A story in the March 24, 1909 NYT reports on a shyster with a convenient last name:

Fritb F. Marx, who was arrested in Hoboken on Monday charged with swindling John Steneck & Sons, bankers, of 95 River Street, Hoboken, out of $44,250 by using forged letters on credit purporting to come from a Bremen bank, at first agreed to let John Steneck & Sons have the $7,000 in cash which was found on him...

So far so good. The story is one of a financial swindler who played a local bank for some cash but got pinched. The last paragraph of the story is rather odd:

Marx, who is only 22 years old, occupied a luxurious apartment at 363 Riverside Drive, employing a butler and several other servants. His young wife, who gave birth to a boy on Sunday, has not been told her husband is in jail. She thinks he is absent on a business trip.

Being postpartum, I suppose she wasn't reading the New York Times either.