Word: kuhlmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the following was news: Nicholas Roberts, former head of the defunct bosdhouse of S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor") was unceremoniously arrested in Manhattan last August on a charge of grand larceny brought by two Straus bondholders, the Misses Anna & Katherine Kuhlmann (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week Nick Roberts, whose annual barn party for Yale footballers in Montclair, N. J. was a nationally famed event, was completely exonerated. After a short trial the judge ruled that there "was not a scintilla of evidence" to support the charges...
There Mr. Roberts was unceremoniously booked on a charge of grand larceny brought by Miss Anna Kuhlmann, 55, and her sister Katherine, 52, both unemployed. They declared that in 1928 they had invested $10,000 through S. W. Straus & Co. in what were misrepresented as first mortgage bonds. Said Mr. Roberts that evening: "It was admitted by counsel for the complainant, at the arraignment, that the complainant had no dealings with me and had never seen or spoken to me. It seems obvious, therefore, that the charge against me is based upon false allegations and is wholly without merit...