The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-12
MIR. DELMONICO'S WATERS.
WHIT HE DOES WHEN HE CATCHES
THEN sTEILIN0 FROM NM
Sophia Aekerman's Suit for 81 200. Alleged
to have been Extorted from her Under
Threat Of Prosecuting her Husband.

Sophia Aekerwan's Suit for 81 200. Alleged
TO have been Ex,orsed from her Under
Threat Of Prosecuting her Husband.
Charles Dclmonico. OF restaurant fame,
was the defendant in n curious lawsuit that
came TO trial yesterday in the Marine Court.
Sophia Alderman, tho plaintiff. is the wife of
ono Conrad Alderman. who was waiter in the
defendants uptown restaurant until NOvcm-
Der. 1878. In that month. she says. the defcnd-
ant camo TO her with n detective. and threaten
ing to have her husband arrested and prose-
cued for stealing from him while in his en-
ploy. frightened her into surrcnderng to him
all the money that she had in two savngs banks
in this cty-somc 81 .96S-which was hor own
money and stood in tho banks in her name.
To recover this money she aiterward brought
suit.
The dcfcndants answer was that the money
which he received had boon stolen from him by
the plaintiffs husband. and never had been
rightfully hers. He says that Conrad Ackcr-
man had been in his employ for six or seven
years. and had been pcculatng during tho
whole Of that time that the thcfts had finally
bccn discovered. and that Alderman had con-
tossed that the money which stood in the banks
IN the name Of his vito had been the fruits Of
his Umbp12lpmcnt.
The plaintiff. a worn, hut not unpleasant
looking woman was the first witness Yesterday
and while she testified. her husband snt with
downcast eyes which he seldom raised. at tho
further end of the court room holding a baby
The plaintiff related. with much particularly.
how che came 10y the money which she claimed.
II had all been earned 10y her. she said, in the
ing. and partly in Il coffee house which abe had
kept IN London. She was native Of Bremen.
Hoops sailors boarding house in James street
whore there are also female customers. A rigid
The deirndant testified that he had long sus.
peted Ackcrmgn Of stealing. and his cashier
had told him that, he had repeatedly caught
waiter. however, for a time. in the hope OF OBJ
tanning undcniable proof of his guilt. He
finally arranged = little trap with II. son Of In
specior Dilks Of the police force and that young
gentleman one morning went 10 the restaurant
with friend and ordered $50 breakfast,
that he had, marked. The, trap proved
Ackerman- pocket. Ark.rman. according 10
MIR. Delmonico. thin contcs-ed that his thcits
amounted 70 over $500, and further threatening
made him acknowledge that they exceeded
$1,000. lhen the dclendnnt asked him whore
Dix t. bis dweiling in Fifth street, and pro-
duced three bank books two in his wifcs nnmc
showing deposits amounting 70 81 .g6s. and one
He drew me- MONEY in his wlfr's name. and
went To the defendants restaurant with II. his
wife going along, and there. after adm ting
that the money hal nll bocn stolen from ihc de-,
PENDANT. .Nlrts~cd his readiness To- turn il over
TO him. The party wcre assembled IN room Is
OF Delmohicu'- famous fourtcon nth street hui Id
ing. and No re the al 800 lay upon "A table The
defendant drew W Confession which A"k"r-
ing up and down the room. and It, the defend,
an tesiiiie 3. making constant hullnhalloe."
TABLE and ns asRed IS AcGerman wh ' bur-
he intended 10 prosecute him, said that he did
not.
The plaintiffs counsel inquired whether the
defendant vas "Ndr" that according TO his own
EEs'iiony ne ll NJ 'i9Hn1ins irig,y
tried 10 MAKE tla wiz = of walters CIV" up their