The examiner., 1886-07-17
A MERMAID INTERPRETERS.
DOLLY ADAMS COMPRLLs COL.
G1LDER TO DELAY HIS TRIP.
He Is served With a Warra MT at fhe
Victoria Hotel While Making
Preparations to Start.

kO SG&i1a
NEW York, July 14-Irily Col. William
H. Glider, the Polar explorer, did not sal
on the City of Worcester for New London
to join the schooner that is to take him
TO the far north puzzled many of his
friends who were waiting on the pier to say
good-by to him.
Even after the lines had been cast off
and the steamer was in mid-stream some
of his friends were waiting still, ex pect-
Ing every moment to see the stout form of
the Arctic explorer hurrying down to the
pier.
The reason was that the Colonel had
been arrested by officer Evans upon
warrant issued by Justice Smith in the
plaint of Dollie Adams. the ssAyater
Queen" Miss Adams is we'll known
throughout the country as the woman
who eats, drinks and sleeps under water
and performs all the tricks of mermaid.
On, n,Monday afternoon she made COM
plant against the Colonel charging him
with keeping 81, 600 Manhattan Railroad
bond, which she had intrusted TO him.
Miss Adams, attired III a very bright red
dress. trimmed with old lace, that fitted
her shapely figure 10 perfection, and car
rying rich parasol, accompanied Officer
Evans to the Victoria Hotel, where Col.
Glider was stopping, to identify him in
case he denied himself.
She had brought a veil along for the
purpose of hiding her face i'll case there
was any necessity of searching for the,
explorer. The officer found Col Glider
readily enough. and he was thunderstruck
when informed that warrant had been
issued for his arrest. Complications of
this character were likely to spoil all his
plans. and the Col. chafed under the un-
expect ed bar threatened to spoil his much
cherished plan of reaching the Pole.
In the police court Miss Adams told her
story. On the 22d of February, SS3, she
said that Colonel Glider visited her and
she happened to have IL 81, 900 Manhattan
Railroad bond of the value of which she
was i'll doubt. She showed it to Colonel
Glider and asked him if it was good. He
said that he did hot Know, but that he
would take it to his Office and find out.
The next time she saw him she met him
in Paris year later, and asked him what
had become OF the bond. The Colonel
said that he had given it to his cousin, a
broker, and that he had become defaul-
ter and fled to Canada.
Colonel Glider listened to what Miss
Adams had to say, and then gave his ver-
sion of the transaction. Miss Adams, he
said, had given him. the bond The day be-
fore she took a trip to San Francisco and
asked him if it had any value. He did
not know. but offered to find out from a
with Wall street matters. The gentleman
told him that it had no marketeyalue,
and he took it back.
Miss Adams, at the time -ha-xiSited her,
[SeICKff1, ks for her TIP, zrTss-
had a bundle of bonds in her hands. She
told him to keep the Manhattan bond
until she came back and told him what to
Il H.,
bond until he had occasion to go to China
upon an urgent mission. Before going he
placed the bond in the hands of Boodie
McClelland & Co, Miss Adams bankers
He borrowed some money of the firm at
the same time, and misunderstanding
arose which caused them during his alb
sence to sell the bond as collateral secur-
ity for his loan before he had any opLor-
tunity to pay the money advanced him.
Colonel Glider emphaIically denied hav-
ing made the statement that his cousin
was defaulter, and said he had tried TO
see Miss Adams since May last for the
purpose of effecting settlement. He
ad mitted that he owed her the amount of
the bond and denied that he had any
criminal intent in the matter.
Justice Smith, after listening to
the facts in the case, concluded
that he would hold Colonel Glider to await
the action of the Grand Jury. i'll 81, 500
bail. Col. Glider did not have a bonds
man in court, SO the Justice directed an
officer to go With the Colonel while he
hunted up some one who would go his
bond, which the Justice said he would
take at his house or in Court to-day.
Colonel Glider, escorted by the officer
and his friend DIR. Bailey, then left the
court to find bondsman. which he
thought he could do readily enough in
spite of the fact that he was going to the
North Pole, where the average detective
or bondsman would not care to go after
him if he did not appear when wanted.
1t Is said by Colonel Glider that since
Miss Adams entrusted her bond to HIM
he has given her several thousand dollars.
Miss Adams is alleged to be very fond of
Col. Glider, and it is said her motive III
causing his arrest is to prevent his leaving
on the North Pole expedition.
He is held in 81, 900 for trial. and as yet
has been unable to secure the bail neces-
sary for his release.