The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-25
CELLFORDR. TRAUTMAN'SW WIFE
MAN IN SHOPPING CROWD SEXES
"HER AND SHOUTS POLICEr'
She Was at the Opera on Saturday Night.
h Says, When Peter Hogan Says
h Robbed Him in q Csb-Reld TIN
Midnight, with q House Party at Home.

sno says, When Ffter hogan say
She Robbed Him in . Cab-Reld TIN
Midnight, with q House Party at Home.
In the crowd Of shoppers at Thirty-ffth
street and Sixth avenue late yesterday
afternoon a man Of good appearance
grabbed by the arm a young woman who
wore a dark tailor made suit, a picture hat
and a mink muY. He shouted. -Polce!"
The woman seemed to be a~stounded.
While she was trying to twist out Of the
mans hold Policeman Gilligan arrived.
pushing through the crowd.
Il want this woman arrested for stealing
SIS from me on Saturday night while we
were together In a cab,' said the man, who
called himself Peter j. Hogan. a clerk, of
100 East Twentieth street.
the man Ia either mistaken or crazy"
said the woman. Il am the wife OF DR..
Alexander Trautman Of 500 Lexington
avenue, and il is ridiculous to say that I
was in a cab with thism man Why. I was at
the Metropolitan Opera House Saturday
night
DIR. Trautman Is a we'll known physician.
The policeman said that as the charge was
felony she would nave to tell her story at
the station house, and he took her and
Hogan there on foot.
The man told Sergt. Mccarthy that he
couldn't be mistaken in the woman.
She insisted that he was crazy.
She was finally sent to a cell, after her
name had been taken az Mrs. Alexander
Trautman and she had given the sergeant
her engraved card bearing that name.
Mrs. Trautman sent a nots to the Hof-
brau Haus asking for some one TO bail her
ont. Max Schneider, manag Of the res
~taurant, went TO the station house and
said that he knew her TO be Mrs. Trautman
and declared that a mistake had been made.
He was told that as the offence charged was
a felony the bail bono would have t. be
signed by a Magistrate.
A few minutes later Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
c. Scofeld Of 1871 West Twenty-first street
arrived in response TO a note from Mrs.
Trautman. Mr.. .Scofeld said that he
knew DIR, and Mrs. Trautman very well
and was certain that a mistake had been
made. When Mr.. Scofeld was told that
he would have TO have the bail bond signed
by a Magistrate he hurried over to the
home of Magistrate Charles S. Whitman,
who, when he knew the circumstances,
agreed to sign the bond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scofeld got bach to the
station house with the bail bond just as
the midnight platoon Of police was on the
floor. When the BOND was handed to the
sergeant the matron was ordered to bring
Mrs. Trautman from her cell. She was
limp and white from the ordeal and burst
into tears as Mrs. Scoheld rushed up and
embraced her. As she was leaving the
station house Mrs. Trautman said to the
reporters who had waited for her APP
pearance:
al that | can say about this dreadful
thing is TO tell you what happened to me
/ came up this afternoon from my country
home at Great Neck, where we are having
a house party, 70 make a few Christmas
purchases and take my music lesson at
Carnegie Hall. After | left the studio late
this afternoon ! walked down Fifth avenue
to Tifany's store, where ] bought a few
little things. Then ! decided TO go over
TO Macy's, and walked through Thirty
fourth street.
Il stopped to look at some things in the
window Of a ~haberdashery store in Sixth
avenue, Just of Thirty-fourth street, when
"a common looking man, whom ! had never
seen before, came up behind me, grabbed
me by the shoulders and whirled me around
roughly. He said: DO you know me?'
and | replied that / didn't, unable all the
time TO understand what his actions meant.
Then he repeated his question and called
for the policeman. | thought l gave the
sergeant sufficient proof that | couldn't
nave been the woman | was taken for, but
it seems tina the mans word was taken
against mine"
Mrs. Trautman said that she had no
idea what she would have done if she had
not been able 10 get her note to Mr.. and
Mrs. Schofield while they were dining at
Martins. She said she had had no expert
ence with police stations and would have
been helpless had il not been for her friends.
She intended to send her husband word
Immediately. and didn't know what he
might do to-day about her arrest.
Mrs. Trautman went TO Mrs. Scoield's
house for the night, Mr.. ScOfield is n cloak
manufacturer.
At DIR. Trautman's home in Lexington
avenue il was learned that DR.. Trautman
was at his country place at Great Neck
and that he expected his wife to join him
there last night or to-day. He is a well
known specialist on diseases Of the nose and
throat.
He was married about three years ago.
He went 20 Japan with DR.. l.. l.. Seaman
during the Russo-Japanese war to investi-
gate the surgical service and army hos
pital work OF both armies. He has fire.
quently lectured on the results Of his in
vestigations. DR.. Seaman said last night
that a mistake had certainly been made.
Beyond saying that he was positive that
he wasn't mistaken in his Identification,
Hogan, the complainant, wouldn't say
where he had met the woman that had
stolen his money or how he happened to
be with her. He said that he would be in
the jefferson Market police station this
morning and would tell his story there.