New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-25
FLOWER BAIL FORFEITED.
HE TOOK IN $4,000 900.
Theory That Doctor Committed
Suicide to -4UOid Trial.

Mrs Cornelia Storrs yesterday forfeited the
s23.ooO bonds which she had given for the ap-
pearance in court Of DR.. Richard c. Flower. DR..
Flower was TO be tried yesterday before Re
corder Golf in the Court OF General Sessions on
one OF the five indictments for grand larceny
against him. This Indictment was found on the
complaint Of Mrs. Belle Gray Taylor charging
him with the larceny of $500 He did not ap-
pear. and a bench warrant for his arrest
issued.
Ten or twelve days ago the District Attorneys
Office and John R. Dos Passos and Howe &
Hummel. Flowers counsel. discovered that DR..
Flower was missing. Letters from the offices of
his lawyers remained unanswered. When the
District Attorneys Office learned of his disap
pearance Assistant District Attorney Garvan, IN
charge Of the case. began a vigorous search for
him, but found no trace
Yesterday morning when the case was called
Mr.. Dos Passos Abraham Hummel and Mr..
Garvan were present. Mr. Caravan asked that
the case be called, as his office had information
that DR.. Flower had disappeared.
Mr.. Dos Passos made the same request We
shall have TO concur in the statement of the Dis
trict Attorney" he said. We have made
search for him. and have been unable 10 find
him. We do not know whether he is al owe
below ground in this city or elsewhere, ard
shall therefore have to submit 10 the direction
II the court. The District Attorney has been
y 7ry kind 70 us IN this matter. and owing 10
our investigation in the case and the fact that
cannot find the defendant ourselves although
his counsel We unable 10 answer ready"
Mr. Caravan then moved that bail be forfeited.
This Recorder GoT did, after the clerk had called
the names of Dr. Flower and Mrs. Storrs
Had DR.. Flower appeared in court he would
have been served with complaints in several
civ i'm
asgregating several thousand dollars a clerk
was present with the papers.
Although Mrs. Storrs is said 10 have lost more
than S3O0Oo0 through DR.. Flower. aside from
the 600 she informed the District Attorneys
office. through her brother-in-law that she still
had confidence in Dr. Flower Her brother-in-
law also said TO the District Attorney that Mrs.
Storrs had declared her intention 10 continue 70
aid the man long he continued 10 need
assistance. Mrs. Storrs. he said. was away for
few days. but would call the District Attor-
ney Immediately her return.
The idea that DR.. Flower may have committed
suicide rather than face trial has been suggested
Late in the afternoon Judgment was entered
in the County Clerks office against DIT. Flower
as principal. and Mrs. Storrs. surety, IN favor
OF the people Of the State Of New-York on five
forfeited bonds. Mrs. Storrs. who is the widow
OF Deputy Controller Storrs IS the owner Of Nos
301 and 3O3 Mulberry st and No. 49, 70 161
East One-hundred-an d-eghth-s
The five complainants against Or. Flower. one
for each Indictment, are Mrs. Belle Gray Taylor
Herbert A. Buttrick Alden Solmans. H. c
Woodruff and S. Treadwell Woolley. II is
charged that Or. Flower ioated bonds Of the
Arizona Eastern and Montana ore Develop
ment Mining Company after that company had
gone into liquidation. and asserted that the
company owned certain lands in the Northwest
that il did not. Two per cent month was
promised the investors This was paid for a
while. and then the company dropped out OF ex-
istence.
SubpPnas have been issued by the District
Attorneys Office for Justus Storrs Jules Flower
and the wives OF DR.. Flower and Jules Flower
10 learn. If possible when Or. Flower was last
in the city
Assistant District Attorney Minor said that
the amount Of money DR.. Flower had succeed
ed in getting from Credulous people was almost
beyond belief Through the Spentazuma Mining
Company he got S3Inep. through the Arizona
and Eastern Mining Company SjjoOoo through
the Blue Ridge Mining Company S4.attEst
through the Pan-American Mining and Smelt-
ing Company SlJOOcO through the Perrenates
Mining Company 10000 and through the
CriQues Mining Company S3OoOOo
At the Braender apartments, at the southwest
corner Of One-hundred- and second-st and Cen
trail Park West II was learned last night that
DR. Flower had moved into rooms there two
months ago with his family The family is still
there. but the doctor has been absent for nearly
a month. No one IN the house seems 10 have any
idea where he has gone. The family last night
10 see a reporter and sent word they had
nothing whatever TO say on the subject