The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-10
QUEEN LAV|N|A IN JAIL.
Head of Holland Danes
Charged by Her Theatri-
cal Manager With
Embezzlement.

NEW YORK. March 10, 1s0o.-Miss
Lavinia H. Dempsey, Queen of the Hol-
land Danes, was held today in $500 bail
by Magistrate Brann in the Centre Street
Court, on a charge of grand larceny, pre-
ferred by Robert Troup, of this city, who
says she retained $500 of his money. She
was taken to the Tombs, no bondsman
being ready. She spent last night in a
police station cell.
Troup swears in his statement that he
saw an advertisement in a newspaper
On. Y. "Herald') in December last for a
treasurer for the Patriot Spy Company,
and he says he saw Miss Dempsey. She
wanted $500. They met in the office of
Charles Hoerlein, who, Troup says, re-
ported himself the agent and general man
ager of Miss Dempsey. Miss Dempsey, he
said, declared the play was then on the
road. TrouD says contract was signed
by which he was to be the treasurer. The
contract is marke Exhibit A" in the
complaint Troup says he offered a bond
of $1,000, but declares Miss Dempsey i'm
sisted on certified check for $780, which
he declares he gave on the U. S. Mortgage
and Trust Company December 5, to be
held by her as security. He said she gave
him a receipt. which he shows and is
marked Exhibit B''
Troup says he was summoned to Wash
ington December IA, when, he declares,
Miss Dempsey insisted on having $3.50 more
on the ground that at least $3.50 would be
in his hands at one time December 16,
he says, he gave her $3.50 more.
Troup declared that on January 20 he
wrote to her resigning his position and
asking for the return of his money. He
shows a copy of the letter. He declares
she answered accepting his resignation.
He then employed Lawyer ]. J. Rus
sell to talk to her.
Mr.. Russell makes a corroborative af-
f1davit in which he says he met Miss
Dempsey in the Marlborough Hotel, Feb
ruary Is, when she admitted receiving the
$3.50 and assured him it would be re-
turned. He says she said it was in a
New York bank.
A summons was procured two weeks
ago for Miss Dempsey, but she could not
be located Troup says. Ten days ago he
says he got letter fro her in which she
she could be found at No. 20 West 18th
Museum of Natural History. He says he
was referred to her lawyer at No. Al Park
place, but he said they found there was
no lawyer in the building. Then a war
rant was procured.
Miss Dempsey was not affected outward
ly when she appeared in the Centre street
court. She talked to several persons but
would not make any statement about her
case saying she wished to see her coun-
sci first.
TT was very mortifying for a queen to
find herself in a cell,'' she said as she
smiled, 'but I took it as philsophically
as possible"
Miss Dempsey insisted that the matter
would be straighten itself out She
denied emphatically having received the
money in person from Troup, but says
the whole transaction was in the hands
of her lawyer, Frederick House
At the request of Lawyer Martin of
Mr.. Houses and with the concurrence of
Lawyer Russell Magistrate Brann
adjourned the case till Tuesday next,
holding Miss Dempsey in $500 bail. Mr..
Martin tried to procure bail, but was un-
able to do SO and Miss Dempsey was
taken over the Bridge of Signs into a
Tombs cell.