The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24

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the Same House as Man VINO SwindIed
Her. but in q Separate Room -Physi-
clan Thinks She Wal DrugEed-still III.
MoNTcLAIR, N. j., Sept. 2s.-Miss Eleanor
Wood, h went for an auto ride on Thurs
day afternoon with a man who swindled
her out Of 500 and returned home i'll after
her relatives had reported her as missing,
is still confined to her home. iSe Bellevue
avenue, Upper Montolsir, as the result OF
her experience.
This afternoon her physician DIR. William
II. Areson, and Chief Of Police Henry Gal
lagher visited her. DR.. Areson, when
he left the house, said the young woman's
condition was somewhat better, but she
IVES still suffering from nervous shock.
He thought she had been under the influ-
ence OF a narcotic.
Chief Gallagher questioned Miss Wood
for nearly four hours about her experience.
The man she went away with, she sa i'd,
called himself Frederick W. Miller, pre-
tending to represent the brokerage firm
Of Marshall, Spader 4 Co. of New York.
She had been engaged as a missionary In a
charitable organization and as her salary
was small she was anxious to increase IT,.
She told OF answering Miller's advertise
ment M agreeing to give him 800 TO pay
for a surety bono which he said was neces-
sary il she took the place he offered. He
met her Thursday afternoon at the Mont
clair Savings Bank, where she got the 500.
when l came out of the bank l pinned
the money in the pocket OF my jacket
said Miss Wood. His auto was in working
order again, and he suggested that l ride
with him to New York to get the bond
instead Of going by train. This was at $50
on Thursday afternoon and as the weather
was warm and no train was due for New
York consented to accompany him.
I'VE rode toward Newark and stopped at
the Crocker Wheeler Electrical Works at
Ampere, where Miller spoke to a man at
the office and then offered me a glass Of
water. 1 drank IL, and then we rode
through Newark to Jersey City, where he
stopped at a drug store on the Boulevard.
saving that he wished to telephone to the
office in New York.
Here he told the chauffeur TO get a glass
Of beer at a saloon across the way and
brought me a glass Of soda. Miller came
out and told me he was sorry, but he could
not raise the Office on the telephone and
we had better return 10 Montclair. /
wanted to take the train home, but felt
as IL 1 had been hypnOtized and yielded.
Returning through Newark we stopped at
a drug store and he gave me another glass
OF soda
Upon returning to MOntclair, Miss Wood
went on, they rode to the Mountain House
to get supper, but as il was then 0 o'clock
they could not be served. She began to
feel very strange and queer and they rode
ono,YnI arlorod GtInNar af RiAaGQlp'l res
taurant and then returned again to the
Mountain House, as the chauffeur wanted
to telephone to his garage. Here Miller
induced her to walk with him toward
Orange along a lonely road with trees and
shrubbery on either side.
Miller became rather familiar in his
actions, and then for the first time she
began to mistrust him. He assured her
that she was in safe hands, however, and
asked her to intrust the 800 to him for
safe keeping. She %unpinned the money
from her jacket and handed 1t to him.
Il will put it in an envelope and give 1t
back to you," he said. Drawing a large
/ blank envelope from his pocket he seemed
to put the money in it. sealing it with black
sealing wax. In order that tie firm
could identify her when she would call
for the bond he wrote upon the reverse
side OF the envelope, "OK-E. NJ. WI. W.
M" The first initials were hers and the
second his own After that Miller left
Miss Wood, and, according to her story,
she went to a friends house in MontclRir
! and stopped there until Friday morning.
When she started to 20 home she found
that the envelope did not contain her money,
| but some newspaper clippings cut to the
size OF bank bills. On the topmost clipping
was an advertisement headed A income
for life" She had not even carfare for the
Montolair and she borrowed five cents from
a fireman at the ruck house on the corner
Of Bloomfield avenue. She got home about
breakfast time.
Chief Gallagher says that for more than
an hour he asked Miss Wood the name
Of her friend with whom she stopped on
Thursday night, but in vain. Neither en-
treaties moi threats would induce her to
divulge it. The police believe that the
young woman is Withholding other informa-
ton Besides.
This evening Sidney Wood, her brother,
threw some new light Of the situation
which still further puzzles the police. He
said that OF Thursday night his sister,
instead Of remaining with a friend, rs she
Montclair withMnler, but tina they occupied
separate rooms. He positively refuses
to say where the lodging house was.
The was hired from the Tor
benson Company in Bloomfield on Wednes-
day morning. It was driven by Lawrence
Edland, one Of their chaufeuTs. He says
that the man ave the business card Of
Marshall, Spader a Co., with the name
Frederick ". Miller added to it. He said
he wa the firms agent in Newark. The
chauffeur's story confirms the girls tim
erary on Thursday. but on Wednesday he
says he drove Miller to East Orange, thence
TO Elizabeth, where they stopped at the
Singer Sewing Machine Works and got a
young woman. They drove with her to
a private house where they stopped foI
half an hour. After that he drove the
man TO Miss Woods house. stopping at the
Crocker-Wheeler Works at Ampere on the
way and at the Glen ridge post ONCE.
Postmaster Moritz at Glenridge wa
asked by Miller for the name Of a box
holder. BUT refused TO give il. .
Edland says the man ordered the cat
for Ioi O'Clock on Thursday morning q
meet him at the P~ennsylvsnia station II
Elizabeth. He again went TO the no '