The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-27
WAS She HYpN0T|zEO
Mrs. CLAUSES Strange Story Of
Her Relations with Snickly.
Went to Milwaukee with Him Under
Ouress.
ReconciIed to Mr.. Clauss, She Broke
with the Coachman.

Andrew f. Snickly, the German coach
man who was arrested yesterday for at
tempting to shoot the sick widow, Will
hema Clauss, at her home, 946 Bush
wick avenue, was arraigned in Gates
Avenue Police Court this morning and
held in 1880 bail for further examina-
ton on Friday next
Snckly may be only an 'ostler, but he
carries, pent up in his German bosom,
the force of Prince Bismarck.
He is on trial as the villain or hero in
one of the most curious romances and
hopelessly mixed up pieces of adventure
that ever made a poor, bewildered mag
istrate scratch his head.
There were witnesse to swear that
Snickly is crazy. A mailman once ran
an express train filled with passengers
all the way from Kansas City to Chi
cago, but 1t battles credit that a man of
unsound mind could enter rich mans
family as coachman and within
few months drive his employer into the
divorce court and to death, and COM
pei the employers wife to make an
involutary sojourn of two months in
distant Milwaukee.
All this and very much more Snickly
Is alleged to have done.
Christian Clauss was a man well along
In life and with comfortable fortune
when fifteen years ago he married the
little girls in her teens who is now his
| widow.
He made his money as contractor
and prospered steadily. A few years
tain the fine establishment in Bushwick
avenue. where his relict now resides
Early in 1893 he employed for the care
OF his horses and the driving Of his turn
"a he nj Mt In
the coachman IL young. and although
OF low. stature. is of pleasant and al
most impressive. features. With his
under his lip, snicltly looks well the
part of a Continental foreigner of good
-orisin md worthy station.
What occurred leading up. to his asso-
cations with his employers wife Is q
matter difficult to reach Mrs. Clauss
lirst said that Snickly had become SO
familiar In his manner towards her that
before the end of the year she had dis
She told the policeman who arrested
him that her former, coachman had.
since his dismissal, bounded her 30
break Of yesterday, that she could nc
longer endure 1t,
Al the hearing this morning an, entire
EaS different story 6y the
An intimacy or understanding of some
sort was arrived at between the coach
man and the present widow before the
time Of her husbands death, in March
last, just about year after Snickly
began his work as coachman.
The intervening events are uncertain
% Sd fssh Of last Mr
pcious of the relations between his wife
and his coachman that he insisted Vpor
the latter's discharge.
snickly still contrived to see Mrs
Clauss, and in January of this year tn,
pair went to Milwaukee.
Their stories Of this expedition diffel
Smoky says that the woman wen
under vows OF affection and pledge,
Of eternal fidelity to him, with the un
derstanding that 1t was an elopement.
Mrs. Clanss gives a weird explanation
o. the trip. She says that Snickly hound
ed her so closely and threatened the live
OF herself and husband with such dir
him and made to serve his win despit,
herself. and that whatever intelligen
views she had upon the expedition sh'
could only see that she was protee,t tin,
the murderous hand of her lover.
She swears tearfully that her relation
from the beginning and throughout tn.
stay Of two months in Milwaukee will
Clauss evidently looked at matter
from snickly's standpoint, for In Feb
SaTg he his es ss aysTss nssy as
Respondent. Before he could advance ia
In the proceedings he began to fail rap
Idly in health. He relented against hi
wife and begged from his death bed tina
khe might return and be reconciled I
XIHlm In his last hours.
Ahrs. Clauss was urgently sent TOT
nd escaping from her lover in Miwau
zee fled to Brooklyn only to reach he
torsaken home a few hours after he
husbands death.
She found her entire family and he
friends in a turmoil Of Indignation a
ner conduct. but she was still undis
nrbed In her position. as her rich hus
1and lawful legatee.
She says that she underwent a revu
non of feeling towards Snickly, and d,
s setfmlned to shake OFF his influence an
He followed her directly from Milw a,
+. Ne and attempted to see her. She Ia
Z. nm forbidden the house. Since thu
Ime Snickly has been living with h
user at S22 Evergreen avenue. and hi
saii,anintained steady efforts to have Il
wntIow fulfil the promises of marrial
wien ne declares she made TO him.
r. ,besterday he secured admission
Il me Mie house by force. and, armed with
HMsol, attempted to force her to {
VII Enneulate marriage. Her brothe
Sorse Caspar, and her sister Int
ered and disarmed him.
n snIoiiGeman Vyse was called, and ma
5hCkly prisoner