Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-13
CHICAGO
ABSC0NDER, MAY
BE in HONOLULU
Man Who Left Windy City With
$4,000 Thought to Have
Started This Way ......
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known as Wv. Y. Miller" the same
/ name given when he was married a
second time in New York, in 1905
I The name which appears on the let
/ ter bow of his Grand boulevard apart
ment, however, is Willard Waldorf
Miller. ~. .->.:. ~.
Mr. Miller was divorced from my
mother said his 1S-year-old daughter
Ruth, in an interview My mother
died of broken heart 1t was his in.
fatuation for Bessie Malloy that kill
ed her His second wife was former
~ Miss Martha Aldrtch; daughter of
former Congressman ]. Aldrieh of Chi
cago. H.. ..... -. .:...- r.. H..
A few days ago ex-Congressman AL
drich startled New York by rendering
banquet in honor of his second wife,
Nine Mariska Aldrich. prima donna of
the Metropolitan Grand Opera Com
pany. who had divorced him two
months previously. .-. -. ~.. =:
Mrs. Martha Aldrich Miller is a
great-granddaughte Of Mayor Sher-
man. who built the old Sherman house
of Chicago, and a granddaughter Of
the late Gen. Frank Sherman. 1t was
while in Chicago that Mrs. Miller No.
9 learned of her husbands infatuation
for the Twenty-third street waitress.
"Fund w" Recovery Plot? 49,. =:
A rumor that the disappearance OF
Miller and the money is part of
plot of persons involved in the old
Fund W. swindle to recover some
of the million said to have been reap
ed by Miller,s father, the late w. w.
Miller. ST., was scoffed at by bank
officials in Chicago. ..-. -. r: IL.
They also laughted at the idea that
Mrs. Miller, ST., had knowledge of the
withdrawal of the money. The banks.
maintain the attitude that it is an at
fair between mother and son, and one
in which they are not interested tur-
Their than to question the broker re-
garding his transactions. -
Attorney D. o. Dunbar, counsel for
the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank,
denied he had held conference with
Mrs. Miller. . ..-.-.. Iii
Eve do not wish to discuss the mat
ter" he said. Whatever has happen.
ed is of no interest to any one save
Mrs. Miller and her son, +. 49, ...-..l
Came to Honolulu? ..-.~. =.
That Mrs. Bessie Malloy Miller had
been heard to say she and Miller were |
going to Honolulu was learned from
Miss Carol Osmond Of 914 East Forty
second. place, by Chicago newspa.
per. H. =
Il knew Bessie and Mr.. Miller for
several years, she said. Il knew they
took cut marriage licenses in Mlchl- !
gan. Wisconsin and Illinois, but do
not know whether they were ever lie. .
gally married or not understand
fhey took out so many licenses pc
cause of conflict in. the divorce laws
IF the various states. i received a |
letter from Bessie on November 10 /
saying they were going to San fran
cisco and probably would go farther. !
She often had spoken of going TO no
nolulu. ~ III.
ATTORNEY A. S. Trude was among
-hicagoans who recalled the Funa .
"" swindle, the chief Get-R1ch-Qulck
Wallingfords, in which were Jonn
Fleming, Frank Loring and w. w.
Miller, although there was group
If lesser lights, including Dan Lorlng'
, brother of Frank, and Hiram Pea
body. 49, =,
"in this connection there is a SIN.
yular outstanding fact. Nearly all OF
The principals in the great sWlhale,
which embraced its victims in many
parts of the United States and Cana
Ia. were taken by death. either soon
after the expose by the government OF
+. -.
Some Results Of SWlndle.
1T was through the firm OF FlenlIs
E Merriam that the swindle was work 4
ID Dan Loring and Peabody were
acquitted, but Fleming and FRANK Lol,
ng went to trial before Judge bloos,
TT. .:..E - r.. :, 49,. e..
"It was Dan Loring who came lot
yard at the. preliminary hearing anu
\ sisted that $2S0,O00 of the ill:gotten
aims of the concern be returned 10
he victims. This sum, represented U!
traits and other paper, was recovered
w Chief Postoffice Inspector Ray
when he raided their safety deposlt
,oxes in Chicago. $751; ....~....
"Fleming and Frank Loring were
,iyen terms of one year each IN tne
county Jail and we're fined SoOoo.
oresident Arthur pardoned them after
bey had served a few months. Miller
,ained his freedom by his action IN
urning states evidence. Mrs. Miller
.lso figured as a witness against tleh-
ng and Loring.F .-........ :. :.