Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
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PITIFULFIGURE
BEFORE INQUIRY
Former Republican Leader QuaiIs
as He Tells investigators Of Re-
lations With Wall ST. Wolf,
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man OF talent who rose from poverty
TO high place. only 20 lose his place
and his fortune in the bog miTe "i
finance and politics.
Associate Of Lamar.
Iauterbac5 to-day presents inc
miserable spectacle Of being ar
raipned as the working partner of
David Lamar. a party TO his schemes
and the benefactor OF the evil genius
NJ the subtle .eWolF' whose swapping
was directed at all men--cTcept l.au-
terbach. And verify the friendship or
the Wolf" was more blghtlug than
his enmity.
out Of the haze OF obscurity came
Iauterbach His father was Scion
Tauterbach: his mother Nina. He was
horn August y. 1874, IN New York.
He went 10 the public schools, then 10
the College of the city Of New York
whence he was graduated in 1864. lie
was admitted TO the bar IN 1866 and
was first employed with the firm OF
Townsend pvett g. Morrison. He
progressed until in 1877 he became
member Of the firm Of Hoadley l.au-
terbach & Johnson. Many important
law cases came his way. He grew
rich.
He was director I'm many corpora
lions. At one time he was president
of the Alabama Great Southern Rail-
wav. one Of the chief links IN the
Southern System. In the Emigrant
Aid Society the Society for Ethical
Culture. the Home for Aged and In
firm. the Hebrew Benevolent and or
phau ASYLUM. the Hebrew Technical
Institute and many other organlza-
tions he was "a worker and officer
Was Mckinley Partisan.
I,auterbach was one Of the States
Big -Four at the national convention
that named Mckinley at st. Louis
He was chairman Of the Republican
County Committee, and In 1898 was
candidate for the United States Sem
ate 10 succeed Senator Murphy.
He became the riRht-ha man OF
Boss Platt only 10 be sidetracked
when he fought his chief and Lemuel
Ely Quigg was given the Lauterbacn
scepter In an Of the political events
Of his party and his time he had a
part and a voice. He championed the
Cause Of M, Jews AT all times, sought
20 relieve their oppression at home
and abroad and In many ways earned
the gratitude of many people who viii.
never forget his Roodly acts in the
mass Of condemnation he has brought
upon himself,
His Sons Death.
The decline set Ia during the year
1905 when Lauterbaoh's son, Alfred.
was killed IN an automobile accident
while crossing a bridge IN WestChes-
ter Lauterbach had married, in his
DAYS Of poverty. Amanda Friedman.
who had saved y dot from the admin
istration Of her fathers household OK
penses She was a woman OF grace
in the days when she came to his
home To them We're born four chill
dren; Mrs. Edith McDavitt. Mrs. Flor
ence Hirschheld, Miss Alice Lauter-
bach and Alfred Lauterbach
Shortly after the death Of the son
friends of the family heard that Lau-
terbach and his wife had separated
and that the home at 76l Fifth
Avenue no longer contained the pair.
II soon developed that the family
split upon the question of suing the
New Haven Road for killing the son.
Upon the details OF the suit the hus-
band and wife QuaTelcd and she
finally filed suit for divorce, charg-
ing him with intimacy with women
OF questionable character, with cru
city and with failure to provide.
That suit brought the beginning Of
the end TO the Lauterbach career
Likewise il injected into the story the
name OF a woman who occupied high
position and who was esteemed to
possess millions.
What Wife Told.
The divorce was granted in 1911
and the court ordered the papers
sealed But the wife made public
) enough charges 10 make talk and TO
. throw new and strange light upon
3 the career Of the man she sued. She
charged that she took him as an un-
couth young man 20 whom her family
objected that she loaned him the
money she had saved from her faith
er's household. that she taught him
the ways Of polite society.
A year after the divorce Lauter-
bach Indignantly denied that he had
sustained friendly relations with Mrs
Philip Van Volkenburgh, widely known
as the $50, 900 600 widow" Mrs Van
Volkenburgh. who lived at the ST
Regis, was being sued for a picture
that Samuel J. Wolf an artist had
painted. LauterbaCh was "a witness.
and Alexander Strouse, counsel for
the artist asked Lauterbach 60 cN-
plain his relations with Mrs. Philip
Van NolkenburEh
Society papers toasted the lawyer
for his defense. in heated fashion. of
the woman Of fashion and means.
e Later II was stated that Philip Van