New-York tribune., 1921-01-21
Boston W arrant
Reveals Past
OfDe Clanecy
AS Financier, Jurist, Cen
eral, He Has Collected
$5OO,OOO in Decade,
Is Detectives Charge
Given Keys of the City
Sentenced to Ten Years
After Being Feted by
Bench and Business Men

Boston, where Felipe de Clamecy was
all the rage nine or ten years ago, ex-
tended formal invitation yesterday to
that British fnancier, French jurist,
French general and all-round econ"
man to revisit the city. It's emissary,
State Detective William M. Robinson,
who was dispatched upon his mission
by no less parsonage than Governor
COX of Massachusetts, was informed,
however, that New Yorks claim upon
De Clamecy came first.
In 1912 the Boston Chamber of Com
merce gave state dinner in honor of
the visiting British fnancier, Felipe de
Clancy. and the Mayor presented the
keys Of the city to him. Later Filipe
de Clamecy, then the French jurist,
was the guest Of the judges of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts at an
equally formal dinner.
Convicted of Forgery
Now, the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts wants Felipe de Clamecy back
again to complete ten-year term in
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The same year that De Clamecy re-
ceived the freedom of Boston and was
the guest of the Supreme Court Bench,
he was sent to the penitentiary for
forgery. He was released on parole in
1917 because of his supposed proficiency
in aeronautics and assigned to Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology as an
instructor.
He is alleged to have violated that
parole in various ways, profitable and
pleasurable to himself, and so Detec-
tive Robinson was sent for him as soon
as the Massachusetts, authorities
learned that he had been captured in
this city as he fled down the fire escape
of rooming house in West Thirty
seventh Street from detectives seeking
him on charge Of forgery.
Detective Robinson averred that the
exploits of the fnancier-jurist-gene
in this country had netted him no less
than $500,000. He was most anxious
to take him back to Boston and the
warrant issued by Governor Cox had
been countersigned by Governor Mil
ler of this state. Assistant District
Attorney Joab II. Banton declined to
honor the warrant, however, saying
arrested in this state should be tried
for his offense here, before being sur
rendered to another state.
$500 Forgery Charged
So the redoubtable De Clamecy is to
be tried on paltry forgery charge in
volving check for a mere $500, which
derwood Computing Company, Of 80
Vesey Street, cashed for him in the
erroneous belief that the check would
be honored at the bank.
General de Clamecy-to give him
his most recent title and the one upon
which he insisted when overtaken in
his fire escape f1ight-pleaded to be
allowed to return to Boston. 1t was
not the humiliation of the $500 episode
to which he objected, but in Boston he
had wife and child to whom he was
devoted.
Assistant District Attorney Banta
rudely reminded him that he had ap-
peared equally devoted to- a woman
found in the room from which he had
fled in West Thirty seventh Street, and
before being led away to Jail had
magnanimously turned his pockets in
side out for her.
De Clamscy accepted his fate philo-
sophically. He is used to ups and
downs. One month he had the keys of
Boston and the next the keys were on
tne opposite side OF grated door.
One week he had been a convict and
the next an aeronautical instructor for
the government at the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology.
Becomes Promoter
Ono day he had been an instructor
and the next fugitive thief, seeking
to sell the delicate instruments stolen
from the institute. Still fugitive,
but also a general, he had sought to
impress his merits upon the military
authorities at Camp Devens.
Failing in that, and narrowly escap-
ing the guardhouse, he had Dlithely
embarked upon a career as promoter
and turned up in Buffalo, N. Y, with a
$10,000,000 oxygen manufacturing COM
pany in his waistcoat pocket. With a
shrug of his shoulders at Mr.. Banton's
refusal to send him back to Massachu-
sets, Felipe de Clamecy accepted this
new turn of affairs.
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