The morning news., 1890-03-03
sWINpLED HER LoVER
4 Peculiar Conspiracy Carried Out by
Two SWeethea-tS

Two SWees6
WnKEsBARRE, Pa. March IA re-
| u1arkaoIe conspiracy case has Just come 20
light II the town Of Nauticoke. In that
/ town there lived up 70 six months ago Cara
! Ncuburgsr, young lady highly spoken Of
/ eni having manv friends. MS EeuburEsr
{ had many male admirers. Among taem
I we're Alfred Nsgel, q young Austrian. en-
pl1yed in q clothing store. and Michael
/ sen artZ Naga had = cou1le Of thousaEd
| dollars lsii away IL the hank- Ee was IL
/ Gustrisus and thrifty. On the ether hand,
| bis rival, Schwartz. was E worthless fellow
/ without ps-nT. Yet, despite these short
/ cominEs. he was the favorits suitOr for tie
( young woma1's hand Nsgel realized this,
and made every attempt 70 overthrow him
/ n the affections Of Mss NeuberZer. but
1 without avail He then tecame desperate
| and appealed 70 Schwartz 70 let him have
| the E.rl for h.s VIE, but Schwartz would
no, listen 20 any such proposition.
As last resort Nsgel offered his success
I ful rival b-ibe. he would give him $50
/ If he would give up the girl. Schwartz
/ claimed 70 le insUlted, and on Sunday even
! ing. meeting Nagel, gave him a sound
tErashIng. But Nagel was not to be driven
| from the field yet. By the aid Of friend
| Schwartz was approached again. Tnis
Il ue be was offered 81 ,0o0 if he would re-
/ nounce all claims TO the girl and move ont
Of the town. At first Schwartz would not
hear Of it. but two days after he called uuon
! tie friend Of Nagel and said he was ready 70
take the money. He loved the girl dearly
ami she loved him. but he was poor, work
Yves slack and he must have money. Nagel
would Lot pay over the money until ne hal
| first seen Miss Neuburger. The latter thought
IL would be bstter If Schwartz had $1,000
rather than a wife. On the sire 9Th OF
this hint Nagel paid over 10 Schwartz
Sl.OOO, taking his receipt for the same. In
the contract there was also a promise that
Schwartz should leave town immediately
upon the payment of the money This he
did, taking his departure Sept. , last.
MANY A SLIP, ETC.
Nagel now congratulated himself upon
having the field all TO himself. He laid
siege to Miss Neuburger's heart earnestly.
aud told MS friends that the wedding Gav
would not be far off. Early in October,
however, Nagel mad the misfortune TO fall
and break his leg. He was confined to the
house until the middle Of last month.
In the meantime he suffered a double
atiictiOn. Miss Neuburger became i'll
and died, 50 Nagel was led 70 believe.
He wanted to be carried to The funeral, but
his physician forbad him to leave the house.
His sister Carolina went to the Neuberger
| household, and SAYS she saw the girl laid
out in coffin in the front room. She
placed wreath Of roses, the gift Of her
| brother, on the casket. She then took her
| departure. That night the casket was
closed and alleged to have been shipped to
| WinonA, where some Of the Neuburgsr
family were buried.
Nobody now remembers having seen a
hea Sc about the place. but at the time
everybody believed, Of course, that funeral
had actually taken place. The Neuburger
| girl resided with her aunt, and the neigh
| bors were all POlanders and Hungarians 1t
was immaterial TO the foreigners who were
dead in the neighborhoOd, for they did not
care.
NAGEL DIsABUsED.
| Nagel grieved yer much over the death
/ OF his sweetheart, and his comp anions no.
tlced that he was not the sams man as Of
yore. 1t seemed as though he would never
recover from the shock. About a week
ago, however, he was thunde struck when
| he learned that Miss NeQburger had not
died, but vas still in the land Of the living.
She had been seen in Philadelphia in com
pany with Schwartz and her aunt.
The man who saw her, a Nauticokian
himself, was positive that his eyes
had not deceived him. All doubts, how
ever, were set aside Yesterday. when
John Lenoke, Polish butcher, returned
from trip to Philadelphia. He said he
had talked to Schwartz. He was married
TO the Neuberger girl and they were living
comfortably in the Quaker CITY. He said
he was not sorry for Nagel. The latter
had used every means, fair and foul, to win
the girl away from him. With his money
he thought he could do everything His
presence finally became nuisance to the
girl, and to get rid of him she entered into
a conspiracy with Schwartz by which the
latter was to take the money 50 as to ena-
Die him to go To housekeeping.
The original plot was for the girl to leave
the town secretly, but wnen Nagel met
with the accident she thought of the death
plan, thinking that if Nagel thought she
was dead he would become reconciled to his
fate better and forget her. She rugged up
a coffin of rough boards and covered it with
black cloth. Nagels sister was then invited
to call and see the corpse. When the Wis
it r departed Miss Neuburger jumped out
of the casket and fled to meet her lover, who
was waiting for her at White Haven juno
tio,.
Nagel, however, is not reconciled to the
existing condition of things. He has brought
suit to recover his 81 600