New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-08
BATTER IN ELIAS DOORS.
THE NEGRESS ARRESTED.
She Is Found in Bed-Taken to
Police Headquarters.

After battering in the heavy oaken doors of
her handsome home at Central PARK West with
a crowhar. detectives hailed forth Hannah Elias.
the negress ia the Platt case. on q warrant
charging backman TWO hours before, John X.
Platt. her aged accuser. had signed the com
plant iu this criminal action after hour
conference with his lawyer, Lyman Z. Warren
and Assistant District Attorney Lord. Bundled
into a closed carriage, hustled through a throuy
which almost mobbed her and the detectives aC-
companying her. the woman was driven hastily
TO Police Headquarters Thence she was taken
to the Mercer-st. station. Her lawyer was not
present when she was arrested, 1T Police
Headquarters.
The papers in the civil suit were lot served
on her. Although the process servers acting for
Mr. Platts lawyers were there, they had had
order9 to wait until to-day before serving the
injunction. The arrest in this criminal action
supersedes the body attachment in the civil
suit.
The arrest itself was a comparatively tame
affair." but the circumstances surrounding il. au4
preceding it, We're dramatic.
After forcing the doors Detective Sergeaats
Fogarty and Flannery from the Central Office.
walked through the first floor. where the woman
Was not. Ascending 10 the second noor they
were met at the head Of the stairs by Kato. the
japanese butler suave as ever. though consid-
erabIy alarmed. He pointed the way to the Elias
woman's room. She abed with her baby
when the detectives entered.
I'VE a warrant for you said Fogarty
We'll. all right" she replied. coolly, IN so
with you; I've done nothing wrong I'm not
afraid"
Then why didn't you let US in, instead Of
making us break down the doors?"
Il didn't know just what to do. I'll go with
you only I've been pretty sick. and I'm going
to take my time dressing"
LEFT HER BABY WITH A MAID
She did. She eummoned the maid white
woman, with whom she left her baby Half an
hour later, she was dressed. but there elapsed
considerab BILE time before the carriage FOR which
Kato had been sent arrived. When 1t came, she
complacently descended the stairway Ser
geant Fogarty's arm, and walked through the
throng, which hooted and jcered at her, almost
mobbing her.
There is no doubt to her Through
heavy veil which she wore her skin unm:ts-
takably a yellow brown She is rather short
and stout. Her dress was Of dark material,
with white waist.
The warrant on which The negress was arrest
ed was issued by Magistrate Ommen last night,
after long conference by Platt. his lawyer.
and Assistant District Attorney Lord, at which
signed by Platt charged that the woman COM
mitted grand larceny by extorting 5000 from
the complainant in May of this year. 1t cited
Sections co. and DOB of the Penal Code.
Mr.. Warren, Mr. Platt's lawyer. Assistant
District Attorneys Lord and Kernochan and
Magistrate Ommen met at the Plaza Hotel soon
after D. m. They conferred there for time,
then walked to Mr. Platt's home. at No. I East
Fifty y-fourth-st. There Mr.. Lord, Mr. Warren
and Magistrate Ommen stayed until 1915. when
they left the house, 70 walk up Fifth-ave. De-
tectives had been summoned by telephone, mean
while.
At lilo Detectives Togarty and Flannery
from the Central ONCE, and Kerr and Walsh
from the West Sixty-eighth-st station, marched
nm the steps. not of the Elias house but of the
house next door, occupied by Richard Henry
Greene. a nephew of Andrew H Green. Be
fore they had rung the bell, however. they dis
covered .heir mistake and hastily scampered
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