New Britain herald., 1925-06-22
DEKAY RETURNED
 10 STAND TRIAL
Providence Banker Sluded U. S.
 for t0 Years


 twelve years in connection with the | wrecking Of the Atlantic National | bank in this city in 1913. arrived | here yesterday in custody of United | States secret service agents from London. where he fought extradition | for monthts He was quartered for the night at the Biltmore hotel under | close guard, He will be arraigned today
 Brother Just Freed.
 Henry l.. De Kay. a brother, was paroled on January last after ser ing twenty months at Rhode Island state prison as a federal prisoner on charges growing out of the s2Oo,- 100 bank failure. Edward r. Met | calf, president of the bank, died in this city last July, six years after his parole from the federal pcniten- ! tary at Atlanta, where he had served three years.
 TheAtlantic National bank closed its dow April Is. 1918. The insti- , tuition was located in the Banigan Building, now the Grosvpnor build ling. Five men were indicted follow in. the discovery Of the misHpplca- ton of $2oQ,o00 of the banks funds.
 Indictment of Bankers
 President Edward P. Metcalf vas indicted for misappIication of funds; Henry F. and John W. Dekay, James r. Allen and Orion E. Farrar were
 
 Metcalf. These indictments were Ifiled October 9, 1918.
 Henry E. DcKay was arrested in Yonkers, x. T., Oct, li 1918, He was convicted after trial that last "d four months. He fought a Jail sentence and took his case to the circuit court of appeals, Boston. More than S35.0o0 was spent by De- Kay, hut ou May 1, 1923, Henry be- gan five year sentence, at Howard He was paroled- after serving twenty months, January ?, of this year.
 John W. Dekay disappeared in 1918 and came to light February 21, 1924. in London. where he was de- fcndant in d suit for $15.000, owed to Callowes and Son, jewellers, for an Assortment of jewels. Miss Elliot, his secretary. testified that much of the money had been spent entertaining Sarah Bornhardt, who was then pIaying Dekay's composition, "Judas", at the London coIisium. The French government, in 1914, asked for Delays eXtradition OH charge preferred by the Belgian government.
 In March. 1915, President Met calf of the bank. who had fought Iai sentence, was sent to Howard | for five years
 Dcfrauded Belgium l In November, 1915, John w. De Kay was arrested in London on the Belgian case. The French govern mcnt claimed thtat he obtained @l5,~ \ GOO francs from Belgium under false | nrptenros. It seems that Dekay, as | agent for President Huerta of MeM- l co. had bought l7,QQ0 rifles and on" ! million rounds of ammuniuon Ih'S | material was in Spain at the out | break of the World War. nekaN, it is claimed, saw an opportunity 10 make big haul by reselljug the 1 stuff to Belgium. The %15,oo" francs was given to DeKay as T deposit on the deal. The goods were never de- | uvered, and the action was lnstl- ituted. 1 0n August o6, t916, Dc Kay "aS | still languishing in BriXton prison | London, pending the outcome of the Belgian case. De Kay claimed that this transaction vas perfectly legI' timate
 J In 1917 De Kay published pa / cifist book on the World War while 2 in London.
 - F.xtralition Refused
 Tn October. 1922, the United States department of justice issues warrant in Providence for the eN- tradition of De Kay from S"i'zer- land on the Atlantic National bahh case The United States vas unSH'- cessful in getting eXtradiIon rom that country.
 John W. De Kay conntered Nl'h sensational CharEFS iS5Htu al l'" 5 same. implicatlnE prominent Amerl- Irans including Samuel Untermolcr t and Will II. Hays, in being mixed m with the Mesopotamian oil field controversy.
 Arrested in England
 On April 10, 1924, De Kay landed at Southampton from Hamburg anu = WAS immediately arrested by S'o'-
 land Yard and brought before the , magistrate in the Bow street station who refused him bail, pending hearing on the United States s de' mand for extradition.
 De Kay became ill in London. ne. ramber 5. 1924. and was granted continuance. as his physicians claim ed that he vas suffering from matg- | nant internal Inflammation, l Given Over To |. S' | On April l5 Of this year he ""a | again taken into custody by Scot land Yard, and on April Y 2 Lon don magistrate decided that fu' | T-nited States demand for eXtradl 1 ion was valid, and ordered him dc | ported. \ On May , special agent Of tf" 1 department of justice from huHal' | rr;,-ed in London 10 bring De Kay