Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-10-28

erie to traverse it. In the court below
a day was set for the hearing of the
case, and Mrs. Wackerle, indomitable,
went t. work to prove that the false
Wackerle was not her husband. To do
this she hai to make her way to Mime
sofa without money, and before she
conld get back the case was called aud
decided against her virtually by default,
before the time set for her return, and
upon the evidence offered of Wackerle
being still alive.
This would have been enough to cast
down an ordinary woman, and certainly
the case looked hopeless ard desperate
enough. Bat woman with q purpose
is not easily turned aside. Like Brnces
spider, she went patiently to work to
reweave the web that had been brushed
aside by fraud The battle ground was
changed TO Minnesota, and here the two
parties met again. Judge Boarman.
long after he had gone on the bencn,
and hence ont of the case. still main
tanned the warmest interest in it. Here
is au extract from the written advice
given by Judge Boarman on the bench
to Mrs. Wackerle and her counsel.
Weinmann claimed that he hal first
heard Of Mrs. WackerIe's suit throuqh
paragraph in the New York Weekly
Matt, which did not mention the com
pauies the widow was suing, and that
having lately received a letter from
William Wackerle in California, hewrote
to the editor of the Mail, who put him
in communication with the E ma and
Mutual. Judge Boarman says: Chow
did the editor of the Mail know the
names of the two companies when Mrs.
Wackerle was suing but one ?
New York papers rarely go into Mime
sofa country towns, and one Is not like
ly to reach n German lawyer unless he
is q subscriber. ] wonder he did not
find il in German New York paper.
The company made mistake in not
having it inserted in a German paper.
believe the Mail newspaper
item TO be a fraud, and by proper in
quiries of the editors and reporters it
can be proved 10 have been pnt in by
the insurance companies. | believe the
letter vas written by Weinmann after he
was engaged by the company. When
the case was lost here he became neces-
sary to the defendants, and worked up
the fraud, and he can be defeated in his
conspiracy by proper management.
This is strong language from the
bench, but Mrs. Wacker!e does not
charge anybody but Weinmsnn and the
false Wackerle with being in the con
spiracy. She went to Minnesota and
found that Weiumann had brought her
bogus husband there and was coaching
him in the part ne was 10 play. Mr..
Weinmanu and the Wackerles had beeu
among the first settlers of Corwiu, and
if, as is believed, this bogus Wackerle
is really Chris Wackerle, the dead mans
brother, the lesson. although a hard one,
was not impossible. She found that
the identity which the neighbors of the
dead man swore to, was based not so
much on the appearance Of the f,lse
Wackerle, but on that appearance joined
to his knowledge of things which had
happened years before.
The impostor met her at last face to
face, and braved it out that he was
really her husband. She let him go on,
periectiug her case against him in a
secretive and prudent way, digging n
pltfall which she was sure that he must
fall into. Too much credit cannot be
given to the little woman for the in
telligent manner in which she set out to
trip the false Wackerle. Leaving him
alone to make up the best case he could
in Minnesota, she disappeared, and
nobody knew where she went TO. Really,
her objective point was Quincy, H.,
where she and her husband had come
from California. There she went to
Gorge Terdinger. wholesale druggist
If Quincy, end Mr.. Helmer, another
welt-known citizen of the town, both
men of unimpe0chabIe integrity, from
whom she secured the material for the
defense. Now this is what followed:
When the b gus Wackerle went on the
stand he was asked about the child
which had lied in Sacramento, and
which he promptly and truly said was
exbumed and brought to Quincy How
bad he ordered the transfer? Hs had
had the coffin dug mp and put just as it
was into n rough wooden box, and
shipped to Quincy. Did he remember
anything about the condition of the
coffin? Well, It was just such a coffin
as poor people used there might have
been some flowers about it, etc. Nothing
else? Nothing else. Quite sure? Qlite
sure. And what happened in Quincy
We'll, the child was buried there.
Nothing else that husband would be
apt TO remember? Nothing else. Sure?
Yes certain. Another child was born
in @ iincy Yes; one. When? About
three weeks after they arrived there,
and after having buried the one brought
from Sacramento. Absolutely no other
circumstance which a husband would
be apt to remember? Nothing else
happened. Did he remember the
circumstances attending the birth of
the child born in Qnincy? Oh, yes;
they did not impress themselves on his
memory particularly. Where did the
birth occur? In the house they had
rented and lived in at Qaincy. And
there was nothing in this birth to dis
tinguish it from any other in his family
Nothing. And this child was born some
time after the other was buried? Yes.
This was all that Mrs. Wackerle
wanted. Her moment of triumph was
at hand, and the little woman broke
down with Mysteries when she recog-
nlzed that the fight was over and she
had won. Her Quincy witnesses were
put upon the stand, and the false Wack-
erie almost tainted when the story was
told. Yes, they recollected clearly when
Mr.. and Mrs. Wackerle came back from
Sacramento to Quincy, because the fact
had been impressed upon their memory
by the remarkable manner in which