Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-27
MEMORIES COME
BACK WITH A RUSH
Miss EtIinger and HammeIs
Tell Referee Adams True
State of Affairs.

Very much tanned, Miss Mary Ell
! linger, Frederick E. Hammel and
Henry C. Hammel, all of whom were
threatened by Bankruptcy Referee
! Edwin G. Adams with contempt of
court Certificates for testifying to
Tissue of lies Tuesday, as he said,
appeared in bankruptcy court today
and contradicted their own state
ments.
They admitted that practically all
of the testimony they had offered on
previous occasions was false and had
been made up and rehearsed before
hand.
Mary Etlinger, who boards with a
woman named Palmer in Chestnut
street, Wyoming, admitted that the
| tale she told Referee Adams of her
losing $1,000 through a hole in her
stocking was false. She went so far
as to say that she never had $1,000.
Henry c. Hammel, who is the most
active of all the Hammels, CONTRA
dicted his former testimony and adj
mitted that the transfer of two of
the Hammel houses to a woman
named Anna Abella was done as a
blind for the pur eose of saving the
houses for their poor old father and
mother who had worked SO hard"
He said the matter had all been
threshed out beforehand and re-
hearsed so that the stories each of
them told would agree
During the examination it developed
that the plot had been so completely
planned that Anna Abella was to
flash a large roll of money when the
deeds to the property were given to
her for the purpose of making the
deal seem more realistic.
Frederic E. Hammel, the father of
Henry C. Hammel admitted this on
the stand after he had contradicted
after he had been corrected by Ref
cree Adams several times that he
finally told what the referee believed
to be the truth.
Two employees of the Hammel firm,
who were builders before they went
into bankruptcy, testified that after
the receiver was appointed their
time tickets were padded so that they
would receive more money from the
receiver than they were entitled to,
The extra money, they said, they
gave to Henry c. Hammel
Composition Being Arranged.
Attorney Paul NJ. Fischer. who rep
resents the bankrupts, says that ne
gotiations are under way for com
position and expects that the credit
ors will receive 100 cents on the dol
lar, and that the bankrupt will also
Another deal, which was to net the
Hammels house, was exposed today
when Henry Hammel admitted that
the house that Mary Etlinger was
supposed to have contracted for really
was to be his own property.
He admitted that the girl figured In
the matter only as "namesake," ex-
planning later to Referee Adams that
by "namesake" he meant that her
name was used merely to complete
the transaction which required the
signatures of a third party.
i 1t came out that Miss Etlinger ac
tually had paid SIS on the lot OF
| which the house was to be built ane
had yet to be reimbursed for this.
/ Miss Etlinger said she was not Il
receive any money for her part II
the affair, but became a party JUS
to help out the Hammels, at theii
request. In testifying at the pre-
vious hearing she said that she hat
been shopping in large department
store in New York, but had located
1t incorrectly.
During the examination today. Ref
cree Adams asked her if she had beer
there since and she said she never
could find it again.
Frederic's Memory Better.
When he was placed on the wit
ness stand, Frederic Hammel ad
mitted to Referee Adams that HI
could remember better today thar
he was able to at the former hear
ing.
He explained the fake" transfer
of the houses to Anna Abella, BY
saying the boys fixed it up to save
the land for him because he worked
SO hard to keep the property in con-
dition.
Daniel Etlinger, of New York ave.
nue., father of Mary was also called
to the stand, but did not change his
testimony materially from the way
he had testified before. Referee
Adams said today that he was not vel
satisfied with Etlinger's testimony.
The Hammels went into bankruptcy
last month. and David Booker was
appointed trustee. For time II
seemed a simple case, then Attorney
Booker "smelled a rat" and conducted
an investigation, which led to the ex-
posal of the fake" transfer of the
two houses to Anna Abella and sew
eral other questionable transactions
Samuel Roessen acted as attorney for
the receiver.
Referee Adams says that he will
go over the court record and may
drop the threatened contempt of court
proceedings against the Hammels and
| Miss EtlinRer.