The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-12
WOMAN IN CHECK CASE.
ARRESTED BROKER SAYS JENNIE
RITEgPUT UP THE JON.
n, Confessed Under the ''rhirty-third DeErce,"
bu, Tic declares That Hts Confession was
r,,.e woman Not Found - Meanwhile n
neatly Tnngie IL Left In wall street.

..,,lo,cd Exchange, who confessed on Monday,
.ccording to tho police, that he had forged the
.r,inratlon OF the Northside Bank of Brooklyn
go n worthless check for B1S, 1880, which he
u,,crcd. denies now that he is guilty and says
40 confession was extorted from him. In tho
Centre street Police Court yesterday his lawyer,
Herman Joseph, asked that tho case BIO adj
,oprnrl until this afternoon ut 900 o'clock.
that he might have timo TO summon witnesses
tho would be able to prove his clients inno-
cence. -
y. Lawrence of William lIawlcy & Co...
,ho firm that sold Gocrdes 100 Consolidated
Gas for his bad check, objected. lie told tho
NoeIstrato that tho 100 shares of stock were
died up in the hands of Louis +. Mendham, who
had lent Gocrdcs $4,000 on them, and that
Hnwlcy e Co. had $1s,112.5O at stake. lie
wanted tho case disposed OF at once in order
that his firm might secure q release of the stock.
Mr.. Joseph renewed his request for an adjourn
ment. In doing so he said:
From what l know of tho case I am positive
that wo shall be able to establish our innocence
10 your IIonor's entire satisfaction. To do
this, however. we must have a reasonable time
m which to prepare our case. Mr.. Goerdes Is
an innocent party to this transaction and re-
srets 1t as much az any one. II no can do any
thing to assist these gentlemen to get back their
stock he will be only too glad to do So"
One feature of the tanglo is that Zimmerman
a Forshay, from whom Goerdes tried to buy
rold with tho $4,000 he borrowed from Mend
ham on the stock. retain possession Of Mend
hams $4,000 certified check, 30 that Mend
ham. to protect himself, hangs on to the stock.
The Magistrate asked II Zimmerman Dc For
uhAy were willing to give up the check.
mot unless we are properly secured against
all possible contingencies" said Mr.. Scully,
reprcsenting that firm. IF we are furnished
with a proper indemnity bond by Hawley 81
20. We will turn over the check as may be d.
rected."
I'VE haven't anything to do with thinner
mann & Forshay in this NATTER exclaimed
Mr. Hawley. What we want is our stock. and
Tho magistrate didn't purpose to get mixed
up in any controversy between the brokers, SO
10 adjourned the. case until $50 o'clock this
afternoon. He told tho brokers that they must
settle their differences, between themselves:
Mr. Mendham suggested. that If Goerdes would
release all claim to his check. held by thinner
mann & Forshay, aud the latter firm would
turn over tho check to him, Mendham, he
would give back to Hawley s. Co. their 100
This proposition seemed to please every ono
unit! it was learned that the Endorsement of
CHECK dS; <. t was on tn the 1 BACK Of f the check tn held pIiS by
E%i9msrmann 4 fosrsshay. Sosrdes,s laywor
nSa aeF Therefo ans' ziGmerm mr g. T Forshay'a
representative would not accept the release Of
Goerdes alone for that check e ri No one n, S yOlTn,
to the check, and so all parties left the court
with the tangle still tangled.
Before Goerdcs was taken to tho Tombs, to
which ho was remsnded, he SAID to q SUN re-
porter: .o.,, p,,,. uos,,..u ,o..
on Monday afternoon l was in a highly nervous
state. AS. soon as l got there McCluskey and
out OF me. They worked away for awhile, and
/ tried to tell them tho truth, which was that in
all this matter 1 acted simply as the agent for
locked dn me- in MAJ Z cell. shorty after l Was locked
consciousness I Was ordered to 60 Upstairs
again. Lawrence and Hswley were there.
Ms assInn' R began In poq bTstsEir @e fEsin f fST q sNn,
and Hawley and. also McCluskey began talking
to me: They said knew What sta they could Lido do
"McCiusky, in so many words, said that I
back to the eslI,, After a little / was brought
worked what / suppose is commonly called the
thirty-third degree. As l said, l was hysteri-
cal. and, finally, when WAS again assured that
when 1 was left to infer that. Il 1 made a con-
fession, I would not be prosecuted. l made up
way. ! might as well shield the principal, whose
dupe l was, because that principal is a woman;
IhereuPon confessed and was promptly locked
,, Vow purpose e dght this thing as long as
snssG false IS an" Th s' truth 1T n abSae the T WSoi S0 irsssSs,
way Cafe in Twenty. eighth street, just west of
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, a woman who after.
ward told me her name was Jennie. Riyes. She
said she was married and lived In Brooklyn.
1t vas not difficult to become better acquaint-
ed with the woman. l met her several times
after that by appointment. She learned that l
was a broker and asked me to speculate for
her. She dressed well, wore diamonds, looked
Ike a spaniard, and seemed to have plenty of
money.
bions for her in buying and selling stocks and
made some money out OF the transactions;
me she lived in De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn.
some time after she gave me that address she
1Sid me che had moved to the Hotel Margaret.
quest that l buy for her some Consolidated Gas
stock when could buy 1t right. She said she
was gong away to Cuba and wanted to make u
pernanen Investment.
oo nj watched e the market. and on last Friday
and she told me TO buy 100 shares Of the stock,
and That she would give me her check with
on Satn to pay for it; gave lawrence the order
ipg the woman, having been informed by mo
mat the certificate for the stock would be de.
il front ." Of N thS cc;nso mst @d G * fhpRS,n'%sShn s
banded me her check for $ls, 1880; drawn on
y had not been certified. and gave It back to
PEI. with directions to have it certified and
r Ulnss Il i r S%Ski You t% will Will r Sai% thst ! iaId LAM RiT,
this fact. ''p0F'0u 10 nave S"'a 'nN' '0io I'LL
ADont l O'Clock the woman returned. i
was Warrington her In front OF the Exchange.
she gave me he check, properly certified. as
~supposed, and tho rest of the transaction you
know. After she FIRST directed me to buy tho
gas stock she concluded that she would rather
taEe spanish gold to Cuba, and she told mo
the would rather l bought that for her than
she stock. told her she would better buy the
btOcR anyway, as she plight make IL little
money by buying and selling, and then she
Soula buy, the gold aftcrward and take her
proht; do not care to say anything. at pres
en- about putting dp the stock with Mendham
~ about my dealings with Zimmerman. That
rxil he Strengthened out in court. | do want
10 say however, that the so-oalled bogus check
valisc.
I make this statement because my wife
zane 10 see mo this morning. and to her ] told
NE truth. When she heard the whole story
ans n gay, me her forgiveness for all that ! had
sonc. therefore | decided no longer TO shield
ny ~ woman, other than my wife, but TO make u
''19h breast OF the whole thing"
wpph ~'iocrdcs, when he was arrested, were
rUNhG 'orne letters, evidently from an actress,
NHHo S!tHci herself Eulalia. The show with
,nll,li The woman IL travelling has been through
ttne vest and south, and'ncNt week, 30 tho let.