Tesla Judgement Filed

Inventor Had Paid Lawyer With Promissory Note.

RIVERHEAD, N. Y., June 13. — Nikola Tesla, inventor and scientist of Manhattan, has confessed judgment in the sum of $913 in favor of Ralph J. Hawkins, an attorney of Patchogue. The judgment has been docketed in the Suffolk County Clerk's office here. Lawyer Hawkins represented Tesla in some litigation in March, 1923, and the latter gave him a promissory note in payment for his services. The note was dated March 17, 1923, and was for sixty days, it being renewed from time to time.

About twenty-five years ago when Tesla was experimenting in wireless he purchased several hundred acres of land at Shoreham, thirteen miles northwest of Riverhead, and had a plant built on the property where he conducted experiments in the transmission of electric power by wireless. During the World War, a number of years after Tesla had abandoned the plant, the United States Government seized it and dismantled the tower which was used in the experiments.

While Tesla was carrying on his experiments at Shoreham he had his luncheon sent out on the noon train daily from the Waldorf-Astoria. He also made his headquarters in that hotel for many years, and he gave a mortgage to the late George C. Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, on the Shoreham property to secure the payment of hotel bills amounting to several thousand dollars.