New-York tribune., 1920-02-25
Fanny Brice Faces Quiz
on Draft for $4,000
Dated Feb. 10; Alias
Used by Alleged Plotter
Fugitive Believed
Hiding Near City
Fifth S a f e ty Deposit
Box Held Jointly by
the Couple Is Located

Fannie Brice, actress wife Of Jules
w. Arnstein, alleged to possess the
master mind" that perfected the plot
to loot Wall Street of $5,0OO,00 worth
Of securities, will be questioned to- day
by Assistant District Attorney John r.
Dooling and asked to explain how she
gained possession of a check for $13,-
600 dated February 16 and signed by
her husband, when she had declared
in the District Attorneys office on Feb
ruary II that Arnstein had left her on
the afternoon of February IL and she
had not seen him or communicated with
him after that date.
The check was signed j. w. Arnold,
the name Arnstein has used almost
entirely since his arrest in 1912 on a
tapping charge and the one under
which he has been living with his wife
in an cXpensively furnished eight-room
apartment at 1 West Eighty third
Street.
$4,000 Check Unpaid
According to statements made yes
terday at the District Attorneys Office.
Mrs. Arnstein, when she called there
on February II to tell what she knew of
her husbands financial affairs, insisted
that when he left her on February IL
he had no bank accounts, was practi-
cally penniless and that the only cash
he had was about $50 week, which he
derived from various forms of gam
bling. She also declared that she had
not the slightest idea where he had
gone or when he might be expected
to return.
Despite these Statements according
to the District Attorneys office, Mrs.
Arnstein went to the Colonial Bank on
February 20, where she carries per-
sonal account for household EXPENSES.
and presented her husbands check
drawn in her favor on the Pacific Bank
in the amount of $4,000.
Before this check could be put
through payment on it was stopped by
an injunction issued by Federal Judge
Augustus N. Hand, in connection with
the involuntary petition in bankruptcy
filed against Arnstein by the National
Surety Company, the concern which
losses suffered by various banks and
brokerage houses in Wall Street as a
result OF bond robberies alleged to have
been engineered by Arnstein.
The National Security Company
claims that Arnstein has $4,000 in the
Pacific Bank, and that this account is
only one of many held in Arnstein's
name or under the half dozen aliases
nc Is alleged to have used.
Fruits of Robberies
in an affidavit accompanying its ap-
plication for an involuntary petition in
bankruptcy against Arnstein the secu-
rity company alleges that all these
funds are the fruits of bond robberies.
This affidavit, signed by William A.
Thompson, vice-president of the Ma
tlonal Security Company, states that on
FEBRUARY is Joseph Gluck, former
Wall Street messenger now under ar
rest, admitted thefts of more than
$l,0O0,O00 in securities and specifically
identified as part of the proceeds Of
the stolen property the $4,000 now on
deposit in the Pacific Bank in the name
of J. W. Arnold.
"The petitioner is informed and be-
lleves," the affidavit continues, chat
more stolen property and proceeds have
been transferred to various other Grim
nal associates of the alleged bankrupt.
The petitioner is informed and believes
that certain of these criminal associ-
ates are about to leave the State of
New York, and are, in fact, about to
leave the country, and it is therefore
necessary to take action before the
property can be removed from the ar
lsdction of the court"
The names of the "crimnal asso-
ciates of the alleged bankrupt" are said
to be known to both the Federal au-
thorities and the city police. 1t was
said last night that several of them
probably would be taken into custody
to-day. That they have not been ar
rested before is said to be due to the
fact that they are under close police
surveillance in the hope that their
movements will disclose the where
abouts Of Arnstein.
The application for permission to
open safe deposit boxes held in Mrs.
Arnstein's name and to examine the
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