The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-26
DR., TRAUTMAN NOT IN COURT.
CASE OF ACCUSED WIFE OF Ply
SICIAN GOES OVER.
Hogan, Who Said She Robbed Him. swears
10 COmpIaint-sh ssysIt Is an Outrage
Trantman says He Was Too Busy
10 Attend-wm De There Tomorrow.

10 Attend-wm he There Tomorrow.
Mrs. Jeanne Trautman, wife OF DR.. Alex
.nder Trautman of 800 Lexington avenue.
cane 10 the jefferson Market police court
Yesterday morning to answer the charge
Of robbing Peter j. Hogan, who says he is
an Erie RIA abroad freight clerk. Of sis last
Saturday night. She was in court promptly
nj o o'clock and sat OF the front seat in
the court room with Mr.. and Mrs. f. c.
Scofeld Of 1911 West Twenty-first street.
Mr.. Scofeld had bailed her out from the
rolice station cell the night before. DR..
Trautman was not in court.
Mrs. Trautman was self-possessed. She
Is tall, very dark and dignifed. She told
the story Of her arrest to a sun reporter.
q had been shopping and was walking
No Sixth avenue at about 0 O'Clock when a
nan grabbed me by the arm and shouted
Police / asked what he wanted, but he
lust held on to my arm and kept shouting.
A policeman ran up and arrested me-. l
protested. | told him who l was and that
I had never seen this man before. The
man lust said, She stole my money and
the policeman carried me on.
At the station house l protested to the
man at the desk, the sergeant. j told him
n was all a mistake. told him l was Mrs.
Trautman, but the man again said l had
stolen his money and the policeman led
lie back to a cell.
Il got word to my friend Mrs. Scofeld,
and she and her husband had me bailed out
and | went home with them
Hogan, a small, slim man, who blinks
behind heavy double ems glasses, came in
after Mrs. Trautman and her friends arrived
and told the reporter the same story he had
told Policeman Gilligan when he had Mrs.
1rautman arrested.
i was walking up Fifth avenue on Satur-
dav night he said. Two women passed
me near Thirty-ffth street. One Of them
stopped, took me by the arm and led me
down into an areaway She threw her arms
around me and l saw her hands in my
pockets, but my pocketbook was still there,
and | thought it was all right. Next morn
ing | found sl3 had been taken from it,"
Hogan was asked II he was positive in
hs identification of Mrs. Trautman.
tN, L tdTIlOb Dc uliSbdhCis Ahob N NV
woman who robbed me. | did not see her
after that night until yesterday afternoon,
bur | know that she IL the one
Magistrate Finn disposed Of the routine
cases, and at 10 O'Clock summoned Mrs.
Trautman and Hogan before him. He
asked Mrs. Trautman il she had a lawyer to
defend her.
NO." she answered; Il do not think /
need a lawyer. MY friends here in court
know me, and the charge il absurd. l was
at my home i'll at the time this man says ne
was robbed. He has made a terrible mis-
lake"
Hogan swore to his complaint, and then
the Magistrate advised Mrs. Trautman to
nsk for an adjournment and engage. a
LAWYER. and after consulting with Mr.. SEQ
feld she consented. Examination in the
case was then set for Thursday morning at
10 30 o'clock, and the station house bond
was continued.
Mrs. Trautman could not explain why
her husband was not in court with her.
She said that she had tried to reach him
during the night with telephone messages
rd kilograms and thought that he was
probably at their summer home in Great
Neck, J.. /.
DR.. Trautman was seen at his Lexington
avenue home i'm the afternoon.
This is outrageous" ne declared, pacing
che floor Of his office. The fellows inn
Tertinence is simply m~addening. The idea
= having my wife arrested and getting her
rame in the newspapers in this way. IL is
outrageous II | had been in court this
morning | would have stood up with this
fellow. l would nave knocked his teeth
down his throat"
DR.. Trautman was asked why he had not
teen in court.
you must know I am very busy. I have
q large number of patients waiting for me
all the time" he said. But 1 will be there
NJ the examination on Thursday. The
affair seemed Insignificant to me at first.
But the man is evidently crazy. l a been
in charge Of the insane asylum at Wards
Island and know what | am talking about.
This man is crazy. / have heard that he
has caused arrests before. l mean to look
up his record
Were you at Great Neck ls%t night?'
"No, l was at the Hotel Breslin and this
morning | was e r busy
DR.. Trautman was asked where his wife
was on Friday and Saturday nights.
'Oh, I do not know. / am a very busy
man. She was probably at some concert
or visiting the family Of her music teacher,
Augustine Carbone."
Mr., Carbone was seen at his studio In
Carnegie Hall.
Yes, Mrs. Trautman and my wife and |
were AZ the Manhattan Opera House on
Friday night" he said. Il did not see her
Saturday. She told me that she was going
out OF town over Christmas. But she came
TO take her music lesson yesterday and she
said that she had been so i'll that she had
been unable to leave town.
Mr.. Carbone said that Mrs. Trautman
had been one Of his pupils for three years
and that he had the highest respect for her.
His wife was with him in the studio and
joined him in praising Mrs. Trautman's
Character. Mrs. Carbone said that while
81 her music lesson on Monday Mrs. Traut-
man had said that she was going out to
buy a Christmas present for the Carbone
little baby. =
she was probably looking for this pres
ent when that man had her arrested she
Aaid.