Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-02
FILTRATION AND FRAUD.
Merchants Fictimized by the Wiles of a
Scheming Woman.

| New York, Sept IA Quebec special
says: A week ago X. Schynman, He
| brew, left this city owing creditors sums
that will aggregate nearly $4,000. Schyn
man, whose real name is Harris, kept q
ready-made clothing establishment on st.
Joseph street, which he opened in May
| last He also had remarkably handsome
| French Canadian wife. She was very
| lovely and not averse to carrying on firta-
tons with gentlemen who patronized the
clothing store and the merchants from
whom her husband bought goods. Sev-
eral instances of where she had gone out to
drive after goods had been delivered at
the husbands store were brought
| to the latter's notice, but he paid no at
| tention to the stories, merely saying that
he did not blame anybody for admiring a
handsome woman. If she enjoyed the
tribute paid to Der beauty, he was not
going to make her unhappy by stopping
it.
Things ran on all summer in this man
ner, and Harris stock and liabilities grew
in equal proportions. One night SuSplc-
iOus truck load of goods left the store and
were shipped to Montreal, whence, it has
since been learned, they were sent some
where in the states. Some OF the creditors
who had not taken Mrs. Harris out to
drive heard of the mysterious shipment,
and came down on Harris store for pay
ment of their bills. He held them off for
a few days, and then, week ago, sud
denly disappeared with all his cash assets
and half dozen trunks full of
goods. There was much excitement, and
those who were not acquainted with Mrs
Harris accused her of being in league with
her husband. The stock in the store was
seized and she was arrested. An eXamln-
alton was had and the woman resolutely
denied any knowledge of the whereabouts
of Harris. She was remanded yesterday.
She said she wanted to make confession.
She was brought before W. n. Campbell,
a city notary. Everybody but those di-
rectly interested We're excluded from the
room, and then she told her story. 1t was
to the effect that when Harris, who is not
her husband, opened a store, he told her
that he would introduce her to the mer-
chants from whom he bought his stock;
that many of them had an eye to beauty,
and that they might fiirt with her; that
she was tOsflrt in return and, if invited
out, accept the invitation and any
thing else that the gentleman should sug
gest. In this way the merchants would be
very easy with him, make large sales on
long credits and be willing to wait for
payment from Il man who had such
handsome and accommodating wife.
IEen 11dTTlS PROMISED ltf, WU6n ne uau
banked about $50, ZOO, that they would run
away and enjoy themselves for the rest of
their lives. The woman did as she was
bid and went to innumerable suppers.
Harris enjoyed excellent credit, was the
envy of all other clothing dealers in the
city, and money rolled in just as fast as he
had anticipated. Then came the burst-up
and flight, as told above, aud the woman's
arrest Her affidavit is very long, impli-
eating at least a dozen wholesale clothing
dealers here and in Montreal. and, worst
of all, a learned and hitherto highly
respected rabbi, whose wife was pres
ent while the woman was making her dep
osition. There is also a prominent Judge
of this district implicated, and a we'll
known banker, who discounted some of
Mr.. Harris notes, which are yet unpaid
The details of the confession are the most
shocking that can be imagined, and the
parties implicated are moving heaven and
earth to prevent their names becoming
public. To this end they have begun pro-
ceedings under the provincial act ITO pro
vide for the suppression of voluntary and
extra judicial oaths," and will probably
succeed There is no list to be obtained Of
the creditors whom Harris left in the
lurch by his flight. The woman will
probably be discharged and sent out of the
country.