New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-31
SEARCHING FOR THE FoRGER PEDRICK.

SEARCHING FOR THE FORGER PEDRlCk.
HIS UNCLE's ISvEsTIG ALTON OF HIS AFFAIRS.
No information has yet been received OF the
hiding place Of r. A. Pednck. the defaulng CLERK OF
Bernhard Hutton. Detectives started for Canada YES
teriay in search OF him. A letter was received by
friend of his yesterday in which Pedrck stated that inc
full details Of the forgeres and embezzlement wheh
written out, would fill volume, and read Ike an eX-
citing novel
The Rev. John Atkinson, uncle of Pedrick'
said: 81 have from Michigan expressly 10
investigate this charge AGAINST young PedrleK' ana u
possible to bring him out Of his hdiDgpace' nave Ill
vestigated his mode of living, and have examined
all his private papers. His family consists OF MS
wife, child three years old and an aunt who has
always taken OF his house He kept no servant He
allowed his wife so week, which bought everything
pertaining to actual Housekeeping expenses except rent
and coal. He paid 500 month for his house. Inc
family has always been economical Only few weeks
before he went away PedIck SAID that he had not
money enough buy broiler. He was almost lnyari
ably at home at nght-one night in the week Delng ue
voted TO attending Reserve Lodge OF odd Fellows OF
he always returned at ii O'clock His wife
saws that she never knew him to zen ialse e,
hood. 4 little five years he bought a house IN
Nwark for S6,750 He always rented II, using the
rental 20 meet The Interest eG9rg 6o ne mas as rease
years. He held three life Insurance pCeles tne LAS.
of insurance on his fcis 81 900 He lot in Jersey
City, for which he paid seven years ago, 500 lie no Us
obligation OF TREND 1Or FOO, WHICH htchs
been loaned three years His habits are acknowledged
by all who know him to have been uniformly regular
He had visitors, and none from NewI0rk lie Drank
no Ouor, and smoked only two CHEAP cigars a day. MY
advice TO him would be to surrender himself, make d
clean breast of the entire affair, endure maniuly his
punishment and then begin lie feel sure that
he did not use all the money that mas been wr0ngfuy
taken and that there others who drew bm into the
who then played upon his fears Of exposure
to enrich TIT mselVes."
George T. Robbins, Newark druggist who was an NJ
innate acquaintance of Mr.. Pedrick said that Prdr,ck
was respectable aud very reserved young man, aud
that he lived plainly There is no evidence at his mum
bic home extravaganza. The furniture Is PLAIN ana
the parlor is still uDcarpeted. , ~
Mrs. Pedrck who is now at her home, No 404i2 wash
ngOn-st Newark, with her only child and her aunt
said that her husband left the house Tor
business as usual on Tuesday two weeks ago, and on
the same evening she received telegraphio dlspatch
from m stating that he would not be home that night
On the following day she got letter from MN,
lnclosug a 800 bill This threw some light upon
his absence. Soon aferward man called who claimed
to be an emul0ye of Bernhard & Hutton. He told her
of the charge ganst her husband and by representing
that 1t would be her husbands interest If she would
give him the money he had sent her. she did so Now
she SAID she had Il dollar On Monday Mrs. Pedrlck
received letter bearing the NewYork postmark which
said
'Mrs. PedTick-As as Bob gets place OF safety
Will let you know. BOBs FRIEND" .
Mrs. Pedrck claims TO be Ignorant OF her husbands
hiding-place.