The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-26
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This Is the Charge Against New
Yorker, Who Had Promi-
nent Friends. VA
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York, March 26.-Thru the ar
rest of John Wilmer MARITIME, head
salesman in Fifth avenue haberdash-
cry, one Of the most remarkable dual
personalities in the police records OF
this city has come to, light. MARITIME
worked for $92 week. After business
homes of some of the best-known fami-
lies in this city. Among his friends
were several well-knoWn society women.
Skilful and continuous larceny, it is
alleged, enabled him to live at the rate
of $4,000 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 night for this: He
has appeared in the houses of John D..
Rockefeller and of Grant B. Schley, at
whose daughters recent wedding he
was a guest. He stage-managed enter
tainments at the West Side Y. M. G.
A., where he was highly esteemed.
He's Smart Dresser.
MARITIME, whose right name is said to
be Martin, came TO ms city from Bal
timore ten years. ago. He is % years
old, and at Sherry's, Delmonico's and
the Waldorf Astoria he is known as
one Of the "smartest dressers' In
town.
In the West Side police court Mar
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
~, ho Hxo ia has work aG
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 quarter price. His customers were
Wall street bankers, well-known law
yers 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 1000 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 handsome young WON
an whom he called Grace.
At the opposite side Of the room is
the photo Of one of the best-known so.
ciety women in New York He told the
family that she was ''Mrs. Scott of
Texas The photograph is that of a
young wife who is known in every
home of the "4OO.'' She spends the
summer in Europe and in the winter
divides her time between London, Paris
and Switzerland.
His Trip Abroad.
MARITIME spent four months abroad
last summer. He toured England
France and Switzerland and Italy in al
automobile.
Ellis high living abroad first gave
me the suspicion that something was
:, wrong with him. said his employer
Glow a $32 a week clerk could sport
around the boulevards Of Paris AM
live like king was too much for me-
According to the family with whom
he lived, MARITIME boosted that the triE
abroad last summer was the browning
success of his social life. He said tina
he had an apartment at the Continenta
in Paris; that Claridge's suited him il
Y London, and that the automobile road
Of Switzerland and Italy were simpl,
splendid.
MARITIME had been on the stage as
member of Edward Harrigan's compa
ny, playing in "Oid Lavender." Late
he was in the "Trip to the Moon" am
the. "Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
For time he was with Viola Allen.