Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-11
NO PAULINE! NO MONEY
HO,c Cupid Loosed the Purse Strings n
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New York Herald
In the quiet and romantic suburbs of Ho-
boken and its elysian fields, in the early
spring time of 1873, August Mangles made
the acquaintance of Pauline Behrman, her
mother and her stepfather, William Toedle-
berg. August was a robust young German
somewhere on the margin of a quarter of a
century old, impressionable and healthy in
purse, while Pauline was fair to look upon
and about sweet sixteen. The parents of the
girl, August says, diligently cultivated his
friendship and Pauline smiled upon him
graciously. The result was that he opened
his heart to Pauline and his purse to her
parents. After they had got loans from him
at various times, amounting i'll the aggregate
to $1,395, and there appeared no
prospect of any more, Pauline began to
weary of his attentions and her parents of
his acquaintance, and August suddenly real
lied the possibility of losing both Pauline
and his money. But if he could not get the
one he determined to have the other. He
first pursued Pauline in person to enforce
payment of the loan, but was defeated be-
cause of the fair ones minority. He then
attacked the old man, her stepfather, first
in the police courts and then in the marine
court. The police court proceedings fell to
the ground because of the transactions be-
tween the parties having taken place in New
Jersey, but those in the marine court still
survive. A motion was made in the
chambers of that court, yesterday, be-
fore Judge Sinnott, to have the step
father committed to the Ludlow street
jail, under the provisions of the Stilwell act
| The grounds on which this motion was made
are the allegations of August Mangles, the
plaintiff that he was induced to part with
his money by false representations made to
him by the defendant, William heidelberg.
These representations, in which Pauline and
her mother are represented to have concur
red, were that her father had formerly been
a rich sugar merchant in this city, and by
his will had left her both money and prop
erty; that when she would attain her
eighteenth year she would receive $1,000 in
cash, and when she reached twenty-one
years would take possession Of the real es-
tate, which was very valuable and situated on
East Eighty second street; that just at that
time her guardian was absent in Europe,
making it difficult to get her usual
allowances; that the loans made by the plain
tiff would be great accommodation to the
family, and when her legacy should be re-
ceived he would be paid back, with liberal
interest. Upon these representations, which
were false, and relying upon the prospect Of
repayment, if not also on the still more
pleasurable hoes of embracing at the same
time Pauline and her fortune, he gave his
money only to find himself left in the lurch
in the end by the whole family, mangled in
heart and purse as we'll as in name. Fol
these wrongs he asks judicial retaliation
against the stepfather's person until he gets
;oI,
figures up to $2,O34 II. The answer to these
to commit the defendant to jail is that the
representations were never made; that
while it was true the loans had been made
they had not been made on any such repre-
sensations; that it was said that Pauline had
received remittances from an aunt in Ger
many and expected to one day become her
legatee, and that was all that was said by
any one to legacy from any one: that the
plaintiff in making the loans did not rely on
this or any other representation except
the representation that the family was then
poor and needed the money asked for: that,
as defendant believed, weightier induce
ment than any was the hope that plaintiff
might one day marry Pauline, and that she
did at one time look upon him with favora-
BILE and encouraging eyes, but having
on several occasions visited her while
overloaded with lager she was com
PEELED to discard him. AS counsel for the
defendant arrived at this point in the state
ment of his case, from some recess in the
crowded court, in tones as shril as those OF
Poe's raven or John Broughams parrot
came the words, "Dat man he LESS The
judicial gayel quickly produced silence and
the argument proceeded, counsel for the
plaintiff claiming that his client had been
grossly deceived and imposed upon, whila
counsel for defendant contended that his
client was being prosecuted by the plaintiff
Decision was reserved, the defendant being
permitted to continue in the custody of his
counsel until decision shall be rendered.