The sun., 1907-12-28
HOODWTNKEDDR. MACCRACKEN
WERNER THULI POSED AS son
OF A SWISS EDUCATOR.

Father-New York University Head
Got Hlm Into students CIub-stOIe
There and IN Many other Places.
Police Headquarters last night took in n
clever swindler who so fooled Chancellor
Henry M. MacCracken Of New York Uni
versity that he gave the man card intro
ducing him into the Students Club. thus
making his work easy for him. The pris-
Oner is Werner Thuli. 10 years old. and he
sayshe is theson Of fthepresidento of the Uni
versity OF Zurich. at Zurich, Switzerland.
The university has a rector, whose term OF
Office is a year, and who is elected from
the faculty.
ThuIi was graduated from Oxford, Eng
land. last year and came then TO this coun-
try, according to his story. On December
n he called upon Chancellor MacCracken
at his home and presented his card.
you ought to know my father" the
young man said TO the chancellor.
why. yes" answered Chancellor Mac
Cracken; Il met your father several years
ago
Thuli then told Chancellor MacCrackcn
that he had been III in Bellevue Hospital
for several months and was out Of a place
and in need Of money. He asked Chan
cellor MacCracken IL he would not help him
get a place.
Chancellor MacCracken gave Thuli a
letter to Thomas T.. Robbins who lives
at the Students Club at S2s West Fifty
sixth street. and asked Mr.. Robbins to
see that Thuh was taken care Of at the
club and that any expense incurred at the
club would be paid by the chancellor.
Chancelor MacCracken then told the young
man that when he had got work and got
himself into better physical shape to come
and see him.
Thuli went to the club on the night Of the
twenty-irst and was made welcome as a
friend Of the chancellor's. He remained
there until December 29. when he was seen
TO come in with new suit case
Apparently he went direct to the room OF
Mr.. Robbins and there took new fur over
coat valued at 500 and a diamond stick
pin valued at $40 and disappeared from
the club. The Students Club at once
notified Chancellor MacCracken and he in
turn called in the aid OF the Detective Blu
reau.
The first thing the police learned was
that the Swiss Benevolent Society in this
city was very anxious TO find the young
man. as he had been swindling members
Of that society in the name OF his father.
They also learned that the Charities Or
xanization Society wanted to interview
the young man about several matters.
From q Mrs. Wadleigh. who represents
the Charities Organiza tiOn Society at Belle
vue Hospital. the detectives learned that
young Thuli had not been in the hospital
for many months. Mrs Wadleigh told the
police that she held $40 which had been
sent to Thuli at the hospital by some friend.
but that he never had called for the money.
Detective Flynn called upon II. II. Bernt-
chan who is a banker at 10 Exchange place
and also the Swiss Consul in this city.
When Flynn mentioned Thuii's name the
Consul became greatly excited and said that
no one was more anxious to see him than he
was.
According to the story told by the Consul
young Thuli had forged the name OF the
Consul in a letter to his father in Zurich.
in which the Consul said that he was finan-
cially embarrassed and in need of aid and
Hthcu ETHeiucht W MIN eOttie
money. The police say that they have
also unearthed several other queer trans
actions Of the young man Of similar char
acter.
Last night a member Of the Charities
Organization Society was on a southbound
Broadway car when he spotted young
Thuli. He spoke to the young man and
after talking some time to him told him in
casual way that a Mr.. Hatton. living at
l6 West Fifty-first street, wanted to see him
very much and that Mr.. Hatton had some
thing for him
ThuIi said he would 60 there at once.
and the other man at once notified Gal
, lsgher and Flynn, the two detectives on
the case, who hurried TO the address and had
Just arrived when Thuli came along and was
arrested.
At Police Headquarters Thuli refused to
say anything at all concerning himself.
He had In his possession two pawn tickets
for the overcoat and the stick pin.