The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-12
GIRL EMBEZZLER IS
FREED BY SYMPATHY
+. +. oIcott Gives $500 Bail
and Catherine Van Houtcn
Leaves Tombs.
SHORTAGE NAY BE PAID
Story Of Theft TO Aid Invalid
Mother appeals to Head of
Steamboat Line.
SHORTAGE NAY BE PAID

ra,hsrn. Van tToutcn. bookkeeper,
accused ~ .~r,zzling $1,000 from her
..,i,ysr Swuoi Bloomfield. of 2Oi
,v,os.sr -rcsa was released in $500
,,l .qs,,-ia, after being In the Tombs
100. Wednesday. The bail was fur.
,..t,4 hy E e. Olcptt president OF the
u.5.,o Rive Uiv Line. whose sym.
adhesive. aroused by the young woman's
..o-os thar sine stole to provide food and
medicine for her mother. So years old,
Nth whom She Ives in Hackensack. y. J.
Man, other wealthy persons In this
civ and Ua,eonsdck are eager TO help
,sa woman loo every way possible. II is
b.usyad that when she is arraigued be-
,ora Judge swami, In General Sessions.
to.rarran something will have been done
o. r..omneuy, Miss Van Houten's, en-
t'o,,r and II she pleads guilty that she
vii he r.leased ON suspended sentence.
81 don't know how 20 thank YOU" she
sd. with '.lrs .u her eyes. to Mr. Clcott
after uiU HI been arranged
81 don't want ans thanks he told
h.r ~ d.i F., uuI, because Of my feeling
tou,.i 500 lai ,opr invalid mother
Ther o.. hurried 'h" woman on her way
10 comfort n,r Ised mother. who has
basn asking repeatedly for her daughter
ever since Wednesday No one dared To
tell the AGED woman Of her daughters
pgght Tor u Was feared that Mrs. Van
Hou'eu might de from the shock
When Nj Olcott was asked what had
causei him 20 be interested N the young
vomans case he said
II never should have known about the
case had B., not been for the newspapers.
Id he
matter hy my friend John " COL OF the
Genera Board OF the Episcopal Church.
| made inquiries in Hackensack and
found that Everything NJ IS Van Houten
id loo Ntrh usivk was exemplary. The
Rev Harris Frccr. pastor Of the North
Hack,r,1ck Reformed church. spoke
high, ~ her She belongs To an old and
respected family Her mother owns prop
e-,y Goo HarNensark and both Mrs Wan
Hou',n and her daughter were getting
along 1.o-, until Miss Van Houtcn's two
brothers died about ten years ago.
"S.r.a then Miss Van Houten has been
Obliged To- work for living. She went to
work for % cloak manufacturer. earning
81? a week 40 first and being raised finally
10 Sl2 assessments began to pile up
against HcI mothers property. The young
woman was ~truggling against awful
ofds She sIDoumhcd to the temptation
ard began padding her employers pay
rolls
"lier mothers property is covered with
mortgage She knew her mother needed
med .n' th" care of nurse and plenty
81 GOOD. The mother was stricken with
para,lsi, two years ago. Miss Van Houten
Kept hoping that the property would be
s0d and she could repay the money she
tool 7 was the old story OF not meaning
70 steal"
VILLAIN NJ X O,cott. LAWYER Of 10
Broadway, also IL Interested IN the girl
A repr' sentative of his firm took an ac-
Tive part Yesterday in getting the bail.
Hv.ht>>NCK, y. j., July ll.-Miss
Catherine Van Houten arrived here this
Gte noon and was greeted gladly by her
mot "r Who could not understand what
mad become OF her daughter. Their
nsgnh'i> and also their friends were
surprised AZ the young woman's story
MAJ sine took her employers money tc
h.lp 0'r mother. They say that she
FgG.arly mad" deposits in "a local bank
IND that she was Interested In charitable
rofh hor,
KIT, Van Houten." said one woman
could have put her money To- better
we than than buying dresses from q
New York store for Colored children In
ally ov'r these colored children and those
youngsters are the best dressed In tho
v.liag,
Some ~ the nelghbors do not express
much sympathy for Miss Van Houten
because they think she could have saveo
money that they say, she spent for char
Nsh'e purposes Miss Van Houten woulC
not say ANYTHING about her own arltabl,
work
" am mighty glad to get home" sh.
tAHf ~ am delighted To- he with my ole
mother again and 20 get some fresh ali
and sunlight
" DON'T know how can show my ap
Nec'aton Of MIR. DlCOtts kindness II
nroNdu- bah for me. The fact that he /,
perfect stranger to me makes his kind
me-" I' tho more praiseworthy. thanl
MN from IN" bottom NJ my heart
" hes" told my story over and owe
ara TN" thought Of my invalid mothe
o''ns alone all clay and my having q
VoiN '"r El3 q week almost made me dis
Nar''1 Mother had to have medicine
and somebody To look after her In my alb
sen'e After | had paid for my commu
,hon ticket and bought my luncheon
ga NOT hay, much left for delicacies.
" Nnr" IL was wrong to take m
none. hut many "A time | did not hav,
enough money with which to buy lunch
Blu u viii oll be paid back"