The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-25
THIS QUEER Stuff Case.
A Story of Strange and I'M
satisfactory MatTi-
monia1 Expert
enCeS.
PRETTY KATE DRIESLER's STORY.
Mrs. Stuff Charges Conspiracy and
Casts Aspersions Upon Justice
Seymour.

A peculiar game of cross purposes is be-
ing played in the Hoboken courts which
will have to be left for the Grand Jury to
unravel and pass Judgment upon.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Eva Stuff, Of
No III Washington street, was arrested
on warrant issued by Judge Seymour
for living in open adultery with man
named Bossert. A warrant was issued
for Bossert, but us soon as Constable
Stanton appeared he made his escape by
scaling a fence into Court alley, in the
rear. just q few moments before Mrs.
Stuff was arrested her husband, Joseph
Stuff, hairdresser, living at No. 26
Union street, Brooklyn, was taken to the
police station by Policeman Walsh for
making an attack upon her and stabbing
her with knife.
Judge Seymour gave Mrs. Stuff a
hearing, and committed her to the County
Jail, but Mr.. Gustav Hauser, the cigar
manufactures, went her bail in the sum
of $500, and she was released. The huS-
band, who behaved in very extraordi-
nary manner was held until he got over
his excitement, and could speak this
morning.
A Brooklyn lawyer, named McLamke,
who represents Mr.; Stuff, told a queer
story of the married life of the couple,
Some twelve years ago, he said, they met.
loved, and were married in Bremen.
They lived together there for some months
in fairly good style until the husband
found that his wife was speculating, and
placing her spare cash in disorderly
houses. He received such shock that he
decided to leave his country and came to
America. They settled down in New
York about ten years ago, but Mrs Stuft's
mania for speculation in the lucrative,
but immoral, business which she carried
l.
tice of the police.
MR. EIsLER's INHERITANCE.
The police books he said, would show
that she was driven from pillar to post
and had to travel under several aliases
At last she had to try Brooklyn, but there
her success was no better She, however,
while there became acquainted with
young German named Eisler, Their con-
duct was anything but satisfactory to
Mr.. Stuff, but he made no complaint.
Eisler about that time, owing to the death
of relative, received a bequest of about
$4,000. Mrs. Stuff secured from him a
power of attorney and got hold of the
money. Then she took a vacation. y
She was absent on that jaunt for a long
time, but when she returned she had no
money, and confessed to having lost it in
her usual speculation. She promised to
repair it in installmentS and she did so.
Eisler soon became tired of Mrs. Stuff
and left her. Her next friend was Bossert,
who made his interest in the woman pub
lie, and quarrels between the husband
and wife were of frequent occurrence.
The constant worry of his wife's infidel-
ity drove Stuff into fever, and for a long
time he was very sick. During his Illness
his father died and left him about s13, ,000-
He gave his wife power to receive the
money for him. She went to Europe,
taking Bossert with her, and obtained the
money. She returned almost immediately,
fr.rr !, hon
as it was made over to her. Bossert was
doing his best to spend it.
One day Stuff, who had removed from
her, went to her boarding house and de-
manded the money. He also ordered Bos-
sert out of the house. Bossert struck him
with an axe, and though the wound was
not dangerous in itself, the shock, in
| Stuft's weak condition, made him very
| i'll. For a whole year he was confined In
| o hospital and from thence he was taken
| to an insane asylum.
| Mrs Stuff and Bossert removed to Ho-
| boken. She hired the saloon, No. III
| Washington street, for three years and
started in business To procure furniture
| she ordered about 1900 worth on the in
stalment plan. She gave fictitious
! name and address in New York, but by
some means induced the truckman to de-
| liver the goods in Hoboken. The furni-
| ture dealers got their property back
| through the courts.
| THE CASE OF KATE DRIESLER.
| With a clear field before her, said Coun-
| sellor Lemke, she started on her disor-
| derly house craze. She visited Castle
| Garden and picked out the prettiest
| girls who were there for domestic help
| Kate Driesler was one. The story of Mrs.
| Stuft's alleged attempt to ruin the girl
was published in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
| of Friday last. On the day after she
| hired the Driesler girl she againt went to
| faA ,efk fk.ax.e RI
| She was arrested ON Friday last on the
complaint of the girl Driesler, but was
! admitted to bail through Mr.. Hauser, and
| Yesterday afternoon she was arrested and
| taken before Judge Seymour and bailed
for examination.
apart from his wife, but since Friday they
| have been together. 1t was when Bossert
| made his appearance that the anger OF
Stuff showed itself. He flew at his wife
and cut her several times on the hands,
but no serious result followed. Bossert
looked on complacently, and did not at
tempt to save Mrs. Stuff.
Just at that moment Constable Stanton
| appeared with the warrants for Mrs.
Stuff and her paramour. Bossert ran
away, but was arrested at dusk yesterday
and sent to the County Jail.
| Counselor Stuhr was engaged on the
woman's behalf and there is a very pecu-
liar mixture of charges and counter
charges, some of which are said to be
directed against Justice Seymour.
MRS. SUITS DENIAL.
Mrs. Stuff emphatically denied that she
had anything to do with the girl who
made the complaint against her, and said
that the affair was put up job between
her husband, Brooklyn lawyer, whose
name she does not know, and Justice Sey-
mour to put her away, in order that the
husband might take possession OF her
store and sell off her property, which
amounts to between three and four thou
sand dollars. Her husband had no right
TO any of her goods, she said, as she had
procured divorce from him.
Counselor Stuhr and Mr.. Hauser cor
roborated her statements regarding the
prop erty, and Mr.. Hauser said that he was
| inter ested in the business, and for his own
prote ction he bailed the woman out OF
jail and paid her license yesterda ay. They
declare that the charges on which the
woman had been arrested heretofore are
flimsy. and they are satisfied that the
Grand Jury will put no faith in Kate
Driesler's story.
/ asked Justice Seymour for sight of
the complaints against Mrs. Stuff, but he
refused. Counsellor Stuhr will have them
produced before the Grand Jury.
Mr.. Stuff, who is under arrest, refused
to make any statement.
Caught Between Two Cars.