The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-17
LYMAN DODGINGL LAW
SOLD MUNITIONS TOO
Missing Broker Attempted TO
Go Extensively Into War
Contract Business.
AFTER T.. 8. ARMY ORDER

More interesting facts concerning Dr.
John Grant Lyman were brought on
yesterday through the examination OF
several witnesses before United states
Commissioned Giichrist In the bank
rup,cy proceedings against Lyman's
Hrn,. John n. Putnam 4 Co. Of as Broad
street. One witness. DIR. l.yman's sister.
Miss Alice NJ. Lyman Of Is Waller ave-
nue.. White Plains. said her brother was
in the habit OF making exaggerated
statements.
The testimony showed hat Lyman.
while conducting tho brokerage business
under the name Of John II. Putnam and
a hardware business under the name
Of Charles A. Curtis, also undertook to
carry out a contract TO supply the
United States army with woollen socks
and even contemplated going into the
munition business on a large scale. To
compllnte matters Lyman had his
hands full trying TO avoid a bondsman
who wanted to take him back to Los
Angeles. where ne was convicted Of
using the mails TO dcfraud In . Panama
land swindle.
Lyman's E1pens~s Heavy.
II was shown also tina Lyman paid
$3.50 n month for his furnished apart
ment at l05 East Seventy-hfth street
and $3.50 A month for automobile hire f:
thai while entertaining friends he ran
up butcher bills amounting TO $40 a
week n that he tool his friends to the
theatre three or four times a week. and
| always had supper afterward. Louis
Il. Thonet. whom Lyman raised from the
| obscurity OF u machine shop to the man.
agership Of John H.. Putnam n Co. at
a salary OF $50 a week. ~Ss also e lib
e~al spsnder. according to the testimony.
William Curran. a chauneuS from
whom Lyman rented AZ automobile. told
Of trips about, this city and Long Island
with Lyman m rhonef. The last time
he saw Lyman. he said. was on Tues
I day, February 3. when he took the
broker II his manager to the Arrow
head Inn for dinner. and on the return
trip dropped Lyman at Thirty-third
street and broadway.
Thereafter ''urran said Thonet used
the machine. sometimes taking women
out. He was unable to say whether one
Of the women was Thonet's wife. ON
one occasion. according to the chauf-
feur. Thonet sent him for "A bottle of
creme lie menthe and a bottle OF wine,
giving him "A SEQ bill and telling him "a
keep the change.
Miss Lyman testified concerning a
visit paid to her last October b. a
woman who gave her na,ne rs Mrs
Nights. bu, who, she learned af,erward
was Mrs. Ellen Peck. the confidence
queen. The visitor. the witness related
asserted that she was the aunt Of thu
present Mrs. John Grant Lyman. who
returned from England on the ST. Pau
yesterday. The confidence queen. ac'
cord!nG TO Miss Lyman. was anxious tt
find where Lyman Was living. sayins
that she could be Of great assistance
to him.
First wife Divorced Him.
Under examination by the attornc!
fer Receiver John l., Lyttle, Miss Lyman
testified that her brothers. frst wife
Mrs. Emma Brown Lyman. divorced
the broker about two years ago and Is
\ now living at Exeter, y. II.
Thonet. who has been charsed b,
Assistant United States Attorney Stan
ton with c%onspiring with Lyman to u.s.
the mails to defraud. told Of a SIS,
check which Lyman had given him L
open an account under the name %
Charles A. Curtis. the alias which l.y
man adopted To go into the hardware
business at TO- Chambers street. II
this capacity he aid Lyman sold $l.so'
worth Of drills to the r.. W. Bliss Com
pany. munition manufacturers Of Brook
Ign.
The hearing will be resumed ny Re
ceiver Lyt,le At 10 80 this morning.