The evening world., 1893-09-20
lis WEINBE RGER IN CANADA?
A Report that He Was Taken
There to Avoid Ares.
Lawyer Jaworowcr Has a Letter
Shedding New Light.

II was positively stated to-day by one
who elaine to have inside Information.
that Bernard Wcinbcrger, the east side
banker, is In Canada, whittier he was
taken by his friends to avoid possible
arrest in this city.
Herschdorfer, his brother-in-law and
manager, ia said to he in Canada. An
other brother-in-law Unger. also n
banker, whose place IL closed, is said
to have been seen in Montreal
In spite of these statements the house
where WeinberEer lived. 225 East Tenth
street, is still being watched by ward
detective. Mrs. Weinberger, with her
three children. IL living there. but Is too
Ill to see any one. 1t IL said there that
nothing is known of his whereabouts
a letter received in this city ycster-
day ana which is now In possession or
Lawyer Jaworower,. throws additional
light on Wcinberger's failure. 1t indi-
Gates that the banker and ticket agent
did not visit Hamburg at all 1t shows
that he knew at the time ruin stared
had "A banking establishment in Ham
burg. was bound to go down In the
! wreck. 1t was apparently In order, to
avoid the violence of his victims that
to Hamburg to raise money. The pass
which he obtained from the Packet
Company and the fact that his name
appeared on the passenger list was only
At the time of the. failure. after
LAWYER Jaworowce had forced an en-
trance into the closed banking offices
several documents were found among
them bearing an unsigned cable mes
sage, which at the time seemed mex
plicable. This is the way 1t read:
VIII wait until Monday. II no cash
| That message, IL now appears, was
sent by Karl Weinberger, the banker
Of Hamburg, who had evidently asked .s
despatch was received Bernard Vein
| berger disappeared from this city.
The letter which has come into lawyer
Jaworower's possession says that thrt
Karl Wernberger closed his place In
Hamburg and disappeared Just as mys.
teriously as his brother. The police OF
that city raided the place. sold on what.
now used as RESTAURANT
One piece OF intelligence will be re-
GGeived with Joy by the poor victims here ,e,rs
through the Hamburg police. will sent
! to this country every Immigrant holding
| a passage ticket made out by Wern
berger-that is, as far as 10000 mark,
Under the laws OF Hamburg. no on,
can, enter into the. private banking o.
..cket business without depositing 200
|
been deposited by Karl Hamburg ha
been seized.
The east last Hebrews having relative
in Germany, whom they desired t.
bring out here. generally purchased thei
tickets through peddler on the install
ment plan. The peddler having credi
with Weinberger at once received al
order on the Hamburg office. where 1
was exchanged for a ticket II the full
amount was not paid before the dat'
of sailing, however, the ticket was can
| celled.
on scores OF occasions the peddler
| defaulted, and as result many poo
people are now in Hamburg holding
BERNARD Weinberger's order who canno
get passage All these will be sent owe
by the police.
When Weinberger's office was seize
here several thousand dollars worth o
railroad and steamship tickets wer
found. all of them being worth their fac
value. They were given to Weinberge
to sell. but the companies did not trus
him until they had been secured by tn
Fidelity and Casualty Company. Ate
the bankers disappearance the dfferen
companies wanted the Casualty Compan
to pay up. 1t will do so as soon as tn
tickets found are deducted from the tota
unaccounted for