New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
G.. WEIDENFELD SUSPENDED.
STOCK EXCHANGE COMMITTEE ACTS ON HIS 4L
LEGGED CONNECTION WITH PETER POWER CASE.
The Broker Salts TOR 100000 Damages dgan Secretary
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to the said measures or for the purpose of de-
pressing the market for the securities OF the
said companies, and the said defendant further
charged and published that the said plaintiff
instigated. promoted encouraged and particf-
pated in an action brought by one Peter Power
against the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany and procured the institution of an action
by one Bouden and one Chapman against the
Great Northern Railway Company, and that
said actions were brought not for the purpose
of legitimate and honest protection of the in
terest of the plaintiffs in said actions, but for
Interior and illegitimate purposes, or for the
wrongful eXtOrtion of money or other value as
a condition of peace, and that the said
known by the plaintiff. At the time the plaintiff
was member of the New-York Stock Exchange
in good standing, and had been member since
June, 1890. The said charges were made and
published by the defendant dishonesty. wilfully
maciously reckessly and in bad faith The
defendant had no knowledge whatsoever con-
charges, and had made inquiry with respect
thereto. and preferred the said charges without
any evidence to support them. The said charges
were and are wholly false and untrue, and were
known by the defendant to ne false, but were
made by the defendant for the purpose OF in
juring the plaintiff individually and MEM
ber of the Stock Exchange, and in all his social
and business relations. and the defendant fur
ther caused the fact that the charges were 50
made against the plaintiff to be widely pub
lished and commented upon in the daily press
of the city of New-York, where the plaintiff is
now and has for over twenty-five years past
transacted business.
IV-Thereby the plaintiff was injured in his
good name. reputation credit, business and 9TH
erwiSe to his damage in the sum of SJO0.000, for
which he demands Judgment. together with the
costs and disbursements of this action.
The complaint is signed by Herbert r. Linn
burger, plaintiffs attorney and Edward Lau-
terbach, NJ. H. Boutelle, counsel Mr.. Boutelle,
who, with Judge Lancaster acted for some time
as counsel in the West for Power, in associa ton
with George Alfred Lamb, in this city, said
yesterday that he and Judge Lancaster had
withdrawn from the when, the proper time
having arrived for the appearance of Power he
not produced; but that he had subsequently
re-entered the counsel for Mr.. Weiden-
field, when the latter interviewed. This interven-
ton permitted by Judge Amdon, in the
United States Circuit Court. sitting in ST. Paul,
but he subsequently dismissed both the original
bill and the bill in Intervention. An appeal was
taken by Mr.. Weidenfeld to the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals. and is still pending.
JUDGE AMIDON's DECISION.
In granting the Weidenfeld petition for inter-
Vention Judge Amidon said in part: The sec
ond feature of IIr WedenfeId's conduct that 1
have in mind is the fact that in bringing this
suit, and in its prosecution in the of Peter
Power, he has practicec imposition upon this
court. The third feature of Mr.. Weidenfed's s
conduct that / have in mind is the fact that he
has been guilty of grossly improper conduct in
obStructlng this cause before the examiner Tor
the purpose of covering up the original fraud
in bringing the suit in the name of mere
dummy. l do not think the evidence justiE-5
the belief. considering the relationship between
Mr. Weidenfeld and Mr. Lamb. and the fact
that Mr. Wedenfeld from month to month was
supplying funds for carrying on this litigation.
and that this shameless game of hide and seek
was being conducted in his own vicinity and
neighborhood. / do not think it is to be believed
he was ignorant of what was there done or
that he was not a party to il. 1t may be that
he did not direct each specific step that was
taken by Mr.. Lamb and Peter Power, who were
his instruments in carrying on this litigation
under the false cover of a dummy, but in doing
what they did they were endeavoring to cover
up and conceal that fraud. and they were simply
acting in the carrying out of the original pur-
pose to which Mr.. Wedenfeld was party and
he is morally responsible for what they did.
Mr. Weidenfeld was formerly a partner of
Thomas w Lawson. of Boston, in the firm of
Lawson. Weidenfeld & Co. now in liquidation