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$4,000 FOR MISS WOLTERS.
BIGGEST BREACH OF PROMISE PER-
DICT SINCE TIE ARBUCKLE CASE.

Manufactures SchuitEs story OF mn Engage.
ment TO he Friends Until They Found
Out whether They Wanted to Marry
Fails to Impress the Jnry-Katie DORIS
Account OF Her Relations with Schultz.
Miss Georgine Wolters's suit against Louis
Schultz for $4,000 damages for breach of
promise OF marriage. which has been occupy
ing Judge Fitzsimmons and a jury in Part I.
OF tho City Court for three days. was finished
yesterday The jury went out at $50 i. NJ,
and aftor celebrating four hours brought IN
q verdict awarding the young woman S25.OOO
Judge Fitzsimmons added 81. loo as an allow
ance for counsel fees. The sum named In tho
verdict. Judge Fitasimmons says. is the larg-
est ever awarded by City Court Jury. 1t is
also tho largest amount allowed hcreabouts in
a suit for breach Of promise since the famous
Arbucke or Baby Bunting" case in 1885,
when Clara Campbell got verdict for $4,000
The Jury on tho first ballot stood ton for
$4,000 and two for $4,000. The ten jurors
held out and won the other two over after four
hours hard work. Miss VOTERS was in court
whom the jury came In. She received tho an
nouncement without any show Of feeling.
Schultz was not In court. His counsel moved
Immediately for q new trial. which was de-
MED. The Court allowed the defence sixty
days to make n case for appeal and twenty
days stay Of execution.
Guylande do Festitics. an artist and OF an
ancient Hungarian family. was the first wit
ness for the defence yesterday. Ho testified
that at the beginning OF her suit the plaintiff
came to him and asked him II no could testify
to her engagement with Schultz He had re-
piled that he could not. MS he understood she
and Schultz had simply agreed to keep COM
pany for six months to sec how they would like
each other.
Mrs. Lena Dorr. mother Of the mysterious
Katie Dorr. was the next Witness Mrs. Dorr
said that Mr.. Schultz had paid the rent OF her
Twelfth street fiat. and had agreed to pay for
her younger daughters instruction in the
millinery trade for three years. She believed
this generosity was due to the fact that he had
once been aided by a relative OF hers named
August Beck
Katie Dorr herself followed her mother In
the witness chair. She is pretty. and has black
hair and black eyes. She was modestly attired
in brown cloth dress and wore none OF tho
diamonds which aroused comment when she
visited the VOTERS family on May 70. 1901.
We're there eyer any Improper relations
between you and Mr.. Schultz" asked MIR.
Never" she said. emphatically.
On the redirect eYamination she denied that
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Miss Dorr said she had for ten years worked
in tho Excelsior Quilting Works in, which
Sfhz had mt sa5 ess t Shs WAS
had remained at home and had helped her
mothor with the house,work.
Under the skilful guidance Of Mr.. Yoamans
% biz essSn Of ss rGf a
up to the time when his visits to her ceased.
Ha said he Ind LIVED u IN New ", HSrk for twenty,
agent on Long Island, He: August Beck: and
Company. Beck putting in most of the money.
business Katie Dorr was In the employ Of the
Yes. sir. for ten years"
-" In what capacity -
First us an operator and then as a floor
"What arrangements were there in regard
yo1b her n ay ny ss
:" The way that first came about was this:
Miss Dor wanted her sister ALnG to get a
Sh" didn't want her, sister to work in factory.
got her place to learn the millinery trade
saw that their cir sn ;ra% ~ yhIngton
would wish. and told her thai. II She would
like to 60 to the west side would nay herrent
Tor three years. unit! Annie had learned her
The witness said he first met Miss Wolters
some nett s she Mas there /" wait t on HIM and
sometimes her father only was there. The first
time he cal led upon Miss GeorGine personally
WAS when Ie he asked her to so to the furlm ball
NJ, " ioE }y99 see her often after that until
mo. tho cigars did not taste well. and went
"Wiii YOU IA tLs lie jnry how the affair of the
1t WAS on Saturday evening" l was on
my way home from the theatre. Miss VOTERS
ask ed inc to come in and sit down. Her father
other
l WAS wearing II ring that hurt my finger. be.
m tG VEAL it. sSn tn tfG she
engaged So Gnick. ~. next morning we went
that I was tired Of the life and that il could |
get good woman would marry her, She said.
i t wl o mnTy my yo dear adS She said
: Well. j will take my chances. Ny mother
says that You hnyc "a good face We got to
must VIII each n,he etn nea " We% a. kssG
ES iGt e s We Wond marry thcn su ana
Dl hs hat rsE ne19re2"
customers admired it, but 1t was not an en-
would give her proper engage
s;aiz said 10 9, asked ; Gsorsin e parents
her. at Genrgine instance.
MIR. Wolters said he had no objection to my |
keeping company with his daughter" the wit |
II you marry my daughter You will find her a
alone"
Georgine told him that June p would be
her mothers anniSersAry: ne objected on ths
riaEc had been entered into. OF the engage
m"nt feast on March ?" no said that he under;
3pyer told Geo1rElne he vas wsTth s25o 600.
And was not row worth moro THIN $40 900 |
lie denied that GcorGine had read Katie DORIS
i. There was, nothing r. the letter about BIS
hat he had threatened to aa,I leaye M, ths
TO get rid Of Katie Dorr. Sho had
snid: +" yol take my dnushter this az;
lie refused to do this. He denied that
Miss VOTERS had rcmpnstrnt nd with him on
June %, the day after the allrsed date set for
he wedding, because h. bat failed to apr.r,nr
nearly all of the Testimony Of Miss i""rGine.
her parents. hcr dwo sisters ana other wit
nesses Tor the plaintiff ON cvoss-eXaminn.
ton he became confused repeatedly. and
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