The herald., 1898-11-27
WITNESSES SUSTAIN CONTEN
TON OF MRS LAUTERBACH
WAS RECOGNIZED BY PARENTS
Their Grief When She Ran Away and
Joy on Her Return-Fears for
Mothers Sanity
Their Grief

erlck ' OsS, the ucau nOlel IHaii, NHoSe
property is now in dispute, and of the bank
accounts he had at the Los Angeles and
First National banks. Mr.. Ball had worked
for Noss when he was running the st.
Charles hotel and was able to throw much
light upon the financial affairs of his former
employer
A Newfoundland dog was stolen from the
house and Voss had sworn out writ OF
repevin to get it back, because it had
belonged to Lizzie, and when she went
with her father to the place where the dog
had been sold, the animal jumped up to
her and manifested so much delight that
the new owner readily surrendered it.
This witness also identified the two gold
chains as formerly belonging to Mr.. and
Mrs. Noss and said one OF them had been
given to Lizzie The watches he could not
positively identify, but thought they might
be the same as those worn by the hotel man
and his first wife. A piano, also, was bought
by Voss and given to Lizzie, $3.50 having
been paid for the instrument Other per-
sonal property was traced to the present
Mrs. Voss but the means by which she
became possessed of it could not be related
by the witness A cemetery lot had been
bought by Voss for himself, the first wife
and the daughter Lizzie. This was in Ever
green cemetery at Boyle Heights. Mr.. Ball
heard them speak of when Lizzie was born,
when she was just beginning to crawl
around, and afterward when she could walk.
At one time, when she was a baby, the
family had moved from one camp to an
other in Nevada and there was snow on the
ground The older people had to walk
through the drifts, but Mrs. VOss had car
eied the baby in her arms.
At one time Noss failed in business and
settled with his creditors for 30 cents on
the dollar, retaining what property he had.
Nftorward he went into The warehouse bus
mess and had told witness he had $4,000
capital
At the hotel Mr. Ball was paid wages.
but Lizzie was not so paid. Noss had loaned
the witness 5000 at one time. which he re-
turned, and at another time Voss had gone
security for him to the amount of 5000.
suit oi furniture, presented to Lizzie by
her father, had been retained by her and
used by herself and husband, Ball. Lizzie
had told the witness that she married
Clancy under an assumed name, that of
Lizzie Sherman" or the name that the
present Mrs. Noss is anxious to prove u.s.
Lizzie's rightful cognomen. Witness had
heard both Voss and his first wife say that
Lizzie ran off and married under an assumed
name.
IMPORTANT CORROBORATION
Thomas j. Bedford, an old resident, knew
Noss years ago, having met him at Austin,
New, and various other towns in that state,
as well as California. In 1889 he became in
timately acquainted with the family
Al 1, ...:4 A
tears tllat Lizzie had gone away. Witness
had asked him who Lizzie was, and Noss
had replied, 'Why, Lizzie, my daughter
she has run away with Walter Clancy to
Arizona Witness had replied, 30, let
her go. She'll be back" Afterward Voss
had told him with evidence of grief that she
was still away and he had heard nothing
from her.
At the time Lizzie ran away, the present
Mrs. Noss, then a hired girl az the st.
Charles or Laclede hotel, had told the wit
ness that Voss felt badly about Lizzie going
away, but that she was not his daughter
Afterward Bedford had said to Voss, who
expressed sorrow because of Lizzies alb
sence, "What do you care? She isn't your
daughter To this Voss had replied, "Who
told you so? She is my daughter"
On cross-eXamination Bedford said he was
now an inmate of the county hospital but
formerly stayed occasionally at the St.
Charles hotel and at the Santa Fe lodging
house, at both which places the Vosses
were living.
Mrs. Sarah Wickersham, who resides on
Pleasant avenue, Boyle Heights, swore that
she had lived in Los Angeles twenty-three
years, and was at one time a neighbor of
the Voss family They called the plaintiff
Lizzie Voss and treated her as their child
No one could have doubted the blood re-
lationship. This last statement was stricken
out, as being a conclusion of the witness
At one time Lizzie was sick and her father
and mother displayed great anxiety thereat,
and got physician for the girl, who was
then eleven or twelve years old.
Mrs. Mabel Wilcox of ia Wilmington
street lived here eighteen or nine
teen years ago, knew the family in
timately and testified that Lizzie
was always recognized by Voss and
wife as their daughter and she called them
papa" and mamma" When Lizzie re-
turned from Arizona, having left Clancy,
they were lawful tickled." and witness hap
pened to be there at the house next day
after she returned. Lizzie went to Mrs
Clancy's house, short distance from the
Voss home on Guadalupe street, at the
time she eloped with Walter and was mar
ried to him there. The witness could not
tell how old the girl was when she ran away.
She was gone year or two and appeared
fifteen or sixteen years old when she got
back.
Mrs. Kate Hartensten of 730 South Fig
ueroa street testified substantially to the
same effect and as to- the penmanship of
Mr.. Noss.
FEARED FOR. WIFE'S SANITY
Mrs. Annie Zens, schoolmate of Mrs.
Lauterbach. testified that they used to at
tend the city high school when it was To-
Gated at the present courthouse grounds.
They were friends and had always been
such When Lizzie left Clancy and came
back to her fathers house, Voss had been
greatly affected, shedding tears in the pres
ence of the witness as he spoke of the scar
on Lizzie's face which had been occasioned
by the Clancys. Voss and wife had been
distressed by the absence of the girl and
Voss had asked her to talk with his wife,
as he feared she was going crazy because
of the absence of his daughter.
Mrs Rosa Rhein, the mother of Mrs.
Zens. and B. F. Orr, the undertaken, both
testified to long acquaintance with the Voss
family and to having been told by them that
Lizzie was. their daughter. z. T. Snyder.
next door neiohbor of the Vnsses, testified
to similar eject. and said the father and
mother would take the child in their arms