Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-14
NELLIE HAsELTIME,
The st. Louis Belle that Claimed
70 Be Mr.. Tilden's Fiancee,
Fllrts with q Tenor and Gets Her
Family Into n Scrape.

between Miss Nellie Haseltine q noted
belle of society and a tenor singer at
Uhrig's Cave. 1t got out that the two
we're engaged while the lady and her
mother we're at the White Sulphur
Springs. Her brother and an engaged
named Paramore sought out
the singer, whose name is John
Amweg, jr,, and undertook to give
him a severe ohastisement. In this
were only partially successful.
Amweg brought a suit for damages,
seems to have been compromised
by the Haseltine family by the pay
ment Of money. Miss Haseltine, who
to be a beautiful but silly firt,
came out in a statement claiming that
it was the chambermaid Mr.. Amweg
airted with, and hat she did not
know him.
Herr Amweg responds as follows
through the Post Dispatch:
About two weeks ago, after the
performance of the Matte Vickers
company at the Cave, l was intro
duced to a party Of gentleman by a
friend. among whom was a young law.
yer. | need not give his name. |
think his name was H. l.. Edmunds.
He asked me where | was stopping.
The next morning before | was out Of
bed | was aroused by some one walk
ing in my room. l was then stopping
at No. IL North Eighth street. The
young lawyer stood before me at the
bedside, and ! asked him what he
wanted. He made an appointment
with me at Thatcher's Cafe. | met
him and he told me that he came to
see me at the request of Miss Nellie
Haseltine. | asked him what proof
he had of it, and he said that Miss
Nellie wanted to see me. He told me
that Miss Haseltine said that he, Mr..
Edmunds, was to say to me, in cas |
declined to come, these words; Pip
DO and amethyst ring Pippo, |
should explain, was the name under
which Miss Nellie always addressed
me in the opening of her letters, and
she elways spoke Of me as her PippO.
The amethyst ring l bought and gave
to her on my first visit to Miss Nellie
at her home, as an engagement ring.
| told her that | would give her a
better ring when l was in better cir
cumstanees. At the time | gave her
this ring she had on the third finger
Of her left hand a diamond cluster,
which she removed from her inger,
placing my ring in its place. 0fcourse,
when Mr.. Elmunds mentioned these
two words relating to circumstances
only known to Miss Haseltine and my
self, | knew that he had come as her
duly accredited agent. de
clined positively to go to Miss
Haseltine without consulting my
lawyers. He was very importunate
in the matter and | was very much an
noyed, so much 50 that | finally went
to Mr.. McCabe and told him. He
advised me to call on Miss Hazeltine;
that the matter was now in the courts
and that l would place myself in a
false position by so doing Mr.. Ed
munds met me again that evening as |
was going to supper and begged me to
call upon Miss Nellie, either before or
after the performance. After the
performance Mr.. Edmunds waited for
me at the stage, and again asked me
to call on Miss Nellie. lie held a
note addressed to 'Pippo' in Miss
Nellie's own handwriting, which was
very familiar to me, as | had received
several notes from her during our en-
gagement, one of which | placed in
the hands of my lawyers The note
read: ITO Pippo-Please come out
and see NE. You can trust the bearer
of the note for he is trustworthy and
a friend OF mine. | wish to see you
very badly. Bettina | will explain
that Bettina was the name | was in
the habit Of calling Miss Nellie in our
interviews during our engagement.
Mr.. Edmunds said that she would
sit up and wait for me until twelve
o'clock, if necessary, fer she could
not rest until she had seer me. [
told Edmunds that | regretted not
being able to call, for | could not pos
sibly do so; that | could not call
without having my lawyers with me.
Ifshe would consent to that arrange
ment | would call the next day. Ed
munds said that would be satisfactory
and that he would arrange a time
with Judge Jones.
II believe that Edmunds did call
upon Judge Jones the next day, but |
did not see him. | knew, however,
that the other side very anxiously de-
sired a compromise, as | constantly
saw MIR. Haseltine, Sr., at the Office Of
my lawyers. They informed me that
he was very anxious to have the depo.
s%itions stopped. Further than this. |
know nothing in regard to a eompro-
mise, except that my lawyers informed
me that they had fixed the amount at
which they would allow the suit to be
dismissed at $1,000. Last Thursday
while Mr.. Haseltine, Sr., was sitting
in the Office Of Jones & McCabe, in
conversation with Judge Jones, |
asked the Judge 10 ask Mr.. Haseltire
to allow me to call on his daughter in
company with Judge Jones. The fol.
lowing day Judge Jones informed
me that Mr.. Haseltine had spoken to
his daughter, and that she would be
at home and would receive me. judge
Jones and | took the cars and went
to the Haseltine residence. / was re.
oeived by Miss Nellie very cordially.
After some general conversation be-
tween the three of US, Miss Nellie
and | requested Judge Jones to with
draw for 4 short time, as we wished
TO talk together in confidence. Judge
Jones went into the parlor. We
were sitting in the room where Miss
Nellie always received me. She
pleaded with me very earnestly to
dispose Of the case without the con-
sent Of my lawyers, and if | would do
so Miss Nellie said that she would re-
ward me in the same manner in which
l had expected to be rewarded if this
matter had never been made public.
She appealed to my affection for her
aud said that If my feeling for her was
as strong as p~rofessei she
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