The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-01-10
COHEN MAY
Be BAILED.
Passaic County Man Offers
to Become His Se-
curity.
MRS. DlNGELsYED7's CAREER
Her Time Chiefly Occupied
With Want Ads Her
Landlady Says.

Efforts were this morning made to Sc.
cure the release on BAH OF Ralph Cohen,
the alleged New York broker. VINO was
arrested Wednesday IN conjunction with
Mrs. Ellen Dingelstedt, " OF No. el4 Riv
er street. Hoboken, on charge Of corr
spring to defraud the New Jersey Title
Guarantee and Trust Company of 5000.
Henry Nathan. of Paterson, appeared in
the First Criminal Court this morning
armed with letter from the Prosecutor
to Judge Blair, setting forth that he
knew Nathan to be owner of properties
lfencumbered in Paterson. ana that the
properties were worth more thar $780,
Cohen bail had been fixed at $500 and
Nathan had offered to go bail for him
Judge Blair had said he would approve
of the bail bonds offered if Mr.. Nathan
could produce a letter from the prosecut-
ing attorney of Passaic county certif ying
that he knew that Mr.. Nathan was the
owner of the property mentioned IN Pat
erson and that it was uneincumbered.
The application for Cohen's release was
stil being considered at noon.
The police are Investigating Cohen's
former record Chief Murphy said this
morning that ne was not yet in a position
to give out the result of his Investigation
Two letters were found in possession Of
Mrs Dingelstedt. One was addressed to
President Roosevelt and the other TO
secretary of State" Both denounced
the New York journal and Mr. Hearst
and enclosed clipping and cartoons from
the New York Journal protesting
against the sending by the United States
OF delegation to represent it at the cor
onation Of King Edward of England The
writer advocates the sending of both q
civic and military delegation. The letter
IS signed ALBERT Bennett. Summit ave-
nue.. Jersey City Heights, \. ]"
The police say the handwriting is ex-
aetly similar to Mrs. Dingelstedt's hand
writing.
The arrest yesterday of the woman
known as Mrs. West. or Mrs. Dinglestedt,
has awakened considerable interest in
Hoboken, where she lived. Mrs Dingle-
stedt occupied a furnished room at No.
Ga River street. that city.
Mrs. JuFgeneen, who keeps the board
fng hbuse, says she i glad mat her
bearder il gone.
Mrs Dihglestedt engaged q hall room in
the house on November last She told
Mrs. Jurgensen that she owned a tene-
ment house on Jersey City Heights. She
said she had had a quarrel with her
mother-in-law and they could not live in
the same house. She was out mcst Of the
time. keeping what che called business
enga genents'' When at home she was
Invariably engaged cutting advertisements
out of newspapers. She had a number
Of visitors. Two men besides Cohen
called frequently at the house. She went
out with each There was small man
with blonde hair who made numerous
calls. but Mrs Dinglestedt for some
reason. not explained, did not care to see
him. She told Mrs Jurgensen to inform
the man that she was out Of town for the
holidays.
A short time ago the attention Of the
TToboken police was called to number
Of want advertisements for persons
with capital TO invest in various enter
prises The advertisements We're inserted
IN the local papers by Mrs. Dinglestedt.
Detectives Weinthal and Fallon watched
the woman but could find nothing against
her.
Mrs. Jurgensen believes that Cohen,
who is accused of being Mrs. Dingles-
tedt's partner in the conspiracy, is inno-
cent she said that Cohen frequently
asked her whether she thought the Ding
lestedt woman was all right. The only
articles which Mrs. Dinglestedt left In
her room were an empty trunk, waist
and skirt