The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
The Rascally Land Agent Lost
His Heart at a Bohemian
Club Dinner.
GAVE THE WOMAN A FORTUNE
His Rumored Engagement to Marie
Wainwright, the Actress,
DiSproved.

PORTLAND, Or, April 22.-In refuta-
tlon of the oft-asserted rumor of the en-.
gagement of Marie Wainwright, the
actress, to Paul Schulze the colossal de-
faulter, who committed suicide in Tacoma
last summer after swindling the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company and other cor
porations out of over 81, $50, 600, Frank S.
Chamberlain of San Francisco tonight
told to CALL correspondent a strange
story. The narrative Mr. Chamberlain
related must dispel all lingering belief in
the rumored engagement between Miss
Wainwright and the crooked land agent.
Mr.. Chamberlain's story also accounts for
100000 of the 81 $50, 900 stolen by Schulze.
About two years before Mr.. Schulze
died." said Mr.. Cham berlain, 'he met
Mrs. Charlotte Burrill. young widow
from Winchester, Va, at Bohemian Club
reception in San Francisco. She was on
the coast visiting friends. was acquainted
with her and teased her late that evening
for allowing a comparative stranger like
Mr. SchulZe to pay her the attention he
did. She smilingly answered that she
fancied him as one of the most gallant
gentlemen she had yet met IN San Fran
cisco, and if she permitted him TO pay his
devolrs TO her it was her affair and con-
ce-ned none other.
AFTER this mild snub, l refrained from
further commenting on the subject to her.
But few mont $ later l heard that the
Tacoma fnancier and Miss BurriH were
engaged. Later [ personally informed
myself, as matter of curiosity, that every
two or three months Mrs. Burrill made
trips to Tacoma, where she also had
friends, but, as matter of fact, to see her
fiance Mr.. Schulze. I will vouch, though,
for the strictly pure and honorable nature
OF their relations, for Mrs. Burrill was a
woman of irreproachable character, whose
estimate of good name was priceless.
"Early N 1895, Mrs. Burrill no longer
concealed the fact that she and Mr.. Schulze
were TO be married some time in the fall.
In substantiation of this she exhibited to-
a few of her most intimate friends a $500
diamond ring, and on several occasions
large sans in paper money, forwarded to
her by Mr.. Schulze, per registered mail.
For what purpose this money was sent she
did not tell, but she cut the dash OF prin-
cess.
Last winter when Mr.. Schulze met his
untimely death and the report of his
heavy defalcation reached San Francisco
1 happened to be lodging in the house of
some of Mrs. Burrill's friends-also nv
friends. 1t was a fearful shock to her.
from which she scarcely rallied in a
month. She did not attend the funeral of
her betrothed, but soon thereafter she re-
turned to Winchester and in December
last she and sister went to Europe,
where the pretty widow is being consoled,
from what hear.
about month ago I moved into the
room Mrs. BurrilI occupied in the house
OF our friends, and on opening drawer 1
found lot OF partly-destroyed letters writ
ten by Mr.. Schulze which the widow had
forgotten to throw into the fire before her
departure. Natural curiosity led me to
patch up few of them, and their contents
convinced me that Mr.. Shulze not only
was madly in love with Mrs. Burrill, but
that he also sent her a fortune during
their engagement.
''The most interesting of the letters was
this one," remarked Mr.. Chamberlain.
drawing a missive from his pocket-book
bearing date June IS, 1895, written at Ia
coma and signed with unquenchable love
and devotion, your own Paul. 1t said:
So soon as L can arrange my business affairs
so that can take months rest will go to San
Francisco and there once again enjoy the
aroma of your delightful presence and the
charm of your incompatible intellectu-
ality. The last package of banknotes
! mailed to you makes total of 1885 ,00O
trust you may well husband these resources
for in these times of depression the most un-
expected may come TO pass.
"That Bohemian Club reception made
Mrs. Burrill's fortune and even if she did
lose lover she has enough money to buy
titled one in Europe" was Mr.. Cham ber-
lain's concluding remarks.