New-York tribune., 1920-05-05

stocks, Gluck mentioned number of
large items which he said he had no
knowledge Of. He identified one item
Of 800 shares of Atlantic. Gulf and
West Indies stock, which he obtained
from his brother. who got the shares
turned over to Cohn in the Pennsyl-
vania Hotel.
"Was Arnstein there at the time"
asked Mr.. Myers.
Eyes, he was in the stateroom,"
Cluck replied.
Among the items Gluck identified as
having been stolen by himself and
later given to Harry Wolf, he pointed
out five $1,000 Interborough bonds.
Two $1,000 Iowa Central Railroad
Company bonds, he said, were given to
Gluck was able to throw some light
on the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland bonds that were
included in one Of the last big Wall
Street thefts. About $4,000 worth
of these were turned over to Harry
Wolf, he said, who also received large
amounts in stolen securities from
other messengers.
,, In his first meeting with Arnstein,
Gluck said, he delivered to the AL
legged master mind" 500 shares of At
lantic, Gulf and West Indies, 30Oshares
of st. Louis & San Francisco and
about $4,000 worth of bonds. These,
he declared, were taken by Arnstein
to the Post Graduate Hospital and the
next day he (Gluck) received about
$700 for then.
The boy told of visiting the office of
Pollak & Co. at 10 Broadway with Arm
stein, who seemed to be we'll known
there. He said this was Harry Pol
lOk'g Off,..o and u,hila ho
troduced to Dan McKettrick
Meeting in Saloon
Gluck told of meeting Arn.tein and
Chon i'll a Broadway saloon and turn
ing. over to them a satchel filed with
stolen bonds. The trio went to the
Pennsylvania Station, where Arnsten
bought three tickets for Washington
and tipped the ticket agent with IS
The testimony of Miss Ray Cohn,
sister of the fugitive Nick, was taken
before Commiss ioner Gilchrist on April
20 and made public yesterday. She
gave her address as 221 Lexington
Avenue and said she was employed as
a. food checker in the Park Avenue
Hotel. She said she had not seen Nick
Cohn since last November and had no
idea where he was She admitted Nick
for several years.
The last time she heard from her
brother, she said, was shortly after
Gluck's arrest, when he called her up
on the telephone and asked her not to
give his wife any information about
him.
Philip Kastel, Cleveland lawyer,
was one Of those called before Com
missioner Gilchrist. Hea declared he
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had never handled any securities for
him. He said he saw Fannie Bricc,
actress wife Of Arnstcin, about once a
week and had discussed with her the
possibility of raising a bail bond of
100000, which District Attorney
Swami had agreed to accept if the
fugitive would give himself up.
Suit Follows Epidemic
The legal complexities that must fol-
low in the wake of the recent bond
stealing epidemic were disclosed in
Federal Judge Julius NJ. Mayors court
yesterday, when the action Of William
J. Crittcnden, Of Shield, Pa, against
Dora Widrevitz, of 2l51 Walton Ave
nue., the Bronx, was called for hearing
before a jury, which last night dis
agreed upon verdict and was dis
charged by the court.
According to the complaint, Critten-
den was the owner Of twelve $1,000
bonds of Allegheny County, Pa, on
ne1ruary 2f Ss The bonds %ns Tere
Widrcvitz as the administrative Of the
estate Of her husband, Saul Widrevitz,
and alleged conversion of the bonds to
her own use.
Mrs. Widrevitz replied in her an
swcr that on March 21, 1919, her hus-
band negotiated a loan of $4,000
through the United States Bank Of
Delaney Street, to w. Charles Sugar
man, and received the bonds as col
lateral. She denied that she or her
husband had any knowledge of how
Sugarman came into possession of the
bonds, but made the loan in good faith.
Peg Leg Man Doomed to Chair
ALBANY, May 4.--The conviction of