MRS. HETTY GREEN THREATENED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 3

MRS. HETTY GREEN THREATENED.

Mrs. Hetty Green, New _ York's woman banker, commonly described in the, American newspapers as the "richest woman in, the world "—although Mrs. Russell Sage is still wealthier—has been forced to accept an escort of four detectives to and from the Chemical Bank, where she sits daily counting out dollars. Since she discarded the coal-box bonnet and faded silk dress which she had worn in recent years and donned fashionablo garments and a rose-decorated hat, Mrs. Green, who had just left her humble quarters in Hoboken to live in handsome apartments at the Plaza Hotel, has been the recipient of a number of " Black Hand " letters. The writers warn her in print-like characters that if, she values her life she will hand over a sum of £1000 to a messenger, who will visit her in tho next few days. Mrs. Greon is not perturbed by these throats, .which she rogards as the price' of her financial greatness, sinco Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rockefeller, and many others have been rccontly similarly honoured. But the Plaza Hotol management, which feels responsible for her safety, has' appointed four detectives to ac-. "company her on tho modest omnibus on which, disdaining a private carriage, tho woman banker travels daily to and from her business premises.