The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-16
|. G. TEWKSBURY REAPPEARS
IN, PHIL4DELPHIA TO CONFER
WITH CREDITORS, HE SAYS.
Vanished From New York in 1000 Owing q
Million or So Had Trouble I'm London
Too--Talk OF Making GoOd-WRrrant
Unserved, but Nobody wants Him Now.

tnSerNeu, Dut N0DOuy wants hHn NOW.
Lewis G. T~ewksbury, who disappeared
from New York in July, 1900, leaving dc BITS
estimated all the way from 100000 to
81, 0O0, 600, was seen yesterday in Philadel-
phia at the Bellevue-Stratford. When last
heard OF he was reported to ave left Lon
don for Spain after jumping a bail bond
given for his appearance to answer a charge
Of passing worthless checks. 10 a reporter
T~ewksbury said
Il nave been here several weeks under
nv own name. Before that ! was two weeks
in New York. am In Philadelphia to con-
fer with some OF my creditors who believe
in me. / cannot say how long | will be
here. My wife is in Paris. Absolutely no
charge against her or me is pending in
London
Neither the New York Detective Bureau
nor the District Attorneys Office knew of
Tewksbury's presence in this country. At
the hitter off CO it was said hat no charge
against Tewksbury was to I've found in the
records OF the last nine years. At the De-
~tective Bureau it was said that Tewksbury
was not especially wanted at Police Head
quarters, but the records showed that a
bench warrant for his arrest had been given
10 Detective Robert Mcknight OF the Dis
triot Attorneys staff on March 20, 1908.
The warrant charges grand larceny, As
far as could be learned the warrant was
never served, as Tewksbury was not in The
country at the time it was issued.
Lewis Green Tewksbury was the head OF
the banking firm Of Lewis G.. Tewksbury 4
Co. of 80 Broadway. Tewksbury's business
methods didn't suit the Consolidated FIX
change, and he was forced to sell his seat in
1896. The business went to pieces in 1900
and Tewksburv dropped out of sight. A
few months later he was discovered doing a
large banking business in the City Of Mex
ico. Later he went to London, where he
ran a commission business.
T~ewksbury first came to New FORK from
Manchester, n. H, in 1883. He had been ID
druggist, but his ambition SCARED above
soda water and he tried his hand at stocks.
He made money fast, but apparently lost
il again. as when the crash came he was
said to owe nearly a million dollars:
Two years after Tewk-hury left New
York his wife obtained a divorce. When
he went to London he met u former divorced
wife. who had married Guy Butler, the
Indian fighter and war correspondent. Mrs:
Butler left her husband, got a divorce and
remarked Tewksbury in 1901. Under the
name of Violet Aubrey Mrs. Tewksbury
had been popular on the New York stage.
Since Tewksbury's departure from Lon
don nothing was heard of him until he
appeared in Philadelphia. His wife was
reported to have been held by the authori-
ties in London, but no charge was ever
pressed against her and she, too, dropped
out Of sight.
At various times Tewks bury has an
nounced that he was on the point Of making
a fortune and would return to New York
and pay his creditors in full. The largest
= liz. On - ha I'm N
Nearly all the T~ewksbury creditors live in
Now York,