Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-11
JAIL HARTMAN
ONCHARGESOF
100000 THEFT
Widow of James S. Mackenzie
Accuses TenaflY Man of
Duping Her.

/ NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Rlehard J.
4 Hartman. who figured In the opera
I ticket scandal last year as president
Of Tyson & Co. was arrested yester-
| day 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.
Mackenzie. at one time an official IN
the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
! According to the information Or
which Hartman's Indictment was Sc
cured, his thefts cover period OF
! three years, during which time he
operated with the woman's stock on
the strength of the power OF attor-
ney she unwittingly granted him His
3 speculations have deprived her Of
her entire fortune, II is alleged.
( Hartman, tail, pompous man with
gray hair and mustache, did not ap-
pear to be much disturbed over the
development He is forty-seven years
! old and his home is In Tenafy, n. J.
I Through AIRS. Mackenzieis attos-
I ney, Robert c. Morris, 1t was learned
yesterday that she has been forced
I TO give up her home at 81 West
] Eighty ninth street, and that, with
I her children, she has sought smaller
/ quarters and obscurity from newspa-
| pers in some less pretentious section
of the city.
Unable to Furnish SIS, o00 Ball
Hartman was arrested by Detective
Flood as he was entering the Van
derbilt Hotel. At the Criminal
Courts building he refused to make
any statement, on the advice Of his
counsel, Hartford T. Marshall, and
was arraigned before Judge M1l-
/ queen in General Sessions. He was
held In s25. 900 bail, which he was IN
able TO furnish. Hartman was in
4 dicted Monday, after Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Delehanty had been
informed that he planned 10 sail for
Europe yesterday. He was indicted on
three counts, charging larceny OF
10000, $4,000 and $4,000.
Mrs. Mackenzie and Hartman met
for the first time in London IN 1911.
Several times she appealed to him for
advice concerning the handling OF the
fortune her husband had left her.
Later in that year they met again In
/ this country. Mrs. Mackenzie had
! borrowed from the Hudson County
National Bank of New Jersey $74 900
4 giving as security LAO shares in the
Singer Sewing Machine Company, and
In their conversations she mentioned
this fact to Hartman.
In December, 1911, Mrs. Mckenzie
received a telephone message pur-
porting to come from the Hudson
County National Bank informing her
that she must take up her notes at
once. Then, it is alleged. she again
appealed to 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 accusations, saying that they were
merely formalities required by the
bank. The papers, II developed later
were powers of attorney.
Loaned 100000 on Her Stocks.
Taking the l, 440 shares of stock that
were turned over to him after paying
her debts, so Mrs. Mackenzie says, he
went to the Seaboard Bank, and there
put them up as collateral for a loan of
s100, 900. Gradually all of her stocks
followed the course of those of the
sewing machine company. One hun-
bred shares of United States Steel
preferred, 500 of Manhattan Transit
Company, so of the Brooklyn Union
Gas Company 40 of the Dominion
Copper Company. $1,000 bonds of the
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bonds of the New York and Hoboken
Ferry Company were included In the
fanciful financial structure that Hart
man is alleged TO have built up for
the purpose OF defrauding Mrs Mac
kenzie 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
Hartman turned over to her was Sc
cured by floating more of her stocks
and bonds.
Hartman. 1t is alleged, in the mean
time squandered all of the money he
failed to turn over TO her in ill-advised
Il companies.
As the weeks passed, Mrs. Macken-
| zie began to worry, and last April she
went to Morris & Plante, lawyers at
q Pine street. When the attorneys
found that Hartman had no money
which Mrs. Mackenzie might recover
l they turned their evidence over TO the
district attorneys Office.