New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-09
FIGHT IN BANK OFFICE
Private Detective ResentS Ar
rest by Two Others.
CHARGED WITH EXT0RTlON
Woman Alleges He Demanded
$4,000 for His Silence in
Divorce Action.

The clerks I'm the banking offices Of BAN
berger Brothers thought an attempt was
being made to rob the place Yesterday
afternoon. when Detectives Fitzsimmons
and Flood arrested George II. King. a pri-
vate detective. King pat UP a stif fight.
and the place was IN an uproar until h.
was finally overpowered.
The arres: was the result % a charge Of
extortion made by Mrs Fay Tysen. who is
suing her husband, Robert II. Tysen. for
absolute divorce. According 10 her story.
she employed King to obtain the necessary
evidence against her husband. and when he
proved himself incompetent she discharged
him She said that on Thursday King
called her up on the telephone and de-
manded that S5co0 be paid him yesterday
or he would turn against her when her case
came up for trial and testify for her hus-
band. who was seeking an annulment Of
the marriage. If the money were paid,
however he promised 70 disappear before
the case came on the calendar.
According to Mrs Tysen. she agreed to
the proposal and selected Herbert Hork-
heimer. a salesman. living at the Hotel
Empire. TO act as go-between. Mrs. Tysen
then reported the matter 10 her attorney,
Henry White. OF No. leo Broadway, and he
informed the District Attorneys office and
a trap was laid 20 catch King.
King made an appointment with Hork-
heinler to meet him in front Of the banking
offices Yesterday and receive the money.
Horkheimer had a $500 bill and roll Of
paper in an envelope when King appeared.
A. the time the detectives were across the
street awaiting developments. Horkheimer
asked King 70 step inside and get the
money, and the two went into the banking
house. Just as King was about to tear
open the envelope and count the money the
detectives Uounced upon him.
King was. arraicned before Magistrate
BARLOW and held in 5000 bail for examina-
tion on Tuesday When he was arraigned
a man who said he was Frederick L. Van
Zandt. a lawyer representing King, APP
peared and asked for an immediate ex-
animation Van Zandt said he knew all
about the case with the exception Of the
more recent developments, but District At
torney Whitman suggested that he might
call him a witness. and the magistrate
insisted on the postponement
According to a statement made by White,
the Tysens We're married i'm September,
1903 the husband, who was a retired bro
kerr having been divorced from his first
wife. Last September, he said, Tysen
brought an action in New York County for
an annulment Of the marriage, which is
stl pending. Shortly afterward, lie con-
tinued. Mrs. Tysen filed an action for alb
sclute divorce. which is also pending, an
answer TO it having been flied by Tysen.
Tysen. he said, sailed for Europe on No
vernber . and had not returned. He lived
while IN New York al No. 80 West 18th
street.
According 10 White. King after his dis
charge by Mr. Tysen appeared at his Of
fee in the company Of another man
and .utimated that he would get even with
him for not having a certain client pay his
hill \ few, DAYS after " aite said that a
man approached him and told him it would
be wiser for him 10 have George King as
a friend than as an enemy. White asked
linn what he meant. and the man replied
that the matter could be fixed with King.