The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-01
MISSING DOCTOR
HAS CONVICT
RECORD.
DR.. Samuel BoIin Has Skipped
Bail Bond.
BELIEVED TO BE A BURGLAR
Society Medico OF New Rochelle Be.
lieved To Have Done Time In
Jersey Prison.

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Oct. l.
His counsel believes that DR." Sam
uel Bolin. the man who was regarded
here as well to do physician and
druggist and who was arrested yester-
day on the charge of attempted bur-
glary, has gone away with the inten
ton Of not returning. His bail bond
of $1,000, on which he was released,
has been forfeited by Justice Vanoken
because he did not appear In court,
and 1t Is believed that he has left New
Rochelle. His wife says that he tried
to commit suicide twice during the
night and that instead Of being u ply.
stefan retired in good circumstances,
as the folks of this place who received
him into society have believed, he was
working as bartender in a saloon on
One Hundred and Forty ninth street,
New York.
When he left the house he kissed his
wife goodby and when she asked him
If he were going to court replied in
the negative Since he left the house
nothing has been heard from him.
When he did not appear at court at
the time set in his bail bond Judge
vanoken waited for an hour and then
declared the bond forfeited. 1t had
been signed by DR.. George Schlereth,
Jr, prominent medical practitioner,
on the request of Bolin after the
amount of bail set had been reduced
from $1,000 to $1,000.
Mrs. Bolin, who is very little wo-
man of pronounced Russian type,
was at her home almost overcome by
the fact of her husbands absence and
the night through which she had pass
ed. She could hardly keep from break
Ing down when she told the story Of
her life since she came to this coun-
try two years ago and the attempts
of her husband TO end his life.
when he came home from the JAIL"
she said, he was greatly excited over
the arrest We talked for a little
while, and then he said that IL he had
to go back to jail he would kill him.
self. He got very much excited and
took up butcher knife and started to
cut his wrist / held his hand and
pleaded with him until he dropped it.
HE was quiet for awhile, and then
he became excited again and picked
up a revolver which lay near at hand.
| held his arm again and finally got
him to give me the revolver. Finally
he kissed me goodby and said that he
would not see me again. I asked him
If he was going to court, and he said
that he was not. | got the impression
that he was going to New York. but
he only had % cents in his pocket
when he left"
She married Bolin, the wife said, in
Vashoff, Russia, five years ago.
Il am sure the accusation against
him Is one of mistaken IDENTITY" she
said. He could not have been where
they said he was the night the bur-
glary with which they charge him
was committed. He was at home all
that night" ..
Later Mrs. Boln, too, left town AFTER
she had been SO upset by the curiosity
oI some OF the neighbOrS.
Before leaving town Mrs. Bolin at.
tempted suicide. She threw herself in
front of slowly moving trolley car on
Main street, but the car was stopped
before she was in any particular dan
ger. Later the police stated that she
had disappeared from town, and they
did not know where she had gone.
Bolin and his wife, who moved here
two months ago and bought house
In the exclusive section of town, were
received into society and became very
popular.
His counsel, Judge John A. Van
Selm. told the court that he believed
his client had killed himself.
The records of the Trenton peniteu-
tiary show that in November. 1903.
Samuel Bolin was arrested in New
ark n. j., with several other men
charged with the burglary of $4,000
worth of silks from the establishment
of David Klein. He was tried, con-
victed and sentenced to serve two and
half years in the Trenton peniten-
tiary.