The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-03
WAS SOCIETY PET BY NIGHT
New York Clerk Who Led Remarkable
Dual Life
CARRIED on SkILLFUL LARCENY SCHEME
EARNED $32 PER WEEK, BUT
LIVED AT $4,000 A YEAR
GAIT.
CARRIED ON SkILLFUL LARCENY SCHEME

arrest of John Wilbur MARITIME, head
| salesman in Fifth avenue haberdash-
| cry, one of the most remarkable dual
personalities in the police records Oh
| this city has come to light. MARITIME
worked for $32 week. After business
hours he was a welcome guest in the
| homes of some of the besa known fam
| lilies in this city. Among his friends
| were several we'll known society
| women.
Skillful and continuous larceny, it is
alleged enabled him to live at the rate
of $4,000 a year. For two years or
more, it is charged, he has stolen sys-
tematically and without coming under
suspicion. A trip to Europe proved his
undoing.
| MARITIME added somewhat to his in
come by work as a 'parlor entertain
err" He got $25 a night for this. He
has appeared in the houses of John D.
Rockefeller and of Grant B. Schley, at
whose daughters recent marriage he
was a guest. He stage managed enter
tanments at the West Side Y. M. c. A,
! where he was highly esteemed.
He's a Smart Dresser.
MARITIME, whose right name is said to
| be Martin, came to this city from Bal
! timore ten years ago. He is % years
old, and at Sherrys, Delmonicos ano
the Waldorf-Astoria he is known as
one of the "smartest dressers" in
town.
tine was brought to answer a charge
of grand larceny preferred by his en-
ployer, w. A. Laughlin, a haberdasher.
! Edward H. Hobbs, counsel for the ha-
berdasher said the stealings of Mar
tine in the five years he has worked
for the concern are not known. but he
was charged with the theft of $500.
| According to the police he managed
to live at the $4,000 rate by stealing
from his employer and selling goods
to friends and acquaintance at about
| three quarters price. His customers
lawyers and business men.
Lovely Women's Pictures.
MARITIME lived in a large apartment
house at Riverside drive and Eighty
fifth street. His private library con-
sists of $1,000 volumes of historical
books and fiction. His room was deco
rated with pictures of himself in fifty
different poses. Above his bed was the
photograph of a handsome young
| woman whom he called Grace.
At the opposite side of the room is
TIE photo of one of the best known So
ciety women in New York He told thu
family that she was Mrs. Scott OF
Texas" The photograph is that of a
young wife who is known in every
| home of the 400" She spends the
summer in Europe and in the winter
| divides her time between London, Paris
and Switzerland.
His Trip Abroad.
Wartime spent four months abroad
| last summer. He toured England,
France and Switzerland and Italy In an
automobile.
His high living abroad first gave
me the suspicion that something was
wrong with him." said his employer
How $32 a week clerk could sport
around the boulevards of Paris anC
live like a king was too much for me-"
According to the family with Svnor
he lived, MARITIME boosted that the trip
| abroad last summer was the browning
! success of his social life. He said that
he had an apartment at the Continental
| in Paris; that Claridge's suited him in
London, and that the automobile roads
of Switzerland and Italy We're simply
splendid.
MARITIME has been on the stage as
member of Edward Harrigan's compa-
ny, playing in "Old Lavendar." Later
he was in the "Trip to the Moon" and
the Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
For time he was with Viola Allen.