The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-10-13

/ -ostla z gman, the Confidence Queen,
Bertha Heyman, o young and boaut-
/ ETl woman, was on trial i'm the county
/ court st Staten Island ON q charge Of
/ stealing q watch from her boarding mis-
| trcss, Pauline Schlaarbaum, Of Clifton.
/ Never was the truth of the old adage,
( ''Truth is stranger than fiction better
/ oZomplifed than In the career Of this
/ extraordinary woman.
Her plan was to pass herself of for q
millionaire, and then to borrow money
on the strength Of her prospects. She
maio the acquaintance Of a gentleman
. named Botty. 90 whom she represented
. she was entitled to $40, 600, 600, and she
then made him the agent Of her estatEs
and her man of business. Mr. Botty
4 soon ascertained that he had been
/ swindled, but he was more fortunate
than others Of the fair BaEtlas victims,
for he sued her and recovered s., 900,
money loaned and services rendered
Another Of the victims v15 one Of the
finn Of Bates, Reed & Cooley, of Broad
way, who suffered to the tune Of s., 900.
Mrs. laudcr, Of Seventh street, was
Yictimized to q like extent.
Some time ago Charles Brandt, O
highly respectable man, but too good
hearted for his own interests, resided in
Oliver street, IN this city. Mr.. Brandt
knew the woman when she was married
to her first husband, Fritz keTEOw, In
Milwaukee, Wis. Bertha sent for him
aDd told him of her alleged good fortune.
The splandOr Of her surroundings was to
Mr.. Brandt q convincing proof OF the
truth Of her statements. Alr. Brandt
waited on her one day, and she told him
she had something to tell him. She was
to be In full possession Of her property
In q few days, and in recognition Of their
old acquaintance she would appoint him
her agent at a salary Of S., 600 a year.
The details were about to be arranged
when a Everied foOtman announced 81.
j. AstOr.
81 can't see him; I am indisposed, "
remarked the fair Bertha.
The next day IIr. Brandt was there
the name Of "BObert Bonner was
announced.
"Ten him to call at 6 O'Clock" said
Bertha.
Mr.. Brandt was not at all astonished.
He had heard this woman speak so
cavalierly of Vanderbilt and the rest Of
the moneycd magnates that nothing
could in his estimation be impossible to
her. and he soon became pLauC tool
for her Vaccinations. The day that Mr..
Bonner was supposed to call at o'clock
the adventures told Brandt that she had
some difficulty with her lawyer, to whom
she had promised 10 per cent on the
suit for the recovery Of her property.
Now that il Is coming 10 O successful
issue, he wants % per cent, mOaned
the lady, with an air Of injured innocence.
L want 81 900 Immediately, and VIII
give yOu q draft at EOuutze Brothers on
BIatz, the brewer, Milwaukee, If You
can advance me the sum. Alr. Brandt
was only too happy to UbHge his future
employer, and they proceeded to the
banking house where she drew the draft.
They then separated, hepIJLais-Ig to get
the 81 900. In q short time alter he had
gone she re-entered the establishment Of
kOuutze Brothers with q man VINO re-
5embled Brandt and withdrew the draft.
The bank officials thought her companion
was Brandt. and they complied with the
request. When Brandt discovered how
hehad been swindled dhevOwodv vengeance
against Bertha. He investigated her
earlier career and 0scartined that she
had been born in Goblin, Posen, Prussia.
Her maiden name was Bertha ScLles-
singer She was divorced from her first
husband, Kerkow, and her right to the
name of Heymau can not be ascertained.
Through one Of her maids, o Miss
Schwartz, Of Desbrosses street, the
photographs Of the heiress were procured.
She had fed to Canada, and On her re
turn O. short time after was arrested by
two of Pinkerton's detectives. BY them
she was turned over to the Staten Island
authorities, where she was 90 wanted
for the larceny Of a watch.
Bertha's defeuseis that sheis awrouged
and injured woman. In conversation
she is most plausible and graceful, and
presents an air Of injured innocence that
induces many credulous persons to be-
Iave she IS really wT0nged and per
secuted WOnan.-NGlU IOTE Express.