The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07
SUSANNA SCHAUD'S HUSBAND.
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cafei nr,tp about hls physical r%o,rfori
than hia vito dld
A. msniluneI h~rrtofore srhsuh vas
arrested NJ he was lsadine Tho pfrc~uslon
N tho pieasure club, vhich "a rho fidins
division ~ tho Ur,itscher k%flrgeftund
IN vas pnlied from hia hof~a IVY netectivea
Iierney and C%ulernan after HE wife. who Vaa
standing on Tho curb when Tho procession
approanhed, had pnlnted him out on tho
lfs, hOrse, Hla sabre and gorgeous feRalia
werp s'igod by another member ~ Tho
company for shfe keeping. q NV leader
rode 10 the head, and achaub'A hot-a vas
led ridsrlrss ~ tho picnic AZ Sulter'a Har-
lem River Park,
what Capt John Schaub ~ The Pleasure
Club thought ~ all this was shown In his
letter written In Jail Ia his wife. He said'
NV dear. dear susanna. please got ma hail
NJ once and m forgive you for the awful
disgrace Of yesterday. had Iuat been elected
captain Of tho Pleasure club and YOU knew II,
and wanted my comrades 60 have tho laugh
on mo. And had paid ten dollars for the use
Of that horse for the day and you only let me
ride him ten minutes.
That's n dollar a minute, Susanna, and YOU
know am n poor man and can't AFFORD that,
And as soon NJ the cops got me my rival rode
right up front and was captain. Susanna. And
YOU know IL was n great disgrace and had
Just paid out a lot Of money for my new cha
peau and sash and sword. I could not AFFORD
to get those things 10 wear TO jail. II was TO
be the greatest day OF my life.
But I will forgive you. my dear Susanna. II
You viii get bail right away 30 Z can get out
and go right TO work for You and the children,
II Is very hot In jail.
Susanna was washing when the letter
came. h propped it up near the edge
of the tub so that she could read without
losing a stroke at the scrubbing board.
She didn't seem impressed and she ventured
the guess that IL wasn't any hotter in Jail
than it was washing with a hot fire in the
kitchen up under the fat roof of a rear
tenement OF Wallabout street.
He did look fine on that horse she
said with a chuckle to a caller. He looked
like he used to talk when he was counting
me seven years ago and you'd thought I'd
never see a wash tub. And when a bunch
Of kids on the sidewalk shouted he took
of that cha peau and bowed 10 both sides
Of the street without seeing me and the
detectives. haven't got any love for him.
but I'm glad he had that one bow to the
folks in the street. You'd have thought he
was the President, or owned Brooklyn,
and next he waved that rented sword and
turned round in his saddle and shouted
some order or other to the Pleasure Club.
That's when | gave the cop the tip and
they nabbed him.
Now why should l get bail for a man
like hat. Didn't he run off to st. Louis
four years ago when he was secretary OF
some other kind Of a pleasure club that
wore purple sashes and green hats on
parade? And didn't | raise 5000 and send
It to him so he could come back. And [
knew there was another woman all the time
but he thought was 50 green that | wouldn't
know anything about it. She was arrested,
too, a little while ago.
But l got him Jack from st. Louis and
he was a collector for an insurance COM
pany next. Then he thought ned be a
builder and my mother went security for
him to get a hundred dollars worth Of
lumber. She had to pay the hundred and
ne didn't build anything with it at that.
Once he ~pursuaded me to open a tailor
shop and hire four girls to keep things
going, and when l broke down under that
he had me take b%oarders, he never doing
anything but joining things and wearing
purple sashes, with the children end myself
wearing not much of anything, Once he
sold all the furniture that had cost me 5000
for $50. Then we got started again on
some money my folks let me have and had
some more furniture, but he's put that in
storage and | cam get the ticket from him.
$50 why should l leave my washing and
bail him out2
sim boarding with my folks and want
81 a week for myself and my children.
He could earn eighteen II he'd stop join
ng things and riding ten dollar horses