New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-25
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
A mrNDIE OF LOVE LETTERS.

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now THEY CAME TO LIGHT IN POLICE COURT
AFTER BEING RESCUED FROM A JUNK-sHoP.
Iuthe Tombs Police Court yesterday, Detective
Nal yev, OF the Twenty-seventh Precinct placed
dressed in fashionable suit of light sum
mer tweed, TO answer charge OF endeavor Ing
to extort blackmail by threatening letters his
name is Henry Gasaway, alias Lyo his age twenty
six, and he lives in Jersey CITY. he Declined 10
nn Exa s ser 0e s S eighteen of No. Sc East
First-st., whose father 1t Is stated Keeps h42or
s Mas a. in su6daed oco She
was accom- anied by yonng ,uan OF ruddy com
ested. His name was given as Thomas King clerk
at French's Hotel.
Detective Mulyey produced large package
of letters, carefully wrapped up and stated
81; Saasr ~ and SCI, sent TO- f Eas: within to-
mitted about dozen letters which had been ad-
dressed by Gas away to Miss Sauer on which the
charge of attempting to extort blackmail was
based. Without open ng the package containing the
tender illusions OF Miss Sauer, Justice Blxby took
~ each OF Gasaways letters in succession and read
were the writer of the letters in the large pack
age: she frankly answered in the affirmative, and
volunteered the Information that the package did
not contain third a her letters. The person who
was the recipient of these favors promptly corrobo-
ten when he had been employed at Sweeny's
Hotel, and We're placed in storeroom there for
ntlmation that she had of the loss of her letters
was through q communication offering to return
them Tor $25, and threatening to hold them for
future reference. unless pecuniary consideration
was given for them. In one of his communications
Gasaway reminded her that patience had ceased
tc be virtue"
After perusing Gasaway's letters Justice Bxby
consl 'ered that the evidence was insufficient to
sustain the CHARGE and that threat had been en-
pioyed in any of the letters introduced as having
been written by Gasaway. The complaint was dis
mlssei. Gasaway says that he 90 possession of
Miss SAVERS letters in rag and paper store ON Cen
tre-st., where they had been sold as vase paper
Justice Bxby handed over the parcel to Miss Sauer
a MI CnI ut fha Of
the proceedings
HAVING TWO WIVES TOO MANY.
David j. Bertholf, of Paterson, N. j., New
Jersey state detective and money collector. was
charge of bigamy. Bertholf is charged with marry
ing three women, all of whom are living. 1t is
alleged thai his hrst wife Sarah Berthot formerly
him in 1856. In 1868 he left her and married Miss
Eliza Romano, OF Passaic N. j. About years
ago he made serious charge aga inst this wife She
was indicted, but was acquitted. Since then she
has been living in Newark with her two children
ages respectively ten and twelve The woman has
been compelled to work Ill mill to support herself
and her children. Some time ago she learned that
Bertholf was making money as q detective and
thereupOu she went to Paterson to endeavor to in
duce him to contribute ard hersupport While at
his house she learned. it is alleged, that Berholf
had been married to Sarah Hancock in 1866. She
went to Justice Hudsons Court and made "a com
plant. OF late Bertholf has been living with a /
No. "a White-st Jersey City. She says that he |
married her at place up the Hudson River whe |
i've, ana tnat told that he mad
been divorced from Mrs, Eliza Bertholf. Recently
she charged eight men living in the neghbOrhond OF
White-st. with f0rcbly entering her house and as
eaultiDg her. When the complaint was made by
her she was accompanied by Bertholf, who called
her his wife. L
Constable Lynch, of Paterson. having warrant
for the arrest of the bgamist Friday Jersey
City and took Bertholf to Paterson At Justice
1iudson's office the charge read to him. He
claims that at the time he married Miss Hancock
she a married woman, and that his marriage TO
her was accordingly null and voidd. Justice Hud-
son committed him to await the action of the Grand
Jury.