New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-03
FOR ALLEGED CONTEMPT or COURT
LEO AND CHARLES WISE CHARGED WITH MAXI
ING FALSE STATEN :NTs ABOUT THEIR
FINANCIAL. STANDING

rro ,xD CHARLES WISE CHARGED WITH MAXI
ING FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT THEIR
FINANCIAL. STANDING.
Hastings & Gleason. lawyers. yesterday asked Jus
tee Lawrence OF the supreme Court 10 puH'sn
usssrs Leo and Charles Wise FOR contempt % COURT
and asked that the defendants receive the full PEN
al,y imposed by law TIE application was sensa-
tlo,al In that the defeniants are members OF me
firm, of / 4 G. Wise CO.. one OF the manufacturers
~ shoes in this city which failed in september lh
causing a deal OF comment AMI adverse c''u''S'h
Tn. application for their punishment yesterday -
the result. OF their having qualified as sute'eS On
bond Of $500 which was given TO Herman }. Elly'
of No a2) Broadway. The firm OF l. X { W lss mas
be,n In operation over twenty five years. Up 10 l"s
f. was 4 partnership concern. Then II was '"o'''
nor,ted under the laws Of New-Jersey the w"
brothers owning the capital stock OF s-y'"'' Nv
firm WAS apparently doing good business ana II.
credit was good. In June. 1898. ooih Wchoe'S u
the firm In examination prior to 1us'HcH 80" "a
hand n 100 swore they were worth over SIV''""
.,cb Gear OF all liabilities. Leo Wise when eh'
srnined said he owned equity OF s'L'V alone ~
r,s, side real estate and Charles NSe 'l''el ''''
r.. owned the premises Nos. lls ana III E'dS' r'''
scven,h-st. which properly was worth slzo'V' anu
=, ,,h,cb there was A mortgage Of S2on' leaving III
.ouitv Of $500 Both brothers said that the' "e's
worth over 100000 above Liabilities
,f.or ,ustifvIrg on the bond. during the same
r,,r,b Iune 1893 Leopold Wise assigned his inter-
es. In his real estate. which was sad 20 oe w. al
xiS5 900 10 Samuel Goldenberg 70 Ipuuats 81 80.
iagsd lebt OF s6t geo. Mr. Gleason says '''e
80 Mise committed a gross FRAUD anu Sou' II
an Inc Court because he swofe that NIs u,S on
va, agcregate $4,000 when he was examiner -. -.
the bond and then assigned the propsbs en he he was
hove claim But Mr. Wise says that wheh Ne
-. rinnd on that point he did not mean 10 aus ia
that he was the sole owner OF 'he Ptvf,ts,, Nr
cnuse =, was a matte OF public record that ~,
CoIdenherg was part owner charles lSe' 80
he yos examined. claimed that he had no INC
owned $4,000 OF personality ana was Nors iod in
sso O0o When the defendants were eNa Ia
Nav last in supplementary proceedings u - ~
out tina, among the debts owirg oy tne mi
which they had made n mention durlhs tnT Nil
notion in Justification. was an aH'stu orc,-
~ simon Goldenber the Forty-seVenth 81 pss'p,
eTty I'm the amount OF S2o.c~. Tor money ,,o-t.
baye boon borrowed. ana that he held also u o.s
9aee on the property $4,000. simon Golnen, sc.
is OF he firm OF Godenberg Brothers q 20, oI and
largest manufacturing houses IN me W. ir,,,,ed
js Charles Wise's wife's uncle. Then. 100 !, ~,
ont ,ha, instead Of owing mere noit'. ~
Charles Wise the indorser or s'v~ W, ~ hsi
The company's paper. and also that Leo W r,sim
transferred his property 10 his wife on al o'' '
OF S23 0to. - HAVING i,s,i.
on September 25 three months after ha'lls ~, nv
fed 10 the extent o. $4,000 each. me Soi.ftS,.
being a foreign corporation. the brothers X. aea,-
v,itz AZ Hershfeld secure alta chmeats ash.Ss ~
ing siS 600 Of which one Tor s6.4SS was IN iano ~
~, rles Wise and the oher for xl.Os n taVo. -.
go Wise This action Mr.. Gleason says, Wa
picous OF itself in view OF their torsr "a cross
and Is TIE hest evidence. he claimed. OF a. a. ew.s
fraud perpetrated. shortly after the NH" w"
closed up, having failed for sn.~V ..,, ,h.rs
For the defence otto torwltH usnie" ''
was any attempt AT fraud or deception a., A.
Justice Lawrence said he would reserve HIS