The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-14
EULALIE CHARMED HIM
BUT BROKER GoERDEs, SHE SAYS
OBTAINED No DoUBLooNs FOR HER.
He Forged an $4,000 Check in New
Yori-An Empire Theater Dancers
Letters Found on Him.

| Empire Theater this week. finds herself a
! center of interest just now on account of
the sensational arrest a few days ago in
| New York of William f. Goerdes, broker,
who is charged with forging check for
$1S,O00 and who is in Jail there. He says
| there is a woman at the bottom of his
trouble, and in his pockets were found
number of letters signed "Eulalie." These
] were produced in court Tuesday.
Goerdes's case was peculiar one in the
steps he took following his crime to obtain
| the money. He first gave a forged check
! to firm of brokers and ordered them to
| purchase for him one hundred shares of
New York Consolidated Gas stock They
| Endorsed the check, made the purchase and
/ turned over the certificate Of stock to
| Goerdes. He then went to L. p. Mendhem
| and borrowed $4,000, leaving the stock GER
| titicate as collateral security, and the certi-
| fed check which Mendhem gave him he ex-
changed with Zimmerman & Forshay for
| 1000 Spanish doubloons at 1857 each, re-
ceiving the difference in United States
money.
! Goerdes's defense of his actions was that
he had been duped by woman. He said
| he had met a Cuban woman some months
ago and for her he had on several occasions
transacted business on the Stock Exchange,
or in some garden in the Tenderloin district
of New York or at the Stock Exchange.
Recently, he says, she ordered him to buy
for her 1000 Spanish doubloons and gave
him the check referred to above Before ne
| could make the purchase she called at the
| Stock Exchange and requested him to pur-
| chase one hundred shares of Consolidated
| Gas stock and to borrow $4,000 on the stock.
| This he Gid, and claims that then she again
decided that she wanted the Spanish
! doubloons and asked him to get them for
her.
Goerdes completed the transaction and
had the bag of gold ready to take away
| from Zimmerman g. Forshay's office. 1t
was large and weighed about ninety-fve
| pounds. Leaving it in the money brokers'
! office, he went out for a cab, and when he
! returned found a detective waiting for him.
| Hawley & Co., who had Endorsed the check
for $4,000 and had purchased the stock, had
discovered that the check WIS forgery
| and had sought to recover their certified
| check They traced it to Zimmerman &
Forshay and arrived there in time to arrest
| Goerdes.
| WHERE EUI4ALIE APPEARS.
| Goerdes's statement that there was a Gu
ban woman in the case and the letters from
Eulalie in his pocket led the police and pub
lie to the theory that Goerdes, who is a
| married man, had fallen in love with Eulale
| and that it was their intention to elope to
Mexico or some South American country.
| Hence the Spanish money. Who the woman
Eulalie was the New York authorities did
not seem to know, and Goerdes refused to
| tell. But he insisted that she was not in
any way implicated with him, and also that
he was not guilty himself of any intentional
| wrong doing. He was unable, however. to
produce the Cuban woman or give the police
| any cew to her whereabouts, and they be-
! lieved she was a myth.
Miss Kerwin was seen last night at the
Empire Theater while she was waiting in
| asked if she was the Eulalie referred to in
connection with Goerdes. She said she was,
! but that she had never so much as seen
| him and was certainly not the Cuban
| woman that he met in New York
MY first recollection of the man., she
| at Newark. One night / received a magni-
| ficent floral piece, almost as large as my
self. l could hardly carry 1T off the stage.
| |, of course, found note accompanying It;
1t was signed f. w. Goodwin 1 answered
| it, and the next night received more flow
| ued and the man asked for a meeting. l
never went that far with him. / would not
| know him now if should run over him in
when 1 went to New York and was
about to go on the road | agreed to CORE
|
exchanged several letters. The last one
received from him was on the day before
Christmas, ana answered IL only last
| however, and not the adfectionate eplstles
The New York papers try to make It appear.
| / ALWAYS addressed him as Dear Mr.. Good
win and my letters contained nothing that
l would object to being made public. I
have too many correspondents of this kind,
| and white that / would be afraid to own
and nothing would be ashamed of. sup
pose pave twentynyee S he coesp q
/ of them would not allow my letters to in
| jure me If there were anything damaging
"Why don't the New York papers publish
those letters found in his pockets? They
hint that there was an elopement planned
| said about it in those letters. l will tell
| you why they have not been published.
| published all the sensational features of
| this mans Wrong-doing would be removed,
spoiled. / would like to see them published.
| think after the thing has gone SO FAR 1t is
due me. have only one of his left, and
will give that to you FOR publication. |
| make it rule to destroy all letters except
| important business letters, only keeping one
from each person BY this means l get rid
same time keep the addresses and auto
graphs of my correspondents The letter is
at my hotel and is public property.
Il wrote this man first at the Savoy Ho-
tel, New York. but he had me change the
|
| address I wrote him while on the road.
| When ] saw the New York papers with the
1 account Of the arrest of w. f. Goerdes l
/ did not at first recognize myself in the
! Eulalie referred to en- account of the as
| sumed name he gave me. But | suppose l
am the person. for the papers subsequently
! stated that the letters from EulaIie were
addressed to +. w. Goodwin.
| ELOPEMENT TALK RIDICULOUS.
1.-THE talk of an elopement with that man
is ridiculous. What would I want to do
such thing for? Ny only idea in writing
| to him was a little pastime of the most
harmless nature. hate the whole thing
on account of the notoriety it gives me
and on account of my mother. She is living
in San Francisco and takes the New York
papers and WILL of course, see the accounts.
| She always travelled with me until last fall,
and since then have had a woman COM
| panion. In my correspondence with Good
| win, or Goerdes, whenever l promised TO
meet him al some future date when should
| be in New York 1t was always stipulated
| that my friend should be with me-"
Miss Kerwin is a handsome woman, about
| twenty-eight years old, tall, erect and Of
| dark complexion. Her eyes are black and
| sparkling The fact that Goerdes exchanged
| his check for Spanish money might lead to
the belief that ne intended going to a. coun-
/ try where such money was used. "Eulalie''
| was asked if she were Spanish.
| No. she said. Il am Irish-aS Irish as
| Brannigans pig"
CHARACTERISTIC JOHNNY LETTER.
The following is one of the letters received