New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-30
MARRIED AND ROBBED.
,,r,p,.r EXPERIENCE OF A PASSENGER
ON THE MUNCHEN.
.,,,, WAS WON BY A RAsCAILy NEw-yoRKER IN
crRMANy-BRouGHT HERE AND LEFT


prxNIlEss IN A LoDGING-HoUsE
nscnuarlv pitiable case of desertion to
,ns attention of the Ellis Island authorities yes
..rdsv The woman, young and handsome
,.wess was married two months in Bremen,
arr,ved here in the saloon of the North German
Ilovd steamship Munchen on Thursday, and was
rohhed of about sl.2oo every cent she possessed.
- then deserted within twenty-four hours after
che landed in a strange country Some months ago
: ,ounr American who said he from this
,,v appeared in Bremen and soon was intimate
=, the homes of some of the better class OF resi-
So,,s there He we'll educated. had a good
sdaress and was well supplied with money. He
civ met and made love to the daughter Of a
vell-known manufacturer. Two months ago they
were marrleu
Va sooner was the ceremony over than the man.
Max + Greenfield began TO paint dream pictures
~ his home and prospects in New-York. The bride
demurred at FIRST but after much persuasion she
consented sail the Munchen. and a week ago
left her home for this city. She we'll supplied
with money. Her father gave her a draft for
s.l60 d Bremen bank, and this. together win
some tr.nkets and a few hundred dollars in bills,
she placed in a small handbag, which she Kept IN
her possession.
Greenfield lost OF his cunning during the
voyage. Every hour some new tale OF the splenuor
OF his New-York home told in the not unwilling
ears Of the girl and before the German steamer
was within sighting distance of the Long lsiahu
shores visions of palaces dawned before the oriue
expectsrt eyes She realized them in a furnished
room Of an od-fashioned and rickety house on
Great Jones-st When the Munchen got in on
Thanksgiving Day the girls heart was full she
felt that the day well named. Greenneld had
= good excuse for not going al once to big MOTEL
and at once got a cab and began a search lot
rooms lust as the Lights began 10 sputter in the
Bowery the cab rolled up to the Great Jones-st.
bouse No butler opened the door for the bride, ana
no servants awaited her order. The girls heart
sank but Greenfield said it was only for day
that they should remain there. So KISS brdsed
the first little breech.
The husband was wearied by the long voyage and
they retired early. AT daylight yesterday the nus
band had gone on the bureau in the room was a
note The girl read it, and her heart almost
stopped beating She read it a dozen times IL
said:
Il have gone, but will return the keys to your
satchel"
After violent weeping the deserted wife searched
for the keys but they gone, and with them the
draft for LOO the irinkets ana every cent she pos
sessed
Mrs Greenfield went at once to several downtown
banks 10 see If the draft had been deposited her
indorsemen, on II, and II was cohVefuoi'
AT one OF them an official advised her TO go to ihe
Barge ONCE She did so, and al cIoca Eeste "a
afternoon walked into the ship news ONCE at me
Battery She was hysterical. and 1t was some me
time before she could tell her STORY IN Sol,ce
ferred to Ellis Island offcia. who caled f9N &C.
man Charles Martinesu. He in turn Teierre1 i her
10 Magistrate Kudich. OF the tehsie oIeet ~,
Court Some gave the woman nVe cents 10 pay
her fare to Franklin-st When she got to the neW
Court House she bewildered, ana a man took
her 10 the courtroom. where she asked for war
rant for the arrest of her husband. Magistrate
Eudlich sent her to Judge Simms at Jefferson Mar
ket ..,, - ~, .o-,o,
He said later: This is pitiable case The woman
s,eaks nure German and good English She bore
cvery evidence OF being q refined woman. would
have been glad to issue a warrant but mad 10 sen1
her to Magistrate Simms." Magistrate kudlich said
that the woman would not want as a man In East
One-hun red-and- second-st. had promised TO taKe
her to his wife. where she could remain until she
should hear from her friends in Bremen; Nheh
Judge Slmms was sought last night he could not be
found. A.. To-.
Mrs Greenfield thoroughly appreciates the fact
nov that her husband is a scoundrel, and says she
viii spend any amount Of money 10 have him
punished Max Greenfield is said to have once
been clothing salesman in this city he was also
connected at one time with Boston house his
wife Is a handsome German Jewess, twenty-five
years old. and wore expensive and fashiona ,
clothing Their names appear on the hrst csolh
list OF the Muncher Max Greenhe,d ana M ITS;
Annie Greenfield, Boston. Mass MIS-; Sreen 1ha
are about all that her husband had not taken