| Show F 1 WALKER CASE MYSTERY MAN MANIS f IS DISCOVERED I M. M Missing Broker Found Livin Living V in Town Near New Now tt York F CD Dr Di United Press Frew NEW YORK June 1 Russell I-Russell Russell T. T Sh Sherwood mysterious figure in Sa the James J J. J Walker inv investigation whose disappearance provIded one of the grounds cited by Samu Samuel l Seabury in m mhLi hb drive to have bave Walker Walk r removed from the New York mayoralty has been found living In Nyack N N. Y It was learned today rOod herwood od was represented as belog be be- bein log in unable to p pay y either a contempt of court fine tine or a ba back k income tax assessment which stand as a result of ot Seabury's Seabury's Sea Sea- burys bury's revelation of ot extensive brokerage brokerage broker broker- age e dealings by Sherwood which Seabury Sea but bury alwa always s contended were conducted con con- ducted for Walker United States Attorney George Z Z adv advised d of Sherwood's Sherwood s 's proximity to New York announced he would confer with Hugh Ian lan h head ad of the treasury department intelligence unit here bere on Off the matter of Sherwood's ba back Income tax It also was announced at the office oUke of et t the collector of internal internal- revenue that Sherwood would be available le leto to reporters this afternoon Seabury he had been informed Sherwood d' d had denied he ho served as fiscal al agent for forthe the former mayor ASKS EXPLANATION Let him explain then why he did not say so so and o and why he ran away away said Seabury Th There rc is nothing for lor him to 10 do but admit that the he ho withdrew from his brokerage accounts accounts accounts ac ac- counts on on the eve ve of Walkers Walker's departure departure departure de de- de- de for Europe was the property of the former mayor Seabury called on the sheriffs sheriff's office to take action against Sherwood for defying a legislative committee of this state If Some observers connected Sherwood's Sher- Sher Sher-i Sher woods wood's reappearance ranee with rumors that Walker might attempt a political comeback in the November mayoralty election Sherwood left New York in August 1931 after Seabury had ed his brokerage accounts which Seabury abury charged revealed dealings amounting to about In October Sher wood was found in Mexico City on a honeymoon He was served there with witha a to test testify y before the l legis Inquiry iry into New York City affairs But Sut Sherwood disappeared Though he ie frequently was reported seen in American cities no authentic ic trail was picked up until recently Then it t began to be widely rumored that he ie was living near near New York and was negotiating for agreements on his bIs contempt con con- tempt empt fine and income income tax which would make it it possible for tor him bim to come back I Sherwood's importance to the Walker investigation lay in the fact that only through his personal testimony testimony test test- mony would it have been possible to establish the connection if it one existed existed existed ex ex- ex- ex isted his brokerage accounts and Walker The accounts showed many deposits and withdrawals coinciding coinciding coinciding coin coin- with receipts or payments by Walker Valker but friends of Sherwood and the he former mayor always maintained that hat coincidence was responsible Sherwood was clerk a in a law office with which Walker was once associated and later became a It was admitted that he handled handl d minor household financial matters for Walker Valker and ami his first wife wife- recently divorced in Florida but denied that Sherwood was his bis agent in handling the extensive brokerage transactions |
