The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29
shadow BRAKER'ARRESTED
AFTER SERVICE or SUBPOENA m
q ANORY.vREELAND CASE.

sleuth aayy He Was Employee Merely u
Point Ou, Braker 70 Precess 0erveI
-PhiIbin Has Tim Arrested In I3raker'v
Tracks,. n. keene Not Vet Served
Henry j. Braker, president OF the b. J.
Baker Company. dealers In castor oil anc
other lubricants at 100 William street. VA
served on Friday afternoon with q SUBJ
pBna TO appear before Magisv ate Barlow
~ chambers OF the Centre street police
court on next Wednesday aud give testi-
mony In the criminal, libel sction OF WI
liam N. Amory against President, b. II
vreeland Of the Interurban Railway Com
pany. Mr. Braker 10 the client Of Eugene
A. Philbin In prospective OWL suit TO b
brought against tho Metropolitan Street
Railway Company. Mr.. Philbin u the
authority for the statement that Mr.. Braker
is a stakeholder In the company.
1t is reported that Mr.. Braker spas upon
the subpoena when IL was handed TO him
In front OF the building In which he has an
Office Whether that DO true or not, 1t Is
fact that. shortly after the subpoena was
served. he called upon Mr.. Philbin and
told him that he (Braker) had been much
annoyedfor day or two by being shadowed
by mon whom he supposed TO be private
detectives employed by the Metro polita q
Street Railway. one Of whom was ne ar
by when the subpoena was served on him
Mr.. Braker wanted Mr.. Phibln to do some
thing TO have the shadowing business
stopped. -
Mr.. Philbin told Inspector McClusky
and the inspector put Detective Sergeant
McNaucht at Mr., Phiibin's DISPOSAL
McNaught told Braker, q short time after
the subpoena had been served, to leave
his off,e,e and walk 10 n building in Maiden
a. -, ii ..I...-,I
,ahe mi n'aAei ". So Hno W ou
by two men, one OF whom no identineo
TO Mcknight on the way a. one OF the men
who had been following him for a dsy or
two Thereunon. McNauoht .rr..,sd the
man David Weller an srnlovss Of ths
' Da'iu "ens., ~ p W..
was looked up at Police Headquarters for
the night and vas arraisned befors MaCis-
ra,., po,J In ,h. Ca, M ., r.., r,ol;oa c-,,,v+
an,o. ~ n. ~. W.. ..s,.,,o S 49, ~
ye'efosy' onAeeC 1"n vioA'ms se%"n
misdemeanor to annoy . psr.on.
Mr. RraLe, and NJ pbilhin x,.,r. m hand
-" -,.... p-,.S 80 -
70 PIess .he Company. DsseI 'oor ne .ne
Thirty fifth street. . big apart ment house
which he is said 70 own. he was directed
by MIR. Philbin TO tell how he had been
shaaowed and Braker SAID:
Il have no, iceI persocs folio wing mo
whichever I wen, for he last Two or Three
days. When even my neightors 10 Iced
L Iecame annoyed. Finally, my counsel.
Mr.. Philbin, secured the services OF Ds co
tive McNaughi who came o my otace yes
eriay. and bearing my 6 DRY, told ms 10
walk from NV offsce building 10 Maiden
Lane. while he observed II was being fol-
loved. McNauehl learned thai two men
had followed me and We 70 urned 10 the
bui ding In which / have an office. Al the
entrance we saw , his man Weller. whom l
!de.. ified as being QUE Of hose who followed
me for a day or Wo. aud he was arres eli 8
In answer 10 cues ions the wi uess eaid
,ha. he fi,s; noticed Weller on " edLesday
or THURSDAY. hal he mad neyer spoken 10
he mar. and ,hai the espionace had become
very ANNOYING. Williain Clssson. a aaIes-
man empIoye6 In A shop oppo.f The buid-
ing In which Braker has his ofice. testified
that he had seen Two men s andine In front
Of the store where be IL employed on Thur
day nisb. Whsn Mr. Braker came out
lowed hin.
-On Friday said Giasson, Il saw Mr..
Braker enter his once building and this
man Weller was about one hundred feet In
front Of. him. When Braker went into
the building Weller crossed the street and
had talk with another man who had walked
along on the opposite side Of the str ct -
Dr.ks AXE, that he va; !. being shadowed and
Weller. when asked what hs had to say.
replied that he had been directed by his