The evening world., 1894-09-10
MRS.SALLADE' OWN STORY
A TerSe and TrenChant Account Of
How She Beat CrauS and
Sharpe.
YOU'D BETTER BEWARE, SCHEIDER.
She Tells the Story Herself and You Can't
Brighten Hor-she'n Break Craus Again
If He Has Woodshed to His Name.

To the Editor Of The World.
If Jake Schneider, who keeps the Ar.
lington across the way, thinks he can
terrify me by bringing up this man
Craus, who can tell me the story of my
troubles with Henry Edward Sharpe,
he Is mistaken in me, that Is all. l beat
Craus and broke him, and If he had as
much as a woodshed that he could call
his OVID / would break him again. Every
one with whom l have had a struggle Is
now dead or broken. They laughed at
me then. but have the last laugh
Craus brings up long story. a story
that / had well nigh forgotten. 1 used
to cry about 1t night after night, but
one day 1 laughed at it. Since then 1t
has not worried me, and 1 can hardly
recall 1t now. Craus was a machinist
and knew Henry Edward Sharpe, my
second husband. This was in 1883, 1
think. 1 was then making a great deal
of money by my plating machine. as
much as 500 a day. Sharpe wanted me
to advance money to Craus, who claimed
that he had opportunities for making
great gains. He said he was manufac-
turing appliances for persons who did
not want their business talked about. !
have since learned he made burglars
tools. Sharpe wanted the money ad-
vanced in his name / refused. but
finally let Craus have about 1850 in
sums Of from $500 to $500 in checks drawn
by me. When the time came to pay up,
he refused to do SO. / sent my lawyer.
Mr.. Soaring, to tell him that IL he did
not pay up l would sue him. He de-
clared that he would show me up II /
sued. That made me angry, and l began
proceedings. He brought in a bill Of
items, $40 for taking me to a theatre,
$40 for taking me to the Compton House.
"a. "at her request. he put IL ~ Sd for oysters
OF squirt-gun used to spray stuffs to
be plated, when d garden syringe for
10 cents would have been superior He
thought to scare me out.
Well, he did not. ] marched up and
met those charges like a major-general.
! beat him; l got Judgment against him.
| sold out his property up In Mount Yer
non, and to-day he has not even wood
shed that he can call his own. Jake
Schneider had better not depend upon that
man.
smoothest villain / have ever known. |
beat him, and 1t was in my troubles with
him that learned to fight. When my
first husband. Andrew Sallade, was alive
he was paymaster of the Tenth Iowa
Volunteers through the war. and law
yer afterwards-he used to say that he
would like to have me associated with
him in a law case once because l was
good fighter. l did not think that was
much of compliment then. He has
been dead twenty years now.
i first met Henry Edward Sharpe at
conducting what he called The, First
Church Of the Free Republic" He was
the prophet OF a new era of co-opera-
ton, new golden age when men were
bosses. He was a ne-looking man, 6
feet inch in height, and the most con-
Vncing speaker i have ever heard. He
made you think that II there was one
was high up In the Knights of Labor
and the mere mention OF his name in
their meetings caused a round OF APP
plause: He was the organizer Of the
ISOLATION, afterwards changed TO the
York Society OF Integral Co-operators,
the Cooperative Colony Association,
mopolitan Integral Colony Company,
who Is the Somebody Club, the First
Church of the Free Republic, the Field
ing Orphanage School Of Manhood, the
fancy LKe Stock Company, the Eglin-
ton Sheep Company. the Cooperative
Guild.
He published a paper called the Int;
u
his lectures. l thought they were great
! let him hive the money TO buy some
land in fancy County, Mo, on which to
start cooperative colony. There was
to dawn a brighter day for the human
race. 1t was swindle from the ground
they A had by 0 it. ost piH lot Of i MONEY.
too. That was what he married me for
In April 1852. Judge Steckler mar
ried us. Sharpe wanted me to
make him my equal, TO be an equal
partner, to sign a contract giving him
half OF my right and title in my bust
ness. ] would not. Then he began to
beat me. used TO fear that the bones
Of my face were broken where he hit
But, worst OF all, he used to torment
me with letters from his former para
mour, then living in st, Louis, She
used, at his request, to send me the most
AWFUL letters, full Of expressions which
| have blotted out because they were so
vile you have cost your youth" she
would write; you never were beautiful,
but you have money, and II is well that
you have, for he sends IL 10 me-"
Maddened by this. / wrote to her on
a postal-card telling her what she was
and that l had learned from the Chief
of Police of St. Louis what sort of a
house. she lived In. did not know
and when make a mistake am free
to admit II. / was fined for sending
matter through the mails.
But | was learning how to fight.
girl for whose protection l have begun
TO try to clear out Twenty-fourth street.
He did that to compel me to sign "A
giving him a half interest in
my business. got the child back and
had him put In Ludlow Street Jail.
Then / started out TO break him. I
oined the Knights OF Labor 10 do that,
For two years l was laughed at.