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Show MAN LEADS DOUBLE LIFE. H New Yorker Who Posed ns a Wealthy Society Mnn Is. Held for Larceny. Bj Now York. Through the arrest of John Wllmcr Mnrtlne, head salesman In n Fifth nvenue hnberdashery, ono of the most rcmarknblo dual personal-I personal-I ties In the police records of this city hns coma to light. Mnrtino worked each week from eight n. m. to six p; in. for 2 n week. After business-' hours ho wns a wclcomo guest to the' homes of some of tho best known fam- lllcs In the city. Ho numbered among his friends several well-known society Ba Bb Skillful and continuous larceny, It Is alleged, enabled him to llvo at tho B rate or $17,000 n year. For two years BV or more, It Is charged, ho has stoical B systematically and without coming un- Bb der suspicion. A trip to Europo proved ' his undoing. B Martlno added to his lncomo by work: Bb ns "parlor entertainer." Ho got 2S Bb n night for this, nnd so pleasing waa B his personality that he seldom -.failed to convert his patrons Into admiring Bb friends. Ho has appeared In the houses; B of John D. Rockefeller nnd Grant BJ Be Schley. Ho stage managed tho cn- tertnlhmcnts nt the West sldo Y. M. C. A., where ho was highly esteemed.' Martlne, whoso right name la said Bb to be Martin, camo to this city from Baltimore ten years ago. He Is 28, years .old, and Is known as one of the! "smnrtest dressers" In town. B In tho West Side police court Mnrtlmv was brought to nnswor n charge ofj B grand larceny preferred by his em-. B ployer, W. A. Laughlln. Edward H.J B Hobbs,' counsel for the haberdasher,; BwJ snld the stealings of Mr. Martlno ln Bb the llvo years he has worked for the' B concern nro not known, but ho wns! charged with tho theft of 500. Bj |