Perth Amboy Evening News

MANN AFTER ROOSEVELT.
Editor of Town Topics Makes Charges Against the President in His Troubles.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Colonel William d'Alton Mann, editor of Town Topics, was arrested on a warrant issued by Justice McAvoy of the court of special sessions on the complaint of Robert J. Collier, who made an affidavit that the colonel had committed perjury at the recent trial of Norman J. Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, on the charge of libel.

The colonel had been informed that a warrant had been issued for him, and when Detective Flood of the district attorney's staff appeared at the office of Town Topics, 452 Fifth avenue, the editor was waiting for him. He asked the detective to take a seat while he made out some checks. Then both went down in the elevator to the colonel's electric cab, which was waiting at the door, and were driven to the criminal courts building.

The prisoner was arraigned before Justice McAvoy, sitting as a magistrate, and held for examination next Thursday afternoon, bail being fixed at $10,000. It was furnished by the colonel's daughter, Mrs. Albert A. Wray. She gave the buildings at 310 and 325 West Thirty-eighth street, the new home of Town Topics, as security. The colonel then returned to his office.

When the colonel entered the special sessions court in company with Detective Flood, James W. Osborne, Robert J. Collier and Moses E. Wooster, who were chatting with Justice McAvoy, arose. There was perfect silence, however, for a few moments. It was broken by the justice taking his seat and beginning to take the colonel's pedigree.

"You are charged with committing perjury in a recent trial," said the court. "Do you desire to make any statement?"

The colonel, who was very pale, answered in a subdued voice:

"In no way. I know nothing about it. I have been unable to reach counsel in time to have them here."

In a statement given to the press concerning his arrest Colonel Mann makes a most virulent attack on the president of the United States.

President Roosevelt, or, in Colonel Mann's language, "The White House," is enlisted with the "Collier rough riders" in an attempt to destroy an "honorable," "honest," "clean" newspaper—to wit, Town Topics.

He even declares that the president insulted him by returning the free copy of that "marvelously beautiful volume."

Behind the arrest of the editor of Town Topics it is said that there is a society scandal before which all others which have ever developed in this country pale into insignificance.