The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-07

Pretty Pauline coIoek Socks n Divore
ia From Her Aged Jersey Spouse.

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Pretty Pauline coIoek socks a Divore,
Il. From Her Aged Jersey spouse.
ENGLEwooD, April 6.-Simon Colock,
a laborer, who lives at Leonia, station
on the New York and New Jersey railroad,
about five miles from here, will be the de-
PENDANT in a very remarkable suit for
divorce. which will soon DO tried in the
New York superior court.
The plaintiff in the case is Pauline Co
lock. rosy-cheeked and plump German
girl, II years old. to whom O'clock was
married in New York last November. Shc
asks Tor divorce on the ground that she
vas lured into marriage by fraudulent
statements made to her by the defendant.
Mrs. O'clock was formerly Pauline
Braun. She came to this country two
years ago, and found employment with a
family in Harlem. She was not anxious
to get married, but was tired of being
poor. and wanted to help her parents in
Germany. In German morning news
paper, among the personals, she saw the
advertisement of a woman who kept a
matrimonial agency, and claimed TO have
many handsome and wealthy clients. for
whom she was anxious to secure part
ners. frrtsv
looks older, saw the sams advertisement
at about the same time. He Is tall, thin
and lantern-jawed, and has little fringe
of hair under his chin He lives in a
small frame shanty near the Lsonia sta
ton, and earns living shoveling coal
and doing odd jobs for his moro prosper
Gus neighbors.
When he met the rosy checked Pauline.
Gh .sr.r - hx.. ~ s.l.f To
per his suit O'clock, Ii is alleged. told the
girl he owned n farm valued at $4,000 at
Leonia, and had besides an almost I'M
limited bank account. IL she would
marry him he would transfer the farm to
her, build her a mansion. buy her horses
and carriages, and provide money to en-
able the aged parents in Germany to
spend their remaining years of life in
ense and luxury, so says Pauline.
These visions of wealth aud comfort
captured her consent to an early mar
riage, and 10 days after their first meet
ing the German girl and her agricultural
admirer were married in the little office
of the matrimonial agent by the Rev.
Jacob Shiegel of COZ East Fifth street.
Connected with the matrimonial agency
Is the Office of n fortune teller, and there,
on the day prior to her marriage, Pauline
consulted the oracle concerning her flu
ture. The cards foretold for her happy
and fruitful marriage with a wealthy, af-
fectionate and generous farmer, and the
maiden was content.
Immediately after the marriage the
bride demanded that Colock carry out the
remainder of his agreement, and transfer
to her the $50, 900 farm. O'clock demurred,
but promised to turn over the property in
n few days, after they had been domiciled
in their Jersey home. The bride refused
to live with him until the transfer was
made, and O'clock returned alone to his
Leonia home.
Pauline consulted a lawyer with q view
to compelling her husband to turn over
the property, as he had promised. Tho
lawyer travelled to Leonia, and Colick, 1t
is said, confessed that the S30,0o) farm
was a myth; that the big bank account
existed only in his mind, and that both
were created only for the sake OF captur-
ing Pauline's affections,
Wheh the bride was told OF her hus-
bands duplicity, she first threatened
murder. then suicide, and finally began
proceedings in the suit for divorce.