The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-31

San Francisco, Aug. 3O.-The news
that Nettie Newsletter or Neustadter,
as she spelled her name here, was a
San Francisco woman has greatly
aroused the interest in Mr.. Wander
bits love affairs.
- The people with whom she used to
associate while here, say she is
thoroughbred, and is fully capable of
leading Mr.. Vanderbilt as lively pace
as he may desire and his wealth
justify.
Her faculty for spending money is
regarded as remarkable even in this
city of liberal ideas, and the fast set of
San Francisco could not keep up with
her. Nettie dazzled them with her
splendor until her money gave out,
and then she went east for more.
According to the story printed in To-
cal paper, after her return to Eureka,
New, from Mills Sc ninary her beauty
and dashing manner captured the
- tie town and also the heart of Frank
lis, nephew of d. o. Mills. Young
Ills was very devoted in his atten-
-QnS. and in order to stop the affair."
Nettie's parents sent her to San Fran
cisco. She was then Is years old and
seemed to care for nothing but to have
2 good time. Already her tastes were
expensive and she showered her favors
on anybody who had the wealth and
inclination TO cater to her pleasure.
Up to 1884, as far as was known,
Nettie's heart was whole, but in that
year shO became smitten with Henry
Neustadter, who was popularity known
as Judy" on account of his nose
WA CT limo ai,,f .oF
the old time Punch and Judy show.
Ben Was Delighted.
Ben Cohen, Nettie's father, was de-
lighted when she showed her prefer
ence for Neustadter
Neustadter, who was then, as now,
the agent Of a well known brand of
cigars, was not in affiuent circum-
stances, but he was making a good in
come and when he finally married
Nettie after couple of months court
ship he set up a nice little establish
ment on Suffer street between Taylor
and Jones, afterward removing to
Taylor, between Suffer and Post.
1t was in 1854 when Nettie Cohen
changed her name at the altar and all
went well for a little while. Business
called her husband to Portland, and
they therefore moved there, and alter
mated between the Web-foot city and
"A
months before the close of that year
,events began TO mould themselves for
an important epoch in her life
! Nettie was, in one sense of the word
"going to the dogs" She dressed ex-
pensiveiy, wore good jewelry, and in
. many ways showed that she was
\ hanSling plenty of money, far too
from her husband. To those on the
inside. though, this was no mystery.
Neusta7ter's business kept him on the
road a good deal of the time, and while
he was away she was enjoying herself
to her hearts content.
She Knew Porter Ashe.
Many and many an evening she sat
down to dinner and supper at swell re-
sokts with choice spirits like Porter
A5he, Fred Webster Tom Williams
aHd Harry Neuve, and she achieved
cause no pace could be set that was
too fast for her.
She however, managed to fool her
husband, and he did not know any,
thing was wrong until one day she told |
him she was going TO New York to |
visit some of her relatives, and away /
she went.
After her arrival in Gotham. strange |
stories came to ner husbands ears He |
learned that her trip to New York was
made in company with a crowd one
member Of which was the celebrated |
Laura Edelman, Of Los Angeles. Laura |
had a record of her own. She was one |
of the most beautiful women in south /
ern California, but the moral traces |
could not hold her. and one day she |
let every one know that she had kicked |
over them by deserving her husband |
land child She distinguished herself |
|too, shortly before her departure. by |
Eriding to the court house in a hack, |
Fand, in broad daylight shooting at a |
|man Who, ii was afterwards learned, |
MAC Tilted her.
~ In shady Company.
Nettie was, therefore, in pretty shady |
company with Laura Edelman for a, |
partnerA ct least Neustadter thought /
so, and he began TO make a close inves-
1lgauon- He found that his fears were
more than realized. He made one final
effort to get back his happiness. He
wrote to his wife and child: /
Come back and all will be forgiven" |
But his request was unheeded. and. I
realizing the situation, he applied for "a
divorce in the California courts, and he
got it.
This was at the close of 1887.
Nettie was then left to her own de-
vicest She was so charming and such |
good company that even in the mighty
fry1ament of New York she shone with
FHuSGdA BllAllcNllCN, anu the tDDA luck
whIc7i had marked the opening of her
career stayed with her, for she captured
the heart Of Studebaker, the millionaire
carriage man, and he gave her a sump-
tuous fat, bought her a carriage and
horses, and gave her servants and all
the money she wanted.
Took Her to Europe.
In 1889 he took her to Europe and
she Travelled like a princess. Every-
thing she had was or the best. and 1
when she returned she possessed a
wardrobe from Wortf's and sewe;rr
that had sparkled in the shops of the
leading houses of Paris and London
Nettie began to banker though, after
her old home. In the midst of all her
gayety the thoughts OF her childhood
II. California and Of her parents who
al meantsmed moved TO San Francis
70 came back to her with such ir-
llsSislible magnetism that at last in