Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-17
CASE
To Be ENDED
Richmond County Court Has
Appointed a Committee.

Robert A. Ammon, who achieved
notoriety with 1870 per cen Miller"
Is once more free from legal wor-
ries. In the county court house at
Richmond, Staten Island, Wednes-
day, he came to an agreement with
his wife whereby an arbitration
board was appointed to orange the
details for a lasting peace between
them. This result was reached only
after Judge Herman had instructed
the jury to bring in a verdict of not
guilty when the State rested its case
against Ammon on a charge of hav-
Ing stolen a box of jewels and coins
from Mrs. Ammon.
The Board of Arbitration is COM
posed of Judge Herman, George C.
Pinney, attorney for Mr.. Ammon,
and Frederick s. Mullen, attorney
for Mrs, Ammon. The board has
power to arrange a financial settle
ment, and Mrs. Ammon is to drop
two charges involving other alleged
thefts, which were to come up for
hearing before Magistrate March at
Stapleton tomorrow, and a civil
suit involving the proceeds from
the sale of the Ammon homestead
at Grymes Hill, Staten Island. Am
mon Is to drop divorce proceedings
which he brought early>this year in
Florida, where he is selling real
estate.
After it was ended Ammon. who
is sixty-two years old, was asked if
he intended to return to Florida
soon.
"No, SIR" he replied. am going
to stay right here on Staten Island
and try to make the old woman
happy and prove to her that / am
not half so bad as | have been paint
ed. l feel that some peace and rest
would be good for me. l am a
modern reincarnation of old Ponce
de Leon. l am looking for the
fountain Of youth, and maybe I've
found 1t. I'm going to look out for
my wife. She's one of the best
women on the face of the earth,
even If she has some queer notions
about me lately"
The trouble Of Ammon and his
family began in 1908, two years af-
ter his release from Sing Sing,
where he was sentenced In 1903 on
the specific allegation of having re-
ceived 100000 on the receipts of
the Franklin Syndicate, which was
promoted by $40 per cent Miller"
After his return from prison he or
gained the AmmOn Realty Com
pany, by which means he purposed
to develop seventeen acres of fam
lily homestead IN Staten Island,
building concrete houses on the lots
and selling them. Mrs. Ammon
signed away her dover rights to the
property. 1t was decided 10 the COM
pany and $22, 900 for development
was raised by means of. bonds.
Then came disputes in the family.
Mrs. Ammon charged that the
money had been s%quandered, the
work Of development was dropped,
interest on the bonds defaulted, and
not long ago the creditors had the
property sold-by the court.
There vas virtual separation Of
the couple in 1908, when, after a
quarrel, Ammon advertised he would
no longer pay his wife's bills. They
continued to occupy the same house,
but separate parts of it.
AmmOn, in November, 1910, took
away from the house a strong box
containing papers and other Valua-
bles. That same afternoon he was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by
his wife. At a hearing before Mag
istrate Marsh, at Stapleton, he was
bound we to the county court, and
the box was sealed and put in care
of the police department. Soon af-
ter that Ammon went to Florida to
sell a tract of land at De Leon.
While there he sued for divorce, al
leging desertion, inasmuch as Mrs.
Ammon refused to go with him to