Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-26
Rich Banker Says He's Prof.
|igate and an Migrate.
HAS WASTED HALF MILLION
Sensational Story of Money Paid
Under Threats.
ACCUSED DEFIES HIS FATHER
Says That Aged Man Is Charged
With Perjury-Promptly Gives
Bonds to Keep Peace.

| NEW YORK, November 26.-Frank c.
| Hollns, banker of IL Wall street, who
| lives at go East 56th street. appeared in
the night court last evening and asked
| Magistrate Finn to send De Ruyter NJ
Hollins. his middle-aged son. to Bellevue
or some other place of safekeeping on the
ground that he was crazy.
The son had threatened to do violence
to him for months unless money was
given to him. said Mr. Hollins
The HOLINESS are prominent in society
and club life. Mr.. Hollns had his son ar
rested yesterday afternoon in his office
at II Wall street.
Bond Is Supplied.
The hearing in the night court lasted
| more than an hour. At the end of that
time the best Magistrate Finn would do
| for Mr.. Hollins was to put his son under
$500 bond to keep the peace for three
months.
| The bond was instantly furnished by a
man who said he was Frederick Breck.
He gave the property at 10 to 20 West
10Th street. valued at 100000 for bail.
The young man walked out of court,
sneering at his father and not noticing his
| aged mother and young sister who had
| motored to court to be at the trial
While his father was telling the story
to Magistrate Finn the son interrupted to
say:
why. Corrigan is holding you for per-
jury now.
The fathers trouble involves his testi-
| mony in the supreme court in lawsuit
over alleged fraudulent paper.
| Mr.. Hollins, ST., declared last night that
his son had squandered not less than
| SoOOOOO. was running around with a
| crowd of dissolute men and women had
made his life miserable for five years, and
was now keeping him and the rest Of the
family In state of terror. He said that
for five years he had concealed his sons
misdoings but now he was tired of. 1t,
and must have 1t stopped even il unpleas-
ant notoriety were the consequence.
Story of Sons Prodigacy.
Mr.. Hollins is about fifty-five years old.
He drove to court with his wife, his four
teen-year-old daughter and a woman
friend of Mrs Hollins His son was
brought before the magistrate, charge
Of disorderly conduct was read, and then
the father said:
| My son is now thirty-four years old.
When he was twenty-five / gave him a
check for $4,000 and had him made a
special partner of the ]. F. Pierson. Jr.
Company, brokers and bankers. at %
/
| well until about five years ago, when he
began drinking hard. He Is unmarried
and lived with me up to few years ago.
When he began to drink hard he re-
manned more and more away from home.
He has been there rarely In the last three
years. He says his home is the Hotel
Belleclaire. but 1 don't believe he has any
settled home. l think he began to use
drugs in addition to whisky. He has
| broken his mothers heart, and mine, too.
| Il have put him in three Or four sani-
tariums. Twice I had him in institutions
which are supposed to cure drunkenness.
None of them did him any good. He
went from bad to worse. About q year
| and a half ago in raid made on q
Bronx resort frequented by negroes my
son was found among the low people
there
From time to time 1 gave him money.
| At his majority, as l said, I gave him q
check for $4,000 l have added to that,
spending not less than 100000 on him.
| At first he only asked for it; of late he
has threatened by words and actions.
| "A year or so ago our house was at %
East 54th street. De Ruyter would be
| away for months at a time. Suddenly
he would appear. If he had no key he
| would break his way into the house. He
would demand money, and often raise
such a disturbance that the police had to
| be called. l have always refused to make
a complaint till now.