Background
He was born in San Francisco, California in July of 1863.
Financier president of International Power
He was born in San Francisco, California in July of 1863.
He was president of International Power Company By 1906 he was a defendant before the New York Supreme Court in a trial with Elizabeth C. Prall. In 1916 he was sentenced to Ludlow Street Jail, when the police came to detain him at his house, and suspect that he escaped through a secret tunnel.
In 1918 he lost a lawsuit and was ordered to pay $999,389 to the American & British Manufacturing
Company
The police investigated her death as a possible murder. He was then ordered out of his house for non payment of his mortgage.
The house was sold, and he claimed to the court that he had an arrangement with the new owner where he was not required to pay rent. In 1932 he was arrested and convicted of cheque fraud for $1,037, and sentenced to three months in a workhouse.