New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-11
Mrs. Mackenzie Lost All
by Stock Thefts, Prose
cutOr Says.
DUPED INTO SIGNING
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Accused Man Ex-Presi-
dent of Tyson & Co..
In Trouble Before.


yesterday on the eve of his departure
for Europe and lodged in the Tombs
prison, charged with the larceny Of
nearly 100000 from Mrs. Charlotte l..
Mackenzie, widow of James S. Macken-
zie, at one time an official in the Singer
Sewing Machine Company.
According TO the information on
which Hartman's indictment was Sc
cured, his thefts cover period Of
three years, during which time he oper-
ated with the woman's stocks on the
strength Of the power Of attorney she
unwittingly granted him. His specu
lations have deprived her of her entire
fortune, it is alleged.
Through Mrs. Mackenzie's attorney.
Robert c. Morris, of q Pine St, it was
learned yesterday that she has been
forced TO give up her home at 81 West
seth ST.. and that, with her children.
she has sought smaller quarters and
obscurity from newspapers in some
less pretentious section of the city
Hartman was arre5ted by Detective
Flood as he was entering the Wander
bilt Hotel. At the Criminal Courts
Building he refused to make any state
ment, on the advice Of his counsel, Har-
ford T. Marshall, and was arraigned be-
fore Judge Mulqueen in General Ses-
sions. He was held in $4,000 bail,
which he was unable to furnish. Hart
man was indicted Monday after Assist
ant District Attorney Delehanty had
been informed that he planned TO sail
for Europe to-day. He was indicted on
three counts. charging larceny of
$4,000, $4,000 and S4S,000.
Pair Met in London.
Mrs. Mackenzie and Hartman met for
the first time in London in 1911. Sew
eral times she appealed TO him for ad
wee concerning the handling of the
fortune her husband had left her.
Later in that year they met again In
this country. Mrs. Mackenzie had bor-
rowed from the Hudson County Nation
al Bank of New Jersey $4,000, giving
as security 1,440 shares in the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, and in their
conversations she mentioned this fact
TO Hartman.
III DtCtllDtls ltlis MIS-. hdNhtH1lt
received a telephone message purport-
ing to come from the Hudson County
National Bank, informing her that she
must take up her notes at once. Then,
il is alleged, she again appealed 10
Hartman for counsel Hartman, she
claims. offered TO take up the notes
for her She consented, and on the
following day he returned with papers
for her to sign, according to accusa-
tions. saving that they were merely
formalities required by the bank. The
papers. it developed later, were powers
Of attorney.
Taking the $40 chares Of stock that
were turned over TO him after paying
her debts, 50 Mrs. Mackenzie says, he
went 10 the Seaboard Bank, and there
put them up as collateral for loan Of
100000. Gradually all Of her stocks
followed the course of those Of the
sewing machine company. One hun
dred shares of United States Steel pre-
ferred. 500 Of Manhattan Transit Com
pany, 90 Of the Brooklyn Union Gas
Company. 40 Of the Dominion Copper
Company, 81 500 bonds of the Hudson
Gas Company and 1,500 bonds of the
New York and Hoboken Ferry Com
pany were included in the fancful FIN
ancial structure that Hartman is al
legged TO have built up for the purpose
of defrauding Mrs. Mackenzie and
floating his own schemes.
During the two years that followed
the granting of the power of attorney
Hartman paid Mrs. Mackenzie sums Of
money that she supposed were divi-
dends on the stock she still imagined
she held. According TO Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Delehanty, however,
practically all of the money that Hart
man turned over to her was secured by
floating more Of her stocks and bonds.
Loses Wealth by Ventures.
Hartman. il is alleged. in the mean
time sauandered all Of the money he
failed to turn over to her in ill-ad-
vised companies Tyson g. Co. was
his first venture of any magnitude
after meeting Mrs. Mackenzie Next
he invested heavily in a company 70
nromote the sale of cleansing
powder. The company failed. and Hart
man, according TO the lawyers, found
himself in financial straits that re-
ouired immediate action.
Calling on Mrs. Mackenzie one even
ing. he found her wearing several
valuable Jewels. By frightening her
with stories OF uHpTOttCtSu WOMEN
being robbed. she says. he induced her
10 give the jewels 10 him so that he
might put them in a safe deposit vault.
He secured box for her at the Harri-
man National Bank, but when Mrs.
Mackenzie came to look for her jewels
several weeks later she found that
two diamond rings, valued at $4,000,
had disappeared.
shortly after The jewel episode Mrs
Mackenzie became suspicious and asked
that he return the stocks 10 her. After
waiting six months she sought legal
Investigation showed that Mrs. Mac
kon2ie's fortune had vanished, and the
matter was brought up before the Dis
trict Attorney. According 70 Mr.. Dele
bontv Mrs. Mackenzie has no chance
cf recovering any of her money or
stocks. and her attorneys say that she
has practically nothing left.
Hartman. besides being president OF
Tyson & Co when the company was
charged with grand larceny, was ar
rested i'm 1910 on a warrant sworn out
by Dorothy Z. Wallace, of Bridgeport,
in which he was charged with larceny
arising from negotiations involving
conner stocks. He was also held on
neriurv charge last June. the COM
nIainant being Harold G. Aron, of the
ieU frn, of Aron & Nanderveer Hart
man lives with his wife at Tenafy,
y. J.
$1,000 1.-t, o,,.,.ta Emil OF aroma