The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-25
F|SCHER-HANSEN
GIVES UP CHILD
AND FORTUNE
Forced to Sign Away Every
thing and Return to Den
mark After Prison Term.
WILL GET AN ANNUITY.
Family of Wife Who viii
Ask Separation Pays 1t to
Keep Him Away.

There was little scene in the
SNerffs Office room in The Criminal
Courts Building this afternoon. tina
marked the final downfall ~ tie for
tunes of Carl Nis,hcr-liansen. the man
who was once called tie lawyer-ph!I.
nlhroplst and who Yesterday had been
forced to save himself from something
worse by pleading guilty to an attempt
al bribery.
\ warier from the rombs brorgh'
Fischer Hansen across the Bridge Of
Sghs. IN the Sherlffs quarters he
found two lawyers-his own newly re-
tanned counsel George Gordon Battle
and Arson McCook Beard, represent
ing his aged lathcr-in-law, Isaac V
Brokaw, the millionaire clothing mer
chant. The attorneys had several paper
ready for him, and after Carl Fischer
Hansen had affixed his signature to
ach Of these papers he was taken bach
to the jail
In those few minutes he had signed
away all hs worldly goods, includins
releases on furnishings and adornments
worth t5DoN in the house 1t No. . IVES
Forty-seventh street, which is held
Jointly by him and his wife. and assign.
ments to realty at Nos, 315-3i6 Central
Park West and at Nos i6 to ~ Wes,
Ninety seCond street, where there Is Il
womans hotel
Gives Up His Child
II was also learned that he reln.
pushed all claims to the control OF his
eleven-year.old daughter and affixed his
name 10 a pledge in which he promised
to return to his old home in Denmark
when his term OF Imprisonment. ends
ard stay there For this last, it is I'M
ders'ood. lie is to receive a handsome
annuity from his wife's people Even
in the browning hour OF his humiliation
and disgrace the confessed briber In
seat In the Danish Parliament
With lis career in ruins, his rosy
hopes all dead ashes and trip IN
handouts to Backwell's Island and
twelve months In stripes when he' gets
there all looking him in the face.
Fischer Hansen. once the most darling
and iiashy figure at the New York Grim.
nal bar, could still be jaunty and self.
possessed when lie came down earlier in
the day from his cell in the Tombs to
see The Evening World reporter who
had called to see him.
Ready for "Medieine."
Fischer-Hansen kept the newspaper
man waiting fifteen minutes sfor MIN in
TIE counsel chamber while he had the
prison barber shave and powder his face
and slick up his hair. He was dressed
With his usual careful attention to the
smaller details when finally he 40.
peared.
Il had promised that would give out
an interview" H. said, pulling at thu
ends Of his cuffs and fussing with his
rather ornate tie. but after deep con.
sldera,ion | have decided that will Jus,
take my medicine in silence and say
nothing for publication You all know
what has happened. | cannot talk"
Saying this, ne turned and went back
upstairs to make the most Of every spare
minute OF the week of grace which Jus.
tIce Bowling has given him in which to
settle up his business affairs before he
loses his identity as a man and becomes
number in cell over at the penlten.
,iary!"
Neither his wife nor any OF her people
had been near MIN. Except for the law
yers, his law partner, Alexander Michael
son. who is yet to be tried for alleged
completely in the same crime to which
! Fischer Hansen has pleaded guilty, and
the reporters he had no callers at all to.
, day.
Wife viii Sue Him.
Mrs. FisCher-Hansen has announced
: ,hat she will now sue for a legal separa.
ten Now that Fischer Hansen has
been convicted OF felony. Mrs. Fischer
. Hansen can legally apply at any time to
! the courts for freedom.
/ Fischer Hansen viii also be disbarrc,l
from practise Of law when he has fin
| shed his sentence.
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