The evening times., 1896-12-14
MARRIED AGAINST HER WILL.
Young Woman Claims to he the Vic
tim Of Conspiracy.

Phila delptia, Dec. IA most inter
esting romance was related in the office NJ
City Clerk Varney, OF Camden, and If the
facts as told are true, it appears there was
a dark conspiracy to cheat Solomon Geg.Hs-
turner out of the woman whom he intended
TO make his wife.
Miss Rebecca Friedman, or, more Cor
rectly speaking. Mrs Manuel Roseu ni'l.-
teen years old, a beauty OF the brunette
type, appeared in the clerks office in com
pany with Solomon Gegensturner, and her
cousin. who lives in Brooklyn, and applied
for a copy of the marriage return OF the
Young lady and her husband. They told n
story of the girl 5 marriage which ii hard
IL seems possible could have taken place in
this country.
Mrs Rosen lives at 612 North Front
street, Philadelphia, and does not speak or
understand the English language. Gegeas
turner had wooed and won the girls heart
To qualify this statement he exhibited a
certificate. written in Hebrew, to Assist
ant City Clerk w. I. G. Young. which th,
latter did not read. The assistant clerk was
assured that the paper was a certificate
of the engagement of the couple. The we'd
ding was to have taken place this winter
but an envious person appeared on the
scene nd shattered the hopes Of the Young
couple He was Manuel Rosen of 612 North
Front street, who became snntten with
the young ladv's charms and decided to win
her at any cost.
All of his advances were reprIled how
ever, and. according to the statement of
the young man who was engaged to her,
he was offered $500 to rclinquish his claims
by Rosen. He spurned the proposition and
Indignantly declared: Not for five mil
lion dollars will give her up. ! love her"
Meeting with no success in this line Rosen
is next said to have enlisted the services
of Max Kroskowsky of No. sos North Sec
ond street, who is known as ..schatchen,"
or a person who makes a business Of pro-
curing wives or husba nds for his clients.
The "schatchen" agreed to arrange mat
ters, but declared that it would be n costly
job. He kept his promise, and five weeks
ago yesterday Rosen, the young lady, her
brother, Harris Friedman, and Krosko wsky
crossed the river and appeared at Justice
SchmitZ's office on Market street to have
the marriage performed. The Justice no.
ticed that the young lady had a very faint
comprehension of the English language,
but lie thought by her gestures that she
understood what she was doing and under
stood the nature Of the ceremony.
The cost of Kroskowsky services is said
TO have been $500, a portion of which, the
young lady and her friends who visited the
clerks office, claim, was used to influence
her parents and brother. After leaving the
squire's office, Mrs. Rosen declares. she
was apprised of what had taken place for
the first time, and she became indignant
She refused to accept Rosen as her legal
husband. The next day she and Gegens-
turner appeared at the squire's office and
wanted the marriage of the day before an
nulled. ft.1
The squire, or course, was powerless to
grant divorce, and referred them to the
court of chancery. The young lady's cousin
was appealed to, and he has been trying to
straighten the matter out He has en-
and it was for the purpose of beginning
proceedings to have the marriage an
nulled that the copy of the marriage return
was procured yesterday.