The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21
SCHECK'S LOVE SPURNED,
 FOR HE WAS POOR
MRS. ALLISON, A RING, A GOLD
 MINE AND A TRILBY.
Fleeced by His Partner He Was Thrown Into Jail a.; Default ing Witness Against
 Sharpers.

It is a mystery how John Scheck, hon. est and industrious worker in copper at the Union Iron Works, arrived at old age without the services of a guardian, If a recent adventure of his be taken as a sample of the manner in which he invests his earnings. He has been in jail for the past two weeks as witness against Grace Allison and her partner, the plaus- ible MT. Bain, the managers and patentees of a matrimonial bureau, warranted to tighten the pockets of the hopeful pat rons of the wares of Hymen. The precious couple are under indictments by Federal and State Grand Juries for fraud. and among their numerous victims was Scheck
 Seheck is a vigorous man in the lusty bloom of about 60 years, and a few months ago he thought it would be q good idea to invest in wife. So he called at the matrimonial bureau and upon payment of a fee of S was introduced by Bain to Mrs. Allison, whom Bain represented as a wealthy widow, just dying to marry some nice, kind old man who would love her for herself alone. Scheck was willing to love her devotedly on these conditions and as an. evidence of the unselfshness of his attentions he, at her suggestion very deiicately made, presented her with a dia- mond ring, the cost price of which was S115. History does not record whether Scheck received chaste kiss from his f1ancee but Scheck records with sorrow that after the widow got the ring on her finger and found that he had more money to bestoW upon her she announced that she was tired of him and that he would oblige her If he remained away. Scheck raised row about the matter having been advised by his friends that Mrs. Allison was gold brick, and Bain compromised the matter for s150
 Then Scheck met a stranger named Gus Hall. Hall represented that he owned an undeveloped gold mine on the Mexican peninsula just below the town of Ensena- da. He CHalQ had been once bitten by a syndicate and would have nothing more to do with capitalists. He wanted some honest, hard working poor man to go in with him. The ore exhibited by Hall was assayed for Schecks satisfaction and showed a value of about $lOO to the ton. The mine was twenty feet from the ocean landing and there was an abundance of abalone shells on the beach. They could buy a vessel and haul shells and nuggets to San Francisco and become wealthy in a short time. Scheck invested his S15O in the purchase of the sloop Trilby of twelve found woman and her baggage in the cabin. She said that she was Halls wife and did not want to go, but Hall remarked that he guessed he was the boss and she would have to go.
 At that juncture some one gave the au- thorities the tip that Scheck was trying to leave the State for the purpose of avoiding the prosecution of Bain and Mrs. Allison and he was arrested and thrown into jail, while Hall, with the bin of sale made out in his own name, start ed away In the Trilby for his Mexican mine. At Monterey one of the sailors of the crew of two insulted Mrs. Hall and there was a row. resulting in the return of Mrs; Hall by rail to this city.
 Last Saturday, Scheck was served in jail with demand for s35 wages due the sailor for one months services, and this was backed up with a paper purporting to have been signed by Scheck, in which he nf Scheck denounces the paper as a forgery and now is in jail broke. Hall has disap- peared with the Trilby and Scheck now swears that he has been In jail so long with drunken men and cranks that he has lost his memory of the evil doings of the Bain-Allison outfit