The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-11-16
JOS. H. H0AOLEY'
|PAYS CREDITORS
TO AVOID ARREST
On Way to Opera, Financier
and Wife Are Stopped
by Sheriffs.

BY the payment of six $1,000 bills
and a check for $1,000 in the early
hours of yesterday morning, the de-
ficiency judgments and contempt pro-
ceedings against Joseph H. Hoadley,
formerly connected with the Ameri-
can & British Co. Of this city, and his
wife, were satisfied.
Lawyers for both sides. as well as
the small army of deputy sheriffs who
have been trying for six weeks to To-
cate the Hoadleys long enough to
serve warrants on them, admitted yes
terday that this latest chapter in the
career of the man who was once re-
puted to be worth $15,000,000 and
was prominent in Wall Street, was
closed. There still remains some
$500 or SO to be paid by Mr.. Hoad-
ley, 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
yesterday. Warrants Of commitment
to Ludlow street Jail and orders of
arrest were Issued many weeks ago
against the Hoadleys on a deficiency
judgment against Mrs. Hoadley for a
mortgage on her residence, 10 East
Eighty-second street. New York, on
which all but $4,000 had been col
lected by foreclosure or notes; coupled
with another judgment against the
husband arising out of the receiver
ship Of the International Power Co. of
which he was president. To this was
added a judgment in contempt result
ing from Mrs. Hoadleys failure to
obey an order to appear before Justice
Guy in connection with her suit.
All efforts to serve the papers were
fruitless, for the Hoadleys could not
be found at their town house or their
country home in Rye. But Monday
night the Nassau Mortgage Co., as
signee OF the claim against Mrs. Hoad-
ley, learned that the couple were at
the Netherland. The company's law
yers, Root. Clark, Buckner & How
land, sent Henry Mayer of their firm
to the hotel with Deputy Sheriff Fit
simmons. Mayer, who knew the
Hoadleys from previous cases in court
kept watch in the lobby.
About 7:45 o'clock Mrs. Hoadley
for the opera. With her was Mr..
Bouchie, her husbands private sec
rotary. Fitsimmons, at beck from
Mayer, reached them as Mrs. Hoad-
ley was stepping into a taMcab.
IT have an order for your arrest"
he told her quietly.
Bouchie expnstulated vainly, de-
claring that a mistake had been made
and 'the lady was not Mrs. Hoadley
at ALL" but the latter. taking it in
good grace, stipulated only that she
should be allowed to talk the matter
over with her husband. To this Fit
simmons agreed only too gladly. For
as soon as the deputy got inside the
Hoadley apartment he stepped up to
the husband, who was attired only in
bathrobe and slippers, and served a
duplicate order Of arrest on him.
For seven hours after that the
Hoadley apartment was the scene of a
lively battle between the former pro-
moter and the men who had trapped
him. His concern was not for him
self, but for his wife. He expressed
himself as perfectly willing to go with
If his wife were allowed
to remain at home. But this plea
was refused. The commitment of
Mrs. Hoadley was the stranglehold
that the judgment holders had on the
couple and by which they eventually
effected settlement in cash.
Mr.. Hoadley got busy with the tele-
phone. He called first cambridge
Colby to advise him. Next he sum-
moned George Gray, the Delaware
jurist; William J. Flynn, chief of the
United States secret service, and Pliny
Fisk, the banker, with one or two
others. Mayer hastily sent for Gren-
vile Clark, member of his law firm.
not to be outdone,
brought George w. Olvany, counsel
for Sheriff Smiths office.
While all this was going on Mrs.
Hoadley graciously played her part as
hostess by ordering supper to be serv-
ed in the apartment for the entire
retinue of both sides. A procession
of walters bearing trays loaded with
clamor and confusion that spread
through the halls.
cambridge Colby, spurning the
foodstuffs, took up the cudgels imme-
diately on his arrival to have the ar
rest nulune0. lie asserted the war
rant and order were clearly defec-
tive" TIT. Clark held they were not
They located Justice Cohalan at the
Metropolitan Club, where he had been
attending a banquet, and the two
rushed over there.
Justice Cohalan, because of the fact
that he is now sitting in Special Term,
Part H., which has Jurisdiction in ex
parte matters Of this nature, was ask
ed to vacate the order. He refused,
but suggested that If Mrs. Hoadley
could furnish $4,000 bail he was will
ing to let her, out on that until the
morning. when the plea for a vacation
could be argued.
So it went until a. M, with Fit
simmons keeping vsilant watch on
his hosts, Mr.. Colby dashins back and
forth between the hotel and the Met
ropoMtan Club and walters bringing
more eatables AMI drinkables to the
Hoadley suite to sustain the embattled
ones.
Meanwhile Mr.. Fisk had been the
busiest one Of the congregation. Just
as the last sandwich gave out he ap-
peared with six crinkly Treasury notes
for $1,000 each. These he gave to
Mr. Clark, who agreed to accept them
90 rart navment Of the Judgment