The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-10
Anna MOLTZ'S HEART.
She Says That 1t Has Been
Damaged to the Ex-
tent of SIo,o 900.
DRUGGIST SUNKLE THE MAN
BE Was to Marry Her, but
Took Her Brothers Widow
Instead.


Ten thousand dollars is what Miss
Anna Moltz believes to be the amount
her heart has been damaged by Charles
Sunkle, Hoboken druggist, whose
place Of business is at No 1856 First
street. For this amount she has brought
suit through her counsel, Messrs. Russ q
Heppenheimer.
Nearly every one in this city and Ho
boken remember Druggist Moltz and his
suicidal end. 1t happened about year
and q half ago. Moltz had for several
months previous been respondent and
rumor has it that he was Jealous of hia
clerk, Charles Sunkle, and that this jeal-
ousy caused him to drink and that drink
led to the suicide.
This clerk, Sunkle, had been in his en-
ploy for long time, and while thus en-
gagged ne made the acquaintance of Miss
Anna MOItz, an accomplished sister of
his employer. She was not more than
eighteen when he met her, and although
ne is not a prepossessing man he won her
affections. Druggist Moltz was pleased
when he saw the clerk and his sister SO
friendly, and never objected to their GO
ing to places of amusement or walking
together. He rather encouraged
it for it relievedrhis mind about his own
domestic affairs, for the clerk was great
favorite with Mrs. MoltZ, It was soon
circulated about Hoboken that the fair
Anna and the drug clerk were about ia
be married. Many persons therefore
were surprised when Anna disappeared,
and her brother informed his friends that
she had returned to Germany to visit her
mother. Wiseaeres put two and two to-
gether and concluded that the engage
ment had been broken for some reason
DEATH STOPS THE WEDDING
While Anna was in Germany Clerk
Sunkle, it is said, cab1ed her to return
and marry him. She purchased hand
some trousseau, and. filled with joyful an.
ticipations of her meeting with Charles
she hastened to meet him. The meeting
is said to have been particularly tender.
| The time for the wedding was set and
all arrangements were completed.
They were upset, however, by the un.
timely end of Druggist Moltz,i who took
poison and died.
When Clerk Sunkle saw his employer
sleeping the sleep that knows no wax.
| ing" and gaZed at the well fitted up drug
| store, and cogitated over the handsome
| furniture in the rooms over it, and the
neat bank account that had suddenly be-
come the property of the widow, he sighed,
| for 1T seemed sin to him that all these
| good things should have no one but q
| woman to care for them.
| He concluded that buxom widow
with drug store, plenty OF fine furniture
and bank account more than offset the
| charms of the accomplished Anna Moltz.
| Having thus determined he ignored his
| prospective bride and devoted his entire
attention to widow, drug store, furniture
1 and bank book. So successful was he in
| this work that almost before his fiancee
| suspected that she was Tilted the clerk
! and the widow were married, and instead
| of Miss Anna Woltz having Sunkle for
4 life hartman tnaf folI ffl fha Lot nf
Mrs. Elizabeth Moltz, widow, etc.
ANNA MOTIFS GRIEF
| After the grief that Anna felt at this
| proceeding had subsidized little, she be-
| gan to think of reparation. She sized up
| the drug store, furniture and bank book.
| and decided that, with the widow thrown
| in for good measure, they would amount
| to at least $40, COO, sum by no means too
large for repairing her broken heart She
| went to Messrs Russ & Heppenheimer
and related the circumstances, speaking
of the cost of transportation from Ger
many to this country and the price of her
trousseau. As result suit for $4,000
was brought in the Circuit Court of this
county for breach of promise. The case
was placed on the calendar for today and
was marked ready.
WHERE is THE GIRL?
/ called on Clerk-I mean Druggist
Sunkle. He would not talk, but he looked
as if he might be induced to fight, so
| withdrew. Then / went to see Lawyer
Russ He refused to tell me where the
girl was, or to say much about the case,
but he admitted that the above facts COW
cred the case.
Lawyers Abel L Smith and Mahon are
Sunkle's counsel, but the ex-Judge told
me he knew nothing about the case; that
| it was in the hands of his partner, who
was in South Carolina. He assured me
he did not know where the girl was.
Why SO much mystery should be made
of the whereabouts of the girl is curious,
unless it is to prevent anyone from per-
| suading her to compromise the case, as
understand an effort will be made to dc
this.