The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-14
FINANCING OF A FIANCEE.
KIESLER FACES MRS. VERRAULT,
ONCE LOVED, LONG lost.

Hadn't Seen Her Since He Said Gsed-by
TO Her and No $1,000 Last January
Using the Mails TO Defraud. the
Males Is the Charge Against Madam.
Mrs. Bina r. verrault of Love syndicate
fame emerged yesterday from the obscurity
which has enshrouded her for many weeks
and appeared for examination before United
States Commissions Shields on the charge
Of using the mails with intent to defraud,
In obtaining large mounts of money and
jewels from men under promise Of marriage.
Leo Kiesler, connected with the foreign
branch Of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, was the complaining witness. On
Saturday the case comes up Of James
Mcclellan, the Philadelphia grocer who
alleges that the woman swindled him out
Of 80, 900. Henry A. Verrault. the husband
Of the woman. will appear at that time Inc
testify as to his knowledge Of the alleged
swindle.
Mrs. Verrault was in a tailor made gown
Of maroon cloth. with a black hat trimmed
with pink roses. This was her first appear
ance in the Federal Building since her arrest
on the Kiesler charge early hast August.
Kiesler alleges hat she got about $1,000
worth Of jewels and money from him.
Kiesler is a big, good looking man of
about IS years. His tale Of his experience
with Mrs. verrault began with his publica-
ton OF this advertisement on October %.
1905:
A gentleman Of thirty Ave. perma nent In
| come, desires acquaintance with q young lady Of
means: obieIt matrimony; strict investigation
expected and desired. HONEST.
He received an answer next day sign ed
Miss Florence Montgomery, ia West Sew
enty-fourtl street, asking him TO call.
He went and foundM Mrs. Verrault. She told
took her to the Waldorf to dinner, made
many calls NJ her and generally play ed tie
part of a d,v oted lover. One OF his letters
which has not been published is as folloN 6:
My DEAR; IT'S said that between lovers
there should be no secreLs." l am about 10
confess that in ny case the end has come
and with IL a new beginning OF a new senti-
ment, a new feeling that wholly pervades
my being and fills me with ar unspeskable
10y. I couldn't truthfully say that | slept
well last night. In fact. sleep seemed we'll
nigh impossible. 10 say that you we're in
my Thoughts would be to you a plstitude.
little expressive OF actual fact. | really
could think of nothing or nobody else. l
greatly admire our honesty. sincerity,
modesty. refinement. And a. l told you last
evening you appeal to me most strongly.
a book OF verses underneath The bOugh. j..
A loaf of bread. a juR of wine. and thou
Beside me singing In the Wilderness.
All, wilderness we're Paradise enoW.
shall look forward to a delightful evening
with you on Wednesday next with 81 strangely
mingled feelings. Lovingly. your >OwN."
Kiesler testif ed that he G W the wonBn
at her request sums Of SIS, and $500 at tie
beginning OF their frienc ship. droT ing to
$40 toward it's close. One of these larger
sums was given to her to buy a loclet With,
said kiesler. lhis locket turned out to Ne
the one, it il alleged, which Mcclellan had
already given up $500 to buy. The end
came in January, when Mrs. Verrault went
West on a trim to look out for her business
interests in Kentucky. Her brother, she
said, had tied up her prof. erty in Mexico
that was paying her $40 900 a year and she
would ave to look sharp or he would get
the rest away from her. Kies'er says he
never saw her again until y~esteriey. He
saw she got o., 900 out Of him
On cross examination by Hugh Gordon
Miller Kiesler admitted that he had been
in correspondence with a wealthy Troy
SCHOOLGIRL, OBJ 'ect matrimony, but said
that his intentions we're always honor
able, as thew had been in the ca 80 Of Mrs.
Verrault. and he had drorred the affair as
NOON as he found out that his correspondent
VAS a schoolgirl.
Kiesler was the only witness. ASSISTANT
United States District Attorney Houghton
announced that all the Government wit
nesses would IN on hand on Saturday morn
ing, when both the Mcclellan case and the
Kieeler Case will be dealt with,