The evening world., 1905-11-03
Nd DIVORCE PLOT,
SWEET DECLARES
Fs1~ato Detective Says He
Was Employed by Schmal-
holx to Get Evidence
BOTH MEN UNDER BAIL
eCstsant Distrct.Attomey Krote'
Charges Men with Conspiring to
P'acken Woman's Mama

There = no conspiracy I ives
uirnply employed by Mr.. Edward
Selma rSolE as a private detective to
mcclure evidence for him."
With these words and with a winning
smile under his silky mustache, Philip
*. Sweet, one OF the heroes OF San
Juan Hill, undertook to-day to ex-
plain away the charges against him.
Magistrate wahie, in the Tombs Police
Court had held Sweet and schmalholz
In bail OF 1900 each for alleged pom
spiracy.
Assistant District-Attorney Krotel,
who Is working up the case against the
defendants, declares that they figured
IN one OF the most remarkable con-
~spirac!es In the history Of New York's
divorce-oourt r~ecords-a conspiracy to
steal a good woman's name and sepa-
rate her from the children to whom
she has devoted her Life.
His Record ls Good.
Sweet has always shown a becoming
pride /. the fact that he used to be the
handsomest man on the New York po-
Ice force. As a policeman, a soldier
and an officer OF the Philippine coll
stabulary his record was spotless. lie
IS now accused Of setting HE good
looks and his graces as a bait TO entrap
Mrs. Schmalaolz 50 that her husband
might obtain a divorce and the custody
of their children, Edith and Theodore.
The suit for divorce was filed on OFT.
Y Yesterday the wlCes attorney ap-
pealed to the District Attorneys office,
MIR. Krotel Investigated. As a result;
Magistrate Wahlc issued warrants for
the husband and for Sweet, Both men
were arrested last night. Sahmalho z
got a boudsman. Sweets good 10 ks
were temporarily eclipsed in a commol
lookup cell,
In court to-day MIR. Krotel INSISTED
that the bond be fixed at 500. lie
SAID that, whilo only a mlsdemea 1or
was charged, tic extraordinary condt-
lions made the case an important ole,
A CLASH in Statements,
Neither man had a bond sman at hand
and they were held downstairs while
search was being made 10 secure sur-
eties FOR ,hcm. as they waited there
Sweet smillugly admitted tnat he had
accepted employment from Schmalholz
as a detective, This struck Mr. Krotel
as an important admission. Schmalholz
49, .taa.I b. .4H t.F.tY.. f-H lI1rtV..
that he knew SECe, a. Capt Strong
and that he had no conniyance IN the
acts Of improperly wh.cn he alleged
had been committed by his wife and
Sweet
ScAmalholz Is a rich butcher living at
No. a6 East Seventeenth street. His
shop is at No, 70 Third avenue. HIS
wife makes her home at No. 2j West
Eighty -tA4rd street, with ne Two chill
dgcn, She is "A spr.gItly, pTe,.y woman,
with the respect, 50 her n~eighJors say,
OF everybody who knows her. The
couple separated in 1903, when Judge
GaynOr issued a decree, giving the vile
$40 a year altuoug and custody OF
tie children. Tae husband It is stated,
coveted ne children, especially lhc siri,
who has some reputation as a child
e,ocltlol.St,
1t is declared that Sweet, posing as
Capt Strong an army officer, met
Mrs ScAmtllOl2 al the Waldorf. whore
she had gone with her daughter, that
he paid her marked attention, but
never met Eor except iU the company
of 0or sister. Mrs Arthur Coz, of No.
3"2 Wost Elplty-thiri street, that when
she took her little boy. an invalid, to
Lake Plasl bee followed her, and when
sUp started home Le met her nj ALBANY
Anghtirg from a train al Albany,
she spraintd her ankle, and had q 20
4 tn Tu. E,0, llH' / "Cfpt Sr01"
was already registered there. lie allel
her to Ter room. i,5lsted, for the lk'
OF quiet that she send the child en-
into aGothcr room, and then wanted TO
apply Ice to the injured ankle. Sc
declined this service: but at that mo.
mont the husband walked IN, accom-
panied by two mon named i lyhton
and WRIGHT, both friends OF strong
Schmalholz made a s,eNe. threaten q
~"Strong's'' llfe-but dldn' I IKE T.
"Strong' left, and so dld the OF eers.
I've nllng OF the husbands suit soon
folded,