abrams, f thirty days in Jail tn fine of $100 for fraudulent oneering. anno ntenc on to a brought a sharp protest fr Accounts today om Commissioners Rice and Mahoney ade public # letter addressed to Gov, x, In whieh they say that his action is npaign to Ket K auctlonesra complaints the on lal Ses- William dishone enume Abrains nd fa seven besides ons and prod the pi a letter fr o manufacturer, thet Abrams had cheated by having his assistants bid in handise of a sale of Mr. Soh- rs furniture at unfairly low prices, Abrams was convicted before Justices MeInerne id Sallmon tn fons December 4, One assistants testified that he with five other employees prices. at auctions at No, 30 Kast Twet by making false bide did not consult t Attorney before granting th pn, but sald that he had grantes {t wink @ request from Justice Stelr Justice explained to-dmy that he moved by pity for the ¢ and who were in dis- con ning « forme: up the -third str ir Dix rt as as caused to-lay when fire was die- ‘The firemen made short work of the laze by throwing and down the flue, RISONER GAVE CARD PARTIES, Esther Harris, Who Escaped from “Model” Prison, Sher- iff’s Thanksgiving Guest. WILL COMPLAIN TO DIX | Grand Jury Also to Consider Lax Methods in Riverhead (L. L.) Prison. Is of ta not that tarme and expensive Suffolk Connty Jail at Riverhead, L. 1 from which Miss Eather Harris ambled forth on Monday morning, leisurely col- leoting her typewriter and other para- phernalla and leisurely stepping aboard a fine big motor car which drew up to the jail door, a House of Mirth, or, in other words, a sort of Bantile de Jole? Such will be the hypothesis pro: Suffolk County when it ts sworn by Supreme Court Justice Kelly, and such will be the burden of «he query that will be put up to Gov, Dix tn a tax+ payer's petition. The Grand Jurors and the Governor may be Interested to learn that the vanished Miss Harris, awaiting «rial for grand larceny under two indict- ments, was the chief guest of Sheriff Melville EK, Brush and his family at the Thankgiving festivities in the Sher- Ift's house, adjoining the fail. WOMAN PRISONER GAVE BRIDGE PARTIES IN JAtL. Ot course, the talented and myatio Miss Harrts waa virtually in custody while occupying the chair of honor at the Sheriff's board, Yet it is rather an unusual proceeding and has served to spice the scandal that has been turned up since the departure from prison of Miss Harris on the day before she wae to have faced trial on one of the two grand larceny Indictments against her. Sheriff Brush, ft ts betng learned, was a trifle more than lentent with his pris- loners. From the windows of the Griffen House, across the street from the jal, rests frequently saw the Sheriff's arges engaged in pleasant poker par- he 1s meeting with stern dise from Sheriff Bi uragement ish, and he had havdly begun his inquiry this morning when lhe and his fellow unty offleer had strong and biter words aver the tele- phone. he clash came when Mr c ordered that Miss Viole Rawlings, prisoner occupying a cel! on the tler above the cell from which Miss Harris escaped, be brought to hiy office to be questioned, The Prosecutor had heard that Miss Rawlings had heard Miss Harris moving out of prison; that she had heard conve pna and ¢/ motions which should not have the ears of the prison officials and that the remarkable exit of the distinguished POSLAM’S RARE HEALING POWER FELT AT ONCE Poslam works quickly. application will clear a red nose or inflamed complexion . discol rations and blemishes are soon er An overnigh promptly disposing of these minor skin trouble: n gives evidence of its remarkal owers to heal the more serious and stubborn skin diseases, as eczema, ac etter, itech, sen ete, in the eure of which it has made its Itching is stopped as applied. 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IN SUFFOLK JAIL pounded to the January Grand Jury of | PERRI-WALLA TEA | ROASTED COFFEE) joking woman prisoner was noc in the | t stealthy POLITICS INVOLVED IN INQUIRY | INTO THE SCANDAL. § Las y ey gy en ae January Prices Now $8.75 Coat &SuitSale: Green wer There are lols of politics Invelved tn war that Is about to discupt the | customary peace and quietude of Suf- folk County, All the county officers & members of the same Republican mas | Ine_and have been for many years, Sherlf! Brus and District-Attorney elected to office on the same icket. Hitherto all the county Grand | Juries have been Republican, made up, it is J, of machine Reprblican Wherefore the soft-pedal has been ap- plied to the Investigation of aft politteal soandals. But the January Grand Jury, whieh te) to investigate the of Father | Martia aod five other guests of Sheriff Brush within the pret few montha, will | have a Democratic foreman appointed by Supreme Court Justice Kell is himself a Democrat, The | it la predicted, will have and the muste will be high and loud. One of the inferesting develo of the case which reflects somewhat ad- Versely upon the security of that $250 000 Jal, Is that every deputy sheriff in the county has in his possession a |S No, 6 key of the sort that munt Inve been used by Mise Harris, or for her, in opening the two half-ton barred prs through which she walked to elon. DEPUTIES CARRY OPEN SESAME TO JAIL ON KEYRINGS. Deputy Sheriffs scattered around the county bring thelr prisoners to the Jail, | ‘walk in the unbolted portals, then open the inner doors with their No, @s and | escort thelr charges to cells that hap. | pen to look good to them, Of course, in the mame nonchalant manner, It would be possible for sabt deputies porsossing No. 6's to come and take a prisoner out. | wouldn't be the clubby thing to do and {t might caute a rumpus, yet the | certitude is there that these divers and | sundry deputies carry on thelr keyrings | the open seaame to the fall District-Attorney Green on to-day that he was notified of the escape oarly Monday and hurried to at | the suggestion of John Jud laws D who tefephoned him that he had a etl In the Jall who knew a key, ‘This client was the I let-Attorney « nt 1 prisoner had stolen a key said another and given It to him, He had it in his cell to use in case he was convicted Mr, Green sent the prisoner after the key and he promptly produced it, It was found to unlock the doors opened by Misa Harris when she left through the agency of a mysterious koy But she did not use that particular key. TRYING TO TRACE CAR WHICH WOMAN ESCAPED. Deputy Sheriffs of Suffolk County do not have to bother Sherif! Bruah by requests for No. 6's All they have to do, noerrding to statements made t day, is to write as deputy sheritts to | the concern that made the locks and | by number whatever key they $15, $18 and $20 Suits, § 75 $14, $16 and $18 Coats, $18 Boucle Suits, $8.75) $18 Chinchilla Coats, $8.75 $20 Mixture Suits, $8.75/$16 Kersey Coats, $8.75 $15 Two-tone Suits, $8.75] $18 Cheviot Coats, $8.75 $18 Cutaway Suits, $8.75} $16 LondonTweed Coats,$8.75 $20 Norfolk Suits, $8.75] $18 Travel Great Coats, $8.75 $18 Cheviot Suits, $8.75|$14 Mixture Coats, §8.75 You may simply revel in this selection of innumer- able models and materials—a fairyland of fashion affording the most fastidious woman the exact suit or coat ae desires, at $8.75! IN but It 1s charged that prison will fit in other prisons where the tron was done by the same conce Only one person has been four who saw the auton nile In whieh the Harris woman was driven awty, He is a night keys inade fo ties, Miss Harris, it ts alleged, used to | watchman named Hub He safd it + ++ Leet seas ATtatooeLsin teu larde Gnd\| Beemer eT aEa eee GEly TOOHMATTD FREE Alterations Continued heavily ted compartment from hn] Were A man and the woman. It arrived | ” 5 9 », = te slipped so euslly to tne outer world | Hear the Jali about 2 o'ulock Mouda THURSDAY SALE AT ALL FOUR STORES on. Monday. |fehon it teft it was going about Atty | 44-16 West 14th Street SHERIFF ANGRY AT INVESTIGAT. | iiitos how It went to Greenport NEW YorkK ING PROSECUTOR lthen to New London, and from th 4604462 z nie bee aced to Ne y Stree? 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