New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-12

also been shown Exhibit 3. This is
good photograph of Count Won
BernstorH, the German Ambassador,
with whose, face I am familiar. Dur
ing the year 1915 and possibly the
year 1915 l remember Count Won
Bernstorff calling at the apartment
house at least four or five times. He
was calling on Mrs. Hearst. Mr..
Hearst was not there usually during
the daytime.
(Signcd, BERNARD SHOEMAKER.
Sworn to before me this 9th day
of August, 1918.
(Signed) BERNARD NJ. BERKO-
WITT, Notary Pablo, New York
York County No. 112. New York
Register No. 1921. Commission
expires March 80, 1920
Hearst's Private
Means of Exit
State of New York, County of New
York, SIS:
Charles H. Jerome, being duly
sworn, deposes and says:
reside at 412 West 14Sth Street,
New York City, and am. the super
intendent of the building at that ad-
dress. About August, 1916, l became
captain of the building 1877 Riverside
Drive, corner Eighty-sixth Street and
Riverside Drive, which is owned by
William Randolph Hearst. The build
ing is known as The Clarendon.
Mr. Hearst occupies as his New York
City home the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth floors of the building. After
had been captain about one month was
made superintendent of the building
and continued as such until the end
of February or first of March, 1916.
The precise date when l left 1877
Riverside Drive was March 16, 1916.
AS superintendent Of the building
my duties were to hire the employees
in and about the building and in gen.
eral to look after it's management.
Up to about December, 1916, Count
Won Bernstorff, the German Ambas-
sador, was frequent caller at 1877
Riverside Drive. He usually asked
for Mrs. Hearst My work at the
building was during the daytime up
until about Z p. M, when l left, and
l had no knowledge of callers upon
Mr.. and Mrs. Hearst in the evening
In December an order was given
by Mr.. George Thompson, Mr.
Hearst's valet, that no one should be
shown up to the Hearst apartment
without being announced. This order
was undoubtedly given on account of
Mrs. Hearst's condition Of health at
the time. Shortly after the order
was given George Butler, the tele-
phone operator in the building, sent
for me. l found that Count Won
Bernstorff was at the building and
asked to be sent up to the Hearst
apartment without being announced,
as had been done on the previous
occasions when he had called. / told
sorry, but that the orders were that
no one, no matter whom it was,
should be shown up without being
announced. Count Won .Bernstorff
then left the building with some
signs of anger. After this occasion
there were other occasions when
Count Won Bernstorff called and was
announced and was shown up to the
Hearst apartment.
l recognize the man shown in the
annexed photographs, Exhibits ! and
2, as q gentleman who called upon
Mr.. Hearst on at least two occasions
, to my knowledge and was known as
"The Pacha." / remember an occa-
sion when it was the talk among the
employees in the house that there had
been distinguished visitors that day,
the German Ambassador and the
Pacha l don't know whether thew
came together.
While 1 was at 1877 Riverside Drive
Mr.. Hearst had an iron bridge built
from the roof of 1877 Riverside Drive
to the roof of an adjoining apartment
called The Netherlands, and that
Mr.. Hearst often used that bridge az
means of leaving 1877 Riverside
Drive without passing down by way
of the elevator and out of the front
door. During this time persons
looking for Mr.. Hearst, including
process servers and the like, used
frequently to stand in front of the
building waiting for him to come
out, and by this means he avoided
being overtaken by them and served
with papers.
(Signed) CHAS. H. JEROME.
Sworn to before ME this 9th day
of August, 1918.
(Signed) BERNARD M. BERKO-
WITT, Notary Public, New York
County No. 112. New York Regis
ter No. 10121. Commission expires
March 80. 1920.
More Bernstorff
Visits With Hearst
State of New York, County of New
York, SIS.
Samuel Cornfield, being duly
sworn, deposes and says:
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