The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-10
FELIX DID HAVE $4,000,
TESTIMONY THAT HE RECEIVED
1T FROM SELIGMAN & MEYER
Little Doubt Now That the Fake wire
tappcrs Did Get the Best Thing Ever
very Much More Than That SAID 10
Have Gone From Him TO the Gamblers

Have Gone From Him 10 the Ganoiers
John f. Felix did really have $50 900 to
give to the overlapping" gang. according
to the story told by his brokers, Seligman
& Meyer. Mr. Sehgman said yesterday
that Mr. Felix did draw five sloOoo pli's
from Seligman 4 Meyer just before the
money was handed over to the fake wire
tappers in the brokers Office In the Broad
wav hotel where the swindle was COM
pleted
Wide circulation was given Yesterday
10 statement which was said to have been
made by Mrs. Felix at her home, 1913 Lex
ingtun avenue. In this statement she was
reported TO have said that since she married
the Champion Easy Mark fourteen years
ago, he had lost 81 600 600 in wildcat schemes
and in gambling
Mrs. Felix was represented in this state
ment as carefully avoiding the report that
she had attempted suicide when she heard
that her husband had lost the last $4,000
Of his and as saying that the whole SUB
iect was very painful" to her. Later IN
the day Mira. Felix refused to make any
statement at all Still later relative said
for her that everything she had been repre-
sented a. saving was untrue
All Of these conflicting utterances were
so much in harmony with the prevailing
course Of things Felix, that people around
Police Headquarters tossed up to ind out
which they should believe,
Commissioner McAdoo had before him
Yesterday Charles n. Villas manager Of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, and Daniel q. Jefiers
representative Of Wasserman Bros. in
tho hotel. After talking with them he
reiterated his formal statement that he
wanted to exonerate the Fifth Avenue
Hotel management and Wasserman
Bros from any completely in the swindle
which was worked on Folk. To-day MIR.
NcAdoo will have talk with the door
keeper at the Twentyfourh street en-
trance of the hotel and with tho special
policeman who was on duty while the game
was being played.
Mr. LETTERS. strangely enough showed
20 Commissioner McAdoo a letter from the
main office Of Wasserman Brothers stating
that John Eugene Felix was good for any
amount as a customer OF the house. The
cheerfulness with which Felix gave up his
s50.o 600 in the Wasserman Office, under the
circumstances of the existence of this letter.
seemed OF interest to the Commissioner
Felix however told the Commissioner
yesterday that he desired to take on him,
self any fun that might have been poked
at Mr.. McAdoo for believing that any man
could be fool enough to bet $4,000 on one
horse race in poolroom. Mr.. Felix said
that although he had gambled everywhere
and on almost everything. he had never
let any Of his money escape into a pool
room before. Mr. McAdoo's faith that
Felix was really as much of a simpleton as
represented By his own statement was
therefore regarded as justified
Mr. LETTERS promised the Commissioner
that the doors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
office % Was-errnan Bros should always
10 Iorkad in fiittirn aftpr huginess hours so
that silly suckers would not be hauled in
there hereafter.
Mr. McAdoo desired it to be known that
he was not responsible for the opinion that
Capt. O'Bren Of the Detective Bureau
really refused $4,000 a bribe from the
wirptappers on Tuesday. The Commls-
sioner merely wanted it understood that II
O'Bren were NJ crooked as some others are
/ believed TO have been there might have
I been S25 600 in a $50, 900 job for him
| Mr. Meyer Of Sehgman 4 Meyer told
! Commissioner McAdoo yesterday that when
I Folk the Foolish had drawn out his five
800 bills il occurred TO the firm that Felix
I was undoubtedly gambling again, and an
{ effort was made to get the money back
! Felix however, insisted that he wanted t.
/ buy real estate with the money. and that
/ anyway. 1t was none of the firms business
None Of the commercial agencies knows
! Mr. Felix either ns "A publisher las he is
described in the telephone directory, OF
/ as dealer in autoharps and zithers Ac-
I corCiingly, he has no commercial rating.
/ Judge Newburger yesterday held Williams
| and Toppin. indicted for fleeing Feli'
! out Of $4,000. in S25 600 bail each Assist
} ant District Attorney Miner represented x
the Court that third man, not yet in Gus
tody still had the $50 600 intact. and thai
I less than an aggregate bail Of $4,000 woulC
permit the prisoners to fee the jurisdiction
1 proftaby.