The sun., 1891-12-07
SOLD HIS WIFE TO SHAME.
sARAH BELLAHOFFSKY,s STORY OF
HER HUSBANDS CRUELTIEs TO HER.

| sARAH BELLAHoFFsKYs STORY OF
HER HUSBANDS CRUELTIES TO HER.
| Locked In . Room, she Says, where Her
Husband Stood Guard Over Her-Now
the Husband II Usder Lock.
Samuel Mailer and his wife are simple
minded people who were driven out OF Russia
four years ago and came to New York. They
are Hebrews and speak no English. They are
living now in back room on the second floor
Of o shabby-looking tenement house at IL
Ludlow street.
Mailer works In a clothing factory. and
until his daughter. Sarah. was married last
September she worked as domestic with
family In Grand street and helped support the
family. They did not complain Of their pow
erty. but since Sarah was married Samuel
Mailer has had many troubles.
Sarah is now II ycars old. Her husband.
Louis Bellahoffsky. who Is only 10 years old.
Is In Ludlow street jail charged with deserting
her. and II his wife's story is true. criminal
proceedings will be brought against him.
sho says that he sold her for 80 to keeper
OF dive at 121 Allen street two weeks ago. and
that she was detained there for four days be-
fore she could escape.
Sarah Mailer met BellahofYsky at Q Grand
street dancing school last summer. Sarah
was large for her age. Her face was oval and
full and her hair was thick and black. Bel, Pei,
ate attention. Hn and d from the time that he met her
until they we're married he haunted the rooms
X S mbsr Mnes obessed Ss
Sst h. h Sarah 70 Smith
4 She only y
oS araS 5as anS ber hnsbahd ps WENT {o i've in
small sir room a' at ~ 7s Hester street, Then she
sy q o RR ssn She Hs SeEan
Two weeks Esq Louis came home and tsId cid
ier TSss her. hows1ss Rse ns1s he asked her
: :ss..n. sss wa, wiling family vt. 81
81 lie s%y snf %oua
fore said s that she would work as long as she
Louis. she says. took her to a Mrs. Finck.
house @ af:2si1 at III Allen street. Mrs Finet wore
diamonds and good clothes. Louis introduced
Ts s Mr. Mrs tnr ris ssrsh shd lat
their faces powdered and their half cpt short short
sirIs Sers He & sad D. MT Fl s f. mind @ them t6st ssj
and and asked him to take me away: but he said
that he wanted a new hat. and that must stay
soa %e S% me n
house gave him g Mrs Nnck rave ns IS some
asked her to lot me 90 home,
there snt RRe9 2k hsps
aan snS eFSash
oiCi Nv hnQhand wafphad and took the |
money from Mrs Finck., On sstur.
Lep o. to ne ns5 and sd he
from one Of, the girls. Then ran out and
had told them that ! was worEin9 in a cigar
bo! My to fhs Ds Logs
fSms Was afraid % chat @S father oU would III h@
Louis grabbed me by the wrist and said;
i went: MY father and mother followed us.
e ssad nshdt hsgg %oa
take me back to the house in Allen street:
He did ask me to 60 back; and SAID that y
mats lots oa 81 meney o fiet him Sunday and
came home. I have wanted to kill myself for
Rs sS That house
to work for him. and now every one will point
The giri broke down several times when she
ned sther
were very much concerned about the expense
that Sarah would be to them now that she had
story to Lawyer Louis Levene last week and
he began suit in the Superior Court against
BellahofYsky was arrested on Friday on an
order granted by Judge McAdam and COM
a,itted TO the Ludlow street jail In default OF
Mr.: Levene says that he has corrohorated
sarah's story. Tho rooms occupied by Mrs.
Finck and her husband" he said. ARE on the
irst floor Of 12l Allen street. NJ Finck told
ne that when Louis Belahofsky brought his
"Finck also said that no force had been used
% keep her there. The bedroom where she
vas, however. had no windows. and she could
lot have attracted attention by her screams
saw the other women in the house.
above this floor the rooms are occupied BY
Door people, and there are twenty families In |
he house. l have Sarahs marriage ceitif- |
lcate. am sure that shc Ia telling the truth: