The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-17
WIFE COMPELLED TO STEAL.
HUSBAND FORCED HER, SIZE SAYS,
TO SAVE HIS BANK ACCOUNT.

He Owned o Touement and Several Houses
in Staten Island, but Made Her Work
Out as . Servant-Needed Money for Re.
pairs and Told Her to Get It-Beth in Jail.
Henry 8. Schrump Of PIT East 10th
street and his wife Kate were arraigned to-
gether in the Harlem police court yesterday
on charge Of grand larceny. preferred by
Frederick Schmittberger. a baker OF 1873 West
Tenth street and his wife. who had employed
the woman as servant. Mrs. Schrump
pleaded guilty In a confession she m ade Just
before she was arrested she said that her hus-
band. who had made her work out as a SER
want. had forced her to steal In order that he
might get money to pay for repairs on one OF
q number OF houses he owned without drawing
on his bank account.
The woman went to work for the Schmtt-
bergers two months ago. She said then that
she was unmarried and that her name was
Kate Schrumm. Her husband called on her
frequently and she gave him her wages. she
explained this TO her en- ployers by saying that
her caller was the mai to whom she was en-
gagged to be married. Soon after tho new
servant was engaged piece OF silk was m Used
from the house. but she was not suspected. A
second theft occurred last Sunday night while
the schmittbergers attended a German festival
in Harlem. Tho servant returned homo an
hour before her employers. When they arrived
they found that desk drawer had been opened
and gold watch. $50 In cash. and check for
eight dollars had been stolen.
There was the imprint OF q Jimmy on the
edge OF the desk cover and on tho lamb OF the
door to the room In which tho robbery occurred.
but neither the lock on the desk nor on tn o
door had been forced. and Schmittberger.
seeing this. charged the servant with the theft
She declared that she was innocent. and said
that burglars had been in the house. schmitt-
berger said In the servants presence that he
had ordered the bank to stop payment on the
check and to cause the arrest OF any person who
tried to cash 1t. and soon aitsrward the check
was found on the floor in tho hall. After this
Schmittbergsr called In o private detective
who followed the servant on her next day out
She met her husband at Christopher and
Fourth streets and went with him to Bronx
Park. They were together all day. the detective
reported. and spent most OF their time in
Quarreling about money.
On returning to the house the woman said she
had spent the day In consultation with law
yer about tho robbery. When abe learned that
she had been watched all day the servant
broke down and confessed that she was tho
thief.
MY husband made me-" she said. and did
not dare refuse him. We were married on
Washington's Birthday. In 1893. and ever since
he has made me work out a. O SCR
want and give him my wages am his
third wife. From his second wife he
inherited four houses at Rosedale. Staten
Island. and he also owns a tsneme emit
In East Thirty-third street. He needed money
right AWAY to make some repairs on Staten
Island house and told me to find out what the
sohmittbergers had In the house and to steal
II. He wouldn't draw out any OF the money he
kaI To- M hs,f TkASs.
dare disobey my husband. I stole that piece Of
silk some time ago. and my husband got IT,"
The woman took the detective to her hus-
bands homo at PIT East 10th street. and they
found the stolen silk in his possession. The
man said that he did not know that his wife
had stolen II. In court yesterday he denied all
knowledge Of the woman's other thefts.