Amador ledger., 1900-03-02
Advertised For a Husband,
But None Suited.
hrs. DUOUHARD had SEVERAL APPLICANTS
Martha E. Brouhard Wanted the
Coin and Her Advertisements
Were Effective.

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following report taken from the San
Francisco Chronicle, has duped several
men who were evidently hankering for
the flesh pots of Egypt" Several
men were aeeced out of various sums of
money, but they did not squeal. 1t
remained for James w. Leeper of San
Francisco, who was touched off by the
smOothe widow to the tune of $3.50 in
cold coin, not to mention the bone and
sinew he expended on the barren tun-
mel, to raise howl, which landed the
dame in Court.
| Amador county being mentioned as
the scene of some of the fair widows
mining schemes, the LEDGER decided
to look up the records and see what
property the Bronhard really owned
in Amador county. While thus en-
gagged, the following deeds were sent
| here for record and appeared in the
LEDGER'S columns of county affairs on
February 18th:
M. E. Brouhard to Thomas Hirst-
ten one-thousands interest in Davis
quartz mine: $500.
M. E. Brouhard to Thomas Hirst-
three one-thousands interest in Davis
quartz mine; 500.
The deeds were recorded.
The Davis mine is a quartz claim To-
Gated in township seven, section one
north, range twelve east, in Robert
son mining district. The claim was To-
Gated by j. ]. Mitchell. The Chroni-
cle's report is as follows:
"Mrs Martha E. Brouhard, known
also as Mrs. Martha E. Maxwell and
as Mrs. M. E. McManus, looked coldly
on her former admirers yesterday as
she sat in Police Judge Conlan's court
and listened to testimony bearing on
the charge of obtaining money and
goods by false pretenses made against
her by ]. M. Leeper. Advertisements
in matrimonial papers telling of a
charming widow with a fortune in
mines and agricultural lands figured in
the case, and some of the self-acknowl-
edged victims went on the stand and
told their love for the widow led them
to invest money in her schemes to trap
the unwary.
The defendant is about forty years
old, gaunt in face, and has cold, un-
sympathetic eyes that show no signs of
power to win hearts, yet she has been
married two or three times and en-
gagged so often, says the prosecution,
that it would require an able statistic
ian to compute the exact number of
her promised husbands. Her bait for
wOuld-be benedicts was the following
advertisement, which she had inserted
in several papers conducted by matri-
mOnial bureaus:
| A nice-looking, respectable widow,
no children, has large real estate and
mining property, owns also fine
country home short distance from
Sacramento, wishes to become ac-
quainted with an honest workingman;
all letters answered; intention, matri-
mOny.
| j. f. MellO, a miner who lives near
| Volcano, Amador county, was the first
witness. He had worked on what she
called her mining property, he said,
and two weeks labor yielded just S5 in
gold. 4 don't call that mining prop
erty,' the witness replied disgustedly to
question asked by the defendants
attorney.
George Hoffmeister, County Assessor
of Ell Dorado county, said that in FL
| Dorado county woman named Mrs.
| M. E. McManus owned 160 acres, val
ued at $3.50. At this the defendant ad-
mitted that McManus was name that
she had received from one of her hus-
| bands.
A. D. Witt of Sacramento was the
next witness. He saw the defendants
advertisement in ''Cupid's Column, a
matrimonial paper published in Deane,
Minn., and after few months of cor
| respOndence he came all the way from
Minnesota to California to marry her.
She induced him to part with $3.50, he
said. He was to receive quarter in
terest in twenty acres of mining land
in Ell Dorado county, but after working
few days in tunnel on the land
he concluded that he had been swim
died, He wanted to marry her, but
he had no more money to invest and
she refused him.
ID. w. Norman of Sacramento also
worked in the mining tunnel. He in
vested $50, but it was represented by a
check, and he grew suspicious in time
to save it by instructing his banker to
refuse payment,
j. M. Leeper, the complaining wit
ness, told of being attracted by the de-
fendant's advertisement in Wedding
Bells matrimonial paper published
in this city. He had lodging house
at 21S Eddy street, but he gave her a
bill of sale of the property in exchange
for her promise that she would pay
him $50 cash and $3.50 in mining stock.
She told him that she had 200 men en-
ployed at her mine. She declined to
marry him and returned to Sacra-
mento. Leeper informed the police of
her schemes, and she was arrested in
Sacramento by Detectives O'Dea and
and Ryan of this city.
Mrs. Mary-Henderson testified to
buying the lodging-house from Mrs.
Brouhard for $3.50. AT this juncture
the prosecution called halt for the
day, and the case was continued until
this morning,
Thomas Hirst, resident of Oak
land, who, it is said, invested 5000 in
the Brouhard mining and matrimonial
venture, failed to appear as witness
yesterday, and bench warrant was
issued for his arrest"