New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-18
CHARGES FORGERY
In POLO SCANDAL
Jay Noble Emley Will Ask
Whitman to Investigate
Ticket Speculation.
GIVE LIE IN DISPUTE
OVER SIGNED RECEIPT
". H. Hall Insists Signature Is
Not His, While Clerk Says She
Saw Him Affix Name.

Charging that forgery was commit
ted, Jay Noble Emley lawyer, OF 10
William ST., said yesterday he would
ask District Attorney Whitman to ir-
vestigate the sale of tickets to the in
ternational polo matches.
This scandal" 4dr. Emley said, will
develop more -riously than surface
facts indicate"
Meanwhile the International Polo
Committee, stirred by the complaint Of
Mr. Emley's client, William Henry
Hall, Of Al Riverside Drive, a member
OF the New York Yacht Club, has asked
Frederick y. Watriss, a lawyer, of 81
Wall St, to make thorough inquiry.
Mr.. Watriss admitted yesterday that
several protests had been made about
the manner in which the ticket sale
was handled.
Spectators Got His Tickets.
Both Mr.. Hall and Mr.. Emley or
dered their tickets on April by letter,
Mr.. Hall asking for five and Mr.. Emley
for two In Mr.. Halls case he was
notified that the tickets had been al
lotted TO him, so he sent a check for
S25 from the New York Yacht Club.
Mr.. Hall waited for the tickets" Mr..
Emley said yesterday, "and when a
reasonable period had passed inquired
about them. He was told by V. +.
| Schaumburg, assistant secretary Of tLe
International Polo Committee, that
they had been sent to him in care of
/ the New York Yacht Club. Mr.. Hall
| found that the tickets had not turned
up there. so on Monday, June s, he and
went to the office of the polo COM
mittee to seek an explanation.
"Schaumburg told us that the tickets
/ had been sent TO the yacht club. We
/ insisted that they had not. Schaum-
| burg then told us to wait a few min.
utes. He returned and said that dupli-
cate tickets would be issued to Mr. Hall
and to me, for l also had not received
my tickets, which were supposed to
have been delivered TO boy in my
office by an employe Of the Pinkerton
Detective Agency. AS for me, Schaum-
burg said he was positive my tickets
had been delivered, and told him that
! the person who had told him that was
! lying. Schaumburg went up in the air
when l said that, and said that nobody
could make that charge to him. l re-
peated it, and asked him to show me
anybody who would try to prevent me
saying so.
1--WE received duplicate tickets that
day, typewriter on the stationery OF
the committee. On the Wednesday fol-
lowing l was informed by telephone
that my tickets had turned up in the
/ cffice-the Pinkerton employe had de
/ livered them to the wrong person. Blu;
was told that the committee was GER
tain Mr.. Hall had received his tickets,
and that, so far as the value Of his
substitute tickets was concerned,
should the persons holding the origi-
nails reach the seats before Mr.. Hall
| did they would be seated and that Mr..
Hall and the members Of his party
would not.
The mix-up caused Mr.. Hall to
change his plans; he didn't want to
subject his proposed guests to humili-
alton and embarrassment at the field.
l gave my tickets away and agreed to
become of Mr. Halls party.
! When we saw Schaumburg he re-
peated his conviction that Mr. Hall
had received the tickets. He said Mr..
Hall had come into the office May 2S,
had received them there and had given
his receipt for them, and that the be-
| lief they had been delivered to the
New York Yacht Club was incorrect.
Schaumburg said he would show us
Mr.. Halls receipt In fifteen minutes
he brought out slip Of paper, headed
with stamped acknowledgment OF re-
ceipt OF certain batch Of tickets lust
under that the rubber stamped date,
May 2S. 1914, and on the bottom. in
lead pencil, Hall" There were no
initials.
Denies He Signed Receipt.
"Mr Hall declared that the signature
was not his, and that he would not
have signed with only his last name
Schaumburg said his girl clerk could
prove &C. She was brought ont She