Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-14
II. y. HArTESmAuER GETS AWAY.
Ills Efforts 10 Eiudc His Many Crcdi-
tors Finally Crowned win Success.

His Efforts 10 Eiudc His Many Credit
! tors Finally Crowned wiuh success.
The aitnmp' NJ Howard n. Hattenhautr
to get cut q town Thursday night without
paving his numerous creditors, as d:tailed
in The Bee, caused a great amount Of talk
on the streets and in the resorts yesterday.
The comm Mt was in nowiss diminished
when 4 was learned. early in the day, that
he actually had outwitted the officer who
was lying in wait for him, and skipped out
with his bag and baggage. The creditors
we're left to paw the air and tear their hair,
AMI that YVES as nsar as they came TO get
tiag nltisfac.ion.
Constable Albert. with his pockets fun Of
executions and writs of attachments, waited
around ths Grand hotel until after l o'clock
for a sign of the departure. Then he be
came tired and went home, confident that II
he got up at 6 o'clock ne would find the
four trunks with al! their gowns from Paree
stu in the Hattenhauer room. Shortly
after lie went home Hattenhauer came down,
found the coast clear, and engaged one of
Wellman's wagons to take the baggage
across the river to Omaha. He already
owed Wellman more than 500, a part of the
bill being for the carriages used one night
last fall, when Mr.. and Mrs. Hattenhauer
gave a box party at Boyd's theatar in
Omaha, and a banquet afterward. The
night man was entirely innocent OF any
knowledge Of that fact. and agreed to take
the trunks across Tor S2.0D. lie ulu tne JOD,
but after he had lodged the stuff at The
union depot in Omaha Hattenhauer refused
to pay him more than $3.50. 1t seemed to
be Sl.50 or nothing, and the eXpressman
took the $3.50. Mr.. and Mrs. Hat;enhauer
bearded a motor train at 6 o'clock yesterday
morning and went to Omaha, where they
took the Northwestern train for Chicago.
Their goods could have been attached as
they went through, but Alberii lost the
chance Of his l!fe and let them get away.
The people who have sued out writs of
attachments had all their trouble for moth
ing, and it now looks as though John Beno
e Co. are the only ones who have much of
a chance to realize anything. They have
attached a lot of chinaware, including seven
valuable vases, given to Mr.. and Mrs. Hat
tenhauer at their marriage last fall. About
two weeks ago a lot of this expensive
ware was sent Ito Mullins china store to
be packed up. Walter Stillman. who rep
resented ]. X. Sweeny, the Clinton cigar
dealer. found out about it, and slapped a
writ of attachment on the china. 1t was
released a day or two ago on the ground
that It was Mrs. Hattenhauer's property, and
could not be held for cigar bills. Yesterday
morning, after it was found that Hatten-
hauer and wife had left between two days,
John Beno & Co., who hold a claim of $50,
attached the goods in Vien's court and will
try to hold them on the ground that the
dry gods was bought OF them by Mrs. Hat
tenhauer.
HE SCARED FOR A TIME.
Hattenhauer comes of a Council Bluffs fam
lily which is we'll known and highly respected.
Up to a little over a year ago he was en-
ployed in a local bank and received a salary
of $40 per month. H. fell in love with Miss
Julia Rupert of Chicago, a young lady VINO
was said to have a barrel of money. Hat
tenhauer went to Chicago and they were mar
rled. Fer several months they put up at a
swell hotel in the Windy City, but finally re-
turned to Council Bluffs last spring and took
up tn ir quarters at the Grand hotel, the
$40 bank clerk engaging a $l2O-a-month room
with all the ease and nonchalance of a man
with a bran new legacy. From the time OF
their arrival here they were the observed of
all obseiv rs. Almost every evening last sum-
mer they were at Manawa, where Mrs. Hat
tanhauer displayed the most gorgeous of
gowrg, a different one each night, so far es
possible. The same principle was FOLLOWED
out at the theater, where 1t was their custom
to saunter in about the middle of the first or
second act.
The loss of a 81 900 diamond by Mrs. Hat
tsnhauer on her way home rom thu Creighton
theater in Omaha Is still fresh in the minds
of the readers of The Bee. The jewel was
found by a laboring man in Omaha, who had
heard that the Hattenhauers had money to
burn, and concluded that he might as well
assist at the cremation. The reward of 500
which Hattenhau r offered YVES not en:ugh for
him, and he demanded 5000. His demand led
10 his arrest. After spending a night in jail
he was willing to let Hattenhauer have the
diamond without any reward at all. AS a
piece Of high class advertising this diamond
episode was highly successful.
Shortly after his arrival here Hattenhauer
bought the Grand hotel cigar stand, paying
81, 700 for a business which might have been
worth one-third of that sum. At that time
II is claimed the stand was making a profit Of
$3.50 a month or more, but Hattenhauer was
too busy with other things to put in any time
at the stand. The consequence was that In
a few short months the stand was doing lbout
$35 a month trade, and then Hattenhauer
offered to sell for $500. 1t began to be sus-
pectel that the barrel of money before re-
ferred to was partly an affair of the magma
ton, and Hattenhauer's business became in
volv d. After several weeks of pressing on
the part of the creditors, Mrs. Hattenhauer's
stepfather, who is we'll off, came here from
Chicago andepaid up his bills, taking a chattel
mortgage en- the cigar stand, stock and fix
lures. He gave notice then that 1t would be
tn last tine he would put his son-in-law on
his feet. He stuck to his word.
SOME WHO WERE STUCK.
Among the claims hald is one by George
S. Wright for 1874 attorney fees. A couple of
months ago, when the creditors began to be
unusually persistent, an attorney called at
the cigar stand with a bill and threatened to
attach unless pawn n was m de INN :diate y.
Hattenhauer got away and went to Wrights
Office to tell him of the plight he was in.
h'il' l " NuiA hio pAtINi' oNSi
to his wife to secure a claim which she was
supposed TO have, and even went so far as to
advise him to turn his watch over TO her,
because that would not BE- exempt under the
Sate law. When he presented his bill for
$24 Hattenhauer declined TO pay. a few days
ago Wright had put into his hands a claim
for SCI from another party, and has been
ever since that he tied Hatten7
hauer's property up so tightly.
A. w. Askwith also holds a note for $500
signed by Mrs. Hattenhauer to secure the
payment Of dry goods bought from a Chicago
firm.
T. Wright & Co., cigar dealers Of S.. Louis, |
have a claim Of $64, and Fred Beppler, pro-
prietor of the Grand Hotel pharmacy, has a
Of $l3.
w. F.. Baker loaned a 81 flag to b. NJ. Dun |
can about a year and a half ago. Duncan in
turn loaned it to Hattenhauer, and all last
it ornamented the Hattenhauer tent
at Manawa. This, too, IL gone, and Duncan
is expecting to have to pay Baker 81 for it.
William Maloney of the Grand hotel bar
also has a snug little bill for various things
which Mr.. aad Mrs. Hattenhauer needed for
their physical comfort.
The supposition is that they have gone to /
N. Y, Hattsnhauer having stated
some little time ago that his father-in-law
had secured him a position in a shoe factory, |
December Is. His friends still