The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-23
NOT HER CHOICE.
How a Husband for Katie Haun
Was Nominated.
HER MOTHERS PERSECUTION.
She Successfully Rejects the Marriage
Proposition.


OF muck and Nth and view Of the bluffs on the
other. No undesirable place could easily be Ind
for a residence, and very few persons live there.
It is almost the last place in the world where
would look for romance in any shape, yet In a
wretched house In this wresched began story
last TALL that In sensational interest rivals dime
novel, ana In the Recorders little court room, near
the Hoboken ferry was yesterday enacted thrilling
chapter Of the story.
The house mentioned is the residence OF tho Haun
family Jacob Haun. the father Of the family, is
man over seventy years old, broken down with age
and disease and daily expecting, according to his
story, 10 die. Hts wite, Henrietta Haun, is u woman
about orty-hve years OLD and the real head of the
household So thoroughly Is this fact that
the neighbors ignore the old man. excepting when
they stop to pity him, and the Hourishing business
that is carried in the Ham back yard is transacted
by Mrs Ham, her husband being employed in 1t only
In the capacity This business Is the collec-
ton asserting and sale Of bones rags and such other
unconsidcred tres lie around the streets and gut
tors, free all who have the enterprise to pick
them up. Mean as II is, II has brought
to tho Hauus considerable fortune (estimatel
al OC0) which is SAID 10 be safely Invested In real
ESTATE in Newark and Hoboken. THIS property is all
in Mrs. Hauns NAME she having, II is said, induced
Mr. Haun to sign everything over TO her. Tho Hauns
have a son, who left homo on attaining manoood, and
three daughters two OF whom are young children.
To their house there came last summer tramp
hose name nearly as can be asceraincd. is either
John or FRITZ Schoneman. He does not seem to DO
exactly certain about the matter himself but answers
readily enough to the OF John, by which he IL
known to the Hauns. Ho Is now. under remarkable
circumstances tho suitor OF the eldest daughter OF
Hauns, VINO Is the heroine OF the romance alluded TO-
KATIE HAUN
Katie Haun Us decidedly pretty girl, with black
a hn ~ nvvt nh hit IN
desire to free herself from associations OF such
home us she had and from tho thradom IN which she
was held by her mother She worked hard during
her childhood at home bore with the tyranny OF her
mother children must, and when she grew up sought
home. and has tho best Of reference from her first
employer. SIN she called her fathtr's house her
home, and regularly turned over her wages to her
to dress herself respectfully One day In OCTOBER last
however, Katie Witnessed something at home which
determined her to leave her mothers roof forever
What 1t that she saw she refused 10 say yes
terday in cour. but to her friends she SAID
boarcer as he is called She left home at once, and,
coming TO Now York, sought employ ment at an intel
llgence Office. On October "a she was employed
house servant by Mrs. Agnes Johns, VINO Keeps a
boarding house at No. 10 Blocker street Mrs
Johns says that when Katie came to her she
had only shoe, two undergarmentS and
ono DRESS all Of which she (Mrs Johns) tore into
pieces and gave her other clothes In her new situa
lion Katie worked faithfully and satisfactorily until
Monday last She fully trusted In tho house and
had numberless opportunities 10 steal u she were dis
and deposit money tor her mistress, and always dis
charging her duty with exactncss On Monday she
was arrested tor the theft OF $500.
In November last Mrs. Haun informed Police Cap
tam Donovan, OF Hobokcn. that $500 had been stolen
from q trunk in her house. The details of tho al.
legged theft are apparently very well understood
by any Dody and seems able to toll just when
the money first missed Mrs. Hauu asserts, how.
ever her husband c0rroborates that the money
was there and was missed few days alter Katc's de-
parture Captain Donovan detailed detective look
| iuto q e.
porting each time that it was mysterious case aud
that he could not into II. He could not fully mako
up his nina that any money had been stolen, but II
any been ne though that John knew AS much
about the case ss any one. Captain Donovan hinted
this TO hrs. Haun, VINO at once new into a RAGE
loudly asserted Johns honesty and declared
that she would not have him accused Alter
ward she visited fortune teller IN Newark
who stcid her that young man with dark
hair had stolen the money. This she reported TO
Captain Donovan, who paid no attention 10 II. Soon
after she told that another fortune teller had told
her that young man with lignt hair had stolen It,.
"On this" said Captain Donovan toa HERALD reporter
yesterday, II told her that she might get the fortune
teller up Tor her II che thought they
understood the business better than l, and would
have nothing more to do with IT, "
Nothing moro heard OF the case until Monday
last. Mrs. Haun knew oil her daughters whereabouts.
that some way the daughter learned of THIS,
though this part oil the story is not clear On Monday
however, MIS- Haun appeared III the Office OF lawyer
Breizicd, oil Hoboken
III want 10 have my daughter brought home and
married. she said briefly.
tce, Mr.. BrcIzfed naturally asked Tor tn, partcu-
lars OF the Gaze. Learning that Mss haun was over
eighteen years old he informed bis wond-be client
that there was no process oil law by which her
scheme could be consummated
"Thcn / charge her with stealing $500 from me-"
said tho woman exaspeTated.
Mr. Bretzied Was puzzled, nut referred her TO Ke-
corder McDonough As the person TO whom 10 make
the complaint The compliant was according made
and detective Was sent 10 No ~ Blocker street 10
arrest Katie She seemed greatly asionished 10 learn
OF tine charge, but protested ner Willingness 10 80
win tho detective
KATIE IN PRISON.
on arriving at the s,aiion Hoooken she demanded
an examination, aud ~ default o. bail, which tue Re
corder willing 10 accept, sno was locked up over
night IN a CELL During the evening MIR. and Mrs.
Hauu came to the station 10 her. hey were ac-
companed us tar as the door by their b0arder and u
large dog VINO remained ON Tie sidewalk wniie Mr..
aud Mrs. Haun went inside Katie wanted TO see her
fan hut har her m M he