Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19

ages.
New York, November 18.-Samuel J.
X. Adlereasserts that man to whom
he had rented the privilege of using his
name got him into a lot of trouble
through contracting a marriage with
out resuming his own patronymic.
There was a marked likeness between
them, and persons who saw the pho
tograph of the real Mr.. Adler unhesl-
tatingly swore that it represented the
person whom they had known by his
name.
Adler's second wife, Mrs. Carrie Adj
Ter obtained an absolute divorce from
him on October %, 1896. Her suit was
tried before the Supreme Court in this
city, and her allegation was that Adler
had left her in 1895 and gone to Ne
braska, where he had married Miss
Eliza Seibert, of Creole. She proved
to the satisfaction of the court that a
man who gave the name Of Adler had
contracted marriage, and several per-
sons identified her husbands picture as
that of the Western bridegroom.
Mr.. Adler now makes the astonish-
ing assertion that another man was
married in his name and that for the
damages he sustained through that
ceremony he has brought suit for $780,
900 in the United States Court for the
Southern District of Virginia.
R. E. Valentine, of the Grand Union
Hotel in this city, yesterday exhibited
a letter that he said he had just re-
ceived from Neefe & Neefe, Virginia
lawyers, declaring that General Saul
M. Arnold had offered $50,000 to COM
promise the action begun by Mr.. Adj
Ier This offer was not accepted, as
the lawyers maintain that they should
get $4,000, of which they would retain
$4,000 for their services, in addition to
the 81, 900 that Mr.. Valentine had paid
them.
The lawyers enclose what purports
to be complete record of the case UP
to date, showing a claim for damages
brought by Mr.. Adler, of this city,
against General Arnold, of Virginia, for
100000, for using the name of Adler
in contracting a marriage with Eliza
Seibert. The defendants answer,
through the law firm of Bassios C
Crumble, denied the allegation and as
serted that Mr.. Adler, in conspiracy
with his divorced wife, was attempting
to extort money from General Arnold.
Issue was Joined ON March 81 last and
the case was numbered on the calendar
30,751. The payment made by Mr.. VAL
entine to the lawyers were in two
sums of $1,000 each.
Mr.. Adler is now living at No. 205
West Forty-first street. He expressed
great indignation that he should be
charged with collision with his former
wife. "She is young and pretty; I am
old and paralytic,' he said. Il have
not seen her since she obtained the
divorce, excepting when l have passed
her on the street. | certainly have had
no communication with her on the sub
ject When she made the charges
against me in court here she was in
position to know that it was not l who
contracted the marriage in Nebraska.
Just as soon as l learned that she had
begun the proceedings l sent her letters
that should have satisfied her that
was not the one. One of these letters
which l received from General Arnold
was substantially as follows:
Madison, Neb., August Is, 1895.
Dear Sir:-Your letter addressed to
Richmond was forwarded to me at
this place, at time when l was pack
ing and leaving for Denver, Col, and
going from there to Salt Lake City, and
then to San Francisco, where l will
stay for a while, but l don't know how
long. Now, in answer to your state
ment to me, saying | used your name
at Council Bluffs did it, but with
your consent, and you received one
half of the proceeds out of what l did.
You say your wife believed you to be
the Adler that married the girl in
Creole, Neb. / can state that you did
not, neither did l, legally. 1t was
mock marriage. l took out license
in Council Bluffs for our marriage, l
under the name of Saul Adler and she
under her right name, Eliza Seibert,
which can be found on record in the
District Court at Council Bluffs. had
German to perform the marriage who
was not minister. You say that my
wife sent one of the German letters
you wrote for me to your wife, and
also a description of myself and her.
You know that you and l are about
the same build. The only difference is
that l am about one and half inches
taller than you and more corpulent.
AS a matter Of course, the letters which
you wrote for me were in German, as
l cannot write in German. If l could,