The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-09
LEAD Dual LIFE
A Physician by Day and a Bur.
gIar at Night.
WIFE DENIES CHARGE.

WIFE UENlEO O0HNQI.
The Police of New Rochelle, New
York, Charge That DIR. Bolin, A
Society Leader of That Town, Is q
Burglar and Is Responsible fol-
Many Robberies, and Have Ar
rested Him.
DR.. Samuel Bolin, physician, chem
list, house owner and a social leader
of the Huguenot Park section of New
Rochelle, New York, was plucked
from a trolley car and landed in
Jail to answer the accusation of the
attempted burglary of a hardware
store. Detectives say they will prove
that the physician has been posing as
a distinguished resident by day and
robbing his neighbors' homes after
dark.
The New Rochellians, who, prior
to Saturday, had ridden with him
proudly behind his pair of bays. were
50 stunned at his arrest Tuesday
night that they could not even re.
gain euuanimity enough to go the
doctors bail.
DR.. Bolin entered New Rochelle
society with something of fanfare
about four months ago. He had pre-.
viously become acquainted with
Judge John Van Zelm, a prominent
lawyer of the city, and the Judge
helped him spread the report that
his practice. in Harlem was some
thing to %conjure with and that as ar
inventing chemist his reputation was
little short a of wizards.
When he bought a handsome house
on Summit avenue, installed his wife
and three children and a stable, and
spent 81, 900 improving the grounds,
he was accepted as a welcome add.
ton to the social situation, without
so much as a question. The horses
that pulled his carriage through New
Rochelle might have been blue-rib-
boners. He entertained we'll and
made friends.
But last Wednesday night, just
after IL, Mrs. Robert Haugh, of HUI,
guenot street, looked out Of her bed.
room window and across the lot to
the rear and spied a man saving the
bars out of a window in Levison's
hardware store, which backs up
against her property.
The sight interested Mrs. Haugh
the more from the fact that two
weeks ago her house was entered by
means Of just such a saw as she was
hearing then, with a consequent loss
of $500 in jewels. Other wealthy
residents of the vicinage suffered
similar losses.
Mrs. Haugh 'phoned Historically
for the police. The station being
close at hand, Detectives De Veau
and Chenowith were cropping for q
sight of the burglar in about two
minutes. They came on a man hur.
rying up the rear stairway of the
Levison building. He was taking of
his coat and collar as he ran and act
ed very much like a tardy home-com
ar r,,ehinu for his rot
whats up?" he demanded, as thu
detectives followed him up the flight
Were looking for a robber an
swered Chenowith. Hes beer
breaking into this place.
"You don't say" cried the man
"I'll just run upstairs and get my
poistol and then I'll help you catcf
him.
Completely mislead the detectives
started back for the rear entrance
The man they had been talking
with bolted through the front dool
and ran away. Though they didn't
find him again that night De Vear
and Chenowith swear he was DR.. Boil
in and the collar left behind when he
fled is as good evidence as they hac
with their eyes.
Under the half-sawed bars of Lev
inson's window they found a bur.
glars hack saw and a eau of lubrica'
ting oil.
Sergeant Cody of the New Roch'
ellie police detailed all of his slim de.
tective force on the case at once. He
says he discovered that Bolin was
home much of the day and away most
of theInight. But friendly neighbors
who knew this explained with the
statement that as Bolin was practic
ing medicine and running a drug
store in Harlem, he couldn't be ex,
pected to come up from New York
until late in the day. The police founC
out, however, that he generally ar
rived in town so late that he must
have been compelled to use the
Mount Vernon trolley car.
Just what---if anything--the de-
tectives found to involve Bolin in ar
unadvertised double life they will
not say, but they declare they have
found enough. They say they FOL
lowed him four days, know where
he went on his strange trips after
dark, traced him until no doubt re-
manned, and then got out a John Doe
warrant for his arrest.
AT any rate Detective Scott was OF
hand when the Mount Vernon trolle,