The sun., 1916-11-16
MRS. HOADLEY PAYS
UP; HUSBAND TOO
Pliny Fisk uncarths Six ST.
900 Bills Between Mid
night and 3 A. NJ.
CHECK FOR REMAINDER
Timely Production Of Currency
Alone Saved Couple
From Jail.

BY the payment OF six $1,000 bills
and check for $1,000 In the early hours
Of yesterday morning. the deficiency
judgments and contempt proceedings
against Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Hoadley
were satisfied.
Lawyers for both sides. as well as
the small army Of deputy sher.ffs who
have been trying for six weeks to locate
the Hoadleys long enough to serve war
rants on them. admitted yesterday that
this latest chapter in the career Of the
man who was once ieputed to be worth
e1S,000.00 and was prominent In wall
Street. was closed. There still remains
some $500 or so to be paid by Mrs.
Hoadley. lawyers for the judgment
holders say, but this will be accounted
for later.
The story OF the arrest Tuesday night
at the Netherland Hotel was told In yes
terday's Sun. Warrants Of commitment
TO Ludlow street Jail and orders OF ar
rest were issued many weeks ago against
the Hoadleys on "A deficiency judgment
against Mrs. Hoadley for n mortgage on
her residence. ls East Eighty-second
street. on which all but $4,000 had been
collected by foreclosure or notes coupled
with another judgment against the hus.
band arising out OF the receivership OF
the International Power Company. OF
which he was president. To this was
added a Judgment In contempt resulting
from Mrs Hoadley's failure to obey an
order to appear before Justice Guy In
connection with her suit
Evening At Opera spoiled.
All efforts 20 serve the papers were
fruitless, for the Hoadleys could not be
found at their town house or their coun-
try home In Rye. But Monday night
the Nassau Mortgage Company. assignee
a the claim aEsg,st Ms. Hoadley.
learned that the couple were at the
Netheriand. The company's lawyers.
Root, Clark, Buckner & Howlnnd. sent
Henry Mayer Of their Arm TO the hotel
with Deputy Sheriff Fitsimmons. Mayer.
who knew the Hoadleys from previous
cases In court. kept watch In the lobby.
About 7:45 o'clock Mrs. Hoadley came
down the elevator. gowned as Tor the
opera With her was Mr. Bouchie. her
husbands private secretary. Fitsim.
them as Mrs. Hoadley was stepping
into q taxicab.
'T have an order for your arrest" he
told her quietly.
Bouchie expostulated vainly. declaring
that a mistake had been made and the
lady was not Mrs. Hoadley at all" but
the latter. taking 1t in good grace.
stipulated only Tint she should be all
lowed to talk the matter over with her
husband. To this F!tsimmons agreed
only too gladly. For as soon as the
deputy got inside the Hoadiey apart
ment he stepped up to the husband.
who was attired only in bathrobe and
slippers. and served duplicate order OF
D arrest on him.
wanted 10 save wife.
Tor seven hours after that the Hoad.
~ apartment was the scene OF lively
battle between the former promoter and
the men who had trapped him. His con-
Germ was not for himself. but for his
wife. He expressed himself as perfectly
willing TO go with Fitsmmons II his wife
were allowed to remain NJ home. But
this plea was refused. The commit
ment OF Mrs. Hoad.cy was the strangle'
hold that the judgment holders had or
the couple and by which they eventu'
ally effected a settlement In cash.
Mr.. Hoadley got busy with the tele
phone. He called first Bainbridg,
Colby to advise him. Next he sum
moned George Gray. the Delaware
1urist william ]. Flynn. chief Of h'
Cnated States secret service. and Pin,
Fisk. the banker. with one or two others
Mayer hastily sent for Grenville Clark
member OF his law Arm. Fitsimmons
not to be outdonc. brought George w
Olvany, counsel for Sherin Smiths OF
nce.
While all this was going on Mrs
Hoadley graciously played her part al
hostess by ordering supper to be served
in the apartment for the entire retinu
Of both sides. A procession OF waiter
bearing trays loaded with eatables ant
drinkables added to the clamor and con
fusion that spread through the halls.
Justice Cohaian Takes = Hand.
Bainbridge Colby. spurning the food
0tuffs. took up the cudgels immediatel,
on his arrival to have the arrest nulli
Ned. He asserted the warrant ant
order were "clearly defective" MI
Clark held they were not. They locate'
Justice Cohalan AT the metropolitan
Club. where he had been attending
banquet. and the two rushed over there
Justice Cohalan because OF the fac
that he Is now sitting In Special Tern
Part H.. which has jurisdiction In e.
parte matters OF this nature. was aske
to vacate the order. lie refused. bu
suggested that II Mrs. Hoadley coul
furnish $1,000 bail he was willing to le
her out on that until the morning. whe
the plea for a vacation could be al
Gued
So II went until A. NJ. with II,
simmons keeping vigilant watch on hi
hosts, Mr.. Colby dashing back and fort
between the hotel and the Metropolita
Club and walters bringing more eatable
and drinkables to the Hoadley suite I
sustain the embattled ones.
Meanwhile Mr. Fisk had been III