New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Mrs. Ray Hyman and On
vestments" Vanish A.
the Same Time
Long List of Victim,
District Attorneys Offic. !.
Called to Assist in
the Search

Sixteen agitated men and ws.,,,
women met yesterday in the osse. :,
Edward Grossman, head Of the Ala
Oil and Grease Company, 10 Ws,,
Sixty-ffth Street, and begged ",
Grossman to tell them what had bpcor.
of Mrs. Ray Hymsn. described .,
"middle-aged but handsome and ma.
netic" woman, who until recently pa
sided in 800 East Fifty-six,h s,,...
They no less eagerly requested info,
nation regarding a sum OF s23ss,n
which they declared tearfully r.Dr.,'
ented the amount OF Mrs. Lyman, in.
debtedness TO them.
Mr.. Grossman, they said, had bee,
seen motoring with the missing won,,
Possibly, they said, he had heard
something about the money, which .s.v
declared they mad given the "magnetcs
hut missing Mrs. Hymsn to invest 70,
them. Hundreds of other residents o,
the East Side, they asserted, also wsr.
interested nightly in the whereabou,,
of the woman and certain sums Dc.
posted by them for investment. III.
East Sides total capital invested
through Mrs. Hyman, they estimated,
was not less than 100000.
Mr.. Grossman Invested
make it sl3S,OOO,' said Mr.. Gross.
man, 81 invested $4,000 with Mrs. Hy.
man myself and | wish did know
where she is"
Grossman denied he was Mrs Hy.
mans agent" as some of the investors
had charged leonard BAIT, who, they
thought, kept her books, denied know.
ing anything of her finances. excep.
that she has $4,000 OF his money to
invest.
"I've kissed goodby 10 Il, too" said
Bait.
According 10 Bernard II. Sander an
attorrey. of 265 Broadway who is act.
ing for the collective Hyman investors,
the magnetic Mrs. Lyman has been in.
vesting money for East Side residents
for more than year. She may have
invested Sl,000000, he says. Her
financial operations were popular, he
explains, because of the fact that she
paid as high as 80 and even 100 per
cent interest TO those who advanced
money to her.
Several weeks ago, Mr.. Sander says.
Mrs. Hyman vanished from her aecus-
toned haunts. Then Mrs. Dora Schif
a widow with five children, who had in
vested all her funds with Mrs. LYMAN,
invited all who had invested similarly
70 meet in her grocery store, IN ~
East 10th Street. The meeting, she
says, and Mr. Sander agrees. resulted
i'm a near riot when u was discovered
that Mrs. Hyman had invested so muen
of the neighborhood funds and had re-
turned so little.
District Attorney in Search
The meeting resulted in the call on
Mr.. Grossman yesterday. That visit
in turn inspired the investors 10 pre-.
sent their case to Assistant Ds,rie.
Attorney Colnon. in charge of the Con.
plant Bureau. Mr.. Colnon said he
would do all in his power to find Mrs
Hyman.
Some of the others who are looking
for her are Joseph Fox. of 1856 West
l41st Street. who declares he invested
81 900 with her; G. Leavy, of 1888 Beck
Street, who says he advanced $4,000;
Pihhin 615 Sackman Street Browns.
Vile. $685.; B. Abramowiu, lOs Non
roe Street, 81 500; A. Cohen, IS Jefer.
son Street. $500; Isidore London. 6l5
Sackman Street. s26250; Mrs. y. Fish
kin. 237 East 10th Street, 5000; Mrs.
X. Fox, 1856 West lilst Street, SoVV:
A. Lillienthal and d. Lillieuthal, Of s'l
Union Avenue, each $1,000; Mrs. Nolae
Fuchs. 1913 East 10th Street slN9'
and Mrs. Dora Schiif, Of 232 last lig'a
Street so 600