New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-27
SMOOTH CAPTAIN GONE.
Left T7co "U7iUeS" and Many Light
ened Purses.

Has anybody Captain" Frederick F. stoll?
Don't you know that big, fine hearty, good looking
fellow for whom the best in eating and drinking
and living apartments and automobiles was none
too good? Perhaps you'll find him up along Broad
way. for he used TO be fond of the old street and
its taverns and dispensaries.
You won't get free season pass to the ball
games, for this isn't ''Eaffles'' game, there's
only one Captain" Freddy, and he's above such
tricks. Still If YOU Just tell a lot of people that
you saw him and where. they'll be awfully much
obliged to you and no questions asked beyond moss
necessary get In touch with him.
First of all. there two women who live in
Broadway who would like 70 know very much what
they had a perfectly legal right to write Mrs
Frederick 7. Stcil' their visiting cards until
one fine day last week Mrs. Julia Carrot Stol!. or
No 226 West 18th street called on Mrs. Alma t-arle
Sto at the I-otel Albany and forgot herSelI ! iol
the moment VIXEN she found the latter occupying
along with the captain the most expensive SUITE
of rooms in the house. Then Mrs luna Sfanue9
Mrs Alma by the throat and gave ner Sound
shaking and talking TO. She fainted away ~
nlediatoiy she had done this. and when she cdil.e
to nothing cf the captain or tho ofhef woman
Nov, Mrs J;lia and Mrs Alma are going 70 get
together and have the captain arrested # they
get the chance The former said yesterdaN sAe
1e1.er vented 20 marry him hut he pleaded 50
hard on the night Of June p at the CiareInoh tla-
she finally Welded to his entreaties Sie HeVe!
knew until that day last week in the Albany that
he had another wife living 80,
Others in Broadway who were acquainted WIN
the captain knew it. though. But that isn't az
that still others had learned Of the gallant cap
tain their knowledge being now marked GOWN III
their uuwritten Iedgers TO the account OF expert
ence. At the Hotel Albany, for instance "he'c
the 'caDtairs' grand style and trained manner OF
talking in almost blase fashion of "big deals ana
makes Of $4,000 day. led the managers 10 the
bill of $40 for rent Of that bridal chamber and
matter OF SEQ for automobile hire. Across the way
IN the Times Building II. G. Van Norden, sales
manager for the Mccormack Real ate Company.
wonders why he feT' for the captains tales or
hard luck to the amount of $3.50
The captains" touching manner has been sffec-
tive in other parts of town. TOO. He came from
Chicago where he superintendent OF city de-
livery IN the postof1cc during President Clevc-
lands second administration. He has been book
agent here and from that he went into the real es-
tate business. He could spend money raster than
it came in, so SOME OF his victims sald' ana SO
dropped into the habit of collecting money from
women on investments he had not made. He got
the money and they got attraCtiVey designed re-
ceipts but only those and nothing more. For in
stance, less than a month ago he col"cted H-V'
from Il her entire savings, which he was
to invest for her in Long Island real estate. The
nearest he got actual investment OF the money
was IN getting printed in a morning newspaper
the announcement that he had sold a 101-acre tract
Of land Springfield. Long Island, for develop
nleut, about $$S0.000. The land is stiu IN pos
session of the who has held It for years
The captain is missed by good many mem
bers Of the Minnctonka Club. at No. 2l& Eighth
avenue. This Is the organization or James AheaFh'
one Of the four so-cnled Mcclellan leaders In
Tammany Hall one of Ahearn's chief leutenants
has a souvenir OF the captain in the shape OF
check for several hundred dollars. which has twlc"
been returned by the bank with the inscription
y 6" \ lot of others IN the club separated
themselves from their money TO have the captain
invest Il in estate and they would like 10 IN
terview him. The Mnnetonkas were impressed
by his accounts OF his good friend, Grover Glove
land. one OF the pet diversions 81 tho captain
during his stay in New York has been in insisting
to the newspapers that he would not accept public
Office which Mayor Mcclellan was trying 20 force
on him He surprised the Mayor last year by adj
hitting to an interviewer that he wouldn't take "A
deputy police commlssiOEership under General
Bingham and then again he had some unhappy
moments In the press trying 20 fight on the dark
attempt TO nare him successor 20 street clean
ing Commissioner Woodbury..
HIS title he regarded being made 20 be USED
so far as could be ascertained yesterday, Il may
have been obtained as captain OF a company or
Illinois volunteers during the period OF the SpahlsH-
American War Those who know him deny ms
abatement that he service and was "ouhut"
IN that conflict
I'm 10 date another wife Mrs Louise Stoll, has
been discovered in Chicago. She had prior claim
~ the '.cautain' over the two New York women.
In Cincinnati there is said 20 be another reh't OK
tho ..captain" who had a winning way with women
Neither Of his New York wives cares 20 ENJOY IIS
corapanionship any further~ but they are ahs's
over his dupIicity and Will have him arrested Il
Ne left Mrs Julia Garret Smith, who has one
daughter about two months ago. The former MISS
Alrna Earle was once tho stage. StoH leatheu
trer she had an Independent income ana I''4
l,an,able mining property in the kondlke ana ''"'
q &c said began make violent love 10 H'''