New-York tribune., 1921-04-12
Mrs. Hunt Held
In Tombs ON
Check Charge
Sister-in-Law of Former Gin
cinnati Mayor, Now Part
ed From Husband. Fails
to Give $4,000 Bail
Relatives Not Informed
Brokers Reimbursed for
Nearly All of Bonds and
Won't Prosecute Charge

Mrs. Harriet Pendleton Hunt, thirty
five years old, former wife Of Phillip
Hunt, the brother OF former Mayor
Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati,
who also says she is the daughter of
Elliott Hunt Pendleton. prominent
Cincinnati attorney, spent yesterday
and last night in the Tombs, after
being arraigned before Magistrate
George w. Simpson in Tombs Court
yesterday morning on q charge of
suspicion of grand larceny.
Mrs. Hunt is alleged to have issued
a check for $4,000 to the w. f. Hutton
& CO. brokerage firm in return for
$4,000 worth of Victory bonds The
check, it is asserted was returned as
worthless by the Cincinnati bank upon
which it was drawn.
An element of mystery entered the
case yesterday when John Minton, OF
25 Liberty Street, took charge Of Mrs
Hunts defense. Mr.. Minton yesterday
afternoon refused to say who had re-
tanned him as counsel for the accused
woman and refused to say whether the
appearance Of a representative from
Justice Pendleton's Office at Police
Headquarters during the questioning
of the prisoner yesterday morning had
anything to do with his interests.
Said She Was Senator's Daughter
When questioned the woman is said
to have told Detectives Mayer and
Brown, who arrested her Sunday after
noon in a room at Hotel Langwell, in
West Forty-fourth Street, that she was
the daughter of State Senator Pendle
ton. She said her home was at 1886
Madison Avenue. Cincinnati, and that
her father conducted a. law Office at
ol9 Main Street, in that>city.
Parted From Husband
She is also said to have told the de-
tectivcs that she was the former wife
OF Philip Hunt, the brother of former
Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt, of Gin
cinnati. She declared that she and her
husband were not living together, hav-
ing been divorced a few years ago.
This latter statement was verified last
night when dispatches from Cincinnati
acquainted the police here with brief
history of her married life with Mr.
Hunt
according to Mr.. Minton, Mrs. Hunt,
VINO styles herself writer. makes no
denial of having issued a check for the
$4,000 worth of Victory bonds. At
the time of issuing the check Mrs.
Hunt. according to her attorney wired
her father in Cincinnati telling him of
the purchase and requesting that he
deposit $4,000 to cover the check, in
the Hamilton County Bank. the bank
upon which the check was drawn. Fail
ure OF the father to make the deposit,
Mr.. Minton says, resulted in the check
beng returned marked mot sufficient
funds" 1t was ascertained yesterday
that Mrs. Hunt had but So to her
credit in the Hamilton County Bank.
Intended Going Abroad
Mrs. Hunt, according to her attorney,
intended to sail for Europe within
few days. He was unable to explain
why the woman, upon being arrested,
claimed to be the niece of Justice Fran
els Key Pendleton. He said further,
that as far as he had been able to as
certain after questioning the woman,
she was not the niece of Justice Pen
tee Pendleton also denied that she was
his niece
When arraigned before Magistrate
Simpson motion was filed by Mr. Min
ton to have the charge dismissed. The
motion was based on the statement
that w. f. Hutton & Co. did not care
TO press the charge.
The motion was denied, however, and
bail was fixed at $4,000 by the court.
After it had been asccrtained that Mrs.
Hunt had but SO in the bank Deputy
District Attorney Sabbation filed mo-
tlon with the court to increase the bail
to $4,000, 50 that the amount involved
might be covered. A later order in
creasing the bail to $4,000 was made
and Mrs. Hunt. being unable to give
this sum, was taken by a matron from
the courtroom to the Tombs
Father on Way to City
Late yesterday afternoon Mr. Mintor
said that he had communicated with
the father of the woman and that he
was on his wa to New York and woulc
arrive some time this morning. Min.
of the bonds purchased with the al
legged worthless check, together with
approximately $500 found in the WON
ems possession at the time Of her ar
rest, were yesterday returned to the
". +. Hutton concern, according ts
Mr.. Minton. Mr.. Minton said further
that the entire amount would more
than likely be made good by the father
upon his arrival and that he was as
sured that the brokerage firm woulc
refuse to prosecute the case. which has
been set for hearing on April 18.
Dispatches from Cincinnati late last
night, however, denied that the woman's
father was aware OF. her being detained
here on the charge OF suspicion OF
grand larceny. According to press dis
patches, relatives in Cincinnati dis
claimed all knowledge of having been
Informed of her incarceraton