The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-01
A Fair American Precedent.

Miss Georgine Wolters, who has just re.
covered a verdict of SIS 900 for breach of
promise to marry. bids fair to be the hero
inc of a lannon's American precedent. yur-
lists and counselors for generation will,
no doubt, be talking about the verdict in
the case of Wolters vs.. Schultz-that is, if
the cour. of appeals allows the verdict to
stand. and legal authority, who has fol-
lowed the case pretty closely, tells ME that
the record will, in his opinion. show no err
ror grave enough to warrant a reversal.
Bardell VS.. Pickwick has. since the i'm
mortal 'Pickwick Papers" first made
breech- of-promise, case. The plaintiff
there, too, got her damages. But she was
no such looking woman as Miss Wolters.
And as this estimable young lady, will she
mill she, is to become a character in the
legal history and literature of the country,
something about herself and her family
and the lawsuit they compelled her to
cigar shop is we'll known to men about
town, but the fair plaintiff has only been
identified with it for short time. 1t is on
Sixth avenue, just below the Eighteenth
street elevated station, and is owned and
managed by Mr.. Wolters, ST. When his son,
who used to assist him in the shop, got mar
ried and set up IN business for himself
come down from the living apartments up
stairs and assist him behind the counters.
Wolters, ST., is figure in German life in
New York. He belongs to q number of
associations and is president of several
clubs and organizations of his country
men. When his fellow members began
telling him to ''look out for Schultz" and
the defendants friends began telling
Schultz to "look out for old man Wolters"
the elderly and highly respectable tobacco
mist inquired into his daughters love affair
and got the impression that all was not we'll
and that his daughter, as is by no means I'M
usual in German circles, was, although poor
in this worlds goods, about to marry
very rich man, who thought none the less
of her for working in her fathers shop.
Louis Schultz, the gay bachelor of 40, seems
to have been not unlike Baby Bunting"
Arbuckle, the rich Brooklyn bachelor of
40, who has also been the unsuccessful de-
PENDANT in a celebrated action for damaged
heart. There must be something in the
mental atmosphere of a bachelor of 40
which inspires him to scott at the plead
ings of susceptible female affections.
Mr.. Schultz chose to scott. Pooh !" he is
said to have exclaimed when he was
warned that the Wolters family would call
him to account for his tritiing Pooh Old
Wolters has no money. l can buy him off
for thousand dollars" But Mr.. Schultz
didn't reckon on the sturdy responsibility
which is so eminently characteristic of the
middie-ciass German menage. The VOL
tiers, father and brother, compelled Miss
Georgine to bring this breach-of-promise
suit, although she shrank from the
notoriety involved, and the verdict OF
SIS, 900 in her favor already causes Mr.
Schultz to sing very different tune. Miss
Georgine Wolters is an attractive looking
woman of about 81 years of age, tall, dark,
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well qualified TO make good man good
wife