The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-10
DUKE CASE RIVALS
CHADWICK AFFAIR.
Husband Unable to Recall Mar.
riage, Bride on Defensive as
to Money Deals.

Chicago, Jan. lO.-An expose Whlch
promises to rival the Chadwick case IN
some respects, is promised Pr; ne in thte &c ea s
L. Duke, son of W. Duke, tobacco mer-
chant. Incarceration Of the, bride
groom in a private insane asylum on
Long Island few days after his mar
rage in New York to the Chicago Wom-
an, and a bitter fight now being made
by the bride for his release, charging
fraud and conspiracy, led to the scandal a.
This, it is said by those claiming TO
know, has only begun.
"No one can tell now whether. it Is
q case of millions or thousands sa1d
one of the men.
Alice l.. Webb, as she is known in
business way, was and is yet associated
with Charles F. Taylor in business at
E218 La Sale street. The firm is known
as Taylor, Webb g. Co., the Texas-Cuba
Tobacco company, and the Nae &C e Tae,
Tobacco company Of Nocogdoches, rex,
as. Alice L. Webb is the president ana
TAYLOR is the secretary and treasurer.
The partnership was formed for the pur-
nose Of ''forming, promoting and ASSIST
ing financially or otherwise companies,
.syndicates, partnerships and assoe1a
itions of all kinds commercially, unoer'
taken by contractors, capitalists IMAM
eiers, etc.
May Be IN IEOupAe'
Just how far Taylor, Webb q GO. 8
business has progressed since Its birth
on April s. 1908, is probably only known
10 The tw o partners, but Developments
are gradually coming to HghT WhlGn
may place Alice l.. Webb and Charles Z.
TAYLOR and the companies they repre-
sent on the defensive.
It Is said that the tobacco company
has foated thousands and thousands OF
dollars worth of stock and that Two
notes uttered by them, each tor $osOoo'
have already come to the SURFACE;
These are now in the hands Of Samuel
Packard Of the law firm of Peckham,
Smith, Packard & Madoc. Attorney
Packard represents the German NatloI-
al bank Of Little Rock, Az Ar:
ant TO the Pritchard Lumber company
If little Rock and discounted by that
concern at the German National panh'
MIR. Packard says: n,oh., .,,ce
have been after Alice I. WEBB e1n"e
last July to get service on these noles ei,o
did not succeed until she bobbed up II
Nav york and became the bride Of Brod1e
pers on to New York and she was servee
there. am inclined to believe they arc
absolutely worthless.
BANK Fails To 00u NloA0J'
I obtained service on Taylor in Chi
caeo some two months ago, but could no
find Alice Webb until she married Duke
The notes are each for $4,000, made GU
the same and running five and SIX months
resnectiyely. The notes became due IL
July and August, when the bank failed tt
obtain settlement.
.'when the real explosion comes 1T viii
Involve some prominent men III Ch'caso
Texas, New York. pittsburg, Clevelant
and a score Of other cities and SINAI
towns turnout the country" said g. mai
who has kept track Of Mrs. Webb-Duke'
affairs. -.
Charles +. Taylor was in his office to
day. He laughed at any idea that tn,
firm was not all that it was represented
to be. He said:
MRS Duke Is an extraordinary Woma
and attends strictly to business HeVe
heard her say an unkind thing OF any one
She is absolutely not a society Woma
and is not handsome or even good-looiing
Anybody who goes against her will NEE
his match. 7 have known her fourtee
years and have been in business with he
two years.
Makes a Million.
II can safely say that Mrs Duke ha
made fully 81, 000,O 900 in investments sine
I have known her. Outside of the fac
that we may be involved in our Land dea
in Texas our firm is OK. We purchase
1856 acres Of ground at Nacogdoches, Tex
as, from Colonel s. F. B. Morse and pal
1000 down. He is the ex-traffic manage
Of the Southern Pacific Railway compan!
LIT developed after the failure Of Daniel .
sully the cotton king. that Morse wa
his partner and that the p N1erty wh1c
we had purchased was included in the as
sets. This brought his property into coul
and it is still there.
NJ "All Of our transactions have been bon
hde. I don't know Duke and did nc
know Miss Webb was going to MARI
him. 1 never knew any of. her privat
business and she never talked about hi
3 personal affairs. AS to notes and paper
having been circulated about the countr.
1t is all bosh.'' . ..
Met Duke in Texas.
Alice L. Webb is said to have first ms
i Brodie L. Duke in seeking to interes
him in the land deals and tobacco pla1
tations in Nacogdoches. 1t is said tina
she and Taylor needed about $4,000
Ierty, and that Duke was finally induce
to invest about $4,000, but whether tt
e money was paid over or not is not mac
clear.
I Before the woman had known Dull
long, she went to New York and on De
Fl they were married.
Alice L. Webb was married to E. I
Powell in New York city some veal
ago. Powell owned the Seventh Av
nue. hotel at Pittsburg, in which II
woman is said to have invested $4,000
She was divorced from Powell two yea
ago and assumed her maiden nam
Powell is now living in Allegheny, P
Mrs. Duke is reported to be seco1
& Init this is denied nv Mrs Sauyar6 Wah