The sun., 1893-12-10
HELPED MRS. NICOLAUS OUT.
nm GEoRaE W. oBILDs PAID HKR
FARB TO INDIANA ONCE.

she Told Hts Tale 81 nekertaen-Hs Never
Heard Frou Her. srd Ha- Writes
90 George =. esuld sf His Experiences.
PHLADELPHrA. Dec. 9-Mrs Nicolaus. the
alleged adventures. who is said to be trying
10 get $4,000 from George J. Gould. was In
this city for a shcrt time. and Il is thought
planned to make a victim out OF George W.
Childs. II 30. she was unsuccessful owing to
Mr.. Chiljs's cautious manner OF receiving
strangers at his offlce.
The story was told By william & Steel. Mr..
Childs's private secretary. tonight He said
that on May 10 last q fascinating. modest
voiced little woman looking more ike ID
ysar-old schoolgirl than an adventures. en-
treed Mr. Childs's outer office and inquired
II Mr. Childs was in.
She was asked to be seated, and her card
was taken in TO Mr.. Chids. Mr.. Chllds has q
rule. which he never breaks. OF refusing TO re-
eeive in his private offico any stranger who
does not 1rst send in a letter Of introduc-
tion from some one we'll known to him.
Therefore he declined to see the young woman
in his private office. but walked out to her
card In hand. Calling his private secretary.
Mr. Steel he received the caller in the outside
oflloe.
Evidently seeing that sho had run up against
q methodlcal business man. Mrs. Nicolsus
adopted the piteous role. and told a story Of q
wronRed wife and a base husband
She said that che had arrived In Philadel-
phia on tho preceding day. and had traced her
husband to this city from Wabash. Ind, where
she said he had deserted her
She said that the husband was travelling for
Super. Marshall & Co. OF Ol5 Chestnut street.
aud that she had been 10 see the nrm and
found that her husband was out on the
road. She hal endcavorod to get part
Of his salary. but had been unsuccessful and
was stranded in Philadelphia without q cent
and could not even get back to her mother In
Wabash.
MIR. Childs pitod the little woman and kindly
told her to go out to tho Broad street station
and ascertain the fare TO Wabash. and putting
her n charge OF MI steel 5 @ told him to Invest
vide for her return, to Wabash. h.,
That was the only time Mr.. Childs saw her.
employed By super. Marshall & Co. and that
the woman's story was practically true.
gave Sir Steel money to send her homo. Mt.
Steel paid bills at the Irving House, whore she
had d rSSn tn na aer ss
money for her expenses, such as meals on the
way out, and saw her of on the 9:25 train that
The total expenditure did not exceed $40.
but the woman appeared much gratiled for
" Ir. Steel said that she told him a pltItul tale
Of her troubles: She said that che had not
on May Il TO the Rtternopn Of Nay =, when
she had . solid meal prSytiMsd I'd By " steel
E Il h s q O1se hs
sSs q &ST :s.nf s q. and enable
s When 'S1' Mq Steel left her on the train she sx-
pressed q det@srmipation ter d to return the money
advanced BY MT; Childs as soon as she reached
The letter never came. Neither did the
wrote the Po:tmsster az Wsbssh asking hi@
~ tho bereayed young wife had ever reached
hea nsysr heard Of The Woman. 'nss No
The affair was forgotten entirely until last
sSIts Sl tRs tSst sGa5S aoaS Gaze
siSst consissrea we theis eIient am innocent
yonno "reatuye ye whose fascinntions Were ar
ceedinsiy impressive. WIZ
Msy %ss and csne a
Steel Mr.. Chiids handed him the reports offhe
sse Shd mE Sisei .na me asaHsa s & 1aas
the sane: ~ "
titled .S ss fern alton ns h sSs and
dSSlS; GaHI.. W M.r.,,u ., sun.r M.,.h.u
T. Co., said t9.nieht that the husband
81 zsllS NcOlsus had left ,ths the employ
visited the store twice. Mr. Marshall 10 iii In |
psr h S sry sasS. Sa.
"
visa's artrsvagancas drnva hiu, 70 banrs
ruptey and we gave him hn piacs AZ
tsayailine anlnsp,nn Iaat Iun.
aSo Ws had moi bssn ,s5ncs n snr an, ,,Iov ~
fore he told us he that he had had trcubfs
ssith III. It, and nrt i,ytrss .Jth h.~stis
irsianatsS tbat shs was not fathsu an v.Ys
MS Ia nndsr that ana haS Iaft JoIists srS
gone 70 Chicago
=, wss n last shn March when % Es got eI5%pss
An intsfview with William Super' the psrtner of |
the urm Who dial on WaSnesdav iast Sha I'm
nlisd tbat her busSRnd had dsssrssd hsr ana |
tried To attach her husband's saIary M. Su.
ner afterwsrd ed 10 me- Mrs NicoIans
e extremely fascinating, and I pity the man
The ne2t lime Mira NicoIsns eslIed nj tbs |
store she favored Mr.. Marshall with her visit. |
She innuired for her husband and eI pressed
surprise upon learning that he was not in The
city. sayIpc that he had telegraphed 10 her to
Mr.. Marshall remembers that ne was very |
much Impressed with her at the time, and re-
ishly and carried herself iauntily. appearing |
20 be, as he expressedit, gay woman" who |
Looked like woman OF the world"
She was accompanied by another young
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