The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-20
A SWIFT WOOING.
Hard to Believe Such a Fool Woman
Lives, Even in Illinois.
Illinois State Journal.

Illinois State Journal
Enraptured by words of love, spoken by
man she had never seen before, Mrs.
Myrtle Josephine Mueller, of Springfield.
stranger almost before she had learned his
name. The fellow, who claimed 10 be
Charles Holterman, a well-to-do resident of
Carmi, then persuaded Mrs. Mueller TO
allow him to sell a little house which she
owned in Streator With her consent, Hol-
terman went TO Streator and sold the prop
erty for s10625 Since then Mrs. Mueller
has not seen her lover.
Mrs Mueller went before Justice Connolly
ana sWore out a warrant for the arrest of
Holterman on charge of larceny. At the
time the man made love to her she was liv-
ing at Ridgely. She has moved 10 the city.
Mrs. Mueller's story is as follows:
was sitting in my home in Ridgely
when a stranger passing along dropped in
and asked if he could wash his hands and
face. This was on May % last. l told him
he could wash himself and the man came
In Among the first words he said to me
were:
My woman, why are you looking so
sad?
Il replied that was homesck
Well said he, where is your home?
81 told him my home was in Streator
where | owned little three-roomed house
We'll, | always feel sorry for any wom-
an who is honesck,' he said. With this he
produced check. which he said called for
$500 He said he would go and have it
cashed and then would give me money so
tn2t could return 10 Streator
He then told me his name was Charles
Holterman and that he was forty-two years
old. He asked me my age, and l told him
was thirty-hve years old. The man then
took me by surprise by declaring that he
loved me and that l was the only woman
he ever loved.
Il told him that it was rather sudden for
one TO make love TO woman whom he had
seen only five minutes in all. 1 added that
l was very homely woman and could not
quite understand how he should become
infatuated with me. He repeated that [
was the only woman he had ever loved and
asked me TO marry him.
Although / realized that il was sudden
love-making on the part of the man. yet it
occurred 10 me that my first husband, who
died four years ago, had seen me only once
when he fell in love and married me. He
was good man and L reasoned that Hol-
terman was like him and gave him my
promise.
THE fellow then told me that we would
be married Immediately and that he would
take me TO his home in Carmi. where his
sister lived, and where he owned lots of
farm land. He viewed the furniture / had
in the house and told me TO sell it. as it
was not worth much, and he had plenty of
nice household goods in Carmi.
Then he told me l ought TO sell my little
house in Streator, which L valued at $l15.
He persuaded me 10 make out a deed and
give him the power of an attorney. He then
said he would see my agent in Streator and
sell the house. After again declaring his
love for me he left.
when the man was gone 1 said to my
fourteen-year-old daughter, there goes a
man whom any woman would be proud to
call her husband Little did l realize then
home.
"A few days elapsed and when did not
hear from my intended husband L asceT-
tanned that the property had been sold and
that it had realized sl06.25. 1 waited pa
tiently for the return of Holterman and re-
ceived no word from him.