Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-07-13

HALL AGAIN
IN CUSTODY
Arrested on Long Island
This Time for Writing
fake" Checks.
HAS A BAD RECORD
HERE AND ABROAD

New York, July 13:-Mandeville de
Marigny Hall, who has been well known
socially in New York and who is re-
lated to the Duke de Villabrossa and
also to Louis Won Hoffman, Of Paris, is
in the Washington county Jail, at King
ston, r. l., in default of 81 900 bail, on
the charge Of obtaining money under
false pretences. He was arrested on
Saturday at Narragansett Pier on com
plant of j. G. Miller, paying teller of
the Fifth Avenue Bank, Fortyfourth
street and Fifth avenue.
When arraigned before the clerk Of
the Third District Court, at Westerly,
R. l., Hall was charged with having
drawn checks on the Fifth Avenue
Bank, where he had no money on de-
posit, and with having signed the
names "Charles w. Stevens" and
Douglas Turner Johnstone" to the
spurious paper. Two of the checks,
one for $4S.70 and the other for $40,
which were cashed by A. E. Dick, man
ager of the New Watch Hill Hotel,
Watch Hill, R. l., were honored at the
Fifth Avenue Bank and were charged
| to the account Of DR.. Charles w. Stew
ems, of No. 20 East Forty-sixth street,
who is director of and depositor in
the bank.
Welded Chorus Girl
Hall is a son of William G. Hall, a
retired business man, who resides at
No. SO West Ninth street, and who for
merly lived at Perth Amboy, N. J. In
1904 he married Miss Florence Teall, of
| Rochester, who obtained a divorce in
Judge Truax g branch of the supreme
court on March 10, 1909, the final de-
cree being entered on July 2. Soon af-
ter the divorce trial was ended Mrs.
Florence Teall Hall learned that her
husband had welded Vida l.. Whitmore,
chorus girl in Jersey City.
Hall was arrested in London the lat
ter part Of last year and was taken to
Paris to answer to a charge of having
obtained an automobile on a worthless
check On December 26, 1908, he was
tried in Paris and sentenced to impris-
onment for thirteen months. AT the
trial evidence was introduced to show
that Hall had succeeded in passing two
worthless checks on the Credit Lyon
nais. His friends came to the rescue
and he-was released from prison.
When he returned to New York early
in June he found that Miss Whitmore
had left for Mexico and that she had
sub-leased her apartment, at No. 5S
West Seventy-second street, to Virginia
Marshall, an actress. Although he had
never met Miss Marshall, the actress
said yesterday that he sent flowers and
candy to her and often called her up
on the telephone. They met on June
26, according to Miss Marshall, and
were guests at a dinner party at the
Hotel Plaza.
Miss Marshall's s Story.
''The man was introduced to me at
the theatre" Miss Marshall said "and
was told he was a stranger in New
York. l knew him as Douglas Turner
Johnstone. He invited me to join a
| little dinner party at the Plaza | ac-
cepted the invitation, but returned to
my home by half-past twelve O'Clock.
! The next afternoon, which was a Sun
day, the man called at my apartment,
although | had not invited him. He
began to ask me questions about Miss
Whitmere.
"The next time he called he asked
me to lend a suit case to him, saying
he desired to go to New Haven for a
few days. / sent my maid for suit
case, and when she came into the room
saw she looked at the man in peculiar
way. The girl formerly had been en-
Iployed by Miss Whitmore, and when
Hall, or Johnstone, as | knew him, had
left the maid told me she believed he
was Vaudeville Hall. He had left a
check for $400 ON table in my sitting
room. The check was drawn on the
Fifth Avenue Bank and signed Douglas
Turner ,Johnstone