The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-07
LOVE AND BUSINESS.
They Get Sadly Mixed at Neenah,
Wisconsin.

Neenah, Wis, March Twin City So
ciety was all set agog yesterday over
an unsupported marriage that was
quietly performed the night before,
when Rev. DR.. J. z. Chaplin reunited in
marriage Emma Briggs, a charming
and wealthy young lady of this city, and
Edgar Eldredge, late of the west. The
ceremony was performed through a spe-
cial dispensation of the court in view of
the fact that Emma Briggs Eldredge
secured divorce from Edgar Allen Ell
dredge three years ago, the plea being
non-support. Mr.. Eldredge left soon
after for the west, where he has been
located up to within two weeks ago,
when he returned to Neenah to visit his
father, z. A. Eldredge. who is in the
cheese commission business. Emma
Briggs, who has considerable money in
her name, is a stakeholder and secretary
of the n. Simon company, dairy product
commissioners, having offices in differ
ent parts of the state, and only recently
figured in a mysterious robbery in
which she lost $500 of the N Simon
company's moneys. but which We're
afterwards recovered.
Following on the footsteps of the I'M
foreseen reuniting of husband and wife
comes the somewhat sensational intro
duction Of a third party to the affair.
in Charles Schumann, a popular young
business man Of Neenah. Ever since her
divorce from Mr.. Eldredge, Emma
Briggs and Charles Schumann have
been with each other a great deal, and
1t is said that CuDid even went as far
as to compel Miss Briggs to open the
purse strings to her thousands to be-
come financial hacker to a sales stable
which was opened in this city and where
fancy roadsters were brought in from
Chicago by the car load and sold to a
fastidious public. Mr.. Schumann as
sumed the active management of the
stables
And now comes the complicated part
Of love and business and the actors
therein Mr. Schumann was dumfound-
ed when made acquainted with the re-
uniting of the formerly Mr.. and Mrs
Eldridge. and to say that his heart and
organs of surprise were considerably
ameeted IS putting it but very tamely.
what could be more humiliating to
Mr.. Schumann than to have Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Allen Eldredge call upon
him at the sales stables yesterday af-
ternoOn and Mrs. Eldredge make de-
mand for formal possession of the
property and contents. eight fancy
roadsters, buggies, sleighs and other
para heFnalia which she would offer
in loves esteem as a part of her
dowry to her reunited husband Mr.
Schumann refused absolutely to part
ownership with the dumb brutes or the
vehicles, Whereupon Mrs Edgar Allen
Eldredge and Mr.. Eldredge departed
in q somewhat irritated frame Of mind
to seek the aid of the law in recover
ing what Mrs. Eldredge claims to be
her whole and not to be divided prop
erty and effects.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldredge and the min
ions of the law returned some time
later at the sales stables to demand in
the name of the law certain described
chattels and effects, to-wit Eight
light harness horses, rubber-tired bug
gies. sleighs, etc. The sales stable
doors stood invitingly open for their
admittance but the building was en-
tirely devoid of contents and the
strange part of it all is that there are
as many young men in Neenah as
there are missing horses who have pos
session and hold bills of sale to this
self same property, to-wit: Eight
fancy thoroughbred horses and Access
sorry FILINGS.
Mrs. Efdredge's lawyers are at a loss
what course to pursue next