New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
rmbalmer's BankbOoks at
POST Mortem on Treas
ure He EXhumed.
PRUDENCE PLEASES
BORROWING FAMILY
PROSECUTOR Questions Women as
DR.. Waite Calmly
Writes Letters.

.ryrere is just a big boy, that's all.
Ubsn he gets excited he well. you
Low what he did with the $500 DR..
Wsi,e handed him. said Mrs. Eugene
oliver Kane yesterday. 49,
Onposite her IN their home az 421
Wsst Fifty-seycnth Street sat her nus
t.,d tired from his treasure hunt at
0,'sn, Point and nervous. Mrs. Kane
ID their siXteen-year-old daughter,
s,asof.,e had met the embalmer at the
.-bvay station, where they embraced
M exchanged q few words OF cheer.
i,.. sa hour before Kane had been
.-l,ed for the second time IN three
e,ys bv Assistant District Attorney
' I'm innocent mother" ne declared to
Il know il. father" she replied. put
TUG her arms about him. You're Just
he bow who needs me 10 look after
Tim Why didn't yoJ tell me that you
lad received the money
"Tm sorry. really. I'm sorry | ever
.,os that money from DR.. Waite. And,
honestly. / turned over every cent J
VI know you did. father Only, for
the sake OF our children
Tic girls. Emma and Madeline. were
B., an irrr~ room. The younger of the
.r;balmer'- daughters had been sent to
friends in Sew Jersey.
~r Ma, great while IT lasted said
Kane "Do you know. mother. how |
Ed that money! You'll call me clever
Then ie told of burying the cash at
sdeser'td point on Gardeners Bay.
That was clever" said Mrs. Kane.
te- owes sparkling. But ! wish you
hadn't touched the money. II was
cursed by the spirit Of Mr.. Peck
"lfother." began Kane, avoiding the
subject. Ell YOU had only seen all the
rube, and Kids digging IN the sand for
Che buried treasure you would have
LAUGHED. What's the matter. mother :"
lirs Kane had begun 20 weep.
Don do that" he admonisned
.r.errthIrc.l be all right. We have
,8.h.rr 10 be- ashamed of. mother
.Ir- r.toriety has made me ner-
,.i." size said. 81 have been getting
.s..nIone calls from people extending
.tfr sympathy. nave received dozens
Of le,.ers. For the last three days d
steady stream Of persons have come 10
als 20 re. but I've refused to see any
II only had counted all the money
sighed the embalmer. Il swear 70 God
iSat I didn't know how much money
VAS In The roll Dr.. Waite handed me.
! was afraid of it. ! buried 1t where
aid because knew every inch OF
ground at Orient Point"
I'VE won't show our faces there any
rore." spoke up Mrs. Kane.
"Wtat Cic YOU do with the check for
$500 tfat Dr. Waite handed lou 7
Lsne Was acd. ,..
Tho em.a.mcr pointed 10 en- oid-iash-
Ued hearth. $50.
= rot inc check last Sunday. J didn't
Ike 20 have .t around me. So dropped
. into Che Ire. The money ] returned
10 Detective Cuniff has been deposited
i, the Chatham & PheniX National Ban
and Mr. Swami has the receipt. I'm
g.ad 20 have washed ny hands OF II.
eli seems Ike a motion picture 10
ne" smiled Mrs. Kane.
"If motion picture concern otered
ne ms price I'd 80 10 Orient POINT anG
sct the whole thing over again. need
mr money for lawyers's fees.
While Kane was being questioned
by Dr. uoo'uc as 10 the discrepancy
u the sum found AZ Orient Point on
frjav and the $4,000 DR.. Waite SAID
le turned over. several other wit
resses were waiting in the &nte-room
II Nr cwann's Office Among these
we're N-s. Kane. John s. Potter, me
undertaken who took charge OF MI
pecas body: two Young women, VINO
rave their names as Autumn Hall and
Martha dc Lachman. music hail sing
efs. and a third young woman, VINO
refused 20 give her name. but VINO
was addressed by the others as MISS
Ayres" 81,
Kane left the Criminal Courts Build
irgat 2 o'clock. He had arrived from
Greenpor-. near where he secretec
Yates brbe. al 10 o'clock, and nearly
lie entire time had been consumed IN
The examination by Mr.. Doolng. me
cnba'mer produced his bankoooks anc
explained every item about when ne
uss questioned.
frank 4. Waite and Clyde Waite
visited their brother n the prison ward
az Bellevue Hospital IN the afternoon
~Iow is DR.. Waite feeling Franz
Waite was asked
"0h. he's getting along nicely. the
brother answered. laconically. Latei
b the day the prisoner, who Will D'
srrtigned tomorrow morning before
Judge Grain. IN Part !. General SEES
SONS, sat UP and attended TO his cor
fespondence.