New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-11
VOLCK'S TEMPEST
In TEAPOT GAINED
Reconciliation Within "a
Hours" Says Husband
Named as Jailer.
WIFE, FREED, TAKES
TWO AUTO RIDES
Son of Brazilian Ambassadors
Wife Denies He Tried to
Imprison Family.


From the summer home Of his
mother, Mrs. Domicio ds Cana, wife
Of the Brazilian Ambassador, at
Long Branch, n. J.. Morris Rodereiek
Volck issued a general denial yester-
day afternoon that he had imprisoned
his wife and two-year-old daughter in
their apartment at IL East Sixty-eighth
Street.
you may expect reconciliation
within twenty-four hours" he said.
"My wife and I are on good terms
This whole thing has been a tempest
in teapot
Mrs. da Cana said that a grave in
justice had been done her son. ut is
not true that he attempted to place his
wife under restraint. / 90 not know
how the story that Mrs. Volck was re-
strained of her liberty could have been
started nor why proceedings were be-
gun for a writ of habess corpus"
: When these statements were shown
TO Edmund l.. Mooney, attorney for
Mrs. Elsie Holmes Nolck, he referred
reporters to the superintendent Of the
apartment in East Sixty-eighth Street,
who reiterated that Volck himself gave
orders on Tuesda. afternoon that no
one was to be admitted to his apart
ment. Three hall men employed in the
apartment house corroborated the
superintcndent's statement that Nolck
repeated these orders on Wednesday
afternoon Just before he heard that
Jabish Holmes, his wife's father. and
Mr.. Mooney had applied for writ OF
habeas corpus.
"I'm the boss of that apartment. I
pay the rent, and don't want any one
sent up there" are the words Volck is
alleged to have used.
Mrs. Volck. accompanied by her little
daughter, went out automobiling with
her mother twice yesterday. She re-
ferred all requests for information
about the reported reconciliation with
her husband 10 Mr.. Mooney. Wncn
seen at his office, al Wall Street. Mr..
Mooney said:
"Mr. Volck's conduct was not the
sort that can be explained on any rea-
sonable hypothesis. ] think | can
safely say that the incident is at an
end. There are a number of motives
which may have prompted him to act as
he did, but | cannot discuss them for
publication. We did not anticipate
seriously that Yolck would run off with
the baby. I think he made the threat
to kidnsp the little girl merely to
frighten his wife"
How about reconciliation proposed
BY Volck?" Mr.. Mooney was asked.
"That neither Mrs. Volck nor / will
comment upon" he replied.
That's up TO them; don't know
anything about a reconciliation" said
Jabish Holmes as he left his law Office,
at 80 Liberty Street. "As soon as my
! son-in-law saw that | meant business
( he left. Naturally, then, the cause for
the writ was removed, because my
daughter was free to leave her apart
ment. We hope there will be no
/ further trouble"
Through his attorney. John Della
hunty, Volck, later in the afternoon is
sued another statement contradicting
some of those made by his fsther-in-
law.
"There we're many Measurements
concerning me in the proceedings re-
ferred to-" he says. These do me
great injustice and should be corrected.
1t is not true that | restrained Mrs.
Volck of her liberty at our apartment,
II East Sixty-eighth Street, or any
where else.
Then the statement that told my
wife that I was going abroad to enlist
/ in the German army is without
the slightest foundation. | never made
any such statement to my wife or TO
any one. I am an American citizen by
birth, and my father and grandfather
were both American citizens by birth.
There is no reason that | should fight
or seek to fight for Germany.
when Mr.. Mooney was before Jus
tce Greenbsum applying for a writ Of
habeas corpus, my wife and her baby
were at that very time at the home Of
her father, Jabish Holmes, and il she
we're under restraint at the time that
Justice Greenbaum issued the writ, it
was not by me-"