The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-30
WHO DAVID LAMAR is.
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David Lamar drives fast horses on the
| Speedway and has an office at 30 Broad
street His great and good friend for sew
eral years has been James r. Keene, whose
ally and aasooiate in many transaction
he has been.
So far as In known, Mr.. Lamar is not
indigenous to the soil of Manhattan Island.
| II is said that he was once a resident OF
the State Of Georgia. In 1889 and 1890
a man who looked very much like David
Lamar lived in Omaha and called himself
| David H. Lewis Mr. Lewis carried on
small stationers business and sold adj
vertising space on desk blotters on the
side Somebody attached Mr.. Lewss Office
| furniture. Mr.. Lewis brought suit to
replevin it and retained the Omaha law
firm of Gregory. Day Day.
On Aug 10, 1902, George A. Day. Of the
firm of Gregory, Day h Day, happened
to be at the Brighton Beach track. In an
affidavit which Mr.. Day subsequently made
he swore that he saw David Fl. Lewis
at the Brighton Beach track on that day
and pointed him out to Robert A. Pinker-
ton, who told Day that the man he pointed
out as Lew is was known in New York as
David Lamar
This AFFIDAVIT among others, was pre-
sented 70 the Chanoery Court Of New Jer-
sey, sitting at Trenton, in the suit brought
by j. Aspinwal Hodge. Bernard Smith
Bernard Smith was David Lamar's brother
law on the 9TH Of July LAST and william
H. Curtiss, against the United States Steel
Corporation and others, to prevent the
steel company from retiring it's preferred
stock and issuing $3.50 100000 of bonds M
stead This suit was begun in July, 1902.
The plaintiffs in this case introduced
among other sffidavits, that Of James Fl.
Lancaster, purporting TO be an authority
on the steel trade and doing business at
that time at ia Liberty street Lancaster
swore that all the property the United
States Steel Corporation owned was not
worth more than 0O,OO0,0OO.
The Hodge suit. as it was Familiarity
called. got along very nicely until Aug
%, 1902, when certain other affiavits were
presented in the Chancery Court at Tren-
| Ton One Of these affidavits was that of
| George A. Day, referred to above. An
! other was that Of Joseph f. Corrigan, an
! attorney at law employed in the Office of
| rigan's affidavit was even more unkind to
| David Lamar than Mr. Days
Among other things 1t ntained Lam
casters story OF how he happened to get
mixed up in the Hodge suit. According to
| COrrgan, Lancaster walked into the Office
| of Guthrie, Cravath & Henderson one day.
and told Mr. Guthrie and Mr.. Corrigan that
| he had become tired Of masquerading as an
| expert in the steel trade, and that he wanted
| TO tell the truth about his connection with
the Hodge suit.
ThereTpon, he said that about all ghe
l NJ ha atnal traIa 1rI,
| such knowledge as he obtained from
running an automobile shop at ia Liberty
| street In that shop he employed M one
| time Peter Power, the dummy plaintiff
| in the suit TO prevent the merger of the
| Northern Pacific and Great Northern rail-
roads under the management OF the North
| ern Securities Company.
According to Corrigan's affidavit, Lam
| caster went on TO say that early in July,
| 1902, a messenger from a certain law Office
! came to his shop and told him that the
| law yer for whom he was employed wanted
| TO see Lancaster. Lancaster found In the
| law yer's office, besides the lawyer, David
| Lamar Lamar, according to the Ccrrigan
| AFFIDAVIT told Lancaster that he wanted him
| to swear to certain things regarding the
| United States Steel Corporation. but didn't
| saw for what purpose the affidavit was to
be used He offered Lancaster according
| to the affidavit, 800 for his swear.
Lancaster promptly made affidavit to
| the effect that the United States Steel Cor
| poration's property was not worth more
| than $500, 600 900. Later, Lamar wanted
| another affidavit, for which he offered to paw
LA ncaster, according to Corrigan, $500
| Lancaster was Utmost persuaded to quit
| the automobile business and start an aft
| davit factory.
Finally, however, he found out, maybe
| through young Mr.. Peter Power, what La
| mar was doing with all these affidavits, and
I - hiUlar terms for hn f,It
| Az a result Of the strike, Lamar promised
| to give to Lancaster, according to the
| Corrigan affidavit, $3.50 week and $4,000
when the suit was settled, which, Lamar
declared, according to Corrigan, would
| not be later than Nov /, 1902
This arrangement was evidently Salts
| factory TO Lancaster for time. Why he
| became dissatisfied doesn't appear in the
affidavits, but it may have been because
Lamar didn't fulfil his part Of the contract,
At any rate, Lamar offered Lancaster $500
! for a general release, which Lancaster
signed. According to the CorriBan Aft
| davit, Lancaster said that Lamar paid part
| of this amount by his own check and his
attorney paid the rest.
But that was not Mr.. lamar first ex-
| perience in financiering. or his last Before
! IN. Third Avenue Railroad was acquired
| by the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
! pany, Mr.. Lamar and Mr.. keene were inter-
| ested I'm speculation in its stock IL Ia also
asserted that, together they made great
| deal Of money In United States Leather
| common.
Shortly before the finances Of Henry
Hart, the then venerable President of the
| Third Avenue road, got all tangled up.
David Lamar sold puts" on Third avenue
! stock, the loss on which he did not Tor
time make good. Later he announced
that he had no puts" on the stock left
| outstanding.
When Mr. Hart had to 20 to the money
| lenders, he borrowed S4,OOO,00O of J: $,
Bache h Co, on ~ 800 shares OF Third
! Avenue stock and TOO shares Of Pa cifc