New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-02
LAW SEALS PAPERS
In SIECEL DIVORCE
Service on Merchant at
HOtel-RepOrt Choir
Singer Is Named.
VOGEL, ILL, FACES
BANKRUPTCY QUIZ
Says His $4,000 Salaries Did
Not Support Him-Money
Supply Failing.

supply railing.
lockwood & Haldane, counsel for Mrs
Henry Siegel yesterday filed the sum-
mons and complaint in her suit for di-
vorce in the Office OF the County Clerk
Under the rules of the Appellate Division
the papers were automatically sealed.
Service on Siegel was had at the Hotel
Majestic by arrangement with his coun-
sci. Stanchfeld G. Levy.
The contents of the papers Mr.. Rock
wood refused to discuss yesterday, on the
ground that he has no desire to try the
by others that one of the correspondents
Is church singer and a former member
Of the choir in a church that Siegel at
one time attended. This young woman,
described as a blond widow in the early
| thirties is also said to have been visi-
tor at his Mamaroneck home, and at his
apartments in the Hotel Netherlands.
Augustus E. Foran, managing director
of the Hotel Netherlands, last night de-
MED that any such woman had ever lived
! In the house or been a visitor there, re-
peating his statement Of Tuesday that
the only woman to call upon Siegel dur
ing his stay in that hosiery was his
daughter Mrs. Cavendish.
The long deferred examination of
/ MI IN, hap lr hald g.
terday before United States Commission
er Alexander Gilchrist. jr.. produced
nothing of value to the creditors Of the
wrecked bank Of Henry Siegel & Co., in
which Vogel was a partner.
Vogel who had been i'll, looked weak
when he took the stand, and during the
examination was extremely nervous He
many times refused to answer questions,
on the ground that to do so would in
crimnate him. In this he was backed
up by Louis S. Levy, Of Stanchtield *
Levy, who insisted that 1t was not fair
to so into the affairs Of the bank when
indictments growing out of its conduct
are now pending in the county courts.
Unlike Siegel, who testified that the
bank was started on air, Nogel testified
that when II was opened all the assets of
himself and Siegel, amounting to 5000
90 were in it. These assets for the most
part, he said. consisted of stock in the
several stores, which later was exchanged
for stock in the Siegel Stores Corpora
ton. This stock, he said, was always
behind the bank, though he refused to
say when II was physically deposited In
Its vaults.
ha ha no
$4,000 year in salaries. Nothing came
from the bank. His living expenses, he
said, were $4,000 a year, large part of
which was contributed by Mrs. Nogel.
Mrs Vogel he said, was a property hold
er, and had money in bank. though he
declined to go into details. He owns no
automobiles. though, he said, Mrs. Vogel
had three old machines.
Siegel spent yesterday in his rooms in
| the Hotter Majestic, where, during the
day, he conferred with Mr.. Levy, with
his partner and Levy Mayer. of Chicago,
counsel for the Nelson Morris family,
with which Vogel is connected.
Mr. Mayer told reporters yesterday that
the Nelson Morris interests had already
put more than 100000 into the Siegel,
/ Cooper Company In Chicago to keep 1t
going, and that the same interests were
ready to pay over the $4,000 offered the
creditors some time ago as soon as II was
| clear that the bankers will be given an
opportunity 10 pay the depositors in full.
They cannot pay in full if they are in
the penitentiary," he said. The $4,000
is not a fighting account. I do not know
what will be done with the money II
these men go to jail. / do not know that
the friends and relatives who contributed
it wish to put any more money into this
roaring furnace"
Judge Hough, in the United States
Court, yesterday issued an order TO all
who made deposits in the bank between
December % and 20 to appear April 10
and show cause why the money should
not be merged with the general funds of
the bank.
Mrs. Siegel remained in her apartments
at the Hotel St. Regis yesterday, seeing
no one. According to her counsel, Rock
wood e. Haldane, she is too i'll to see
ANYBODY about her case. though she may
have further revelations to make later
in the week.
About three hundred depositors in the
SIegel g. CO. bank met in the Labor
Temple last night, and after stormy
session voted to instruct their counsel to
ask for the distribution of the money re-