The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25
TRANSGRESSOR'S WAY HARD
IA NJ iRIt\ RELIEVED ar
STOLEN uONEi MERE.
when tie wrote Home relIInE 'tis vie
To .IaIn Hlm the AUSTRIAN roiire
0prned IIis Letters In Thai Practical
Foreign WAY and Promptly Get HIM.


Foreign WAY and Promptly Got ttim'
Tin, discuntinuanCe yesterday nj suits
brought IN the Supreme Court 10y IN"
township Of Erzsebetfalva. Hungary
against Or Ernst Kern. alias George
KoIlath. former treasurer 81 III" town
shin brought from counsel Ia the AustTo-
Hungarian Consulate a story oi kind
~ detective work on the part OF N"
Hungarian Government police that could
not b. duplicated here
Morris Cukor. attorney for th" con
sulars. aid that the defaulter. whose
real name IL George Kollath had been
treasurer of the township for some Year,
and that last March. when tho township
funds ia hi- hands had reached sl".'",
he disappeared with the SIo.UO IN cash
aud securities The Hungarian police
could get no track Of him, hut they kept
watch 81 his wife. who had gone T." a
little town near by where her grand
father. Joseph l-iay. was the Mayor
and the largest landholder IN the county
The polio. watched all letters coming
to the Mayor or his grsnddauRhte and
finally found one from the International
Information Bureau al 2i7 Avenue \.
~ which DR. Ernst Kern asked the
Mayor for Information concerning MIR.
George Kollsth. The letter contained
ten kronen for the Information and stated
that n the information was sltisfaCt DRY
40 more kronen would he sent Inc
police photographed this lett"r and sent
II on tn the Mayor and finally got the
Mayors reply. which told where Nlrs
Kollath wa- living and asked 'niortni
ton concerning George kollath. THIS
letter also was photo graphed and cent
On To America
In due time reply came hack from
Kern 90 tho Mayor requesting him 10
deliver q l"tt"r enclosed 10 Mr- George
Kollath The enclosed letter told how.
kollath had made M, way to America
and WIS living ~ 2ii AVenu" \ and waE
conducting an Information bureau Tor
the benefit Il Hlngarlars ald holding
himself out a. q lawyer. hollatn wrote
th.t ha expected :, max" a fortune hcre
and said that no wa. ~nniIug an ON
ploye". John IA gGt. g. Hungary Tor his
wife and family. kDilath told his wife
~ como her" A. the wife NJ HtSnt ana
have the Chliren cal IaZIt father 80
that here would ID" no irn'ihi" with tho
immigration AUTHORITIES
Kollath also suggested tha' his wife
got uivnrc" from him IN Hungary 80
that W hen she came here h" could TernRrry
her unda- the name 81 Kern 1h,~ letter
also IVES photographed and sent on TO
the Mayor In u koilath had sad 'hs'
Za-At would stop a. tho White Horr'
Tavern m Budapest and that he would
communicate with Hlrs kolls'h when
he 60 there
The Hungarian poliCe Watched rho
tavern nd hon ZsGst arrived they AZ
res'e1 hiru ono ~ then, then = ont - Tho
res'denc' e Nrs h"nsih and nv pre-
ending to - Lsga' got h"' - 20 ~ Buda
post prepared ~ come - An@rin9 When
she a-riyel -ha was told 'h1' h"r hps-
hand had rasr located an6 that co.
Nr,uon ~" h4d with her was tho prCr-
srfy - tho tng rrhi-.
The police then com mtinicatsd with
Asyanirr 10 Nouhar. The Consul -Iienpral
hove. ar4 iu].~ nts rnsfr,icttouS E0llafr
her I's has an . benn n the Tomb
Whom arr.s' - -" 'rli VIZ ''kcr The
No h1' ur rrnuNv eft soon after he
a.rlvei o., aap tho, mon cam. - him
pretending To- bs detectives and Imnu-
grafton officers and threatened 20 turn
him uv"- 20 the authorities unless no
gave no - oso kollath sald he handed
over the money Next some enc show al
Kollarh ths three story house AZ 30
Avenue and told him he could buy II
Tor s. 90 lie pad over A.Orn IN cash
and gave = mortgage Tor - Hno and then
found th4' all he had bought vas a nine
wear Lease & m" property which : Owned
nv the NSipr estate Under 'he lease
Ne has 80 psv $50 wear rent
kollafh has agreed 10 waive eNtradi-
ton and has turned ar his lease 20 the
Hungarian authorities and IN consider
atirp II his act ~ making such resti'u-
ton a. he could MI 'ukor SAID that he
vouli not he severely punished VI
tukor will now bring an acton 20 set
ASIDE tho -. Ofs' mortgage and - trying
- find the woman Who sold kollath The
lease In he suits discontinued v~ster-
dav the oWnshIp AK 81 for the properly