The herald., 1898-01-15
HERR SCHLITZ AT 1T AGAIN
ONE OF HIS VICTIMS MEETS
HIM AND SQUEALS
Borrowed Money From Her and Film
famed Her Out of Checks
Before Her Face

ISHGNSQ ASl hNQuetiiAN'AiNS VIVA
Mulhausen, alias Schlitz, Schilling and
Stein, and thereby hangs a tale. Schlitz
was not half as eager as the lady TO
enter into conversation, being probably
deferred therefrom by the presence OF
police detectives and newspaper report
ers, but he acknowledged Mrs. Stoll 5 sa-
lutte with a debonnair bow and hurried
away before she could put too many en-
barrassing questions to him.
Schlitz is an amusing rascal whose
methods for defrauding landladies and
women of easy virtue, While always
drawn on the same broad lines, are diff
ferent on each particular occasion IN
that his lively imagination is allowed
all latitude on minor subjects and with
his fertile capacity for romancing, ev-
cry one of his escapades to defraud
these classes of women, who are re-
puted to be, although undeservedly so,
the hardest to beat reads like chapter
In the life of Cartouche or Robert Ma
caire.
Mrs. Herminie Stoll made SchlitZ ac-
quaintance on the 10Th of December last
The fat, bald and red-headed German
then called upon her for the purpose of
securing suite VI IOOlllS VI a. ice'Se Oil
apartment At for a scion of the biggest
brewers of Missouri. on that occa-
sion the only Schitz of the universe was
travelling strictly incog. and had as
sumed the plebeian name of Mulhausen
to better keep up his disguise, which was
only allowed to drop gradually as he was
pushing the acquaintance.
He told his prospective landlady that
f,st1t
ranch, purchased by his mother from the
Woodwork Bros. AS it CHANGED, Mrs.
Stoll has for chambermaid a woman
who used to live at Fresno at one time
and who is acquainted with the ranch,
which she had heard valued at 100000.
That the ranch existed was already cor
roborative evidence in Mrs. Stolls mind
that Mulhausen was telling her some
thing that sounded very much like the
truth, and made her receptive for some
more of his yarns.
Herr Mulhausen said all this in Ger
man, which comes to both with more
facility than the English language. He
told her that he was a guest at the
Westminster and that he kept horse
and buggy at the Panorama stables IL
order to facilitate his numerous err
rands, as he had come to Los Angeles
for the purpose of buying and shipping
fruit, and this kept him considerably on
the go. So, as to be nearer the rig. he
had concluded to take lodgings with the
frau Did she have something that would
suit him in the way of apartments? The
room shown him he pronounced too
small and too cheap. Had she none bet
ter and more expensive? "Ach. so, das
war elm Jammer etc, etc" and he would
not be consoled until she promised him
a larger and more expensive room in the
very near future. In the meantime he
would graciously occupy the smaller
and cheaper.
Cautiously at first, but not for long,
! the gentleman then turned the topic
upon the landlady and her business, and
he exploited her affairs as much as her
natural caution would let him. He was
particular about knowing the modes of
ingress and egress to her bedroom, the
amount of money she was likely to ham
die daily, where she kept it, and he
asked her lot of other questions which
seemed impertinent, but which We're put
for the purpose of ascertaining where
she kept money and Valuables. Was she
afraid of robbers? No, she wasn't, and
she ventured to remark that with the
aid of her trusty siX-shooter robber
entering her chamber would probably
be carried out on a stretcher. Well, she
need have no further anxiety, for now
that he was going to be her lodger he
would protect her and her fatherless
babes.
He concluded, what he no doubt con-
sidered his fascinating impression, by
asking the lady to dinner with him, an
offer that was politely but coldly de-
clined. Mr.. Mulhausen before taking
his leave casually mentioned that he had
couple of checks with him which he die
not care to carry around and would
madame do him the favor to keer
them for him? Mrs. Stoll agreed to dc
that, and to her mind they seemed al
right. one purported to be drawn OF
the First National bank for $400 in favor
of Mulhausen from prominent Sar
Francisco brewery firm; the other she
did not look at. BY giving them into hel
custody the beat avoided payment in ad-
vance for his lodgings.
On the 18th he protested that he de-
sired to provide supper for his landlady
and he would not take no for an answer
When he appeared with it it was con-
tanned in a little valse and consisted OF
a lobster, small cake and a bottle OF
sour wine. This made Herminie laugh
| Mr. Mulhausen's ideas of a good supper
and hers did not coincide. Stimulated
by her smile, he grew confidential once
more. told about his own two motherless
children, offered her matrimony anC
wedding presents out of sight, anC
painted a touching picture of how the
two broods and their parents would &C
to church on Sunday he with broad
cloth upon his back and a stovepipe hal
on his red noddle, she all logged up ir
silks and lace. The picture was fine
but the idea of Mulhausen with a chin
ney-pot covering his bald head made
Mrs. Stoll laugh again. She replied thai
she had been fooled once before into
marriage and that she did not mean tC
get spliced a second time without inves-
tigation but it was evident that his bril-
liant proposition had dazzled her and
that she was weakening.
BY and by the Herr changed the con-
versation back to business and got the
lady to figure out on a piece Of paper
lhow much he would have to pay his mer