The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-08
CUPID AS A swINDLHR.
A Nice Girl Viotimized and Robbed by
Her Husband.
From the 81. Louis Republic.

Her husband.
From the 81. Louis Republic.
NEW YORK, March IA suave and gem
tlemanly young Swede named Alfred Peter
sen is being sought for assiduously by Con-
tral Office detectives Peterson is an
adventurer and a Stouy-hearted one at that.
He hos not been in this country year, and
during his sojourn here the young man has
tabooed honest toll except that species OF
labor vulgarly known as working ones
friends for all they are worth. o. New
Years day Petersen made the acquaintance
Of Miss Annie Heintz, who owned little
art store at % West Twenty-third street.
Miss Heintz was receiving callers when
Petersen drifted in with an ornate New
Years card. He was unknown to the lady
of the house and unknown to her friends
An excuse and apology were at once offered
for the visit, and Pc ersen affected much
confusion when told that be had mistaken q
number and had called at the wrong house.
Being a soft-voiced young man and
rather handsome, Miss Heintz assured him
she was delighted that a little mistake had
brought them together. She treated the
stranger to cake and wine, and, with many
smiles and much sweetness, asked him to
call again. Peterson did call again. He
was at % West Twenty-third street the
next day. He told Miss Hei tz that she had
bewitcbed him, and as vanity is always
more or less rampant in the feminine breast,
poor Miss Heintz took 10 for granted that
she really had. Then he filled the young
woman's head with fiction about his glo-
rious autecedents. his patricien father and
the vast estates he owned on the other side.
Fiction Of this sort appears to
be the stock in trade of most Adventures.
Petersen made a large and deeply rooted
impression on Miss Heintz
She introduced him to her friends, and
soon the rumor spread abroad that tho two
were engaged to be married. Last Monday
evening the false Swede called on his hsncee
and showed her what purported TO be the
will Of an uncle. According to the terms
of the will Alfred Petersen, supposed TO
be in America" was to receive 500 900 on
condition that he return home at once,
get married and settle down. He explained
to Miss Heintz that no time was to be lost.
They must marry without delay and cross
the ocean.
Next day they were made man and wife,
and preparations for the long journey were
begun. Peterson had no money. The
bride bad s., 900 in the Blocker Street and
other savings banks. Tuesday morning
she drew out every cent Of it. She and her
husband had arranged to sail by the North
German Lloyd steamship Vera next Sat-
urday. Yesterday morning they came
down town to purchase two cabin passage
Petersen held the purse. Before gong to
the steamship office he said he had some
business to transact at Bischoff's bank, cor
ner Of Park Row and Center street. His wife
accompanied him. While they were stand
ing near the cashiers desk MIR. Petersen
asked Mrs. Petersen to go out and buy him
an afternoon paper. She did so. On re-
turning TO the bank her husband and purse
were gone.
Tonight Inspector Byrnes convinced her
that she had fallen into the hands Of a
scamp, whose constant ASSOCIATIONS have been
the precious products of the Teaderloin pre-
cinct. On New Years day Annie Heintz
was light-hearted girl, with business of
her own and a glorious vista Of unclouded
happiness opening up before her. To-day
she is q deserted young wife, thoroughly
wretched and without dollar in the world.