The herald., 1896-09-16
Against Clark Shaw, the Union
Loan Manager
TRACKED BY A DETECTIVE
And Arrested st San Francisco for
Felony Embezzlement
Her Business Sold 0ut for Q Trlfllng Sum
By the cenpasy
At Once Discharged From Custody BY
Judge Morrison. and Now She Is
Camping On the Trail Of
Her Enemies.


Her Enemies.
Some people are born notorious: some
acquire notoriety. and others have no.
toriety thrust upon them.
To some the blazon of notoriety IS,
to use q Scriptural metaphor, as the
breath of their nostrils." while to others
1t is q punishment to be endured patient
ly. unless the notoriety comes in the
nature of infame and then patience
ceases to be a virtue.
Mrs. Maria A. vosberg belongs to the
category of those who have had no.
toriety thrust upon them, and in her
particular case it has been a notoriety
that, as she claims, has injured her in
mind, body and estate"
She halls from the classically named
town of Kalamazoo, Mich. and came to
this state little over a year ago for
the benefit of her husbands health. The
couple were not at all wealthy, although
they had some means, and left home
in Kalamazoo worth about $2500.
In order to fulfill her role as bread
winner for her sick husband, Mrs. vos-
berg opened restaurant at the corner
of Fourth street and Broadway and d;d
fairly well. In starting up in business
her expenditures had been large and she
had to borrow some money. Not having
| many friends in Los Angeles she went
to a banker friend who like herself,
was from Kalamazoo to ask his advice,
and he directed her to Clark A. Shaw,
manager Of the Union Loan company,
with offices In the Stimson block, who
also, she was told, was an old time Kali
amaZOo resident.
Mrs. Vosberg negotiated loan of $500
with Mr.. Shaw and gave a chattel mort
gage on her restaurant as security for
payment. She confided more or less of
her private affairs to Shaw and told him
she wanted to sell her home in Kala-
mazoo. He agreed with her that she
ought to get from $4,000 to $2500 for the
place, a",d her banker friend was also
conferred with regarding the matter
Upon the recommendation of the latter
| she sent power of attorney east to
an attorney at her old home, empower
ing him to sell her property. Some little
time later Mrs. Vosberg received COM
munication from the Kalamazoo at
torney saying that the property had
been sold and that lie Herewith remit
ted 1886. To say that she was dissatis-
fed would be to very mildly express her
feelings. She felt that clean cut bunco
game had been played upon her, and
she determined to return east and have
the deed of sale set aside, and either sell
the property for an amount somewhat
closely approaching it's value or else get
1t under her own control again.
With this purpose in view Mrs Vos-
berg stocked her restaurant with all that
would be needed during her absence;
engaged a competent person to run it,
and after telling Mr.. Shaw her plans so
that he might be at ease regarding the
$500 loan, she left on the train for San
Francisco. 1t was her intention to there
see her brother, who lives in that city,
and get sufficient money from him to de-
fray her expenses east for, of course.
she kept the 1886 received from the sale
Of her property intact, intending to hand
it back to the attorney in the case and
have the sale annulled.
But the best intentions oft times gang
q glee." AS it afterwards developed,
Mrs. Vosberg was followed to San Fran
cisco by detective and in that city was
placed under arrest on the charge of
I felony embezzlement, at the instance of
Shaw. About the time that this arrest
was being made, too, the chattel mort
gage on the restaurant was foreclosed,
albeit the mortgage had twenty days to
run, and the place sold out for $3.50. AS
matter of fact, Mrs. Yosberg had been
offered $3.50 for her establishment before
she had stocked it, prior to her leaving
for the north. At the time it was sold
out 1t was worth not less than $1Gs~.
Mrs. Vosberg was brought back, under
! arrest, to Los Angeles, and being
brought before PoliceI Justice Morrison,
was ordered discharged from custody.
That was on or about the 10Th of Sep
| tember Of last year.
The Shock tO her system and tho die.
grace put upoI. her Frustrated Mrs. Vos-
| berg to such an extent that she was con-
| fined to her bed for some time, suffering
| from hysteria. While in this highly
strung condition Mr.. Shaw again ap-
peared on the scene and on various pre-
| The ostensible plea was that he would
! take care of it for her. OF this amount
| he returned 5000 at later date, and re-
! tained $500 to make up the balance due
on the mortgage, with accrued interest.
And these are the facts, briefly put,
| told by Mrs. Vosberg to account for her
| being bereft of home, business and
money. If it is as claimed it certainly
| seems as If the notoriety thrust upon
| her should at least cost somebody dear.
| and SO she has apparently been advised
! for two suits are being instituted. The
| first one, which probably will be filed
today, Is to recover the money of which
she was defrauded by the selling out of
| the restaurant, ETC., the other to OBJ
! tain damages for malicious prosecution
and for false imprisonment.
| 1t appears as If Mrs. Vosberg has
proven the truth Of the old adage that
! TROUBLES never come singly." Her all
| ing husband died shortly after arriving
! in Los Angeles. ard some time later she
married one CkHrles Fenniman, who
| turned out to be such thorough going
! scoundrel that she left him. 1t is rather
| hard when a woman. in her own person,
meets with misfortune both in business
and in marriage.
CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.