New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-21
AS MRS. FLACLER,
GOT CLERKS MONEY
Alleged Widow of Oil Man
Held on Phone Oper-
atOr's Complaint.
ASSERTS RIGHT TO
S15,OOO,000 ESTATE
Says She Gave Late lie Roy
Dresser Key West R. R. Stock
to Sell-PaperS Gone.

10 Sell-FdpeTS OOHe.
A woman who claims to have been
the third wife of the late Henry NJ.
Flagler, vice president of the Standard
Oil Company, was arrested last night
charged with obtaining S4,435 from
Frank Mahoney, a former long dis
lance telephone operator at 10 Dey
Street. She claimed TO have been
married to Flagler IN Washington on
June IA, 1899. and says that before
her marriage she was Miss Fora Emma
Howe.
Mahoney accuses the prisoner of
having obtained the money from him
on various occasions between April 80
and June >. He first met her when
she called her brother, Charles Howe,
Of Pittsburgh, over the long DIS
lance telephone. Finding she aid not
have enough money with her TO pay
for the call, she borrowed $35 from
Lin. after representing herself as
Henry NJ Flagler's widoY.
Later she told him thGt on May 20,
:he second anniversary Of Mr.. Flagler's
death, she would receive $l5,OUO'OOO
from the estate. and could also use
$2j0,000 worth oil Key West Railroad
stock which her husband gave her.
When the woman promised him pr-
yate secretarship at $4,000 a year Ma
honey SAYS he decided 70 trust her, and
meeting her frequently at the Waldorf
Astoria lent her the Si,435 IN sums
ranging from S635 down. Not long al
ter he accepted the secretary snip.
On Nav Il Nahoney became sus-
ricious and secured a warrant for Mrs
Flagler's arrest from Magistrate Ter
Evck on a charge OF grand larcent'
Last night he -ound out that she was
waiting for friend i'm a drug stire at
Fiftv-eiphth street and First Avenue.
lie went 20 the second Branch petec-
tive Bureau. and Detective William
Van Twistern accompanied MN WhUc
he went to the drug store and p!aceG
the woman under arrest.
At Police Headquarters Mrs. rlag'er'
who was very well dressed ana ap
neared to be sure OF ultimately proving
nor rosition. said chat she had lived
With Mr.. Flagler only GEAR and FOUR
months. A. the end Of that period, she
sqid thpv made q written agreement TO
serarate. and Flagler promised her
$4,000 600 from his estate, when she
should receive TWO years from me gaze
of mis- death. He also gave ner the hey
West Railroad stock.
TIE prisoner asserted that she was
--ovar divorced. although MIR. LAGER
told her some time after their separa-
lion that he had obtained decree
Mrs. Flagier explained her lna6u!ly
10 produce documentary proof OF het
statements by saying that her marriage
Certificate. her wedding dress anc ring
and her copy Of the separation agree
rent with her husband rad been taken
from q box In which she kept mem ''
. house she occupied al 1870 " street
IL. ". i'm Washington. They We're re-
moved. she said. by custodian .ap-
pointed TO take care OF the mouse altrI
her furniture had been sold ~ AUCTION
70 secure money she had borrowed on
} il as security. She seemed conhdeht OF
securing the certificate again.
A few weeks ago, the prisoner con
tinuod. Nahoney asked her for $1,000
lie was working as her private score
tarv but had not been paid. She told
him she had given her Key West -tocH
70 lie Row Dressler, who recently killed
birself in the Delta Psi fraternity
Louse on Riverside Drive, 10 sell for
ber Dressler. she said. had told her
That he had secured $4,000 On Il. which
vas deposited for her in the CONNER
cial National Bank in WASHINGTON.
She gave Mahoney a check for SlOOC
on this account. but il was returned
nrotested She sent Mahoney TO Wash
irgto, 70 investigate. but the account
he fourd. had never been opened. since
Wr. Dressler's death, Mrs. Flagler said
she had found no trace of the S2oOOOO
worth Of stock.
The woman said she had retained a
LAWYER in Chicago, whose name was j
+. Newberger Her New York attor,
new. she said, was "Talhaterro' ou'
She could not remember MS inl'!aIS
When questioned by detectives she ad'
,nitted borrowing the money from Ma
honey. but insisted that he mad nc
reason to be uneasy about 1t.
"Why. young man." she said TO one
of her ouestioners, "if you had as much
money coming TO you as / have you
wouldn't have to do another stroke
Of work as long as you 1--we.
Mrs. Flagler was locked up last nlgh'
IN the West Thirtieth Street police sta
ton. and will probably be arraigned II
Yorkville court this morning
When Mr.. Flagler's will was filed II
Florida, May 81, 1913, the bulk OF ms
estate was left TO his third wife, Mrs
Iily Keenan, Flagler. His first wife
. who was Miss Hardness, died about
1891. leaving a daughter, Jenny, who
later married j. Arthur Hinckley, o.
boston. and subsequently Frederick Il
BENEDICT, and son, Harry Hardness
Flagler.
The second Mrs. Flagler, who wa
Miss Ida VI. Shrouds, was declared le
cally insane in 1897. In 1901 a law
was passed in Florida making ncurabl'
insanity grounds for divorce, and Mr.
Flagler obtained decree on Angus
il OF that year. Ten days later ne mar
ried Miss Lily keenan,, Of Wilmington
Del