Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-20

New York. December 19.-Two let
ters, one familiar without being ardent,
and the other familiar without being
polite, will figure in a breach OF prom
ise suit which will come up for trial in
a few days. The plaintiff is lady's
maid and the defendant a millionaire's
son.
Fanny Purdy is ready to assure a
jury that she finds herself all alone in
the world, after having considered her
self for many months the wife of Ar
thur Hochstaetter The latter is the
manager of his mothers color mill. at
One Hundred and Nineteenth street
and the Harlem river. Fanny Purdy
says that he ought 10 be her husband,
and in support of her contention pro-
duces certain letters bearing an ornate
monogram, alleged TO appertain to her
tickle fiance.
BELOW STAIRS" INTRODUCTION.
Over a year ago, according TO Miss
Purdy's story, she met the young man
whom she now charges with having de-
stroyed her happiness. She was a maid
in a fashionable house uptown, she
says, and numbered among her init
mates a young woman who worked in
the Hochstaetter home. One fateful
day she went to call upon this friend Of
hers, and while enjoying her hospital
ity in the Hochstaetter kitchen made
the acquaintance of young Mr. Ar
thur" as he was known in the neither
regions of his mothers establishment.
Mr.. Arthur" and his mother maids
chum became good friends. according
to Fanny Purdy's complaint; so much
so that they used TO 90 out together a
great deal, and the young man grew
very tender in his demeanor to his
mothers maids lady friend"
One night in June-so runs the ten
thcusand-dollar OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ter grew so ardent in his attentions
that his oft-repeated declaration Of love
eliminated in a proposal OF marriage.
Miss Purdy had learned TO love the
impulsive young man, she says, and
accepted the impassioned offer Of his
hand and heart.
THERE WERE OBSTACLES.
But the suitor counselled prudence
There were family reasons, he said
why it would not he well TO say any
Purdy was content to wait for awhile,
she says, and let concealment, like a
worm in the bud, feed on her damask
cheek for many moons.
During that period young Hochstaet-
ter wrote to her many letters. so she
says, and these letters will be submit
ted to a jury I'm order to aid them in
determining whether the lady's maid
is really entitled to $4,000 for her
wounded affections and disappointed
aspirations.
NICE AND FRIENDLY, ANYWAY.
One such letter reads thus:
October 10. 1896
Dear Fanny: letter received
this a. m, and inasmuch as that ! am
busy at present. ! hasten to reply, so
that you will get my letter before you
leave home. I am certainly pleased
to hear that you are well and that you
will be in the city soon again. Ny sick
folks are gradually improving. and
otherwise everything is much the same
will await with pleasure our next
meeting. In the meantime. with hopes
of thoughts of me, affectionately.
ARTHUR.
This communication was written,
Miss Purdy says while she was in the
country. During October she returned
TO the city. and for a time all went
merry as a marriage bell Then his
love grew cold. That is, the plaintiff
says that the dyer's son no longer
raved about her. And one bolsterous
day in autumn the distracted lady's
maid received this rnklnd letter:
THE LAST STRAW.
November :, 1895.
Fanny:-Yours received with the
same old chestnut (you are hurt and
worried). Why don't you send me
something other than a distressing let
ter once in a while? Ny letter. writ
ten previously, did not refuse 10 help
you You sent me a letter asking me
20 pay your rent How much is r.?
Am TO smell whether il IS 60 cents or
$40? In fact, I always have 10 guess
what half your letters mean. Yours,
ARTHUR.
At that time. Miss PuTdy says in her
complaint, she was living at No. 112
East Eleventh street. in a fiat which
had been rented in the name OF Mr. and
Mrs. Purdy. It was that letter which
first suggested 10 the eX-lady's maid
the idea of commencing a suit for
breach of promise
In his answer to the first papers in
the case. young Hochstaetter admits
his relations with the plaintiff, but de-