Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
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PITIFUL FIGURE
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 poVeFt!
TO high place. only 20 lose bis place
and his fortune In the bog mire OF
finance and politics.
Associate Of Lamar.
Lauterbach to-day presents me
miserable spectacle Of being ar
raigned as the working partner of
David Lamar. a party 20 his schemes
and the benefactor Of the evil genius
Of the subtle Wolf whose swapping
was directed at all men-cNcept lsau-
terbach. And verify the friendship OF
the Wolf" was more bhghung thah
his enmity.
out Of the haze Of obscurity came
Iauterbach. His father was SCION
Iauterbach: his mother Nina. He was
born August u, 1874, IN New YORK
He went 20 the public schools, then I"
the College OF the city Of New YORK
whence he was graduated IN 1864 lie
vas sdmttted to the bar IN 1865 and
was first employed with the rrm OF
Townsend. Dyett & Morrison lie
progressed until in 1877 he became "A
member Of the firm OF Hoadley. lau-
terbach & johnson. Many important
law cases came his way. lie grew
rich
He was a director IN many corpora
tons At one time he was president
OF the Alabama Great Southern Rail
way. one OF the chief links IN the
Southern system. In the Emigrant
Aid Society, the Society for Ethical
Culture, the Home for Aged and In
firm, the Hebrew Benevolent and Or
phau Asylum. the Hebrew Technical
institute and many other Organiza-
tons he was a worker and officer
Was Mckinley Partisan.
IauteThach was one OF the states
Big -Four at the national convention
that named Mckinley az 81. Louis.
b. He was chairman OF the Republican
County Committee, and in 1898 was
b. candidate for the United States Sem
ate 70 succeed Senator Murphy
He became the r!ght-hand man Of
Boss Platt only 10 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
part and a voice. He Championed the
cause Of the Jews at all times, sought
20 relieve their oppression at home
and abroad. and On many ways earned
the gratitude OF many people who will
never forget his ROodly acts In the
mass ~ condemnation he has brought
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,
who had saved a dot from the admin
istratlon Of her fathers household ex-
penses. She was a woman Of grace
b In the days when she came 20 his
home. To them were born four chill
. dren; Mrs. Edith McDavitt, Mrs. Flor
ence Hirschheld, Miss Alice Lauter-
b bach and Alfred Lauterbach
Shortly after the death Of the son
friends OF the family heard that Lau-
terhach 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
.
city and with failure TO provide.
That suit brought the beginning of
the end 20 the LauterbaCh career.
Likewise Il injected into the story the
name NJ a woman who occupied high
position and who was esteemed 10
possess millions
What Wife Told
The divorce was granted in 1911
and the court ordered the papers
sealed. But the wife made public
enough charges 10 make talk and To
throw 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
eTs household. that she taught him
the ways Of polite society.
A year after the divorce Lauter-
bach Indignantly denied that he hat
sustained friendly relations with Mrs
Philip Van NOlkenburEh. widely know
as the $4,000 600 widow" Mrs Van.
Nolkenburgh who lived al the ST
Regis, was being sued for a plctur,
that Samuel J. Wolf an artist, hat
painted. LaWerhach was "a witness
and Alexander Strouse. counsel fol
the artist, asked Lauterbacb 90 ex.
plain his relations with Mrs Phlil
Van V0lkenburgh
Society papers toasted the lavve,
for his defense in heated fashion. o.
the woman OF fashion and means