The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-23
PERRY TIFFANY ARRESTED.
He Was Accused Of Giving a Bad
Check at Rectorls ID Months Ago.

New York Evening SUM
Perry TIFFANY, who mas cut a swain III
rested Friday by Detective Sergeants
Armstrong and Reidv ON an eighteen
month-old warrant charging hum with oD=
/ arraigned in Jefferson Market police court
and narrowly escaped spending "A nlS-J
in the court prison. Magistrate Pool re-
ing firm to become Tiffa ny'S bcndSman-
but finally -paroled the prisoner or h4'
The arrest was made in Madison Square
A Armstrong and Reidy had been detailed
to keep watch around the grand stand
erected tor the police parade IhaL no
crooks might try to get TOO close 10 the
group OF visiting chiefs of. police review
ing the parade. Someone happened 10
point out Perry Tiffany TO them and to
make some remark about him. The de-
tectives remembered that they had once
charge. 20 they arrested him. lie was
taken to police headquarters and search
/ be found and the detectives concluded
I that possibly &c had been Cancelled. The
firm of Essner x Rector, proprietors of
I the Long Acre square restaurant, were
the cOmplainautS. Carl G.. Essner .swOre
out the warrant. but in the interval EsS-
ner has himself left the jurisdiction of
American courts and be was spoken II
before Magistrate Pool as a defaUIter.
Mr., Tiffany WAS taken from headqudr-
him uld not be found in either place,
and Magistrate Pool and Chief Clerk De
TQOFeST wanted 10 know WHY Sucu papers
were lost at ponce headquarters. ArrH-
strong and Reidy said that Essner, the
complainant of record, was i'm Europe
and himself a defaulter; that Charles T.
Rector, one Of the Omplaining firm. " as
anxious to withdraw the complaint. and
that The case was eighteen months old.
All That remained, they said, was TO dis
miss the charge.
- think not" said the magistrate. Il
always make a thorough examination
when detectEes are so anxious TO have
prisoner discharged. Wen go right into
the circumstances now Can't en-
plalnant be brought here on an attac =
ment2'
The detectives did not appear anxious
TO serve an attachment and again moved
that the matter be dismissed, but the
magistrate kept right on. Mr.. Rector
testified that he did not know Tiffany,
1893 the prisoner had consumed food and
wine worth $3.50 in his restaurant. that
IiHany nad induced Mr.. tssner to acc~ot
a check Tor 80; that Essner gave Tiffany
50 tor the draft and that Tiffany then
forgot about sSe bill and walked of with
che money The check was drawn on the
KuickerbOczer Trust company to the or
der O. EsSner & Rector. Mr.. Rector said.
II was written on blank form the
words ''knickerbOckeT Trust company
being In writing 1t came back to
restaurant firm marked No funds
Magistrate Pool remarked that if the
absent ESsner could not testify to facts
showing the preparation of a crime then
perhaps the cashier of the Knickerbocker
, rust company COQlu. he decided 70 hold
the prisoner in $500 bail for examination
on Mon day morning. For a time it
looked as though the detectives prisoner
would spend night in as cell His cap
tors sCurried around without avail. trs--
ing TO get bOndSman. Finally they in
trOduced Abe Levy TO the prisoner, and
Lawyer Levy agreed to. ask the mag >
trate to parole Mr. Tiffany in his Gus
tpdy. The magistrate objected that he
never a-,'led prisoners lu an attorney 5
charge. bC- he finally decided to release
TIFFANY on his own promise TO be in court
Monday.
His absence ia Europe and South Amer
lea was given as the reason Tiffany had
not been arrested before. In court ne
spoke only to say that he hoped his fam
lily would not hear of his arrest.
FERRY Iluany' S eEtTaVag anceS have led
MIN into bankruptcy He Is a. grandson
OF Commodore Perry Of The United States
navy ana IS related to some of the most
prominent families I'm the eastern part Of
the United States in 1899 he married
Miss Marie HaVemeyeT- ada tighter Of. the
late Theodore A HaVemCyer They have
little daughter There has been talk
OF divorce. Mr.. Tiffany is now living In
bachelor apartments al 152 Madison ave
nue..
In September, 1899. Perry Tiffany was
arrested tor striking a AMMAN 4 wear
later Hoboken bans secured "a -iudgmc0t
Tor &9-l0 against him on An unpaid uote
Last December he filed r. petition in ba nix
ruptcy. with liabilities Of $50 Sg7 and nom
in1l assets of S66.200 Mrs. Tufauv is
quite wealthy.