The sun., 1908-08-03
RAISER OF PERM IN IN TINE
LAWYER OVERTAKES HIS WIFE
AND BANKER IN NEW YORK.

Court Gives Him His BOY and Holds Alrs
Rssser and Banker scheincrman II
$500 Bail Each After the Police Re
fuse to Interfere without q Warrant
| One Of the passengers on the steam
! ship Amerika, which arrived Saturday
was David Rasser, q lawyer, who hailf
| from town In the government Of Perm
Russia. When the ship neared port Rasse1
summoned David Drechsler, o lawyer
Of this oity' to meet him at the dock. anc
to Dreohsler RAISER told the story Of hil
trip. His wife, he said, had come TO New
York on July 1s with Q young banker
Moses 6ohetnerman. The wife had oabled
her father Of her whereabouts and her
father had told her husband. Rasser had
come to catch the runaways. and quick
action was necessary, he said. as friend
OF Scheinerman, learning Of the husbands
coming, had caught the same steamer
with the idea of warning Soheinerman to
get out Of the way Of the husband, who the
friend supposed, was going to try to kill
the man who had broken up his home.
Rasser and the lawyer found that the
couple had been at the Belvidere Hotel.
at Fourth avenue and Eighteenth street,
but had moved to the Hotel Brunswick.
at Hghty-ninth street and Madison avenue.
This determined, they went to the East
Eighty-eighth street police station and
tried to secure the arrest Of the couple.
The police declined to interfere. Magis-
trate Harris was appealed to in the night
court. and he gave the husband warrant.
With two policemen and the warrant
RAISER and the lawyer arrived at the Brtins-
wick early yesterday morning. The ait
uation was explained to the clerk and by
a rlse the clerk got Soheinerrnan to open
the door. Policeman Callahan Of the night
court squad. who had the warrant, put his
toe In the doorway and then all hands
burst into the room. "a
Rasser made jump for Scheinsrman,
landed and began belaborfng the young
banker over the head with q waIkingstiok.
then, foreseeing more trouble II an attempt
were made to get everybody TO the night
court together, one policeman took Sohein-
erman down on street car. RAISER got
an automobile for himself and his wife.
With the, woman and Sohetnerman was
the mother had taken with her when she
left Russia. She also had taken consider
able Of her husbands money, RAISER said.
The husband pleaded with his wife to
return homo with MIN, bue 10 all his beg
Indifferent to the whole proceeding, arrest
and all. But when she found that the
child was TO be taken from hsr ehs started
soene In the court room. Finally hsr
husband allowed her to cling to tho boy
during the arraignmeut. Then IL was
explained to the woman that no provision
10 made tn court prisons for children, and
court officers took the child from her and
turned him over to his father.
The two arrested persons were bald for
examination In $500 bail each. They Rere
unable to furnish bail.
Rassner is ~ years old, his wife 10 90
and Scheinerfnan Ia IS. Rassner is said
to be q lawyer OF some repute. with rela-
tives in st. Petersburg. He last saw his
wife at Riga, from which town she was
going to the seaside resort Of Zoppet. It,
was at Zoppet that Scheinerman met her.
The Rassners were married In 1895.
Scheinerman. at first described as
banker Twas later said to be civil engineer.