Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-03
STOCK MOVIE MEN :.
LAY WOE T0LAWYER
Three Whitmans, Held on Fraud
Charge in New York, Say
Attorney Is to Blame
NAME STOCKHOLDERS HERE
BIZ n stor Correspondent

New York. Aug. 3.--Ninccnt l. MI
man. who appears again todhy III Wv
West Side Court with his father. '''',
A. Whitman. and brother. nernal"
Whitman. in connection with the eH.r"
dition proceedings to return the 'hre'
10 Philadelphia on charges brought os
Lincoln l.. Eyre. declared TINS n,or.,"s
that they were in light 10 INNS"
with their former legal counsel.
The inventor of the machine for the
animation of cartoons in moving pic
lures roundly denounced Eyre VINO en-
loovorod 70 have bail for the three
mon fixed at S15 1000. 1t was cut dow1
70 $1,000 eacr. by sanction OF District
Attorney Banton. :, ,,
when last we saw Eyre. said MI.
Whitman. ''hc was apparently on me
friendliest Of terms with MS. we hah
employed him to incorporate our CON-
pany. which is to exploit my machinr.
Ue did most of the work. 1t devclopVl.
through the Corporation Security Conn
many. PENNSYLVANIA Buildins. Phil.
ndeiphia, and really did little himself.
excepting to oversee the WORK. Inc
work done for us was faulty. however.
and we were obliged 10 take it out OF
his hands and place II with another
attorney in the Land Title building.
Eyre became sore. "" assume because
he did not get his fifty shares OF stock
right away as his fee. As matter OF
fate. he never asked us for the stock
and lie never presented to us bill for
his legal services. and our arrest. plan
ned by him, came to us like bolt out
of the blue sky. We consider that he
gave us n pretty raw deal. and we shall
show ii before we get through.
There had never been any friction
between us. We understand that be-
cause we had gone to New York to for
! ward our pending business deals here
! lac jumped TO the conclusion we had lctt
| him fiat.
Il want to say that we have in oul
! company some Of the best people i1
Philadelphia. ". &. Wcthcrhil!. pro-
| fcssor of engineering at the University
of PENNSYLVANIA. i one of our directors
Prof Arthur W. Goodspced. Of The
the University for thirty-cight years
has indorscd our machine and our or
ganization.
Some of our stockholders and di'
rcctors are Ruby X. Vale. lawyer
Land Title Building: William Rich
mond and William G. Hires. of L'
/ France Chemical Company. Second am
SAMSON streets; Allen G.. Hale. o
Wayne. an automobile man; Alber
Ehart. editor of II newspaper at Wayne
Judge HobSon Iiaigh. of Philadelphia
Lincoln l.. Rutgers. of the Philadelphi;
Chair Company. and DR.. Heath, ;
dentist of 1911 South Broad street.
"Our machine has been warmly in
dorscd by Winsor McCay, the car
tGonist. and by William Nolan ant
! William Il. Foster. Of he Hearst In
" tcrrational Film people,
that he and his father and brother wer
"fugitives from Justice was "all rot.
Lincoln l.. Eyre. the attorney VIII
caused the arrest Of Irwin a. Whitman
and his sons. Vincent and Rcrnar
Whitman. asserted today that Profes
sor W. c. Wcth"ri!l and DR.. Arthu
W. Goodspeed are aiding in the prose
cution of the men.
"All that Vincent Whitman said i
absolutely false said Mr.. Eyre. re
ferrinp to that defendants statement il
New York. They say they are goin
to fight cxtradt!on. II they are limo
cent why don't they come here and fac
their accuserst'
j. Mickle Hemphill. an attorney wit
Offices in the Lafayette Building, rep
rrsrnts Prof. WetherIll in connectio
with the Whitman transactions.
, On July 10. Mr.. llemphill said. abou
forty investors met in his Office and or
, ganizcd Protective Committee. Th
members tried to reOrganize the com
'puny. but found the effort hopeless, &C
cording to Mr.. Iirmphill.
, The members of the committee an
q those back of the committc" stand wit
, Mr.. Eyre in this prosecution ti
. lawyer continued. "Thr Whitman
dis>ipatcd and abused the money in