New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-10
GET MRS. CARRIERS PAL
Il NEH' RUNY4N ARREST.
accused of Being AccompIice in Re
ceiuiRg TcIIer's Loot.

Harry Kirkstine, a Postal telegraph opera tor
was arrested by the police in this city early
last night, charged with being Mrs Laura Car
ter's accomplice in receiving and dsposing OF
5000 stolen by Chester b Runyan'' Soon
after HIS arrest Kirkstine, in statement ne
made before Assistant District Attorney Joseph
E. Corrigan. said that Mrs Carter had met
him by appointment on July >, that she had told
him Of Runyans $1,000 gift. but that he had
advised her TO restore IT to the Windsor
Trust Company and hand over Runyan TO the
police.
hlrkstine positively denied the charge against
him. and his story, which in many important
details confirms the tale told by Mrs Carter
on her arrest, is as follows:
4 have known Mrs. Carter for the last eigh-
teen months, and during most OF that time we
lived together No. So West Goth street in an
apartment which she had there. Then this
good thing came along. and she asked me
70 clear for time, that she could work him.
] did not see her again until the morning of
July = when l met her at Fifth avenue and
31st street.
Of July had been in hotel down at Coney
Island. and sire called me up there over the tele-
phone and asked me to meet her at Fifth avenue
and 3lst street. She said that she had 5000
n
Z went over there and met her about II
o'clock in the morning. Then we went together
10 The offices Of the Garfield Safe Deposit Com
pany, and on the way there she told ne that
the man she was living with was the Chester
p RunyaE the papers talking about as
having taken $4,000 Of the Windsor Trust Com
pany's money. When I heard thar ( said Ia
go no further and advised her 10 take the
money. which she had with her in a handbag. to
the trust company and tell that she knew where
vT-aS Sa{ h0ryt n 4
for did not think about ii at the time
SAYS HE ADVISED BETRAYAL.
We talked the matter over, advising her to
tell the company the police. and she saying
that she would take the $4,000 bacI, 10 Runyan
and then give him up sat disgusted with her
obstinacy at last and left her What she did
with the money I can't say As for me I never
saw It. I only know that she had IT because she
said so"
George ". Young the managing director Of
the trust company said las- night that he knew
no details of the arrest Of Kirkstt.e and re-
terred all inquiries to Jordan ]. Rollins. at the
Hotel Lorraine. Mr.. Rollins is counsel for the
Windsor Trust Company. He could not be
reached last night. While the police are salts
fed that they have the man whom Mrs. Carter
often has referred to as her pal" they are
working on several other clews which n search
OF the fat put in their possession.
There may he another arrest to-day In the
top drawer Of the bureau in Mrs Carter's fat
where Runyan was arrested. the police found IT
is said, portrait of a prominent downtown
broker, besides several photographs Of Mrs
Carter clad in scanty attire.a The police Il is
said. believe that if there was any conspiracy
10 hide Runyan this may have known
something Of it.
Detectives Kahn Mclean and Maley. of the
Central Office. arrested Kirkstine at the Postal
Telegraph Building, No 253 Broadway. He was
locked up At Police Headquarters. Mir. Young
vas the complainant.
Kirkstine described himself as twenty-five
years old. a telegrspher. single, Of No. 262 West
25th street
1t is thought that it was Kirkstine who made
signals TO Mrs. Carter as she was passing into
the Tom5s court on Saturday, but who slipped
away before the police could arrest him.
ASSOCIATES DEFEND KIRKsTINE
According to inquiries which Tribune
reporter made among Kirkstine's associates and
others, last night, Kirkstine was employed
in the main office Of the Postal Telegraph
Cable Company as late las, week. He had
not been seen there, they said, this week but
had gone 70 work. they believed, in dowE
town brokers' office
While Kirkstine it IS said, has been known
TO be IN financial straits from time to time his
associates say they DO not believe ne would
have been 4 party To any crooked business
whatsoever
u. r Mallen. the Postal company's night
manager. said he had not seen Kirkstine for
some time. He doubted whether Kirkstine were
eul working at No. 2J3
David solinger, the tenant at No. 262 West
<oth street, the address that Kirkstine gave TO
uhe police. said that Kirkstine moved into a
room there day or two ago. sleeping there at
Nieht but being away all day
william Cantwell. Of the Law firm Of Cantwell
q Brown represented Runyan before Judge
sullivan. in Part I Of the Court Of General
SESSIONS yesterday. springing a distinct
!Flse Dy ntimating that Runyan's defence might
ne insanity. Assistant District Attorney Ely
represented the people. Runyan pleaded mot
guilty to the charge Of grand larceny.
Mr. Cantwell, in asking an adjournment OF the
case until Monday request afterward granted.
SAID he had been told that Runyans maternal
grandmother had died I'm insane asylum. and
mat Mrs Runyan believed that her husbands
MIND mad been warped Mr.. CantWell said
mat railing an adjournment he might he forced
% % rs the District Attorney act under Section
"'o OF the Penal Code the section usually in
Nokeo In seeking the appointment of a Iunacy
commission. The section invoked recently
N the abduction case Of Theodore D. Hess the
former patrolnan