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Joseph Force Crater
Joseph Force Crater (January 5, 1889 – disappeared August 6, 1930) was a 41-year-old New York City judge who vanished while out on a night on the town. He was last seen leaving a restaurant on West 45th Street, and entered popular culture of the 1930s as the "The Missingest Man in New York." Despite massive publicity, no trace of him was ever found, and nine years later he was declared legally dead. The disappearance added to public disquiet about corruption in city government and was a factor in the downfall of the Tammany Hall political machine.
==Early life and legal career==
Crater was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, the eldest of four children of Frank Ellsworth Crater and the former Leila Virginia Montague.〔records of the members of the First Methodist Church, Easton, Pennsylvania〕〔World War I draft registration〕〔Joseph Force Crater in the 1900 United States Census; Easton, Pennsylvania〕〔Harold Leslie Crater, Jr., ''The descendents () of Moritz Creeter (1703–1772), who arrived at the Port of Philadelphia on the ship Mortonhouse on August 19, 1729'' (privately published, 2003), p. 160.〕 He was educated at Lafayette College (class of 1910) and Columbia University. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.〔The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, Volume 26 (Google eBook) pg 122〕
Crater's official title was Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court for New York County, which is a trial court despite the designation "supreme." (New York's highest court is the New York Court of Appeals, whose members use the title of "Judge" instead of "Justice".) Bank records later revealed he withdrew $20,000 shortly before taking up the position in April 1930, at the relatively young age of 41. This caused suspicion that a payment to Tammany Hall politicians had secured his appointment. While acting as official receiver in a bankruptcy, Crater sold a property at a tiny fraction of the $3 million the city paid to get it back shortly afterward. The huge profit generated in the transaction later caused speculation that he had been killed in a dispute over the money made on a corrupt scheme, although no evidence of corruption was ever found.
He issued two published opinions: ''Rotkowitz v. Sohn'',〔https://casetext.com/case/rotkowitz-v-sohn〕 involving fraudulent conveyances and mortgage foreclosure fraud,〔239 N.Y.S. 639, N.Y.Sup., February 8, 1930.〕 and ''Henderson v. Park Central Motors Service'',〔https://casetext.com/case/henderson-v-park-central-motors-service〕 dealing with a garage company's liability for an expensive car stolen and wrecked by an ex-convict.〔244 N.Y.S. 409, N.Y.Sup., July 11, 1930.〕
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