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-
Iations With Wall St. Wolf.
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man Of talent who rose from poverty
10 high place. only 20 lose his place
and his fortune in the bog mire Of
finance and politics.
Associate Of Lamar,
Lauterbach to-day presents the
miserable spectacle OF being ar
raigned as the working partner Of
David Lamar. party 90 his schemes
and the benefsctor OF the evil genius
Of the subtle Wolf" whose swapping
was directed at all meu-DXcepf lau-
terbach. And verify the friendship Of
the Wolf was more bhgHtiug than
his enmity.
Out Of the haze Of obscurity came
Lauterbach. His father was SCION
Iauterbach. his mother Nina. He was
born August u. 1914. In New York.
He went TO the public schools, then 20
the College Of the City OF New York,
whence he was graduated iu 1864. He
was admitted TO tho bar In 1866 and
was first employed with the firm Of
Townsend. Dyett & Morrison He
progressed until in 1877 he became
, member Of the firm of HoaGley, Lau-
terbach e. Johnson MANY important
p law cases way. Tie grew
rich
He was a director in many corpora
lions At one time he was president
OF the Alabama Great Southern Rail
way. one OF the chief links In the
Southern System. In the Emigrnnt
Aid Society. the Society for Ethical
Culture, the Home for Aged and In
Arm, the Hebrew Benevolent and or
phan Asylum. the Hebrew Technical
Institute and many other organiza
lions he was a worker and officer
Was Mckinley Partisan.
Lauterbach 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 iu 1898 was
candidate for the United States Sem
ate to succeed Senator Murphy.
He became the right-hand man of
Boss Plat only 90 be sidetracked
when he fought his chief. and Lemuel
Ely Quigg was given the Lauterbacn
scepter In all OF the political events
Of his party and his time he had q
part and a voice. He championed the
cause 10 the Jews az all times. sought
20 relieve their oppression at home
and abroad. and ia many ways earned
the gratitude OF many people who viii
never rget his goodiy acts In the
mass inflammation he has brought
upon ralf.
His Sons Death.
The decline set In during the year
1908 when Lauterbach'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,
FhF. h nd "a Nn
! istration of her fathers household ex-
penses. She was a woman OF grace
In the DAYS when she came 10 his
home To them were born four chill
dren, Mrs. Edith NCDavitt, 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 quarreled and she
finally filed suit for divorce. Charg
ing him with intimacy with women
Of questionable character. with cru
city and with failure 10 provide
II nat suit brought the beginning OF
the end TO the Lauterbach career
Likewise II injected into the story the
name Of woman who occupied high
position and who was esteemed to
possess millions
What Wife Told
The divorce was granted I'm 1911
and the court ordered the papers
sealed. But the wife made public
enough charges 10 make talk and TO
throw a new and strange light upon
the career Of the man she sued. She
charged that she took him as an un-
couth young man TO 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 Iauter-
bach Indignantly denied that he had
sustained friendly relations with Mrs
Philip Van Nolkenburgh, widely known
as the $50 o00 600 widow Mrs Van
Nolkenhurgh. 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 Lauterb8Ch To- ex-
plain his relations with Mrs. Phuip
Van Nolkeuburgh.
Society papers toasted the LAWYER
for his defense. in heated fashion. OF
the woman OF fashion and means
Later IL was stated that Philip Van