The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-04
ARREST REV, CARLOS MARTYR
FOR ALLEGED PART IN ABBEY
PRESS CLOTH LARCENY.

The Concern OF Which We'll Known Clergy
man Was n Director Bought Cloth
Nominally 10 Make Book Rags, but
Sent II at Once &c an Auction Room
The Rev. Carlos Martyr, D. D.. Lift. D..
who was once "a well known pastor in this
city aud was president of the Abbey Press
was arrested yesterday on charge Of
grand larceny in the second degree AZ
result OF his connection with tho now defunot
publishing firm. He is charged with having
been implicated in the fraudulent purchase
by the Abbey Press of 5000 yards of cloth,
valued at $1,000, from NJ. Lowenstein 4
Son. and other cloth from other firms.
Or. Martyrs successor as president of the
Abbey Press, Charles +. Rideal, was ar
rested last Friday on n similar charge.
DR.. Martyr lives at 1875 Fast Twenty
eighth street. where no was arrested
yesterday morning by Detective Sergeant
O'Connell OF the District Attorneys staff.
He was taken before Justice Mcmahon
in the General Sessions and was rcmanded
10 the Tombs. but gave bail
DR.. Martyr and Rideal we're once asso-
ciated with F, Tennyson Nicely, publisher,
who got out books for young authors who
were willing to pay for it. Martyr and
Rideal we're Neely's literary advisers"
and when Nicely went into bankruptcy they
founded the Abbey Press and carried on
business along the old lines.
DR.. Martyr was head Of the concern for a
while and then Rideal succeeded him. DR.
Martyr retained his interest in the firm,
however. and served a. a director. Soon
afterward the firm purchased some $1,000
worth Of cloth on credit from various firms.
None OF the firms succeeded Ia getting
much pay. They believed that they were
TO be paid IA soon as returns from the book
bag advertising came in. As a matter OF
fact, according 10 Assistant District Attorney
Caravan, only three book bags were actually
made. The material that had been secured
to make them. he says. was taken TO auction
rooms In hurry and was disposed of for
what it would bring. According TO Mr.
Garvan there was never any intention on
the part OF the deviser Of the scheme Of doing
anything else with the cloth. II IL because
OF this transaction that Rideal and DR..
Martyr have been arrested
On Feb. I, 1903, there was q fire in the
storerooms OF the Abbey Press at ia Fifth
avenue. II occurred soon after Ridea
and DR.. Martyr had left the place. and the
Fire MarshaPs investigation led 10 investi-
CATION by the District Attorney Mr.. Gar
van learned that the Abbey Press had in
creased its insurance from $1,000 TO SEQ 600
The insurance companies thought the fro
was suspicious and refused TO pay. Claims
for some of the cloth. alleged to have been
destroyed, we're included in the demand
The matter was settled later.
While Mr.. Garvan was investigating
two creditors got Judgments for 81 500 and
levied on the property. The firm failed
in May. 1903 with no assets,and when Rideal
was arrested IT was learned that only 81 600
of the bills for cloth had been paid. A
little later II was announced that the New
York Abbey Press had been sold out TO
the Abbey Press OF New Jersey which in
turn had been absorbed BY the Abbey
Press Consolidated
The Rev. DR. Carlos Martyr Ia 90 years
old and was graduated from the Union
Theological Seminary in 1850. He held
pastorates in 81. Louis and Portsmouth.
y. IL. before he came TO this city in 1875
to take charge OF the 1hirty-fourth Street
Reformed Church. He held this post for
seven years and then became pastor of the
Bloomingdale Reformed Church at Broad
way and SiNty-eighth street, which he
built. As a result OF overwork he resigned
his charge in 1889 and busted himself with
writing until the following year. when he
was called TO the First Reformed Church
of Newark He remained there two years
and then filed pulpit in Chicago. He has
written a number Of books.
DR. Martyn under advice OF couns ell
refused to say anything to the reporters