The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-12
MISGUIDED GUIDES,
The United States Infor-
nation & Guide Com
pany in Trouble
Over Money.
MANY JERsEYMEN INTERESTED
The Stockholders of This State in
No Way Involved in the
Complications
MANY JERsEYMEN INTERESTED


papers this morning of the suit brought
against the United States Guide and In.
formation Company, caused much COM.
rnent in the city this morning owing to
| the many well known and prominent Jer-.
seymen who were connected with the con-
cern. The company was organized in
1886 under the laws of this State The
First Board of Directors We're :--Edward
j. Anderson, Supervisor of the State
Prison; ex-Congressman George B. F'iel..
| der, ex-Judge William T. Hoffrrann, ex-.
Police Justice David B. Lawrence, Law
renee Mott, John Wahl Queen, Richard b.
Reading of Trenton fame, Colonel John j .
Toffey and Charles B. Thurston Mr..
Thurston was President, Mr.. Mott, Secre-
tary, and Colonel Toffey Treasurer. The
company purchased the plan of the
Marschall, paying him in stock. The Jer-
sey directors and stockholders locked the
plan over and found that it would require
at least 100000 to put it into successful
operation. They did not see their way
clear to advance that sum and SO told
Marchall Soon after Marschall said that
ne would produce man who would put
up the 100000 provided he was made Pres
1dent of the concern and his friends a ma.
Jority of the directors. This was agreed
to, and large number of the Jerseymen
resigned as members of the Board of
Directors. The man who was produced
by Marschall was Alfred r. Page counsel
to a member of the New York Excise
Board.
| saw Mr.. Thurston this morning at his
office in the First National Bank Build
ing, and he related the facts OF the or
2anlZdtiOn nf he
above.
Il resigned as a director of the COM
pany the first week in January, said Mr.
Thurston. when Mr. Page came in.
have had nothing to do with the manage
ment of the company since then I don't
believe Page put up the amount Of money
ne was to. Any rate, Mr.. Toffey was
treasurer of the company"
l also met Colonel Toffey.
Sometime ago we organized that com.
pahy ana was made treasurer. Mr..
Shas. B- ihurston was elected president
NOT long after we started it this fellow
Marschall came to US and said that he
knew a Mr.. Page of New York. who
would put 100000 into the company if he
could control the Board of Directors
That was satisfactory and Page was
elected president. He after a long tirne.
dilly dallying and promising paid in Sc. 900
and we were treated to another course of
excuses and delays. Mr. Thurston and /
became so tired and disguised of the
whole thing that we withdrew from the,
company last February. That is all the
connection we had with it,
The company has no debts to speak of
and If not for the personal suit begun
the company would be all right, several
of the stockholders said this morning
but the commencement of the suit will
kill it,
Count Marschall is well known in Jer-
sey City. He lived at Taylor's Hotel for
some time and there came into promi-
nence through a whipping he got from
Colonel Diller, who recently died at the
hotel.
He first came into prominence in New
YORK when his reputed sister who then
called herself Countess Anna Maria
Marschall, married ]. Harvey ConnelI, d
wealthy sugar broker OF Brooklyn. Mr.
ana fdr sn1a Mps e4nne i remained man and wife
spent most of her time with Ernest Vic-
tor, who called himself count. Then Con-
nell got the marriage annulled
About the middle OF March, 1886 Mary
Elias sued Marschall for breach of prom.
ise and seduction. The girl had been a
ssryans car street IN 4arsahals a Iat >; at Ne Log
a verdict OF 900 in the City Court on
March Is, 1895, Chief Justice Eh1lich pre-
siding.
While this suit was pending another
woman, Christina Smith, was suing
Marschall for $4,000 for breach Of prom
Use, ard alleged that he had GOT So 900
called "The Mocha,'' at Third avenue
and Thirty-third street which he had
started with money advanced by Con.
nell. A Deputy Sheriff who went to No.
1877 East Fiftieth street after Marschall
in January, 1895, with an order of ar-
rest in the Smith case was locked in q
room While Marscflall escaped over d
back fence. Then it was said that Mar
schaH's headquarters were at Taylor's
Hotel, where he was trying to organize
was 70 nav ogasd Maser wqrh
Street Jail, New York, on April a 1896,
for failing to pay the $1,000 Judgment I'd
p, when he was released on his plea that
he was unable to pay the Judgment and
that his health was impaired
Marschall is now about thirty-eighs
TO this country in 1892, with the Countess.
When the Mary Elias case was tried
Anna Maria Marschall said that her
fathers name was Hoebel. ldarschall
has gone by the name of Victor Karl
Krebs.
John Guittiene, who said he was Mayor
to this country, put $1,000 in Marschall's
Mocha coffee house and then Had Mar
schall arrested in a civil suit. Ndarschall
was in jail thirty-fiye days and was re-
leased on January 22 1885, compromise
having been effected.
Marschall was at one time Vice Presi.
dent of the Old Colony Benefit Order He
hired ten collectors and took $3.50 from
each as a deposit With this money he
went to Canada. 1t is said that Connell
settled this case for him.
In Broker Connells suit to annuI the
marriage with Anna Maria N[arschalI,
which marriage was the result of per-
sonaP' advertisement. Connell alleged that
lice that Marschall was arrested in
Europe for swindling men, using women
as decoys.
THIRTEENTH STREET V[ADUOI'
There is loud complaint about the
guard railing on the Thirteenth street
viaduct. 1t is SO fragile that child
could push it over. Some fine day there