The evening world., 1905-11-20
LIFE SECRETS
WON AND LOST
YOUNG BRIDE
Schwartz Tells Romance
of Infancy and How
Wife Left Him.
HIS STRANGE CAREER
Never Knew About His Par.
ents Until He Met His
Father-in-Law.
SECRET WEDDING NEXT
Prison Record Brought Trouble
Wife was Forced to Give
Him Up, He Says.
SECRET WEDDING NEXT

Louis Baum Schwartz Beau I3rummel
OF the upper east side. patron OF Byron
and Shelley. and photographer In a
shop up two flights at No iaB Third
avenue to-day told an amazing tale
Of interminsled misfortune and romance,
The filing Of suit for the annulment
OF her marriage to Schwartz by Mrs.
Jennie Waxberg Schwartz brought to
light the story. They we're married Oh
Aug. at City Hall
Schwartx, or Daum-hls real name
was an English Charley Ross. lie dis
appeared from Manchester when Ave
years old and was lost to his relatives
for twenty-five years II was partly
through his wife's parents that he
learned OF his identity and found his
long lost father and brothers.
A youthful offense that sent him to
Sing Sing led to his undoing. When an
anonymous letter to his wlfes parents,
who did not then know OF the mar
rage. disclosed the dark secret OF
sohwartzs life the latter was literally
kicked out Of the house. His wife, he
says, has been kept a prisoner
Like Byron, only Different
III might apply my friend Byron's
line to my own experience with A sight
change" said Schwartz to-day Byron.
line goes. ono day awAks - ma my.
se.f famous To-day ! awake to nnd
myself notorious.
1t is very true that truth is strange,
than fction,' continued the pho
tographer who is dapper, alert and
emphatic. why, my llfes story proves
uht Iact -
Il was born Is Manchester thirty.slx
years ago. My mother died when was
an infant. Then l disappeared. / was
made out to be sort Of Charley Rose
but the truth Ia that ] was adopted by
couple by the name Of Schwartz and
brought to New York.
Il grew up In ignorance OF my real
name and would never had learned II
II an uncle had not come TO find me.
He lpokei In the directory and hunted
every Schwartz in New York until he
located my foster-parents. was tgen-
ty-six years cid then.
Now. my uncle did not know where
my brothers were and he had not heard
from my father for years, and II was
not until ! met Tobias Waxberg, OF
no. i$ East one Hundred and Six.
teenth street that | lesynei that my
father vas still alive in Manchester
and well.to-do,
Waxberg Knew Family
"why, knew a family named
Schwartz IN Manchester England
Nr. Waxberg said to me when we met.
DID you Enow a family named Baum?
! asked him. Very we'll he said
We'll | am Louis Baum Schwartz, 1
said, He said he remembered waen I
disappeared. He was very glad TO
meet me. an1 took me to his home.
III 10 true ] was In Sing Sing But
] have lived that down. My friends
believed that had been wronged TIE
ofense was committed In a depart
ment store, A comparayn Of mine was
caught with some stolen goods | was
convicted because | was with him
was sentenced for year and half.
but paroled alter eight months. II was
q terrible thing, but ! came back,
worked hard and proved to my friends
that was worthy of their respect.
lrst time ! siN her And she loved
me, to) She was different from her
poople, She was refined and intelli-
gcnt beyond them before we were
married | tried TO tell her Of my pact.
Bride Wouldn't Listen.
"Jennle.' | said to her. There I,
something / must tell you before W,
are married. No, you don't sha cu
me on. Don't tell me anything, An
not any falrWeather sweetheart / vii
take you for what know you Ia b,
ana stick to you through thick an(
thin.'
I'VE went on Aug. / to get the en-.
gagement rins, and on the inpuls,
went 70 city Hall ana go. married. Ol
course we didn't tell anv ono In Son
tember we hai an engagement party
at the Waxbergs No one anew W,
were married
"Three weeks ago we decided n toll
Jenuie's parents, She Iold me 10 bring
t3e marriage certificate The anony.
nous letter arrived two hours bef1r,
me. When ! SO to her home | founl
eDneth higg wrong, They ,old me 10 slt
down Tlen one of ser brDthers CAM
In. lie IL 6 foot T. Were you In SlnV
SlsgY he cried 10 me. i will discus,
mat matter with my wife said q
{" Jonnie, put on your hat ana Goa
pnd come Wlth me- ! said 10 nv wife
She refused. Then her sw1 brother,
and her mother started on me. The,
punched he all around the place an
kicked 10 down the three fisbts ol
s,slfs am only weigh, a,
had no Cnance wiki them. One OF m,
feet caught In the rungs OF the stair
way railing and her brother came an,
kicked me with a No. II shoe. Ther,
was very little romance In me vhe,
they got tired
Never heless. will got my wife. sb,
Is being coerood. They keep her a prIs
oner and Viii no; let me zoe her. Whet
she Is freed frun ,heir Influence sh,
win come and live with me.
The WaEherg family moved from On
Hundred and Twelfth street ten dav
nEo and when A reporter nsktd for TX
bride tferc to-.ny he was confronte
By her g!an, brother, who Is a police
man, ard her mother They bloeke
tho door and said the yoVag woma.
was not TO be geen by any one. The
inslnsted that schwartE wonld Rot a
rrnuna there 10 get his bride.
sshvrr,s bed not beA ' out OF TI, n,
a.. .iuoa TIA family ,aovat the.