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f f ' Bs ‘S : SON-N- LAW CHARGED Witt BLACKMAIL Medical Student First Faces in Court His Bride of Three Years. LETTERS DEMAND $700. Alternative Was Exposure of, Secret Marriage to Daughter of Rich Druggist. DECLARES SHE WAS OF AGE. Dr. Halleck Produces Threatening Epistles and Says Girl Wife Was an Infant. Although married three years Frea- erick W. German, a medical student in the Cornel! clinic tn East Twenty-sixth street, to-day faced his wife, with whom $e had never lived for even a half hour, & the Manhattan avenue Court, Green: int, where he was arraigned for t a to blackmail! his father-in-law, Dr. “W. C. Halleck, a druggist, living in Flatbush. . For a long time German, !t ts alleged, has been writing letters nding $700, Jewelry and proper r threat Of disclosi skeleton In the Of the Flatbush family marriage to Miss Hallock three years ago. Dr. Halleck has twenty-five of these | Jetters, and from his tone It looks as} though the young student's medical ca- reer may be interrupted by a prison term if they prove his case. Dr. Halleck and tis daughter w: both in court. The girl wife, according to hher father, !s now twenty years old. | end three weeks ago papers were served on German in a suit to annul | the marri the ground that the girl was only seventeen when the cere- mony was performed. Says Wife Is Twenty-six. “That's a lie!’ cried German, “My qwite 1s twenty-six years old, It ts like gil the other les that my beloved father-in-law tells. I met my wife @ Uttle more than three years ago and on ‘we were mairied secretly. She gave het age then as wwenty-three. 7 was twenty. We kept our secret Her father knew of it, but no one else, I was allowed to call once in a while. “Matters went along that way until Yast April, when my wife told me that ghe no longer loved me and that I must mever see her again. I knew that other men called to see her. Then I wrote Ietters—not for blackma!! purposes, but to get only what is rightfully due me. my wife, but 1 want all that is coming to me. I needed $70 to compensate me for damages.” “That man,” declared “4g @ villain—a nine fiend and a ehioral fiend. My daughter never lived with him five minutes. ie sneaked her away at ni and compelled her to marry him secretly, er loved fim. It was the money thut he was mo yas then held In $1,000 bail. Three letters were sul the Court as against German. twenty-five more,” Dr, Hal- “I would not have caused I could not stand er) they became Some of the Letters, Following extracts from letters that the ris said to have sent to are his forenoon I, Fred served with a sum- for sult wr marriage ‘but then, that’s neither here would consider a cash payment| of $100 as sufficient to enabio mets complete my edugation. Together wit the return to me Of articles which your | aughter Irene retains in her posseavion belonging to rein Convideration of the above condi- tions being fulfilled, I promise to re: More to pons. daughter those thi: ngs thet may be of interest to hee nanint ree of the letters she wrote to mo that I am sure she would lke to hold, Al the others she has. "Pictures, photo plates, that I ber Meve would be of interest to her. pemind, by, far most important, 1] mise to let the action for dive hndefended, si ett i Ine the shame and disgr: that will cloud you and youre om the Mnvelling of the fact that you a: # * ¢ Think it over, Also the shame of my proving that your infant da gh Por le almom twenty-six years old, eo 195—hee! hee! T can prove thon't imagine that I hays been Be cep for the last two yours, the last two months, You are play! clever @ clever game and’ your infant child ‘I don't love your daughter o; gither, dear old tachar-inclew. "My Raw 1 Fo sre rene oil's well thee ends well” Phas PUBLICITY! OT WILL MAKE P Ponies ron YO A | . and especial; M | Raining all around you, Positions by the Score, How could any idle man Or woman ask for more? If you'll lower ir umbrella OF “hesitancy” to-day Work" will shower upon you Through Sunday World's Directory, 2,589 Salaried Positions Offered and Sought Yesterday Through JSUNDAY WORLD Want | 1 | turned hie dectared affection. | the girl's father, |* | Pretty Bertie Claich Claiche Sees No) Crime in Act Which Rid Her of Giant Who Beat Her Merci lessly. There ta ne more dainty or pathetic figure In the Tombs Prison to-day than rthe Claiche, the litle F shot led Emil Ger down and k nt who had made a ner for six years. with murder in the yet in her cramped phil-| no moral or statute law can her act was not one n, the voune gf! miverable stave, Of e is charged first destee, osophy, é she unfolds her story and lays bare her hepless history since the day Gordron fastened himself upon her an incubus, ts revealed her feeling toward the man whom, in a moment of desperate passion, sie slew. In fact, though the ink with which the murder charge was written {s still fresh, a fund ts being raised to defend the girl, and when all the story of the crime is known she will not want for earnest champlons. | She told her story in the Tombs to- | dav simply and directly. She had no! reservations to make, no secrets to guard. She had been the man's slave. He had degraded her and then Hved | upon the fruits of her demredation, At first she had loved him with the first love of a child. Later, when her eves were opened, she found herself subj to his will ang control. Then she feared him, but his cruelty became more | and more pitiless the feeling of hate mingled with her fear. Berthe Claiche was seventeen years old when he first met black-haired, black-eyed young giant. Both were employed In an embroidery shop at No. 14 Boulevard ge Chapelle, in Paris. Her people were poor, but had doen well brought up and educated When Gerdron made love to her she thought she had met her {deal and re- ‘The man was then old in the crimes thnt mark his kind as the most ie- spieable. He Inred the little French | girl to Now York, promising that he | would make her his wife. At first he was very kind to her and she belleved him blindly. But when their funds | ran out she learned of what sort he was. Alone in a strange city, with | no friends at hand. she found he wns | her master and she his slave. | “Sick or well,” says this Ilttle girl who, though twenty-two, looka no older than fifteen, “he would drive me into the street. I was like an insect in his hands. When I protested he wouid strike me to the floor with his great hands. Then he would stand over mo and threaten to kill me if I did not| cbey and go out and earn money ‘nu the dreadful way he led mp, Beaten Into Helplessness, “If I did not bring home enough money to satisfy his whim he would turn ypon me in fury and beat me until I was unable to stir. His cruelty in- creased as years made him surer of me as his slave. He was rarely kind and I felt @ great fear of him. I could not escape from him, as he kept constant watcb over me. I felt sure he would | GIRL kill me ff 14 “He expec to wo! she ms should would help m him, } was AID GIRL SLAVE he would sneer at and came to week! Wros fi RITA TERT TT TG 20 4BUSE TF MOTT gh : bah " + ti ‘ eo * oh ee " <5 1d not obey. ed me to Threatened to Kill Her. knew what I intended 1 he sald tf 1 BOYS IN A ROW, AND ONE I$ SHOT One Clique of Youngsters Re- sented the Remarks of Rivals, Sought Reinforcements, and Then the Shooting Bogan. As the result of & shooting affray be- nd Pacific streets, Brooklyn, in which one boy was so badly injured that he had to be taken to the hospital, Antonto Concenclo, seventeen years old, of No. @ Baxter street Manhattan, and James Gallno, seventean years old, of No. 68 Pu. | cific street, were arrested to-day and | held without bail to await the result of the wounded boy's injurte: The neighborhood where the shooting cccurred ia thickly populated by Itallan# and Irish, There 1s constant friction between thom, and last night seven Irish boys were standing at the covnpr of Columbin and Pacifio strects when three Italfans passed, ltallans were dressed in w sults, wore flaming md = patent leather shoes, The boya 90 the cornky resented thelr gay appear- ance and made remarks At the time the Italians watd nothing, | to the corner with two uthers. When they got a few feet from the boys two of them pulled eut revolvers and began lo blaze away, One fired three shots, but ten minutes later they came back | © he ha compelled to r GIRL ATTACK bY Gang pares on Miss and Her Escort in the Dark and Ro the Woman. Four men were h ween boys at the corner of Columbia |r Stanton, in TH on charges of &: tery, highway robs Jury, |ous ch tugboat fire street, Hobo) teen years ol street; John No, 98 High Four men them, The hustling her her down an wounds, "I offered ing to Conr alone, but b in ti | uncuns JOYS TaN aWayy and as Po- iy Farell and Cooney’ came 1 ying, the Atal The indy Kult, but Butler Birost Was in hold- ted in Irish are rothe matier, and idy to defend them- -—_ - YOUTH MISSING CLAD IN PAJAMAS, Somewhere 11 Leslie about, dress a small black hat, Young Leslie, parents at No. 149 Wi hus been fusiie, 6 is pal ue suit ks, W r “ns of bis family Were i to-day he slip) ‘om his room, seized 4 hat and HELP WANTS, ma fe" a the mroot The mad fase UMA litical ai aa lca J So. | this morning. had duit he f caught M n in 2400 as w Ing row iiK Digirici-At FORNy, gee on, ofive alae my Madison street, She said that she and J wor 1 ofiee, and after his business took ° knocked him ‘frequently into a German au nd after- community he drank it more, witi r of my liceman eo rings were 1 What we JEROME KNOWS NOTHING, raturned again nod inacin'| aay eS (to give him a@ taste of | He Says, After Hix Postum Coffee oceusionally, and as I i Ai suw that he relished it and realized| SODNBE PEI: how much good it had done his J father | began to put a little in his A > bottle of mill, The effect was #0) ihe ary that I gradually Increased | t it till at last I used only \ to give it color, He thrived fully on it. He ts over two yours old now, and his trol 1, p. digestion is all right, Postum has made him uneommonly large and > ' trong and healthy, T give him a Ne ee il bottleful four times a day." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Ty HUMIMEL FIGHTS. : ru HUGS. AGAINST Tall acohson Asks Justice Davy for Permis- sion to See Grand Jury Min- ules—Court Kears Arguments 3 and Postponcs Decision. bbed and Assaulied A to oken man, een a, 4 Flyn Boy Can Sometimes Learn from lila Father, When you catch them young igh you can usually make your vs tit by your own expertence. f ard it's different. A lady tells how her on was made to pro. what his father had learned: My husband was always fond of and avenue. ca jong an¢ the result that his kidneys becaine pondency, tlli arly killed me!’ So ising it and began drink Postum Coffee. It cured him; a very short time his kidneys yesumed thelr norma) functions, bi I were allayed and the’ de: which had nearly driven ceased to trouble him, 5 old, had sut fered ever slice he weaned from and bowel troubles, W properly digest the milk It passed out of his bowels n hard lumps In like 6 would not take Hl nd Welsh ney small dlarrhocs Jets, and frequently | — then itn. Mich, ore’ a reason, Koad the little book, “The Road to ellville,” In each pkg has been soc evel ia | tiny departure,’ he said eeu Dead eit i Ma id ill ‘ i sometimes large and Se true chiclets are to be had atall the better kind of stores. yes indeed! by the nickel's worth and in ten and twenty-five ce Lucian Lowent thal t packets, TODO wy Reatey DELIGHTFUL Che Tint Covered Gandy Coated Chebin ing Oum 315 W, Soh St., New York, Distributor, gan c onttablece da’, July 11th Mysterious Nat Note Sent to and Young Langdon ten New York, vening World.) July ot the Hudson e at Pow ¥., to-day made another uce his son Walter to les Wilson, He waa the ter from New Yo fd he did not know the etter, but gave tt to his r. Langdon drove out to the High- 4 Lake Hotel last evening to have a further talk with his eon, but was in- ed that the young maan and Mrs. o nhad gone out on the lake to- ser in a boat, and Dr, Langdon 10 o'clock for his son to re- came back to his hotel the borough. Ten minutes after the departure of elder Langdon his son and Mre. -dayy but did not offer to as notified Mr. SHERIFF HUNTS VOHANARD BABY Murder Cries Start Hurried Rescue Search in New Jersey Woods, h ne World.) WICK, N. 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