The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-17
IMPORTANT TO VOTERS.
A CLEVER CONFIDENCE GAME
Austrian Girl ImpersOnate's q Gro
GERS Niece for Months.

JERSEY CITY. Nov 17--Elias Krams, .
grocer at Spring and Jane Streets. West
Hoboken, has been the victim OF a cleyerly
worked confidence game. TIE impostor
was handsome. well educated. and attrac-
tive girl about twenty-five years old. and
for three months she successfully repre-
scented herself as Mr. hrans' niece. and
during that time has shared his home and
hospitality.
Elias Krams came 10 this country eleven
years ago from Austria. OF the relatives
| he left behind he was most attached 70
Minnie Krams his brothers daughter, who
wa then a little girl. Ainnie's mother
/ dieG few years ago and her father mar
/ ried a second time. Her uncle in this
country married also. The latter frequent
/ " told his wife CT the niece or whom he
/ was so fond and the wife became inter
ested in the girl from hearing so much
/ about her She shared her husbands fears
( that with stepmOther. MINES home
might not be happy one, and both often
4 expressed the wish thai she would come
/ TO this country. N order that she might
share their comfortable home in West Ho-
boken.
IN reply : enquiries. her uncle was in
formed by letters from her father that she
was a saleswoman in an umbrella store il
Vienna. Three months ago Elias received
2 letter from Vienna, signed Minnie
Krans,' informing bin that she vas to
sail in a few days for this country on the
steamship Potsdam, of the Holland-AmeTi-
ca Line. and requesting him to meet her
I at the pier.
When the Po3sdam arrived Mr.. KraTns
met on the pier q handsome and Cngag-
/ ing girl Minnie Krams," the niece, as
/ he thought He took her to his home,
telling her that il was her home also. anc
/ ne and his wife made the welcome ex-
tended TO her a thoroughly hearty enc
She told them numerous stories about FER
relatives in the old country, leaving no
room for doubt in their minds but that
she was Minnie Krams. She made enc
earnest request
Never" she said to Mr. Krams, write
TO my father. Ny stepmother treated me
/ cruelty. and my father also IIl-treated
me since he married q second time The
grocer vowed his brother would never
again hear from him, and until last week
he did not write Almost three months
went by and all were happy
One day last week in this city Mr.
Krams met a woman who had just arrived
in this country from Vienna She aSsur-
ed him in their conversation that his niece
was still at home in Austria, and This
began the trouble One thing happened
after another to shake his faith IN the
girl, ana HIdl1E ne LOON klSd bSt0Ie Jus
4 tiee Eicbmann- of West Hoboken- Even
this did not disturb the girl. until. just
as she was going away, the justice said
TO Mr. KraIns:
Have her arrested on a charge CT
/ fraud. and I viii commit her to the coun-
ty Jail pending the receipt of Information
from her brother as to whether she IS
your niece or not.
Then for the first time the young we-
man weakened. and she soon broke down
! and confessed that she was in reality Eta
GeIIes and not Minnie Krams- She made
clean breast, and said she returned 10
Vienna fFem this country two years ago,
and said that while there she became &C
uuainted with all particulars concerning
the Krams family and decided to imper-
! senate Minnie Krams She also gave the
address of brother she has in New York
Mrs Krams took her to her brother,
! who said that she had received fine edu-
cation in Austria and had studied medi-
cine in New York. He was not aware that
she had returned from Austria. and was
! astonished when told of the role which
she had assumed.