The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1913, Page 4

Survogate Gets Affidavit of “Dumrny” Charging That Frenzied Financier Edwin Elliott Trautwein Used Estates Liquidating Co. to Swindle the Real Heirs. Edwin Biliott Trautwetn, often and other investigators for pecuilar fe charged in an affidavit filed in the Surrogate's office with using the) Estates Liquidation Company, a concern controlled by him, to swindle.) He is charged with bribing fictitions heirs to claim estates and to turn ver the proceeds to himself. Eighteen estates handled by th under investigation. Bever heard. Janitors and porters of the ulléing @t No. M2 Broadway, where the con- ©ern has maintained offices for many Months, have been busy for two days moving the furnture of the corporation fnto the street under @ disponsens ord sr. ‘Three different agencies are trying to fearn from the departng clerks some- thing about Trautwein's business meth- ode. BRITIBH CONSUL STARTED AN INVESTIGATION. ‘Tho British Consul, it was learned to- @ay, had begun an inquiry somotime go eetate left by James Haggerty, of Liv- e@rpool, who had died in this city, ap- Barently without heirs. At the reavest ef two real heirs in Liverpool Traut- fwein's concern had been Interested in the administration of the estate, An- other estate which Interested English heirs was that of Ellen Dunn. The necond branch of the triangular fnvestigation was becun by the National Burety Company, which had given bonds at the solicitation of the Extates LAquid- tion Corporation to insure the proper Administration of estates by the com- Bany. The surety company’s legal de- Bartment ts thus interested in the fol- Jowing ‘estates: Daniel Fitzhugh 3r., ‘William J. Jenkins, John Bigelow, Han- feb Hourigan, John Crowley, Mary \Mc- Donald, Benjamin Kershow, James Hag- @erty, Morris B. Reynolds, Christian C. ‘Wendell, Margaret Lowrey, Ellen Dunne, Annie MoGorgan, Katherine Hoftman, Jennie Neleon, James Nelson, Rodert Riddle and Erie Wyncof. ‘Most of the above estates, !f not all, ‘Were first in the hands of the Public Administrator, as the decedents had met @udden or accidental deaths and left Bo known next of kin. ‘The third stem of the investigation @nd that which ewlminated in the filing | ne Kettners affidavit to-dny haa Been | fn charge of George Smythe, repro-| wenting the real heirs to the Crowley estate and wie attorney, L Newton investigation was started tong before the others. After an affidavit admitting his fake hetrehip, Kevtner asks that the letters of adminie- tration fraudulently granted to him be wevoked. Kettner’s affidavit follows: ‘TOLD HOW HE COULD EARN 90 EASILY. “Ip or about the month of August or @eptember, 1912, I was requested by one Zohn Harrison, residing at an unknown @@ireas, to call upon Mr. Edwin Traut~ wein, at nis office, No, %8 Broadway, New York City, and he would give me @n opportunity of making $6). “Mr, Trautwein asked me to sign an @Méavit petition and the verification of the came, dated Sept. 17, 1912, and also @ign and swear to the oath of office as @éministrator, which forms a part of fhe petition, and also the bond, ae ad- G@uinistrator of the estate of John (Crewiey, Gecessed, and eaid that Harri- would make it all right with 1 would sign the same, “E signed the papers just as he pre- pared them, and shortly thereafter a Gheck was ahown me drawn by the Emi- grant Industeta! Savings Bank on some In one of them at least the diwmmy heir has con- fessed that he took $50 from Trautwein for claiming $2,159.10 left by John! Crowley, to whom the claimant was not related and of whom he had a SWEARS HE WAS PAID $50 » TO COLLECT A FORTUNE unfer investigation ty the police financial operations on @ large scale, 4 Estates Liquidation Company are wank for $2,199.10 about Ort. 12, 192, and Tequeated me to indore the aame, which 1 aia. “E delivered the check duly Indoreed by me in the name of Jeremiah C. Crowley, administrator, ete. of anid estate of John Crowley and handed it to said Edwin Trautwein. = mever collected the Gaia check, but I am in- formed that eald Edwin Treatwein ool- lected the proceeds of said check throngh the Mational Surety Company Rd deposited the proceeds to his per- sonal account, I received from said John Masrison ¢50 for signing aft Gavite an@ bond three or four days After the checks were collected. NOT RELATED TO CROWLEY AND ALL WAS FALSE. “T am not in any way related to the aid Join Crowley and never lived In Port Jefferson, N. Y., and the state: ments tn the anid petition, duly sworn to by me, and the affidavit to comply with the transfer tax are and each of them is untrue and I knew them to be untrue at the time I signed and swore to them.” A reporter for The Evening World visited the Brooklyn City Mission yea terday afternoon and was informed by men in charge of tho place that Kett- ner had moved to New Jersey, Juat then Kettner walked into the place. At @ aignal he flea down the street ard was lost, The bookkeeper in the Mission said that while Kettner was working there @ year ago he used to receive telephone calls from an unknown man arranging for Kettner to moet the man at the Long Island City depot. For several years Trautwein'a home has been on Long laland and he {» at present inter- ented in property at Great Neck occu- | plea by Miss Ruby Paine, a former | actress, and her mother, When @ reporter called at the Ratates ‘1 ition Corporation's dismantled jeeees. t No, 903 Hrondway, Mise Ruth Bryan, @ stenographer, who had the title of ‘secretary,’ was in charge, A! ‘man who eald his name was Wolfe and came from the law offices of Herman | Hoth, attorney for Trautwein, was alho jin the offices. Wolfe advised Mins Bryan to keep ailent. However, Miss Bryan did talk. “I'm through with thie concern,” she said, as she put on her hat and coat. “Here's my resignation to take effect to-day,” ehe maid, offering the reporter @ lett: jelleve me, I could gay & Fy € mith, one of the operatives. | Jeft the offices with his raincoat and cane when his name was mentioned, and | id not return, It was said that the Fetates Liquidation Corporation would have new quarters at No. 61 Chambers street. REAL HEIRS OF CROWLEY NOW IN IRELAND, ‘The real heira to the Crowley satate, | @re, according to documenta forwarded to New York by the American Consul in Cork, Ireland, Timothy Ahern and | is daughters Abigail, Annie and Mar-| garet. Timothy's father was the broth: | er of Urkiget Ahern, the mother of L. DOUGLAS : $3.50, $4.00 & SH $4.50 OES Leokey.:. » Douglas store windowsanad as will see shoes for %3.50,84,00 mete ere just yroae ef as other makes costing &. pamiy eirerance isthe price, Shoes nd good in style, fit and 5.00 to 87.00, it lea and shapes to sult everybody, ints visit W. at Brockton, Mans. to how carefull: self L. Doug! » Douglas large and see for y: face las shocs are made, you mente Then understand why the: ere wares thei ind wear longer t make forth the price. oan Four rt fe for Uivweten fit better, look better, hold han any other in the World, int nom Gutaiog: ME etc ae eee Weds & pouctas STORES IN ATER sein Y BROOKLYN nites m Street, nrecr Feast Btrees. Theraton St, 16. NRWARK--G31 Breed Street, PATERSON —109 Market #t.,c0r. Clark knew him as Crowley. 1 Join Crowtey, the decedent. They claim to be the only next of kin and brand as false the cial that there ix a “Jeremiah Crowl whom mita ho tmpersonated. . M. Rankin of No. 234 Greene coustn with the company had been per- functory @nd that be had had no | that the transactions were not accord ing to law untll Aus. Hth of this year, “I had been tntroduced to a man In the office as Crowley,” he @aid, “and had seen him there frequently, I always One day after I the company i met this man in ‘and he sald he wanted to see id him to come to my h ut Be called at my home when f not there. I found a note signed “Cro ley" and underneath ‘James R. K tner.” I thought maybe tt meant Ket- tner was an attorney for Crowley In the will transaction, “Next day Crowley, who wan really Kettner, came to my house and made a clean breast of the whole affair and told the story now repented In his am. davit. When Attorney Smythe asked me to locate Kettner for him 1 did so, and I was present when Kettner rd his affidavit. BOOKS SHOWED DEFICIT IN FEW MONTHS. “When I went to the Estates Liquida- tion Company I atarted, aa an expert accountant, to bring the bookkeoping affairs of the company Into order, but ‘Trautwein would not permit that. I was hardly more than @ rubber etamp. I never handled any cash; somett the entries Trautwein gave me w month old. In the few months I was with the corporation, the books, kept according to the figures Trautwein gave me, showed that the corporation had received $0,008.71 and that he had paid out $12,907.26, showing a deficit of §3,- 908.65, That was from March to De- cember, 1912, “Once I spoke to him about this alip- shod bookkeeping and he eatd for me to 0 to hell; that it meant nothing to me, as As he got money to keep the office going. Very little money was kept in the corporation's bank account; most of It was deposited to Trautwein’s personal account, “As secretary of the corporation, 1 ordered all the ‘investigators’ of the cor- poration to make written reports to me, but Trautwein overruled that and or- - the men to report in persun to Nor 1s this Trautwein's firat connec- tion with frenzied financial dealings. On Oct, 26, 18%, Detectives Doyle and Clarke of the Jersey City Dotective Bureau arrested “Edward Trautwein” in the Jersey City office of Barrett & Oo., No. 7% Montgomery street. It was charged that this contracting firm had been inducing Italians to join a com- pany to furnish eupplies to men em- ployed in quarries in New York, and that many victims had lost from $160 ‘On Jan, 5, 1905, while living under the name of “E. Kiliott Trnutwein” at No. 31 Weat Twenty-seventh street, Man- hattan, he was held in Jefferson Market Court on a charke of stealing two prom- issory notes, each of the face value of LADIES! order, $15.50, The goods the same for men and women. ..~.---sreeereccee MITCHELL = a THE EVENING “WORLD, . epee SEPTERBER 26, STs. $5,000, from Gustavua F. Macrae. He denounced hie arrest an “an outrage.” The matter Was gettied out ef court and Frautwein wae discharged On June . Trautwoin wae are remiei by Detective MaConville on the ha: Hing $35,000 worth of prom. femory notes from Frank B. Hurns, head ot @ novelty company in Newark, N. J. When Charles Barry and John Gund- lach were un thiai, on May 18, 1908, ve- | fore Magistrate Moss, on the charge of stealing $108,000 in notes from the de- funot firm of Sherman & Co, cutlery Merchants of Keyport, N. J., Gundiach became @ voluntary witness and swore to the court that @ worthless sight draft, drawn on E, Eliott Trautwein, ha@ Been sent to Sherman & Co. as pert payment for the alleged stolen notes, WALL STREET. On June 2, 1908, {t wan announced tn the office of the Ijgtrict-Attorney that} Trautwein had revealed to the prose- cuting attorney evidence of the extatence of @ gan of note ewindiers who had been operating in Wail street. Traut- wein had been arrested at his home in Woodmere, L. 1., on the charge of ateal- Ing $100,000 in noten issued by the Hopper- Morgan Company of Watertown, N. Y. The World in October, 19%, found Trautwein doing business in @ lusurious oMce at No. %1 Went Twenty-seventh atreet aw His busin expert investigators. broker in commercial paper. ness houses and paying them 9 per cent. @ year on its face value, “aimply for the He doing @ business of sev- privilege of holding thetr notes.” was eald to ora! million dolla week, The atrange part of the transaction wan that Trautwein pledged himself not to put the paper to any use. Trautwein explained that in he got five per cent. them. No one a scheme and he was branded a3 a “brand new type of a philanthropist.” ‘The day following “he World's ex- pore, Trautwein went out of that dusi- “a mistake had ness, announcing that been made,” and that he was simply a money lender. his offices No. %2 Broadway, commendation, man on the Grand Boulevand and con- tinued {ts flight, Trautwein, in another car, pursued the fugitive and brought about bis arrest, Trautwein at that time was @ special deputy sheriff and Sheriff Harburger, at @ dinner two Nights later, bad especial praise ¢or hia doputy. VIENNA, Austria, Francis Joseph to-day ence the new United York, who presented his credentii the letters of ‘recal Kerenn of St, Louis, the retl: bassador. TOLD OF NOTE SWINDLERS IN| i at that time baffled even He was procuring commercial paper from substantial busi- 0 cases for the use of these notes as ‘accommodation paper,” but that he never borrowed money on med able to tell how he oruld make any money at that , 1912, Trautwein, then liv- rt, L. 1, but maintaining got into the limelight in a different way— as a hero who won Sheriff hile ane ‘e ‘An automobile driven fy Witllam Biatr, @ machinist, of No, |"tfomely were his suspicions aroused | 280 Eighth avenue, knooked down a ey appearance, although the leathe ‘BISHOP WHO WARNED LINCOLN OF ASSASSIN + aa is Many entire families delywe datinfied iS EXPECTED 10 DIE with « wase of & cente to $1 American cufrency a day. The saddle trées used Relatives Called to Bedside of here to furnish trees, leather and fittings of all kinds to tho The labor ty the cheapest for the better grades O/. saddles are im- ported from the State of Colima, the cheaper grade saddles using a tree of local make. ———>- -— THE WONDERFUL “OIL SPOT” (Fsom the Mhitedetphia Inquirer.) Rev. Thomas Bowman, A. freak of natitre never fully de- | scrived 19 the wonderful “oll spat.’ sift. | p i ated about ten miles south ine | Venerable Methodist. Pasa, into which flows the Sabine River | to the Gulf of Mextco, ‘The river forms | of ara CBE, the toundary © the States of Bishop Thomas Bowman, senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the man who vainly warned President Lincoin that he was in dan- ger of asenasination, is dying at the! | home of his son-in-law, B. Durbin C well, president of the Wells-Fargo KF press Co, at No 8 High‘street, Or-} ange, N. J. Bishop Bowman, who pased his ninety-aixth ®irthday on July 15th, has} jewelry store is a been fll for a month and becatise of his Diamonds, all directly imy advanced age, little hope in feit for his recovery. His sons and daughters have been summoned to his bedside. They are, besides Mra, Caldwell, with whom he has made his home for, a number of years, Theodore G, Bowman of Los Angeles, Thomas M. Bowman and Charles G. Bowman of 6t. Louis, Sam- uel B. Bowman of Denver, Seceilus B. Bowman of Chattanooga and Mrs. Mary Cc, Smith of Baltimore. Bishop Bowman was horn at Berwick, Pa, in 1817. He was educated at Dick- ingon College and was otdained at the Baltimore Conference in 189. He served for eome time as president of Dickin- fon Beminary, Dr. Bowman was cre- ated a Dishop in May, 1872, and retained that office untll retirement in 1886. For more than forty years before hi retirement he had told his friends was too busy with his church work ever to take @ vacation, As bishop he had | toured the world many times, attending | conferences in Europe, India, China, Ja- | pan and Mexico, | Dr, Bowman was Assistant Chaplain of the United States Senate during the civil War and on several occasions saw | John Wilkes Booth acting suspiciously about the Capitol when President Lin- | coln was there on ofMfictal business. So | <- <S $25.00 high. Lambert Seamless § up. No charge for engr that Dr. Bowman warned Lincoin. | ee MEXICAN SADDLES, (From a Cossular Reyort.) ‘Tho making of saddies, while in the aggregate an important local Mexican industry, ie purely a home affair, the | artisans for the most part working aA Sleeve Links and Scarfpins. 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