Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-07
DR.. kAsRAR ooTTLlcH FINDS
MANY VICTIMS IN TRi-
CITIES.
ACTIVE IN POLISH
RELIEF FUND WORK
Now Believed to BE Richard vollnar
Who Operated il Rock Island Five
Years Aso-is ssIf-Electsd to
Paderewski Party Acting in interest
of Suffering Poland.

Davenport, Feb. Z. pr. Kaspar
Gottlich, alias Richard vollmar. self
elected aid to the Paderewski party in
collecting funds for suffering Poland,
who left Moline owing the Manufac-
turers' hotel bill, of $35 and taking
with him none contributed by yari-
Gus people. among them priest, is not
a stranger to the tri-cities, according
to Mary Lindsay Oliver well known
music critic and instructor.
Gottlich first met Paderewski In Mil
waukee and from him secured the sum
OF $3.50. He followed him to Moline and
here secured considerable more money.
Miss Oliver is in receipt of letter
from Mr.. Smulski, head of the Chicago
Polish relief committee, branding
Gottlich as af raud. A person believing
to be him, is reported to be now under
arrest in that city.
DR.. Gottlich, according to Miss Oliver,
lived in Rock Island FIVE years ago:
He remained there six months. During
that time, however, he was known, not
as DR.. Gottlich, but as Richard Voll-
mar, she says.
Soon after his arrival in Rock Island,
his wife became a pupil of Miss Oliver,
studying music. Acquaintance ripenec
and Mr.. and Mrs. vollmarz eventually
met James Lindsay -Ohyer. Miss
divers brother who is z mining en-
gineer. Here is Miss divers story:
Richard Vollmar was promoter Of
mines-so he said. He had mining in
r.. -. nrt1 FIR yN
Rock Island Davenport and Moline
went there to inspect them.
About this time Miss Oliver was per-
of 5000, which he promised to invest
for her. She has never realized on the
investment.
Later, vollmar employed James
Oliver to 60 with him to Europe, os-
reality, Miss Oliver now believes, too
use him to gain acquaintance with in
fiuential people in Europe whom young
Oliver knew.
Stranded in Scotland.
They arrived in Scotland and Vol}-
mar made hurried trip to Paris
What happened in Paris is a question.
At any rate, young Oliver. left in
GCOlidIO, AdAlSo " lASuA AloAA LIS CHA
ployer, was stranded there and had to
America.
Then Richard yollmar was heard OF
no more in the tri-cities.
But, early in January of this year,
Miss Oliver was surprised tosreceive q
letter from Des Moines, which proved
to be. q communication from rowing
oh I'd Ia 70
that he should have taken so long to
make good on his investment for Miss
Oliver, but he would be in Moline about
jan. IA when he would repay the 5000
with interest. 1t was on that date that
Paderewski appeared here.
Preceding the appearance of the
great Polish pianist at the Moline the
alter. Mrs. Frank Gates Allen enter
tanned at her home at Allendaie, where
the dolls made by the soldiers were
on sale! Miss Oliver, with hundreds
of others, attended the reception.
Il AS sheswas leaving she saw Vollmar.
He was at the far end of "a large room,
:however.t and the crowd was SO dense
that shesdid not attempt to speak to
him. She also saw Vollmarss wife ant
two children.
She had not been home half hour
before she received telephone mes
sage from Vollmar That evening he,
his wife and children called sat Miss
divers studio.
Again Promises to Pay.
Oh, most unfortunately, he did not
have the 5000 with him, but on the
morrow he would pay, he most GER
tainly would pay her the 5000, with
interest. K
But on the morrow he did not pay,
but promised to do SO before he left
the city. At that time he informed Miss
Oliver that he was affiliated with the
Paderewski party and was collecting
funds on commission basis.
In the meantime Miss Oliver was un-
sexpectedly called to Galesburg. When
she returned the voluble Vollmar was
gone.
But he had not forgotten her. oh,
no. He wrote from the Congress hote.,
Chicago, that he would return and pay
her the 5000, with interest.&
Then Miss Oliver began hearing
tales concerning q DIR. Gottlich, who.
it appeared, was as voluble as Vollmar.
Several Moline citizens bore witness
to the patflos Of the doctors tales. And
patflos, like everything else in this ma
terialistic age can be capitalized, and
the doctor, 1t seems. overcame his
esthetic qualms and capitalized 1t.
4 The more Miss Oliver heard about
Dr. Gottlich, the more she became
convinced that she had known him.
Gottlich 10 voilmar?
Now she says DR.. Gottlich Is not DR..
t5ottiit:if1 but D:ch rd .Vnllmar The
descriptions OF the two tally exactly
and there really seems to be no doubt
that Miss Oliver is right.
AS previously related. "Dr. Gottlich''
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