Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-17 | Page 2 | Banker Flees Nursing Home

BANKER FLEES NURSING HOME B By C. C C C. C NICOLET United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK July 17 Joseph 17 Joseph W V Harriman whose eccentricities have been revealed in a w week long sanity anity hearing as h a prelude to his scheduled trial on charges of wrecking the Harriman Har liar riman National bank disappeared for fora a second time today and apparently fled tied to his native state of New Jersey The b banker disappeared on May 19 just before the first scheduled opening open open- ing of his trial leaving suicide notes When he was found in an In inn at RosIn Roslyn Roslyn Ros Ros- lyn In L. L I I. I near where he once had hadan hadan hadn an n estate he attempted to stab himself him self seIr but inflicted only a slight wound Today he left no notes as far as could be learned The banker who It il has been testified drinks girt gin like water wa vater va- va ter and uses narcotics to induce sleep sleepwalked walked quietly out of the Regent nursing home where he was being cared eared for and boarded a taxicab in bus busy Lexington ton avenue Walker Dunbar Dunbar Dun Dun- bar the driver found after a n police poUce alarm was broadcast said the banker banket ordered him to drive to the street ferry which runs to Fort Lee LeeN N J Ji L but after aUer going several blocks block northward changed his mind and dl dl- him to the Cortland street ferry in lower Manhattan several miles away At the ferry Dunbar said Harriman Harrl Harri man paid him tipped him 10 cents and went into the ferry house The ferry runs to the Pennsylvania railroad rail road terminal at Jersey City Colonel William J. J Donovan Harriman's Horn Harrl mans man's counsel said the former banker had only a few dollars and could not nol get far away Nevertheless custom customs guards at the Canadian and Mexican borders and at Atlantic ports were asked to watch for the haired gray I broken man who once was a n prom prom- financier s 's HarrIman's sanity hearing had been scheduled to continue this afternoon j His attorneys have sought soucht to prove proy him too irresponsible to help th them prepare an adequate defense