The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
Trouble Took Place While
Couple Were Joy Riding.
AUTOMOBILE WAS WRECKED
When He Let Go of the Wheel,
She Says.
Detectives Discover an Effort
to Settle With Money.

richs, the young millionaire whom
Lucille Singleton charges with having
stabbed her during a motor car ride
Tuesday night was arraigned in po-
lice court today and held in $1,000
bail for a hearing on Tuesday next.
The case was postponed because of
the absence of the complainant. She
was still in bed today.
Herman OelrichS, jr., son of Her
man Oelrichs, shipping merchant was
arrested by order of Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty on a charge
of felOnfous assault, as the result of d
story told to the police by Lucille Sin
gleton q 19-year-old girl daughter of
a Texas mine owner.
AT the same time Detective Theo-
dore Trayer, who had Investigated an
autom obile accident to young Oelrichs,
a law student at Columbia. on Broad
way, was suspended. Trayer's re-
port regarding the accident in which
Miss Singleton had been reported Gin
jured'' by being tossed through the
wind shield of the machine did not
agree with reports made later by
other detectives, it was announced at
police headquarters.
Advised to Settle.
A youth wearing glasses and saying
that he was detective, called on Miss
Singleton and advised her to settle"
the case for money, detectives told
Dougherty, and after a conversation
III WHICH the sum OF S0,UUU was men
toned, an understanding was reached
that "Creighten" was to give her $400.
Commissioner Dougherty arranged
for Miss Singleton to telephone the
come to her home, which she did.
Detectives concealed themselves there
and Oelrichs and a companion, they
say, walked in and Oelrichs was ar
rested as a result of a conversation
between the two and Miss Singleton.
n a M do r,,ic
oner. The young woman'S condition
is not serious.
Dougherty later announced that Miss
Singleton had identified Oelrichs as her
assailant, declaring an automobile ac-
cident happened when Oelrichs let go
the steering wheel to attack her. A
few minutes before this, Dougherty
said, Miss Singleton asserted she had
told Oelrichs that she had a dinner en-
gagement with another man.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty |
said after the arrest:
The detective interviewed Miss Sin |
gleton and she told them that she had |
gone riding with Creighton Tuesday !
night after dining with him. She said |
that when she protested against going |
further and placed her hand on the /
wheel, Creighton, whom we
now know to be Oelrichs, began to
stab her on the arms and chest with
some sharp instrument.
Then the machine SwerVed and all |
she remembered was a crash After
she woke up at the hospital the girl
says a man called and advised her to
settle the case upon terms offered by
Creighton, saying she would get $400.
She declared she would take $4,000 or
make terrible row.
1.-The detectives learned that man
Williams had agreed to call at
her apartment to settle the case and
advised her to insist that Creighton
q d
vice, the detectives heard the peace
overtures and they Immediately ar
rested Oe1richS."
Herman Oelrichs is generally re-
garded as one of the richest bachelors
Of America. His mother was Miss
Theresa Fair, daughter of James G.
Fair. She refused the eighth duke of
Marlboro to marry Herman Oelrichs,
a comparatively poor steamship man.
The elder OelrichS died at sea in
1906. His will cut off the wife and
son without a cent but the widow in
herited vast fortune from her father
and young Oelrichs was allowed to
draw upon this and keep pace with 1
other princely SpenderS.
The young man reached his major I
ty last October and received half a
million dollars from his aunt, Mrs. !
for abstaining from liquor l
and tobacco until that time.
Vincent Astor is his close friend and ]
hey are rivals in automobiling and ]
motor boating.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty,
Who has charge of the police end of
he case said:
II learned Miss Singleton received I
,ach month a check from Dallas, {
Texas. The checks were from a man
named Smith and were cashed by the !
girl at drug store in Harlem
DR.. Kergar of the Knickerbocker
hospital, who attended the girl on :
he night of the automobile accident
leld a conference with the police this '
lfternoon.
II found several cuts on the young
voman's BOSOM he said. Zone of :
hese may have been inflicted with a |
,nife or other sharp instrument, but
believe it was caused by contact {
With glass of the windshield. That is {
What she told me-
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