The sun., 1890-01-14

She discovered. She Says, that He had .
wife AlIve-She Released Him Once, hat
There Was Talk of Divorce and Re-
enEagement-He IL S5 and Sho is 10.
suit for 100000 damages for breach Of
promise Of marriage, instituted by Miss Caro-
line J. Cammerer OF Philadelphia against Mr..
Clemens Muller Of this city, was on trial before
Judge Ingroham In Part ". OF tho Supreme
Court yesterday. Daniel DouRhortY, aided by
William H. Lewis, represented the plaintiff,
and Col. Robert G. InRersoll, with Robert H
Griffln and Hugo Muller. represented the de-
fendant. Hugo Muller Is the son OF the de-
fendant
Miss Cnmmerer is 29. and is the only
daughter OF Robert Csmmerer, Philadelphia
architect She is slight and dark. Mr.. Muller
is well-known member Of the LiedorkranB
Society Of this city. He Is about So years OF
age He was a builder. but has retired. and
has sons In business. He has remarked since
his engagement with Miss Cammerer.
The story OF tho, courtship and broken en-
Ragement, as told in Lawyer Lewis's opening
address, is as foilows Miss Cammerer devel-
oped talent for music. and at the age OF 10
played at concerts In Philadelphia. Her father
sent her to Cologne. whore she studied music
under DR.. Ferdinand Hitler for three years.
and ACQUIRED some French and German az
we'll. While In Germany she played before the
Empress Augusta. When she returned homo
she was incapacited by sickness from work for
three years more Then she began teaching
music to private class. This was in the spring
OF 1885. In October OF that year she met Mr..
Muller at reception in the house of q friend.
She visited Mrs. Isabelle Varley in this city on
Nov co. 1885. Mr.. Muller met her at the
depot. The following night he took her TO
concert at Steinway Hall and invited her to his
homo. whore, he told her. his sons would bo
glad to meet her. She went there the next day.
and his niece met her and welcomed her and
He invited her to the house the next day to
meet his sons. and early in the afternoon went
They walked through the Park, and, on hig
her, and proposed marriage He suggested
his sons would be glad to see him married;
Miss Miss Gammerer Fan did t,c not consent sent then; The
:. Lohengrin." and pressed his suit between
the acts Ip telling the story to the Jury yes:
she could not trust her life in safer hands than
his: that he was worth from $4,000 to $4,000
Sssd e. S Ss 5 II sr wod HAT b SoSd ADJ hpS
love him now. as he did her. he would teach
her to love him. he asked for her photoGGaph.
She She rel returned @ T to PhiladeIp Iphia he sent her
bouquet, and he followed 1T up with
]bSttsr' bss In be s"Id these; will dffed iied
in me man Of honor. who will always honor
and apErsScSSts ate your every thought q an and aetlon
societies in Philadelphia, but this she declined.
because people talk great deal in Philadel-
.Mr. Muller went to Philadelphia on Dec. 16.
He saw Miss Cammerer's father and compile
That night he took, father ana daughter to tho
oDefa The NE. next day ne pr9Posed msrriagS
to the jury in this way
ns came about 70 oGS0t IN the morning. TSssw me
ny
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Z This was 3ar as Miss Cammerer's evidence
got yesterday; but Lawyer Lews's opening
R rfst RcReT R he eas s
June 6 and told her that Mr.. Muller had wife
living IN an insane asylum. Miss CammerSr M
oSer U about eo' IT, wee Week later t Mr Muller came
on to PHILADELPHIA. He admitted that he had
was dead to, him morally, and legally.
and AM she hey was nothing to him but memory. ,He
reproached Miss Cammerer for ,distrustinR
men sh She offered to reiease him from the e1
came TO New York together. and she bought 9
assured her that Muller was free to marry,
Later whom Miss Cammerer's father asked
to see the divorce papers Mr. Muller
could not furnish them and the we'd
ding was postponed. Miss Cammerer
and Mr. Muller still corresponded In May,
1887 he wrote her, begging her to 20 abroad
with him. papers or no papers This she re-
apS beeged 20 her in person 0 to marry him se
cretly. She refused to do so insisting that the
divorce papers should be produced. Mr.. Null
ler returned to New York, and on June IL fol-
lowing wrote Miss CammerOr. breaking the
engagement
Col Ingorsoll moved that the complaint b0
dismissed on the ground that Miss Cammerer
admitted that she had herself broken the On.
gRRement. The motion was denied. The de-
fence is a denial Of the engagement The in-
sane wife Is now dead