The evening world., 1893-09-20
IS WEMBERGEa IN CANADA?
A Report that BE Was Taken
g There to Avoid Arrest.
lawyer Jaworower Has . Letter
Gs1 Shedding New Light.

It was positively stated to-day by one
who claimed to have inside information
that Bernard weinberger. the east-side
banker, is in Canada, whittier he was
taken by his friends to avoid possible
arrest In this city.
:, Hsrschdorfer, his brother-in-law and
manager. is said to be in Canada. An
other brother-in-law, Unger. also n
banker. whose place Is closed. is said
10 have been seen In Montreal.
In spite Of these statements the house
where weinberger lived, 225 East Tenth
street, Is still being watched by a ward
detective. Mrs. Weinberger, with her
three children, is living there, but is too
III to see any one. 1t is said there that
nothing is known of his whereabouts.
A letter received in this city yester-
day, and which Is now In possession Of
light on Weinberger's failure. 1t indi-
Gates that the banker and ticket agent
did not visit Hamburg at all 1t shows
him in the face. and that his brother, who
had banking establishment In liam
burg. was bound to go down In the
wreck. 1t was apparently in order to
Weinberger gave out that he was going
to Hamburg to raise money. The pass
which he obtained from the Packet
appeared on the passenger list were only
blind, It Is believed.
At the time of the failure, after
trance into the closed banking offices,
several documents were found, among
them bearing an unsigned cable mes
sage. which at the time seemed mex
"Wiii walt until Monday II no cash
sent everything lost"
.. That h. Ksr il now aPPears was
for money himself. The very day the
despatch was received Bernard Wein-
berger disappeared from this city.
The letter which has come into LAWYER
Jaworower's possession says that three
days after the sending OF the despatch
Karl Weinberger closed his place in
teriously as his brother. fhe police Of
that city. rRded the place, sold Off what
eSei could be found. and the "ofice" is
now used as n restaurant.
Z Is that the German Government
through the Hamburg police. will send
z passage ticket made out by Vein
osrger-that Is, as far as 5000 marks
Under the laws of Hamburg no one
can enter into the private banking or
..cket business without depositing 10000
marks. and that amount which had
been deposited by Karl Weinberger has
The east-side Hebrews having relatives
IN Germany. whom they desired to
bring out here. generally purchased their
. tickets through a peddler on the install
m men Plan The peddler having credit
order on the Hamburg Office. where it
was exchanged for a ticket. If the full
amount was not paid before the date
OF sailing. however. the ticket was can
celled.
On gcores Of occasions the peddlers
defaulted, and as a result many poor
people are now In Hamburg holding
Bernard Weinberger's order who cannot
get massage. All these will be sent over
by the police.
Y. When weinberger's office was seized
here several thousand dollars worth OF
railroad and steamship tickets were
found, all OF them being worth their face
value. They were given to Weinberger
to sell. but the companies did not trust
him until they had been secured by the
Fido,ty and Casualty Company. After
the bankers disappearance the different
companies wanted the Casualty Company
to pay up 1t will do SO as soon as the
: tickets found are deducted from the total
unaccounted for.