New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-26
Girl Says Her Brother Forced
Her to Make Charge
Against Broker.
MoW ASSERTS IT is FALSE
Will Refuse to Testify Against
Young Real Estate Man
Father Goes to Atlantic
City. Takes Her Home.
lRr Telegraph 70 The Tribune. J

Atlantic city. Feb. 2J.-Martha b
robler. Of Brooklyn. who left home last
Sunday. after making a charge against
w,Itcr X. Doyle. of Brooklyn. and whose
,,bcrcabouts were unknown until she
,,as discovered on Sunday on the Board
,r,Ik here with Grace Cox, of New York
was held to-day by the police until the
o,rival Of her father, James p. kohler
MALCOLM T. Woodruff. Chief of Police,
sent Detective Charles Apple TO the Hotel
cha,fontc to-day and took the girl to
h,adnuarters. where she was placed in
charge Of the matron.
MISC Kohler said she knew Apple was
D detective. hut she made no scene when
no told her what he wanted. and went
quietly with him.
why did you run away?" Miss Kohler
was asked.
Because did not want To testify
against Doyle" was the reply.
"But he was arrested on a warrant
which YOUR brother caused to he issued,
aud the charge against Doyle was based
unon an affidavit which YOU made
against him. Why didn't you want TO
anpear and testify against him at his
hearing to-day?
Says Doyle Is "the Goat
We'll, didn't want to TESTIFY ana
that's all there is to il. He is Just oelns
made the goat 10 satisfy my brother.
who thinks he has a lot Of influence with
Mayor Gaynor and lot of other polti-
=. <f hn Cf,Nlrf Kind and
lust wants TO show Oft y
But why did you make the affidavit
AGAINST Doyle n YOU did not want him
prosecuted?'
..Thev forced me TO make that affidavit
when T was crazy mad. when they drove
me into corner and ] did not know
what 10 do. They got the affidavit out
of me. but they can't ever make me tes-
tlfv against Doyle. and they may as
well make I'D their minds to that I'll
never testify against him. | think lot
Of him They are simply prosecuting him
and making him the goat. Well, they
won't get me TO help them with their
scheme"
That's a pretty serious charge that
has been placed against Doyle OBJ
served the interviewer.
The girl nodded afiirnatively Then she
looked UP with flush OF her checks and
said:
There's no truth n that charge. He is
ROT cuilty Of il" Then she hung her
mead again
There's no occasion for my folks to
brazen me before the people of New York,
and especially before my friends. Why
should they publish my slip TO the world
lust for the sake of bounding a young
man whom they dislike? II is bad enough
for me as il is now, without making
things so that / shall have 10 hang my
Scad in shame every time ] go on the
Street. Ny people may think they are
doing something for me. but they would
have done a heap more If they had not
forced this matter TO public notice
Wishes She Had Gone to Bermuda.
.you ran away then. Just TO avoid being
called as a witness
yes I left home and went over to
Martins with a girl friend We talked
the whole matter over. and then l de-
cided 10 come TO Atlantic city. ] did
think at first of going 10 Bermuda, and
now 7 wish | had. / don't like Atlantic
City, and don't like it any better under
Inc present circumstances"
Miss Kohler made no preparations for
2 trip when she left her home She was
dressed I'm a deep brown coat suit, brown
hat. white lace waist and carried only
small handbag. In this she had money
enough TO pay for her trip, but she did
not carry even an extra pocket handker-
chief She said she would be glad 70 get
homo for one thing-she could get into
clean clothing. She went back home with
her father tonight.
Walter x. DOYLE, the young real estate
broker, Of No. 277 Gates avenue. Brook
Ign, accused by Miss Kohlcr appeared in
the Fatbush police court yesterday morn
Ing before Magistrate Geismar. Doyle
was accompanied by Robert II. Elder. his
attorney Assistant District Attorney
Goldstein asked that the case be ad-
io1rned until the girls father could APP
pear, and the court set II down for a
hearing on Friday. AT the request OF the
Assistant District Attorney, he increased
Dcyle's bail from 81 go to 5000
The District Attorneys office is inNcs-
tigatng the complaint made by Miss
kohlcr's father against the gang which
infests the corner of Flatbush and tul-
ton avenues aud which the father insists
was responsible for his daughters being
spirited away