The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-08-06
MISSING LAWYER AND
SOLDIER HELD HERE
Col. Gibbons q. COrnwell OF
West Chester, Pa, Accused
by Col. Dyer.
DIDN'T OWN BONDS HE SOLD
Shortage Of $4,000 in Darling
ton Estate, for Which He
Was Attorney.

| Col. Gibbons Gray Cornwell, com.
mander Of the Sixth Regiment, National
Guard Of Pennsylvania. wtJ has been
missing since last Wednesday. when he
left the State encampment at Gettys-
burg. was arrested at broadway and
Twentieth street yesterday afternoon
and locked up in the East Twenty
second street police station on a charge
Of swlndling Col. George Il. Dyer. the
former New York National Guard com.
niander.
Col. Dyer was talking With \. Drum
Porter. secretary to Deputy Police Com
missioner Mckay. when Cornwcll came
along.
That's the man who cheated me-" he
said hastily to Porter. He sold me
two bonds that he didn't own"
Porter called Policeman Rooney Of
the East Tive enty-second street station
and told him to arrest Cornwell. The
broker appeared to be surprised when
told he would have to 20 to the station
house. Col. Dyer was In his automobile
on the way to Roslyn. l.. L. where he
lives and he had his chauffeur take
the policeman and his prisoner around
to the station house.
CornwelI refused To make any state
ment when he was arraigned at the
desk and he was locked up as a fugi-
tive from justice. 1t was said a war
rant had been issued FOR him in Phila-
dclphia.
WEST CHESTER Ia Nug' COL. Glo-
bons Gray 'ornwell' commander OF the
SIKH Regiment. \. u. r.. has not been
seen since he left camp with his COM
Inand on wednesday. No one re-
members seeing him after the train left
rctFspurs, ana his wire ana dauShtcrS
reared II. had wondered or while de-
pressed. 4
inc 'o'one' Is memner or the law
nr'n oi tofn"e'l n tornwe'i, inc senior
m. m"cr or the partnership being the
as"u ia'hcr VI inc missing man. who
VIZ TOO ol" 10 attend 10 many details OF
''e business nut continued al the on'ces.
'"l' 'orn"e!i Is 'he trustee "f several
"'s anu 'Ius' ,un"s Se'cIa' persons
which ~. cninn., ..,u e $500,
a., ,,i, 81, l, 80.
fnr,rntIon royar,,,n' ,ho;r %
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affairs in shane Within a fou. ds,.. %
enable tb.m "a know inc, ,.,or.
stood
Col. Cornw.ll Was non,,Iar and hi. dt,-
appearance has crcat.d tail, In mill.
tary and social circles Members Of his
regiment say that at Ge,tysbury he
seemed unusually pertu-b.d and was
quite unlike himself lie was irritable
and sought sccusion as far as possible.
The missing lawyer was also "a men,-
bor "f the West Chester School Hoard
and also the Chester County Uospital
Hoard. and was trustee and attorney
for The latter institution.
Following the disappearance Of Col.
Cornwcll. shortage OF $4,000 was dis.
covered to-day in the Darlington estate,
Of which Cornwell was the legal rep.
r"scntativc.
Mrs. Cornwell said tonight that she
learned since the disappearance of Col.
Cornwcil that he had speculated in
stocks. but that h. had never told her
so himself
Capt. Cornwcll. the father, il vet.
ernn Of the ciyu war. and xsined n
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on the battlefield. Whom seen to-n,yh,
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