New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-06
Rodolpho Guglielmi Taken
by Squad Headed by
Swann's Assistant.
HE CALLS ON POLICE
DEPUTY TO AID HIM
District Attorney Says the
Prisoner Has Revealed
Important Secrets.

An early morning vice raid, conduct
cd By Assistant District Attorney
Smith, on a house in Seventh avenue
inst below Central Park, yesterday re-
suited in the arrest of the Marquis
Rodolpho Guglielmi, a well known can
cor in broadway circles. With HIM de-
tectiyes brought out of the place Mrs
Georgia f. Thym. fifty years old. Botn
we're held in $4,000 bail by Judge 10,
salsky in General Sessions as maIeriS!
witness against Detective william j.
Fnrieht. who is under indictment Tor
accepting brides from keepers OF queS-
tionable resorts in the Ienderloln,
On his arrival at the District Attor-
news Office the marquis asked per
mission to communicate WIN I nt.
over the telephone. lie called foIleS
Headouarters and asked for Second
/ Donuty Commissioner Frank Lord.
dTm in bad, Frank; | wish you'd
come down and help me out ne Is
reported to have said.
The Seventh Avenue place IS on me
east side of the avenue, between FIJI
tv-scventh and Fifty-eighth streets
near Carnegie Hall, and about one
avenue block distant from the New
York Athletic Club, and, according 20
Assistant District Attorney smith, Is
one of a number of places where DiaeA-
mail has been practised on wealthy
New Workers.
bogus count or marquis, and ne mas
made statements which, II true, are OF
| immense importance IN TINS lnyesuga-
ton" said District Attorney swami
J "Ue Is a handsome fellow, about TWEEN
/ " years old. and wears corsets and
wrist watch. He was often seen dane
; inc in well known hotels and tango
/ rarlors with Joan Sawyer and bonnie
/ Glass" ,, la
The "marous," it was learned, also
informed the prosecutor that he mad
dined with Deputy Commissioner Lord
i'm the domino room" of the Care
/ L'Aiglon. in Philadelphia, when Joan
/ SAWYER was with the commissioner.
J He said MIR. Lord remained in Phlla-
delphia three weeks after that occasion.
When seen at the Prince George
Hotel last night Mr.. Lord admitted
that he knew Rodolpho, the marquis"
but he couldn't recall where he first
met him. He denied that he ever dlned
with Rodolpho in Philadelphia. He said
he was with party of friends there
on one occasion, and Rodolpho after
ward entered the cafe and danced with
Joan Sawyer.
81 would ind it quite difficult to re-
main away from New York for three
weeks, as this fellow charges" he said.
This afternoon he called me on the
telephone and said he was Rodolpho. !
didn't know him until he finally said
he was Miss Sawyer's dancing COM
panon. Then | remembered who he
was. | told hin. l was unable TO help
him."
The deputy commissioner was asked
about reports that he and Detective
Enright and Larry Mulligan had been
seen much together in the commits
sioner's automobile during the political
fight for leadership in Big Tim Sulli-
vans old district.
Il never was in an automobile with
Larry Mulligan and Enright in my
llfe," he said
According TO the prosecutor, the
Thym woman has been at the Seventh
Avenue address for a number of years,
and yesterday was the first time the
police have ever molested her. The
subpenas were served on her and the
marquis" by Detectives McGlynn and
Duffy, OF Lieutenant Dan Costigan's
squad When they got inside Guglielmi