Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-10
PLANNED HIS ADVANCEMENT
Said She Would Make Him British
Prime Minister.
PARLIAMENT AND A TITLE
Program Miscarried and Man is Now
Under Bond to Answer a Charge
Of Perjury in New York.

NEW YORK, January 1O.-Athole B.
Reader, husband of Edna Rawls Reader.
who gained some prominence for herself
by asserting that she was the fiscal agent
Of the republic of Santo Domingo when
President Roosevelt was trying to make
new treaty with that country and bring
about the payment of its debts. was ar
rested by United States Marshal Henkel
yesterday on an indictment for perjury
handed down on January by the federal
grand jury. The indictment is the out
come Of the trial of a suit brought by
Reader against James B. Haggin for $2oO,-
600 commissions. The case is made interest
ing by some of Readers letters, especially
one in praise of his wife, which came out
in the proceedings.
Mrs. Reader appeared before United
States Commissioner Shields with her
husband on his arraignment yesterday.
He pleaded not guilty and was held for
trial in $500 bail. Mrs. Reader went on
his bond Offering her house at 266 West
93d street which is valued at $29oOo ana
is mortgaged for 1000. She denounced
the arrest as an outrage and SAID she hao
been sold out by lawyers
Verdict for Defendant.
The suit was brought to trial in the
United States circuit court before Judge
Platt on December II last, the first motion
In the suit having been made some months
after Haggin bought the mines In the fall
of 1901. Reader was the only witness. His
direct testimony occupied about two hours.
A day and half was occupied in cross-ex-
animation. On the morning OF December
II the firm of Stanchfleld Il Delahanty,
which represented Reader rested, as did
Alexander & Green for the defendant. Judge
Plat on the defendants motion ordered the
jury to bring in verdict for the de-
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Readers testimony was to the effect that
he had made an oral agreement with Hag-
gin in March, 1901, whereby he was to get
10 per cent commission if Haggin bought
the mines. The only witness to this, one
Van Slooten, was dead. Reader said that
his arrangement with Garland was that
the Peruvian got the options for him at
Readers expense. and for his remuneration
got the per cent commission on the sell
ing price from the vendors of the mines,
Reader to have all of the 10 per cent from
Haggin.
Reader From the stenographic minutes of
the trial 1t appeared that Reader admitted
he knew he could not collect commissions
from both sides in the transaction. He was
surprised at being confronted, after his tes
timony had been finished with an agree
ment made on August 90 1900, with Car
land in which they agreed to divide equally
all commissions either should earn
Praise for His Wife.
Mr. Wellman also got admitted in evil
dence several letters from Reader to Gar
land. extracts from which follow:
NEW YORK, January 4, 1902.
''Mi Muy Querido Juan: In the first place,
Juan, my marriage This Is the very best
work, Juan, old man, l have ever done.
When you meet mi sonora, as you will do
one of these days, Juan, you will find her
the cleverest woman you ever struck
c;a Sha &c w al
to be the cleverest and most successful
business woman in New York. She is
drawing a salary of Sl,2UO month up to
February from an engineering firm for get
ting certain concessions for the under
ground railway in London. She knows
everybody in Wall street, and her great
personal friends and hackers are the prin
cipal bankers in New York. She is
southern girl and lady, and is just what
she should be.
"Sir Thomas Upton, John Dewar, M. P,
and a dozen other rich and prominent men
in England have asked her to marry them,
and she practically had agreed to marry
Dewar, the whisky millionaire of Scotland
and a member of parliament, when she
met me, and she wired him, asking him to
release her, before she married me, quite
secretly, on November 0, just before 1 left
for England. She knows the best and rich
est people in London, Scotland, Ireland
and all over America.
A Friend of Royalty.
'She knows every judge in New York, has
command of the press in New York and
London Nicholson, the private secretary
of Alfred Harmsworth, the proprietor of
the Daily Mall is her intimate personal
friend She has a concession of land in
the Straits Settlement from the Sultan of
JohoTe, etc. She has successfully lobbied
the house of commons, was the best
dressed woman at several London recep-
tons last year, and has a scheme in her
head for the amalgamation of all the I'M
foreground railways in London and Paris
in connection with the Financial Company.
She is the intimate friend of the Chevalier
de MARITIME, who is the close personal
friend of the King and Queen of England,
of the Prince of Wales. So she knows
everybody in England and America.
''She says she is going to make me
millionaire and the prime minister of Eng
land and, by God, Juan, | believe she can
almost do it. Everybody thinks her a
millionaire entire nose; ros no 10 es (be
tween ourselves she isn't, but very
pinched just now for cash, and that is
why | have been bothering you, old man,
for money; but in few months we shall,
l hope have lots from the Sprague Elec-
trio System and the brake, in both of
which l am to be the managing director,
fancy, at a good salary.
Eventually she proposes to get me into
the English parliament, Juan, despues
(afterward) a title This may all sound
too big, Juan, old man, but she is looked
upon by the cleverest and most successful
men in England and America as the
cleverest woman in the world, and l really
think she is l am sending YOU q photo"