The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24
MINISTER NAGS THE
Girl! He WOO[D
Miss Close Breaks Engage.
ment When She Finds He
Is a Printer.


NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-"Rev" George
W. Lewis who had wooed Miss Isabella
Close in the guise of a Methodist minis
ter although he is a printer and proof
| reader by occupation and never has been
ordained was arraigned yesterday in the
Gates avenue police court Brooklyn, on
summons charging him with having
annoyed Miss Close since she broke their
enga agement on the day after Christmas
Miss Close, who lives at No. 225 Nc
Dougal street, Brooklyn, is decidedly
pretty, fair haired and about twenty five
years old. She is employed by Andrew
Dougherty, manufacturer of plying cards,
at No. 80 Center street, Manhattan Her
| romance began last May on a Brooklyn
IL" train, while she was on her way to
work. Lewis who is a good-looking man
of thirty-two, with dark eyes and black
hair and mustache. sat opposite to her.
They met again in the same way the fol-
lowing morning and exchanged glances
of recognition. Before many days the
dark young man offered and she accepted
bunch of lilacs.
Miss Close said Lewis told her he was
minister, but not pastor of any church,
being employed by the Methodist Book
| concern. One day he invited her to hear
| Bainbridge street, Brooklyn. She did SO.
accompanied by her mother. and they
were strongly impressed by his sermon.
Mother Is Suspicious.
Early in November their engagement
was announced, and Lewis took Miss
Close to visit his mother at his home,
No. 62 Douglass street. Jamaica. She re-
turned home satisfied but her mother
visited the Methodist Book Concern and
was informed that her would-be son-in-
law was not employed there.
| In the meantime Lewis had given Miss
Close a diamond engagement ring and
a cheap watch. He also had sold sill
yer watch to her brother, and a dispute
| I, t,-av, nfiT o. 6oI H.
pleasantness created by Mrs. Closes
discovery.
The outcome was the breaking of the
! engagement and the return OF the dia-
| mond ring. In court yesterday the min
| ister'' burst into tears and promised
! Magistrate Manner that he would write
no more letters to Miss Close and her
| friends. He was told that if he broke
| his promise he would be arrested and
| then was permitted to go.
Lewis style is illustrated by the fol-
| lowing passages from letter which he
| wrote to her on Jan. II:
| If you had told me, Bella, you had
| young man that your heart longed for,
| there would have been no sadness or feel
| ing as there is between US now. How OFT
| en- have l asked you, but you would al
| WAYS deny it, and lead me on to believe
| different. But, Bella, L forgive you all,
| and hope that the young man you really
| love will love you as you do him.
l want to give you a bit of Christian
| advice: Marry this young man you hold
| to your bosom. Don't throw out any false
| inducements you have to me-: Some
| Young men haven't the strong will pow
| er have and they might destroy them
| selves, and oh, how sorry you would be.
! When L see you 1 can say to myself l
| kissed her thousands of times and l
have held her on my lap and sat on her
| lap many time. l will preach on Sun
day night and tell my life's career.
Lewis aged mother, who is nearly
blind; his elder brother Christopher,
\ M ic the
| family and his two sisters We're seen
last evening by a World reporter at their
| home in Jamaica.
| Minister" exclaimed one of the sis
| ters. 80 he's up to that again.
are" said his mother. when he was
| boy there was some talk of educating
him for the ministry, but the plan fell
| through
| "He learned the printers trade right
| here in jamaica" said the brother, land
| has worked at nothing else. He was en-
pIoyed once for short time by. the Meth
| odist Book concern and he is working
somewhere in New York now; we don
! know where. 1 suppose he has been per
/ mitted to occupy various pulplts from
| time to time on the supposltlon tnat ne
| was a minister"
HE is always falling in love and be
| ing made a fool of, = put in one OF his
| sisters HE has been spending all his
money lately on this girl, and hasn't paid
us anything for his board since before
| THANKSGIVING He sleeps here, but we
| don't let him eat here any more because
| he has money to spend on girls and fine
clothes but not cent for us.
A moment later the minister came In
| and all his relatives abruptly left the
room. The minister" told the reporter
| that he had a regular license to preach
but when asked to. produce it said ne
| didn't know where it was. Later he de-
| clared that he made no pretense OF belng
| a minister.