Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-29
DIsHoNOR IN OLD AGE.
). V. Waterman is Wanted i'll Wake
 field For En1bezzlement.

o. ". Waterman is Wanted i'll Wake
 field For En1bezzlement.
 Boston. July 29.-At the age of CT years and i'll the closing days of life that has been full of honors and TO- nance, the black shadow of disgrace has fallen upon Judge o. VI. Water man, soldier, diplomatist, jurist and man of affairs Judge Waterman has been missing from his home in Wake field since June 10, when he said to his daughter-in-law, laughingly: I'm go- ing away for month; I'm going to travel, and now don't you laugh at me, don't you laugh at me, if am back here within q week"
 Not an inkling of his fate has been obtained since that day. Now war rant has been issued on behalf of the town of Wakefield against Judge Wa terman, who was trustee of the Gray estate. The charge is fhe embezzIe- ment of $4,50O in United States gov ernment bonds which were in his charge as trustee. The police of Bos- ton, New York and Buffalo are search ing high and low for him.
 The private secretary of President s'Sam" Houston of the republic of Texas, later private secretary to Sen ator Houston of the United States; the friend of Webster, Calhoun, Clay and Tom" Benton, whose personal favor he enjoyed, and own cousin of Helen Hunt Jackson. the authoress; q direct descendant Of James Otis and General Glover of Revolutionary times, Water mans career has been one of honor, one of affairs and the climax ill the role of an alleged absconder mystifies friend and foe alike.
 Of strange and freakish physique, tall, large of form. yet with q shrill, piping, effeminate voice, hands as soft as q girls. and blind i'll one eye, his was q figure to attract attention any where. and yet since June 10, when ne left his sons home, lie has been as one swallowed up by the earth.
 His birth i'll Parimaribo, Dutch Guinana, on April B, 1884, is explained in that his parents, originally of Sa- lem, this state, were established there with Thomas Trask. il Salemite, who was United States consul there. Waterman was a schoolmate of J. Pierpont Morgan in. his childhood in 1 Boston. Later as the private secretary l of Sam Houston both before and af- ter the Mexican war, Judge Waterman did much to organize the state of l Texas. While Houston was in the l Senate Waterman was intimately con nected with Daniel Webster and the ] group of politicians and statesmen of whom Webster was the leader.
 It has been known that Waterman who was at one time member of the judiciary. had been devoting much of his time and substance to the stock 1 market in recent years. 1t is said thai I he was fully convinced that he was I destined to follow in the footsteps of J. F. Morgan as gnancier. He had l become interested in copper venture i'll Montana. into which he persistent l ly sank his income with the utmost conviction that the investment would prove a paying, one in the long run | Then came the crisis, and the former Judge disappeared.
 The recent report of his disappear ance first aroused the suspicious of tn. town of Wakefield, which has clain upon the Gray estate. of which Judge 1 Waterman was trustee. Then it wa' l discovered that the government bonds
 Which belonged to the estate ant
 which figure in the warrant for Water
 mans arrest. were missing. The au
 thorities in Washington were thel
 communicated with and reported tha
 the bonds had been transferred
 The police have only one clue to tn
 whereabouts of Judge Waterman. Ina
 clue points to the conclusion that Wa
 terman is in New York. According t
 the police, fellow townsman of Wa
 terman's saw him on Fall River boa
 a few days before July 4 with rougl
 looking man who called him Doctor.
 Waterman had boarded the boat il New York and left it at Fall River. Hi
 friends i'll Wakefield believe that h.
 has either committed suicide or Ina
 gone to South America. where he spen
 his childhood and where he has man.
 friends.