The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-28
Wolf IS CAUGHT
Famous Wall Street Statesman
Impersonator to Stand Trial.
David Lamar win BE Arraigned
in Court Monday.

New Yor"-, Nov. 2S.-After keeping
out OF the Jurisdiction OF federal on
GERS who had been seeking him for
more than n year, only to fall into
their clutches when he yielded to the
temptation to have another look at
old Broadway, David Lamar, the
wolf of Wall street, will be ar
raiEced in the federal court here
Monday to stand trial on one Of three
indictments charging him with imper-
sonattng United States repres natives
and senators for the purpose Of de-
frauding J. p. Morgan 4 Co.. and the
United States Steel corporation.
Lamar's present predicament dates
from the time that the so-called Steel
trust was under investigation by q
committee Of the house OF representa-
tlves in 1911. At that time, it is al
legged, Lamar impersonated Congress-
man A. Mitchell Palmer Of Pennsyl-
vania and other representatives over
the telephone. in conversation with
officials Of the United States Steel cor
poration and various bankers. His al
legged purpose was to prolong the
house committees investigation of the
Steel trust. or to make it appear that
the investigation would be prolonged,
In order that the stock Of the COM
pany might be depressed in the Wall
street market.
The details of the scheme were
brought to light when Lamar himself
was forced to appear before an in
vestigating committee in Washington.
When the facts of the case became
known Lamar was indicted by the
federal grand jury in this city, but
more than year elapsed before he
came within the Jurisdiction Of the
court.
Dealings With Hart.
The coming trial promises to add
Qnnfh0r int oh 70 20
story of man who has given Wall
street more trouble in recent years
than any other of the many men who
nave sought to get rich quick through
the medium of the New York stock
market. Lamar is said to have been
railroad advertising man in Omaha
and other western cities before he
came to New York about twenty years
ago. He started as a speculator here,
and managed to become acquainted
with Henry Hart. then the aged presi-
dent OF the Third Avenue Railroad
company, who Neutrality-suspicious. &c.
100000. Presently Lamar became a
sort of confidential man to Hart. After
long litigation concerning the manipu-
lation OF Third Avenue stock, the old
man, 1T was discovered, had lost about
100000. Just who got it did not
appear.
Lamar presently became acquaint-
ed with James r. Keene, and is still
remembered by many as ''Keene's
gumshoe man." The two made much
money in United States Leather COM
mon. The late E. H. Hartman once
declared that Lamar, in 1901, offered
to keep Keene and his bull pool from
bringing adverse litigation against the
management of the Southern Pacific
railroad. II Hartman would form a
working alliance with Lamar. Harri.
man, who said he considered Lamar's
offer virtually "holdup." declined the
alliance. and instead proceeded eff.
fectively to smash Keene's pool.
Dog Notorfety.
But Lamar's chief notoriety arose
from his connection with monk
Eastman and his gang of Cherry Hill
thugs. In 1903 Lamar, who lived in
great style on an estate of 100 acres
near seabright, N. J., had a falling
out with James Mcmahon, his coach
man. Mrs. Lamar, it seemed, had
taken her pet dog out for a ride.
Doggy hoped out of the carriage, and
Mrs. Lamar ordered the coachman to
fetch him back. Mcmahon replied
that he was coachman, not a dog
catcher. Mrs. Lamar complained OF
this to her husband. He went to the
stable to chastise the coachman but
emerged from the battle second best.
Each secured a warrant for the arrest
of the other.
On the day Mcmahon was entering
the court house at Long Branch to
testify in the case he was set upon at
the door Of the court by three thugs,
who beat him into insensibility. The
thugs were said to have escaped in
one of Lamars carriages.
A few days later the police arrested
Monk" Eastman and two Of his
gangsters as the principals in the as
sault. Monk" according to the DO
lice, threatened that Lamar would
get Jersey Justice If he didn't
stand by" and very promptly two
prominent lawyers were hired to de-
fend the gangsters. Lamar and his