The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-23
SAY SCHULTZE DECEIVED THEM
HARTMAN GIRLS THOUGHT HE
WAS THEIR FATHER.
Say He Represented Himself rs such and
They Lived I'm Hls Home for Three
Ne,rs--Neyer Heard Of FIN. Says He
Passing snys Girls story Us Untrue.

Carl Schultze. the village groceryman
OF Union Hill, N j., professed to be very
indignant yesterday when told of the alega-
tions made against him by Theresa and
Anna Hartman in tho Far Rockoway police
court on Tuesday. The young women,
who live at Az Fifth street. Manhattan,
wanted to have August Passing, a road
house keeper OF Jamaica, arrested for de-
ceiving them into believing that Schultze
was their father.
Their story was that their father had
left them in Germany when they were
infants. He had, they said, an estate
worth 100000 in Jacobsburg, Westphalia
which he placed in charge OF his brother
Nothing was heard Of him for twenty years
until he returned to Germany to look up
his daughters. His brother told him that
they had gone to America to find him.
and Hartman returned to this country.
Passing. the young women said, accom-
panied their father to help find them. The
men separated here. and Passing, according
to the young women, learned that they had
returned to Germany three years ago.
He wrote TO them. they said, and promised
to take them to their father if they would
come back here. They accepted his orei
and met him at the pier.
Passing. they said. took them to Schutze.
aud they rega rded the latter as their father
until short time ago, when they discovered
the deception, through woman relative
OF the groceryman, They could assign
no reason for the conduct Of the men, they
said. unless it was that they had designs
on the $4,000 estate.
Schultze was behind his grocery counter
yesterday when u story of the Allegation
made against him by the young women
was shown to him.
l don't know what their object can be in
telling such story. | won't discuss it,
because don't know what they are driving
at. No one has ever lived in my house here
but my own children. Ir you don't believe
me, so and inquire among the neighbors
This is small place and every one knows
every one eses business"
None of the groceryman's neighbors
seemed to know anything about the Hart
man girls. Schultze has lived in Union
Hill for quarter OF century and ia said
TO be worth more than $4,000.
Schultze has been twice married. His
second wife was Miss Katherine Bauch,
VINO cleo aDout TWO years ago he mad
seven children by his second wife, five
of whom are living. Mrs. Katherine
Prick. his oldest daughter, lives in Union
Hill. When seen yesterday she said she
never heard Of the Hartman girls
Il lived with my father until | wns mar
ried little over year ago" abe said,
-and am positive that he never had any
one in the house but his own children up
to that time. None of his children is
named Theresa or Anna. My father is
rather eccentric, but | never heard his
named linked with these Hartman young
women"
Passing also denies the allegations made
by the Hartman girls, who have been want
ing TO have him arrested. He said
Something like six years ago / went TO
Germany and my father introduced me to the
Hartman girls They wanted to come to
this country to try to find their father,
who had come over years before. knew
a Carl Hartman who had changed his name
to Charles SchultZe, and who had married
over in Jersey. I brought the young
women over with ME and took them over to
SchultZe, or Hartman, in Union Hill He
denied that they were his daughters and
they did not stay with him so far as l know
Then placed them in boarding house.
They supported themselves and made Il
good living As TO the father of the women
having big money coming to him | know
nothing; but l heard it said that when he
came to this country he had 10 sell his two
cowSto raise the money