1908-06-08-New York Times-Mrs Le Roy Dresser in Divorce Colony

New York Times

8 June 1908, page 3

MRS. LE ROY DRESSER IN DIVORCE COLONY

Has Taken a Residence in Sioux Falls and Will Sue -- Says She Was Deserted.

IS STUDYING STENOGRAPHY

Didn't Separate from Her Husband Because of His Failure, In Which Her Money Was Lost, She Says.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D., May 7.--Mrs. Daniel Le Roy Dresser of New York has been in Sioux Falls for several weeks preparatory to bringing an action for divorce. She first arrived here on Jan. 14, registering at the Cataract Hotel. She remained just one day on that trip, but recently returned.

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Mr. Dresser was arrested on the afternoon of March 17 last by a Central Office detective on a warrant charging him with the misappropriation of $4,000 in connection with the failure in 1903 of the Trust Company of the Republic, of which he was President. The bank collapsed after the explosion of the United States Shipbuilding Company boom, which it had attempted to finance. The charge against Mr. Dresser was brought by William S. Andrews, Commissioner of Records, who was formerly counsel for John W. Young, one of the promoters of the shipbuilding trust. It was claimed that Mr. Dresser had failed to make good on drafts given Mr. Young for money advanced and discounted by him in Paris. Mr. Dresser was discharged when arraigned before Magistrate Barlow in the Toombs Court.

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