Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05
400 W|THHOLDS
JUDGMENT ON
YOUNG OELRICHS
Meanwhile Vincent Astor's Chum
Reiterates Denial That He
Stabbed Girl in Joy Ride.
MISS SINGLETON IS SICK
Friends of Second Richest Bach
eIOr in U. S. Shocked, and
Police Expose Looms.

NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-smart soci-
ETY., shocked by the charge brought
against Hermann Oelrichs bv Miss
Lucille Singleton. is debating whether
to listen favorably to his indignant
protest that he is innocent of stab
bling her during a quarrel in his auto
mobile early Wednesday morning.
Except for his repeated deniaIs
nothing has come of the incident
since the first startling information
that he had been arrested
Il shall be exonerated." he is quot
ed as telling his friends The charge
is untrue. The girl came by her
wounds in the automobile smashup
which occurred that morning and
which was investigated"
The case has been postponed until
october Z. Miss Singleton is i'll. And
because young Oelrichs is considered
a rather exemplary youth, his friends
find 1t hard to believe the charge of
stabbing which the girl makes against
him.
His First Serious Trouble.
For one thing, Oelrichs, in spite of
the fact that he is the second richest
bachelor in America, never has been
in trouble before: that is. not the
serious trouble that is the lot of many
of the gilded youths. There have been
few arrests for speeding, and trivial
matters of such sort, but nothing of
significance. Therefore his friends
were shocked when the news of his
arrest first was heralded.
Oelrichs has been leader in the
younger set of New York society. He
and Vincent Astor have been boon
companions. associates in business
deals, friendly rivals in automobile
races, in the purchase of horses and
motor cars and We're close comrades
on eotillion floors.
They were rivals in early youth in
the little affairs Of the heart. and
later were more serious antagonists
when they both were constant callers
on the beautiful Miss Margaret An
drews, of Newport and New York.
Remain Friends, Though Rivals.
Both were in love with her, current
gossip said, but they remained friends
through it all.
"A nice boy Hermann Oelrichs, the
mothers of Newport and New York
were wont TO declare. And they were
glad that he should call upon their
daughters Was he not the second
richest bachelor, second only to his
chum, Vincent Astor. and his mother
the sister of Mrs. w K. Vanderbilt,
Jr?
Then came the scandal, briefly this;
Following an automobile smashup,
A young woman of great beauty, Miss
Lucille Singleton, declared she had
been stabbed by her companion in the
machine. The man. she said, was
known to her as BILLY" Creighton, a
Columbia University student.
Upon her complaint, the identity of
her companion was investigated, and
was established as that of Hermann
Oelrichs. who later was arrested i'm
her apartments Miss Singleton pro-
fessed surprise when she heard that
the rich youth was her acquaintance,
but she maintained her story
Tells of Hush Money.
She said later that the Oeirichs
family. through legal representative.
had offered her $500 to drop the
charge.
Miss Singleton is the daughter OF
a wealthy mine owner in Mexico anu
Texas, and il is said she has been
Bryn Mawr student
A police scandal is brewing as in
cidental to the smashup. Detective
TIP. Trayer who first investigated the
accident, has been suspended because
ne reported the affair was without
suspicious circumstances.
Water pumnn6 Into