The morning times., 1897-01-24
MISS NEUHAUs IS PEN|TENT
Her Contrition, However, Is Off
set by Indignation.
SHE DEMURS TO DANCING
Two Gentlemen Have Called Upon
Her, She Admits, But Declines
Pretty, Accomplished, Exceedingly
Clever and of A Unable Disposition.

Miss Annie Ncuhaus, who is row on trial
in the police court charged with the theft
OF goods valued at about 81 COO, is re-
markable girl. She is quite conscious or
her wrong doing, but she justifies it en- the
ground of necessity and that she has made
it plain to the public that she intended
tomake good allthe losses TO Mrs. Fechner,
or whose house she was taking care in
Mrs. Fechners absence and from which
the valuable goods heretofore described
wise disposed of.
Up TO the adjournment of the court yes
tcrday Miss Neuhaus was penitent After
that time she was still penitent, but
dramatically indignant. 1t was i'll tie lat
ter mood that reporter for The Times
found her last evening at her home on II
street That she is fair 10 look upOn made
her Indignation quite interesting. She has
a typical Saxon face with flaxen hair and
blue eyes She talks with animation. She
is well educated: she has. read Schiller and
Goethe and all the German bellies lettres
literature, Dub ioH1t
1t was the statement of Mrs. Fechner
that this Saxon maiden danced around in
bridal dress late in the evening that
made her mad She told the reporter that
she was simply shocked by the untruth-
fitness of the statement that she per
formed any such terpsichorean antics or
behaved in any improper acrohatic manner
in or out of ball Dress bridal wells. or
satin slippers. Tine slipper part of 1T was
false, as the slippers couldn't fit her;
she had not worn any bridal dress or veil,
and finally she did not do the dancing for
the simple reason hat she could not dance
she admitted that she was German girl
that couldn't dance" sonnet hing of
social curo, but still she didn't regret it,
She said she was twenty-four years of
age, the daughter of d well-tC-do family
in Bremen, the father of which raised up
herself and eleven sisters without much
regard to dancing and such like frivolities.
| This dancing incident of Miss Neuhaus'
case has put quite new phase upon t.
! She considers that her moral character
has been attacked. and she made some
innuendoes to the effect that there were
| others of whOm the public might hear
if she were pushed To the wall.
She denied point blank that she had AN V
| improper relations with any gentleman
1t was not true that two gentlemen who
| were alleged to he students of the German
| language under her tuition called at her
| present place OF residence and We're enter
| tanned i'll her room in these linguistic exer-
cises. She had not done any German
teaching since she moved to the house on
street. Two gentlemen called there
| occasionally. but their business she would
| not discuss, but If it ever becomes neces-
| sary, viii be able to explain everything"
1t was alleged that one OF these gentle
men so studying the Teutonic tongue was
Representative"
Not true,,, said Miss Neuhars, with in
| dignation evident in tone, and crimson
! wave ON either check. "A gentleman who
| comes here has been a friend of N V father
and an intimate friend of mine Hisname?
| Il shall not give that unless it is neces-
sary in the opinion of my lawyer, who
has told me TO say nothing abont the
case anyhow or he would wash his hands
| of it,
Miss Neuhaus went on to argue that if
| she had lover 1t would scarcely have
| been necessary for her to resort to taking
| the goods of Mrs. Fechner and pawning
| them. The story, however, is that two
gentlemen came TO see her at her present
| home, that Sometimes they came together,
sometiems singiy, and that the teaching Of
German was conducted in Miss NeuhaUs s.
apartments. All the people in the house
who We're spoken to said that Miss Neuhaus
was very clever girl, amiable and very
intelligent, made friends easily by her
sweetness of temper and her general pleas
ing disposition.
Miss Neuaus said that she tried to
make living by being book agent. She
discovered. however, that there was Moth
ing in it. She is an expert ncedlewoman
III addition to ker other accomplishments
She said that it was necessary sometimes
that the gentlemen or others for whom
she made slippers and such work would
call for it when finished, and several
times gentlemen called for their slippers
at tile Fechner house. She received these
people at the door only, where she de-
| livered the goods. Therefore, all the
| tales about her keeping open house at
night, i'll Illuminated parlors, and her
evening dances and other performances
were, size declared, fictions She was an
honest girl who tried to make living.
| She was disappointed in the arrangements
made for her by the Fechners, and the
| public knows the rest OF the story.
There is rot the slightest indication OF
| mental alteration about Miss Neuhaus In
| fact, She has a great head, and withal a
| pretty head. She knew that she had Gone
! wrong and when the pawn tickets began
| to accumulate and she had no means of
+! repayment in sight She wrote TO her father
| for money, but she did not tell him of her
| misdemeanors. 1t would have broken his
| heart, she said with an evidently natural
sigh. Only three years ago she left him
| to seek her fortune in America, first in
| Baltimore, and then at all the places She
| has already enum Grated in Washington.
| She said that she is not anxious to go
back to Germany, although she had heard
of movement to raise money to send her
| back. She can teach hkindergartening, which
she learned ia Germany, and has other
means of supporting herself could She but
| find work. 1t was stated that she had
carried off lot of things to adorn her
room on H street. That was only partly
true. She had merely rented an unfurnished
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