The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1913, Page 16

NO I HAVEN'T ANY WORK FOR YOU. PAW,O0E S ALL OF THAT, BUT, GOT A DOLLAR UP IN THE BUREAU ORAWER, AND ILL GIT LT FOR YUL, A DOLLAR SAVED 18 @ DOLLAR MADE! EEE RELG ABSENT MINDED F AGAIN. 1 DON'T REMEMBER TAKIN’ THAT DOLLAR ouT A ERE. : i CHARLTON LACKS COUNSEL. Wenld Not Allew Depety to Confer with Prisoner, Htaly, Sept. %.—Parter Chari- Ausrican who lz goon ‘io stand fer the murder of his wife, has as BO gucceeded in securing the ser- of counsel to conduct his case. Sa 4 '9 friends to undertal Deputy Camera, when in the United Btates recently, was urged by Onarl- ra Nas not yet accepted the task, THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1913. ‘MAN SPENT $1,000 ~ AIMONTH ON PAY _ OF S20 PER WEEK Defaulting Clerk of Big Flour Millers Chauffeur | More Than He Drew. MADE GARDEN CITY GAY, | Gave | | | | i But Manager Said Balance Took Flight. | John ©. Sehitaknecht, the cierk ot twenty-thege, for whom detectives ara seaching to-day in every big city of the United States as the alleged embersier | of &%.0m from the Washburn-Cromby Flour Company, spent more than $1,000 |@ week from May 1 to Aug. %, while |living at the Garden (tty Hotel on| | Leng island. { During this period Bchildknecht, who} fled on the date last mentioned, was) drawing 69 @ week an recording clerk | |@f the flour company, whose New York, offices Qt No, 17 Battery Place, He} had been in the employ of the company | four years and had the reputation of | being a quiet, trustworthy employee, While working for hin usual $20 week the fugitive clerk was paying $90 a week to his chauffeur. He hed & wo high power eix-cylinder etftomobiies of the meenbout type. His Paavion wes motoring, and when not at the office he was dashing about Long Taland. On hie trips he was accompanied by ‘woman whom he represented to be his wite. Bchildknecht occupied one of the finest He had an adjoining his chauffeur and the chauffeur's wife. | Percy Gorman Is stated to be the namo of the chauffeur, through whom the de: | tectiver hope to get nome trace of the! | missing clerk, KEPT BIG ESTABLISHMENT IN SWAGGER HOTEL. | Behiidknecht also had a maid for his wife and @ man servant for himeelf. |The estadlishment included a bulldog [and @ Gt. Bernard. Mchildkrecht's tips were a matter of | | general gossip among the employees of | the hotel, and they aay he was one Wiis garage bills alone month. Every weekday morning Schiidkne: motored to the Jamaica station of Long Island Rallroad Then he dropped ‘the guise of & millionaire and went to | New York to epend the day ae a clerk. | | At night he would be met at the! | Jamaica atation by one of hin fast ca which often contained his ai and he would pick up the role of a miliionaine again, ‘SAID HE WAS SON OF WEALTHY MAN, | He represented himself to the eon of & wealthy man now in Europe and said | he was in the electrical business. | The Burns Detective Agency tasued circulars thas morning describing the fugitive and giving @ reproduction of @ drawing of him. These circulars will ‘be epread broadcast through the land. OFFER REWARD OF 500 FOR MAN'S APPREHENSION, A reward of $1,000 in offered for the Man's apprehension, $600 by his former employers and the balance by the {United States Fidelity @ Guaranty Company, his bdondemen. He was ‘bonded for $20,000. Auditors are today at work on the \hook of the flour company, whose head office ts:in Minneapolis. T. C. Fatee, gen- eral thanager of the New York branch, stated that the defalcation might ve greater than the figures given. Hl ‘The theft will be covered pretty well | by the bond,” he sald, “but it may run| several thousands above.” “There was not the least mgn to In- dicate that he had changed hin inode of \ilte or waw*doing anything beyond what The method of defalcation was very eimple. One of the fugitives dutles as tecording clerk wan to receive al! money and chooks which came in. It was also his duty to act as bank mesaenger and make deposits, SAY DEPOSIT SLIPS WERE FALSIFIED. In July Schildknecht, so examination of the books shows, began to put casn and checks Into his own pocket, falsity- deposit slips 80 us to cover the At the end of Auguat the trial balance was forwarded as usual to the head office of the flour company in Minneapolis, Bchildknecht saw that he would be detected as soon as this balance sheet was received and gone over, He there- upon wired an order to the postmaster of Minneapolis, in Mr. Extee's name, to send back to > ork the envelope containing tho rt out the postal ap) form for this to be The tri cordingly sent back by the Minneapolls postal author- ities before delivery, Nchildknecht un- doubtedly Intended to intercept thin en velope when it reached the Battery he morning of Aug. tee wan down at the pari early. Through co he saw the envelope among the Bohildknecht evidently dis a few minutes later that the had the returned envelope, velope, ppeared from Ganten arente live at No, Sheet and Schildknecht |, r] pansenger, , | pillar. {into the rig after Policeman Watkins of the Hamburg avenue station had| 1 et), Mr, Estee at once picked up the en-| the young man was ON $20 A WEEK SALARY GOT HOLD OF §25,000 atta REAL ESTATE MAN FOUR PERSONS INJURED IW LIVELY RUNAWAYS One Man in Serious Condition, Though He Did Not Think Hurt Was Bad. Four persons were hurt, one seriously, In two lively runaways in Williamsburg this morning. Nathan Zahn, of No, #6 Hamburg avenue, driving @ wagon for the whoiesals glam concern of Hyman ‘Unger of the same addrem, could not wtop his horse on the tactine of Knicker- bocker avenue as he neared Myrtle nue and so crashed into the rear of an open Myrtle avenue car which was cronsing. Zahn was pitched out of his rig and was badly cut on the head and face Frank Walter, of No. 48 Cook street, a had two ribs broken and was badly cut. Mrs, Rose Gorman, of No. 1581 Fast Forty-elghth street, also & pansenxer, was cut over the left eye and badly bruised, Dr. Hiltpold, of the German Hospital, took Walter there. Mrs, Gorman went home in @ cab and Zahn drove off after having his wounds dreased. At the sume time Harry Frey of No. 24 Central avenue, driving a wagon ot Dudley & Co., wholesale paint dealers of that address, was pitched onto hie head when his horse took fright at an elevated train in Broadway, near La- fayette avenue, and ran into an elevated He insisted on climbing back caught the horse, @ block away, but Presently became go sick that he went to his home, An hour later relatives !found him unconactous and called Dr, Bunch from the German Hospital. The physician found Frey had a fractured skull and probably Internal injuries, He took him to the hospital. His condition ia serious, MAJOR RIDDELL DEAD AFTER AN OPERATION ALBANY, Sept. %—Following an operation, Major Joseph Riddell, head of the Farm Bureau of the State De- partment of Agriculture is dead in a hoapital here to-day. He wan for se eral years a profes University, of which he was a graduate. war widely know! and attached to the of Gen. Nelson Miles during the wi He wan sixty-seven years old. f and military honore, vives him. ~ ARRESTED AFTER James A. Wigmore Is Accused of Holding Up $112,000 in Land Deal. | Sheriff Threatens to Punish St. | Regis Manager for Harbor- ing Accused Man. | | | | After successfully eluding de sheriffa with a warrant for hi arret for twenty-four hours, James A. Wii more sent word to the Sheri office to-day from his hiding place in the give himself up, The message waa con- veyed by his attorney, Lyttleton Fox. three others of Sheriff Harburger’ had laid slege to the St. Regis ever since noon yesterda Mr. Fox to Wigmore’s piace of seclusion and there placed him under arrest. The prema Court Justice Whitaker on the complaint of Frederic W. Hill, Edgar R. Jackson, who ix now serving a term of five years in Sing Sing, awin- died him out of $112,000, thi the sale of forty-seven acres of land at Hempstead, 1. I. Wigmore has figured in some big long Inland realty deals and te the head of the Tubes Realty and Terminal Com- pany at No. 616 Fifth avenue. He has @ home in Cleveland, O., but maintains apartments by the year in the St, Regis. Among his ‘aspociates in real estate transactions on Long Inland have been August Belmont and ex-Gov. Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, Included in Wigmore's transactions was acreage in the vicinity of Garden City. Mr. Hill claims that Wigmore and Jackson sold land in which he was in-/| terented for 5,000 to Cleveland investors but falled to turn over to ..im ‘his proper remuneration. ‘When the warrant was lesued the dep- uty sheriff to whom it wan given was told that Wigmore was in New Mexico. Word reached the Sheriff's office that he had returned y Deputy Jacob Bi nd four others hur- ried to the St. Regis, where Wigmore rents apartment No. 1018 by the year oy were told that Wigmore was out of town, but they hung around all day and all night. At 1 o'clock this morning Bier raw a man enter, the hotel who answered to the description of Wigmore. Bier fol- lowed the man in and demanded per- misaion of the clerk to search apart- 1018, ‘This permission wae d the apartment wan found pty, Nor could Bler pick up any trace whatever of the man he haa followed into the hotel. ‘The deputies were admitted to Wig- more's tenth floor apartment. They | found his clothing scattered about and | every sign of recent occupation, but no Wigmore | MARBURGER CRITICISES HOTEL | PEOPLE. “The hotel peaple obviously took pa to hide this man from my officer maid Sheriff Harburger to~ tried their best to obstruct Ju just ae soon as 1 get an afidavit from Deputy Bier I @hall proceed to have the St. Re nagers arrested.” On his arrival at the Sherift’s office, accompanied by Attorneys Littleton, burial will be at Hamtiton with Masonic | Fox and T. Ludlow Chrystie, the pris- His wife sur-|oner was bonded by one of the big | surety compantes for $2,000 and permit. Broaklyn, tehman in a bank, The CASTORIA For Infants and Children, 24HOURS SIEGE HARBURGER GETS MAD. |" \ | | \ | Hotel St, Regis, that he was willing to, was guided by | warrant was issued on Aug. % by Su-| share in) sierday morning and| et ala el Pa iets LS ce tne more took the deed from the one tn! the hatchet and harmony te now Attorney a his part »!whom the title was #hown to reside! scribed on the banners of the Progres ‘ving Hill and Jackson, |4nd did not know Hill in the transac | sive party in the Bronx. =e Bi eae ‘tion at all. If Hill was In any way! At q meeting In the lal! at No. 19 ' ent of | defrauded it must have been by JACK) pogton road, which lasted tilt early. the 80) pal Com | "Th hie complaint Hill, who lives at | morning, the two ee anraneds Le ae } mont and! No, GOL West One Hundred and Fort-| hands and exe eronnea ter th rs. eth street, states that Jackson got himj teem. Sviwar v9 tA to transfer his half ownership of the harsh words he has been applying | | property to a dummy in Jackson's office | Shongut for @ month past. The wor v| no had now to say of the Coroner was tm before th the understanding that the y ‘fore In would he sold for $6,500 un acre. lil! that in his opinion he was indiscreet, way a criminal contends that Wigmore knew all the! tyig the Coroner dented, but he sald y a ori time he was part owner. when the votes were counted Wess be seen that he was toting fair ai he was all for harmony. Schwartsl let It go at that, Four weeks ago overtures were made t reason tion of sacar sack.’ BRONX PROGRESSIVE certain real sae ae LEADERS BURY HATCHET we Sale through Arthur Murphy for a state In Long Island which was pur- qi chased by a company organized by Mr. with Tammany of the Progressive forced ends that he and in the Bronx, This proposition Schwarta- for #0 un acre| Coroner Shongut and Chairman! icr etraddied, and he and the Coromer 6 hou 0 | ith a loud noise, The things nines ty which ie seachon the: faival Schwartzler Make Up After Ney "nei. ‘about each ether in publio Month of Mud-Slinging. Schwartsler sclusion that Wigmore houcht the! and private were stron hi tty. t00 cheap.” i jaccused Shongut and his friends 4 Awa matter of fact the property was| Coroner Shongut and County Chalr-| treachery and Shongut sald Schwartal covered with mortgages and wi Augustus Schwartzier have Incompetent, Wigmore. He ce to Deputy Sheriff Jacob Bier, who with | aldes who | swore that Wigmore, with the ald of The Sign that Saves the Time is the Blue Bell sign of the Telephone. No matter how far you aay be from home or place of busi- ness—you are never far from the Blue Bell sign that marks a Public Telephone. In building up fall business or in renewi social activities, these public telephones, as well as the ones in your home and office, will help you to cut down the waste of time and money that unnecessary personal traveling entails. They place within easy reach the labor-saving convenience of Traveling by Telephone. i Don’t waste your time in walking; just look for the Blue Bell Sign—it’s everywhere—the sign that saves time, and let your voice travel for you. It’s easier to talk than to walk. ‘That Ragtime Dinnertime Band” | The Kind You Have Always Bought’ For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA | Words and Music in One of the Song Hits of “THE. 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