The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-05
Or PAWNED TAPESTRY,
WITH 100, 900 CATTLE FOR EGYPT
ON THE SIDE.

dobelins tapestry and the Egyptian
cattle trade were jumb.ed up and partly
d~ieentangled In the West Side police court
yesterday. Magistrate Wahie held a Two
hours hearing upon the charges made by
Clara e. Page against Arlbert Sacky. Inc
low of evidence was then choked of be-
muse there were q few other cases to dis
J pose Of. The Magistrate at last Get the case
over to Sunday, when the lawyers on 10Th
eldas will file briefs.
Miss Page lives at PA West Fifty-stxth
ntzeet. She told the Court that she bought
y the piece of tapestry in the case In spain
Z for $500, but it was really worth $1,000.
II By her consent Sacky, who is sometimes
called a Russian Count, pawned 1t In st.
Louis in February, 1905.
Saoky was deeply Interested in a plan
for importing American cattle into Egypt.
! He needed money In this business. The
81 st. Louis art dealers wouldn't give over
800 for the Gobeins, because they doubted
It's genuineness. Sacky took what he could
ret. Miss Page says that he didn't turn
d over any of the money 70 her, and that's
Why she had him arrested last Sunday.
The tangls really began In Egypt. De
MARITIME Pasha Is the khedive's master Of
ceremonies and Is said to stan pretty
high with his boss. His brother, De Mar
\ tho Bey, Is one Of the officials OF the Egyp-
tan Department Of Foreign Affairs. De
MARITIME Rey has a son, Josephe de MARITIME,
~ years old, who cheerfully admits that
up to a year ago he spent most of his time
IN Paris and didn'tl lead a very busy life.
It occurred TO De MARITIME Bey that his son
ought to get busy. He figured that an
exclusive concession for the importation Of
American cattle into Egypt and the Sudan
ought to be a lucrative business, and as
be was in a position to secure the concession,
but was prevented by the country's avs
from going into the business himself, he
sent his son to America to interest cattle
men with money.
Young De MARITIME, who speaks fairly
good English, learned when he struck New
York in February, last year, that the Wal
dorf-Astoria was a likely place to find West
Orn cattlemen. He went there to live. and
IN his zeal he talked cattle to almost every
B man he met around the hotel.
Two men who we're introduced to the
Egyptian as Count Saoky and the Marquis
de Navarro enthused over the scheme
right away. Sacky admitted that he had
I punched" cattle out West, and knew a lot
about the business. He also thought he
z OOuAo loLFS OhctSH LiSA1y ~ 1H4 NHO bAAL
going.
Sacky met Miss Page at the Waldorf
Gbout the same time. She told him she had
O good sized bank account with which
she was specializing in Wall Street. Sacky
tipped her of about the cattle scheme
and assured her that there was big money
10 It.
. Within two months the firm of De MARITIME
d Sacky was formed, with Miss Page as
silent partner through her financial interest
and the Marquis de Navarro interested
as a sort Of general advisory board for
every one. Miss Page said on the stand
yesterday that she first contributed $500
TO the enterprise. but that demands for
more money came so fast that within
Q month or SO she had given up $4,000.
Then sacky took a trip to Egypt to see how
American cattle. She heard form him
frequently by cable, and she submitted
o few messages to the Court. They were
written in a cipher code which Miss Page
and Sacky had devised. Here are a few
Of them, with TRANSACTIONS by Miss Page:
NAPLES. June 3. 1908.
Hungry cable I Wed Boat. Miss Honey.
Il need money. Send $500. Love you dread
fully
Money robbed Mute. Cabled Pasha.
Tiptop. (send money at once. Need it
NAPLES, June s..
Trouble hotel ticket late. Cable L. Save
deal Boat Sunday. NIust have $500 at once
NAPLES. June Is.
Penniless, TrunkIess PaSha Finemute.
wire money Immediately. Everything is
hneJ
Miss Page told the Court Of various large
amounts she had contributed and cried a
little when she said that the total cost to her
Of the cattle deal that went wrong was
$4,000 She sad that she was an artist
and had a studio In Carnegie Hall when she
met Sacky.
sYou must belong to the impressionists'
echool, " observed the Court.
After all the witnesses had testified to
almost everything else but the tapestry
deal tn the &c cG S15 r after r gg5 ETA y efoE f. G learned mnrd
than the amount of money for which he had
pawped the rug. TIL Magistrate then
raised the question whether, although this
money might have been paid to her on ac-
count Of other loans, it would not have to be
applied impartially on these, and 9s the debt
for which he could be held orIa inally re.
sponsible. He held Sacky in 81. 500 bail
until Sunday to allow Assistant District
Attorney Vandiver, who appeared for
Miss Page, an opportunity to file briefs on
this question.
The Assistant District Attorney said that
Sacky has been twice arrested for failure to
nav a board bill, once il 1900, and again last
year. Miss Page herself. he alleged, set
tied his account last year and got him out of
trouble. He also SAID that he had received
aoomplaint against the Marquis de Navarro,
who was last heard of a little while ago in
Naples. Leon Malkiel, a lawyer. of 1l8
Nassau street, also wants to find the Mar
quis, whose real name is said to be Colorado,
and who has a wealthy brother practising
medicine in Alexandria, Egypt.
"A client Of mine whom l always consid-
cred very shrewd gave this Marquis Sc. 900
some time ago upon his representation that
he had the contract to supply cattle to the
English army said Maihe' The man WI
country again
Joseph de Martino. nephew of the Khe-
dives master OF cerem onies and son Of a
Government Official, was in court yesterday
to see how the case turned out. He declared
that he still holds a contract to send 100, 900
cattle TO Egypt, and is looking for the right
man to go into partnership with him.
1T makes mo disguised, he said. twirling
bis brown m~ustache. They laugh at me
because l send back no cattle, and they like
American cattle better than the English
kind. ! don't dare go back home without