The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-12
DID HE rRT TO BURN THE BOOKS,
A Youae WOMAN Called Casste Says she
IL the Accused Bookkeeper,s wife.


a Touss wows~ Called cass,e Says she
10 the Accused Bookkeep-r's wife.
Harry II. Peters, the bookkeeper for II. c.
Harvey Co.. piano frame makers and iron
founders OF Clay. Franklin. and Dupont streets.
Greenpoint. who was arrested on Thursday
night accused OF setting IRE to tho firms books
while he WAS alone in the ONCE on Tuesday.
pleaded not guilty In the Lee avenue police
court yesterday. Bail was fixed at $4,000 and
the examination was set for Thursday next.
Waterman Hartweln said that when making
his rounds he saw flames through the window
OF the ONCE. He extinruished the flames with
coupls Of buckets OF water. while Peters
stood idly BY without Offering any assistance
Superintendent HafTen, whose house faces
the once window corroborated Hartwein to
the extent OF saying that whom. alarmed by
the blaze, he ran over and kicked in the front
door. Hartwein was throwing water on tho
smoulderinR flames and Peters was leaning
against the WALL
In his statement to Justice GoettinG Peters
said that he was going on his vacation the
next day and Was working at his trial balance
ready for an examination OF the books. He
had taken . couple OF drinks and could not
work very quickly. He always smoked at his
work. He left the office for a moment and
whom he returned his desk, on which tho books
lay. was In flames. He threw some water on
Thorn from the cooler and then shouted for the
Waterman. He believed that his cigarette
must have, fallen into the waste paper
basket and set tho torn, papers Gllght
on the floor they. must have been thrown from
ire DID not Mheher wa, &c
or rs vas t91 much excited e know eS
examin alton and the little money he handled
,por.lon q Fs,srs's, coat ,sl.ev. shows
marks Of FIRE but hs said 4. that he burned |! =
He Il II Years old and be looks younger. He
l g with his widST n mother and sister at
Kanss stree. q
much. The books were all straight a few
oPs aise ssa tx
vacation. The irm gave him ten days, holl.
20 away The day beiors 10 wa was 10 o'f have ave-
zone Nj: Har9ey told him t., prepare :
his house q Ba1shors, q Yins that Ps,srs Would
hands and the pay roll amounts to about $4,000
Ss dny f ea 1,s II.
distributed 1t. Inc only way In which
no could have stolen any money was
by making. out duplicate time sheets
and 30 charging the treasurer for moro money
than tho foreman called for. Among the books
partially burned are cash book and ledger
that were closed several months ago The
time book that could tell the tale OF any dis
honesty ts almost totally destroyed. Peters
earned SIS . week; He was to have received
SIS next month. His mother and sister say he
had no e1pensive hsbits but that he had been
0uisn; who arrested him at the WiIismsbu5gh
different story. They say that Peters had
Bronson Of West Flttieth street. this city. and
that he kent horse and carriage for her.
letter Peters failed to keep ira track q. and
loved him to Williamsburch and arrested u
him. Peters said he never tried to evade the
detectives. that he was away from tho office
only one day. and that he was on vacation. OF
his relations with Miss bronson he refused to
talk. He did not wish his friends dragged into
tho mess. and his affairs with Miss Bronson
wore nobody's business but his own.
pratty little woman. who was ono OF the
half dozen who moro or loss en- deshabile sur
rounded tho reporter at 232 West Fiftieth
street, said that her name was Cassie. and that
II. 81. Peters. boOkEeeper for H. c. Harvey L.
Co.. was her husband. Peterss mother does
not believe her son Ia married. She owns tho
house in which she lives. but she told Justice
Goetting that she could not qualify on his
bond.