The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-22
GREEN ESTATE ALSO SUFFERS
PURSUIT or ANDREWS IN THE
HANDS or PRIVATE DETECTIVES.
Mr. Green Was Trustee for baroness Ray
mond Scilllere, Formerly Mrs. Liver
more - Open Allegations Now OF
Crime Against His nrdentiai Man.

Crime Against His CONFIDENTIAL Man.
/ What has become Of Lyman S. Andrews
and how much he stole in his capacity
| Of confidential agent Of the late Andrew
II. Green are things as yet unknown. II
was learned yesterday, however. from
sources close to those most Interested in the
! disappearance of Andrews, that the loss 70
the estate Of William b. Ogden is likely
to be more than 800 600 that the estate
Of Mr.. Green himself is involved 20 a de-
| gree unknown and that the loss Of books
and papers which Andrews took with him
or concealed probably will cause tangle
in the conduct of other estates Mr. Green
was in charge OF the estates Of Samuel j. TIL
den. of Anna Ottcndorfer and OF William
| O'Brien and John O'Bnen. the banker.
brothers, and was private trustee for
Baroness Raymond Seiliere. who was Mrs.
Charles f. Livermore of this city The
nlden and 0ttendorfer estates, it Ia said,
have been settled up.
The discovery of Andrews's wrongdoing
was made 10y Albert Henschel, a lawyer,
who was with Mr.. Green for many years.
Since Mr. Green's death he has been acting
as attorney for the Green and Mariana
Ogden estates Mr.. Henschel returned
from Europe few weeks ago. One OF his
chief duties was attending TO the opening
Of streets in the tracts owned by the VIII
liam b. Ogden estate While engaged in
a proceeding for street opening he learned
that n $4,000 tax on great plat in The
Bronx had never been paid. although he
knew that the estate had been charged
with it.
Before this the trustee of the W. b. Ogden
estate. Edwin b. Sheldon. who succeeded
Mr.. Green. had called for an accounting
of the trusts reposed in Mr.. Green. MIR.
Shedon's attorney. Daniel Seymour, had
been in conference with Andrews about the
Ogden estate for several weeks, asking him
for certain information contained in the
books and papers held by Andrews. An
drews became slower in his answers plead
ing that much of his time was taken UP In
mining enterprise
On Saturday, Dec. II, Mr.. Seymour tele-
phoned 10 Andrews's Office, at AZ Broad
way. and was told that Andrews was not
there. As matter of fact, Andrews was
there nearly all day. He was there until
g55 p. NJ, when he left the building with
W. Halsey his partner in the Popocata
petl Mining Company. There is no trace Of
Andrews since that night. He was not
seen moving anything out Of his Office, but
he might have taken away the books and
papers in u satchel by making several
trips.
Just after Christmas Mr.. Seymour be-
came certain that Andrews had gone
He went 70 the agents office and with
the help OF GOLDSMITH opened the three
safes supposed TO contain the papers Of the
W. Is Ogden estate. Two of them were
empty and. the other contained nothing
but records no old that they are OF no use
to investigators.
Across the halls there is another vacant
suite of offices, those of the Popocatapetl
Mining Company. which had sulphur mines
in Mexico. The offices were hired by Capt.
Charles Holt. but he went away three
months ago and II was said that he was i'll
Mexico Andrews was in tho mining office
every day after that and appeared TO be- in
full charge with j. W Halsey working
under his direction The Office seemed
to do little business and as it could not pay
its rent. the tenants were dispossessed last
Tuesday Their safe was taken away on
Thursday by the safe company, which had
a chattcl mort gage and there ia nothing left
but some dismantled water tanks
Holt and Andrews were Interested also
in the Hamilton Storage Warehouse, In
Harlem. Andrews being treasurer and
general manager No one could be found
yesterday who could speak for the ware
house people At the address given for
Helsey in the city directory Il was said
that he had never lived there. Hollis house,
at II West 2sth street. was dark and APP
parently empty.
Col Saokott OF the firm OF Sackett a.
McQuaid. attorneys for the trustees Of the
Green estate. said at Rye. n. Y. last night:
There is no question whatever that
crime has been committed. Three
estates-those of William b Ogdea, his
wife. Mariana Ogden. and Andrew H.
Green--are short considerable amounts
cannot say definitely how much. as the
investigation has not proceeded far enough.
Since Mr.. Green death Andrews has
collected sIBO 900 for tho Ogden estate
alone The Green estate IL inventoried at
81 COO OoO. Of which little more thnn half
Is personal
All the lawyers in the case who would
talk about it yesterday said they believed
that the estates were in perfect share at
the time OF Andrew H. Green's death.
Mr.. Green kept track of every postage
stamp. said one Of them.
Mr.. Seymour explained the legal COM
plcations in the various estates.
When William B Ogden died. leaving
a large estate, his widow, Mariana Ogden.
and Andrew H. Green we're appointed
trustees Andrews. who had been with
Mr. Green for many years as secretary and
confidential man. acted as agent for the
estate. as he did. believe, for other estates
for which Mr. Green was trustee When
VIZ Green was murdered, in 1903, Mrs Ogden
was left "A the only executor and trustee.
she retained Andrews. who had all the
book. aud papers and a special Office paid
for hy the estate
-On Mrs OgdenS death in September
last Edwin B Sheldon Of the firm Of o gden
Sheldon 4 Co was appointed executor.
as he had a share OF the ". B. Ogden estate
Mr. sheldon acting for the W B, Ogden,
heirs. asked the executors of Mr.. Green
and Mrs Ogden to give an accounting OF
the W 3. Ogden estate, bringing a friendly
suit in the equity part of the Supreme Court
The lawyers for Mrs. Ogden's executors
are Dewitt, Locknan d Dewitt
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