The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-29
WOMAN OF MANY DRAFTS
The Man on Whom She Drew IL
Under Arrest, Too.
NEW STYLE OF GRATING
Many Business Men Have Had Expe-
rience With the Woman to Their
sorrow-The Man in the Case
Has Been Arrested Before.

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er, patent medicine man. who failed to
pay drafts accepted by him on which
Mrs. Louisa Vermeule got money from
business houses of this city. was ar
rested yesteroay and held as "a sus-
picious person" He wouldn't talk to
reporters after his arrest. II Is believed
that the magistrate will be asked to
Crosher says he owed the woman
money inc expected to pay her drafts
when he should be able.
Crosher has been i'm business nine
years and failed abou three years ago
A year ago this month ne vas mixed
NJ in "A case In which Louis NJ. Selma
dig and Frank l.. Gerrish We're prose-
cuted by the whitney Glass works.
These men bought bottles on three
months credit n sold them immedi-
ately at less than the market rate. The
sale In one Instance was made by
Crosher. This particular charge was
dismissed on the ground that when the
bottles were delivered they were the
property of the purchaser to do as he
liked with, and that he Whitney Glass
works in selling the goods without in
~vestigating the responsibility of the
purchasers had left itself only civil pro-
cess to resort TO.
Mrs. Vermeule. who was arrested at
the Hotel st. George. Brooklyn, was
remanded to the tombs without bail by
Magistrate Mott. This was done at the
request of the prisoners lawyer. Robert
j. Hare. who is also Crosher's lawyer,
and was something of a disappointment
To a number of persons who were In
court. First of these was a clerk from
the store OF Emanuel Koscherak, on
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There were also men representing Glas-
co a Co, who gave her $50 change on a
draft which was not honored: Carlson
a Co., who gave her 800 change on
another draft which was not honored:
j. ii. Johnston, who gave her Sl7
honored. f. II. Halsey, who gave her
s26 change on another draft which was
lot honored: a Horn a. Ellison. who
refused to take from her a draft calling
for $50 change on their BILL: Meyer
Jonasson & Co, who refused to sell her
goods for which she offered a draft
calling for s75 change. and the Grand
Central stables. which has a bill against
her for $500. Claims against her by
Jaeger and by Krakauer were also
but no N was in court TO
press them. Colonel HARE said II was
because of this large number OF per-
sons who had alleged claims against
the prisoner, which would make the
determination Of proper bail a difficult
matter. hat he took the unusual course
of asking that his client be remanded
without bail.
All of the drafts which the prisoner
Is alleged to have used were drawn
either on Crosher or on r.. w. Roelofs
of Cripple Creek. Co. They were sign
ed Mrs. Louisa Vermeule. The drafts
were nearly all accepted by the person
on Nhnna fhau xyara lra MN and In oax.
eral cases men were sent from the
stores where the drafts were rendered
to ask Crosher II they were all right,
and he always said they were.
The woman gave Koscherak an ad-
dress I'm Harlem at which the man who
went to deliver the goods was told that
Mrs. Nermeule was not known: but in
all other cases the goods were delivered.
The detectives who have been working
on the case have a suspicion that some
of the goods have been sold again.
The manager of the stables which
supplied the woman with carriages
while h was stopping at the Gerard
Is the only man i'm the list to whom she
did not offer a draft. He said yerter-
day that hen her bill cache $500 he
told her that she could not have any
more carriages until she had paid up.
Why" she e~xpostulated, II can buy
5000 worth of dresses at my tailor's
or 81, 900 worth of boots at my boot
makers and still get more dresses and
boots. 1 have large estates in the
West"
That's not the way we do business
said the stable manager.
We'll" the woman answered. "that's
the funniest hin / ever heard Of. /
guess you can get what you a of the
little bill l W YOU. II you feel that
way about it."
The manager has not got anything
yet. he says.
Before her case was called the pris-
oner talked freely about herself. She
said THAI she was 25 years old n had
been married when IL; that she had
five children. only one OF whom was
living. and hat she had separated from
her husband four years ago. She said
she came originally from Philadelphia
and that she had inherited a large ,s-
tate in Colorado when 81 years Did.
Regarding the charges against her,
she said that she had lent $500 10 Henry
II. Crosher six months ago and had
drawn on him since then several times;
that she knew some of her drafts had
been honored n that she supposed all
OF them were all right.
Leon Laski n Julius Lehman. two
lawyers who undertook to look the NO.
man up some time ago for the Siede
Fur company. to which she had offered
a 500 draft for a sl64 bill. received a
letter from Percy y. M~etzger. a Phila-
delphia lawyer, which stated that the
woman's name Is not Louisa Nermeule.
u that h is probably the wife OF
Roelofs. the man she calls the
of her estate. The letter further states
that she was formerly Miss Mabel Tin
ley OF Philadelphia, and that. although
her father did own some property in
Colorado N Nevada, the daughter
owns only one piece of property there.
which gives her an annual income of
about 5000.
Crosher said yesterday that he had
known Mrs. Nermeule several years.
and he confirmed her statements that
he had borrowed $500 from her some
time ago and that she had drawn on
him several times and that she had
paid the drafts. He also said hat he
would pay the draft held by Koscherak
as soon as he was able 90. which ne
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