“Report Against Warszawiak.” New York Times, January 26, 1904, page 2.

REPORT AGAINST WARSZAWIAK.

Bankruptcy Referee Finds That Missionary, Knowing Himself Insolvent, Kept No Proper Books.

J. Macgrane Coxe, as referee in the application of Herman Warszawiak, a Jewish missionary, for a discharge in bankruptcy from obligations incurred in that capacity, has filed his decision with the United States District Court, in which he sustains vital objections made by Mme. Aninka Nicolas of Milan, Italy, a creditor for about $30,000. Mme. Nicolas, through her counsel, Charles Thaddeus Terry, opposed the bankruptcy proceedings, alleging that Warszawiak obtained the money from her on false representations that it was to be used for charitable purposes.

Commissioner Coxe finds that Warszawiak, after knowing himself to be insolvent, kept as books of record only two memorandum books, in which no entry was made of smaller amounts which he paid out, and that check books of his in evidence contained no entry whatever on the stubs. He found that books of record kept by Warszawiak were taken in charge by Mrs. Warszawiak after her husband had sailed for Europe in the Fall of 1897, when he was dispossessed from his office at 73 Bible House for non-payment of rent, and that Warszawiak, when called upon to produce them, declared he could not find them. He finds that Warsawiak had concealed his financial condition with fraudulent intent for a year previous to his application, in that he failed to keep any record whatever from which his true financial condition could be ascertained.