The evening world., 1913-09-27
TRAUTWE|N AOR|FT
AS ATTORNEY AND
BANKER LEAVE HIM
Constable Finds Raab, Missing
Heir, at Great Neck
Estate.
|CANNOT GET OFFICES.
Head of Estates Settlement
Corporation Advised to Con-
fess to Surety Company.
|CANNOT GET OFFICES.

George Rasb. an acquaintance Of I'd.
win Elliott Trautwstn. who 10 charged
with having foisted q fake heir upon
tho estate Of John Crowley In an aefi-
davtt filed In the Sairrosate's office BY
Joseph Kettner. VINO oonfesses that he
was the fake heir. had been missing
from his home. No. Is Hamilton place.
for several weeks until last night.
Raab recently inherited an estate
worth o40o.ooo left by his father and
when he disappeared his wife asked
friends to locate him. fearing that be
might have met with harm. She ap-
peaiei 70 two Of her husbands friends.
They knew that Raab had been &C.
quainted with Trautwsin and yesterday
morning they went to Herman Roth.
formerly Trautwein's attorney. and de-
manded to know where Raab was.
They had been clipped OF" that Raab
was being harbored At Trautwein's o's
estate In Great Neck.
CONSTABLE SEARCHES ron
RAAe WITH ARREST WARRANT
Roth told the two friends that he
had heard that Raab was at Traut.
veins home. In . big touring car the
friends went to Great Neck late last
night, appeared before Justice Of the
Peace Will Dodge and obtained . war
rant for Raab's arrest on . charge Of
disorderly conduct A constable was
detailed to accompany the party. They
went to the Trautwein home.
A woman who said she was Miss Paine
opened the door for the constable. and
when they asked to see Raab she told
them he was not In the house They tn-
sisted upon making q search. and going
upstairs they found Raab asleep In q
room. He wNs taken back TO New York.
and he and his wife were reunited ~
tho Knickerbockr Hotel last night
Raab made . statement to his wife ant
friends A. to how he got into the Traut.
vein home and told them something Of
the financial transactions he had With
Trautwein while In his home. Ths
friends and Mrs. Raab refused to tell
what had happened to Raab.
The Estates Liquidation Corporation
the concern under whose mama Traut.
vein operated. Is no more. Tho hooks.
furniture and other belongings OF the
corporation are in storage. having been
placed there when the corporation was
refused an once in the Emigrant bank
Building In Chambers street. At ths
ONCE OF the superintendent OF the bank
building It was stated THU morning tina,
Trautwein had applied for an once In
the building and was told that he OF
his nrm was not wanted. Then the e::.
pressmen In o.. lrge Of the furniture
were ."struc,,d to drive to q storage
warehouse.
I'VE heard . great deal about the At.
fairs OF the Estates Liquidation Cor.
porat ton end Mr.. rrautws!n. and al
most Of our information reflected dis.
credit upou the concern We threw
Trautwein's account out OF our bank.
lie tried several times after that to
start an account with W. but We 70.
fused him" was the statement mads
at Bischoff's banking house ct No ~
Broad way.
ROTH WiTHoRAWs As rRAUr
VEINS ATTORNEY.
Herman l.. Roth. who was Traut
veins attorney until yesterday morn
ing. when he hastily withdrew a. TN,
accussd's counsel. eaid to-day that h,
had found that Trautwsln needs<
something more than a lawyer.
The National Surety Company had
been pressing rrautwein for an AZ.
counting In the John Crowley estat.
and other estates he had handled, ant
he came to me and said no Wa In
trouble and wanted me to strsightsp
things out for him." said Roth to-day
II went over the books and found them
In an awful state.
u tried 10 help Trautwe4n 4,
straighten things out but q few day
ago things began to pile up assins
Trautwein 80 fast and seemed no con
vincing that I told him he w~s.
thought. beyond the aid OF q lawye
and / told him to 80 to the Nstions
surety Company and make q clsa,
breast OF everything. II the charge
made against him are true Traut vei
has committed perjury. forgery an
grand larceny. I do not know whsr
he 10 as he hasn't been at my ONO
since I washed my hands OF the whoI
case"