The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-18
MINARDOS FLIGHT.
A Noted Hoboken Contractor
Leaves Wife, Family and
Several Creditors.
CASHED BAD CHECKS.
he Deserted a Wife and Family in
Germany When he Came
Here.

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me to drink, and then / treat them. ]
have to do it in my business"
This was the reply Albert Minardo, a
well known Hoboken contractor, always
made his wife when she asked him to
stop drinking to the extent Of becoming
drunk, and it is this indulgence in drink
that forced him to leave wife. home and
business. and 60 out into the world a
fugitive from those whom. in his drunk
enness. he has wilfully defrauded.
Minardo, with his family. lived In a
splendid home at No. lib Garden street.
His home was we'll furnished, and every
thing indicated comfort. He has lived
in Hoboken the past four years. and has
been doing much of the work incidental
to the city improvements In the meadow
district. He was highly respected and
was believed to be wealthy. So believ-
ing, his friends never refused to accept
his checks in payment tor articles
purchased. Among these were Albert
Lankering, a cigar dealer on Newark
avenue, who accepted a check for 500 In
payment for cigars. giving over $55 in
change; Victor Bartmann. a saloon
keeper, who cashed a $25 check.
CAsHED A 800 CHECK.
On Saturday night, Minardo, who was
somewhat intoxicated, entered the hat
store of J. A. Heath on Washington
street, and In payment for a s3 hat gave
the clerk a check for 500. The check
was on the First National Bank. The
check was signed IN. Goeltz,n and bore
Minardo's endorsement. Mr.. Heath Is in
Europe, but Mrs. Heath knew Minardo.
and accepted the check. Having only $50
in change on hand, she gave him that
amount. he to call for the remainder the
next morning. Next morning he did call,
and asked what he had done the night
before, as he did not rightly remember.
He was told and said he would call In In
a few days for the remainder due him.
Yesterday Mrs. Heath endorsed the check
"Clara Heath and the clerk presented 1t
for payment. The cashier refused pay
ment. Several other checks having been
presented, an Investigation was ordered.
Theirs was norA.epositor at the bank OF
the name .G-o-e-l-t-Z. but there was one
G-o-e-l-z. The latter is Mr.. Nicholas
Goelz, Superintendent Of the surface lines
OF the North Hudson County Railway
company. The body of the checks and
the signature were written in a bold. full
hand, nothing like the writing OF Mr..
Goelz.. MinarcoW's endorsement was
written with a blacker ink.
The checks were Intended to mlslead.
as those who accepted the checks took it
for granted they were signed by Mr..
Goelz, who is the grandfather of Mrs.
Minardo'S tour children, she having been
the widow of Mr.. Goelz's son George.
HIS LAS APPEARANCE.
The last seen of MinardO was on Mon
day morning. He babe his wife goodbye
in the morning to go to business. He
went TO his stable and had the carriage
horse hitched to the sleigh and drove of.
Nothing of either man, horse or sleigh
has since been heard of.
Minardo came to this country from
Germany some ten or eleven years ago,
leaving in the Fatherland a wife and two
children. This latter fact he did not
mention to his new acquaintances here.
all thinking him unmarried. Six years
ago, he married Mrs. Goelz. She
had four children by her first hus-
band, but none by the last. His wife
in Germany evidently heard Of his
American marriage. for some three years
ago she wrote him. saying that she, too,
aud with her husband and two children
Minardo's-was on her way to America.
They did come to America and went to
Chicago, later going to Cincinnati, where
it is thought they now reside.
9iIhere is some reason to believe Mrs.
Minardo and MT. Goelz anticipated such
action as Minardo has taken. or at least
I0lG ne Was Aoou1 " W oOmeIulnR UNI
usual, from the fact that Mrs. Minardo
had, it is said. consulted a lawyer as to
the legality of her marriage. She under
stood Minardo had not baen divorced
from his first wife, and desired that her
rights should be protected.
Mrs, Minardo last night, In conserva-
ton with a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter,
said she knew nothing of her husband.
He had not informed her of his going,
and had sent her no word since he went.
He gave her no money and she was in a
quandry what to do. He had always been
q good husband, but since last summer
had drunk too much. Her children were
being well educated, but at the expense
of their grandfather. Minardo took with
him no clothes, but those on his back,
and she feels sure he had no extra money