The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-08
SWINDLED WOMEN OF SAYINGS.
PAUL on TRIAL FOR GETTING
ROSA KATSER'S SAVINGS.

Met Her. says. Through . Personal
Made Love 20 Her and ndUce Her 20
Give Him $1,000 To Invest In q Hotel
Had Lists OF Others whom He Had Met.
Ernest Paul, who Is accused Of swindling
a woman out Of $1,000 Of her savings, was
put on trial in Part I. Of the Court OF
General Sessions yesterday before Judge
Rosalsky on the charge Of grand larceny.
Paul, who refuses 4 tell where he lives,
was q patron Of the HerdLd's personal col
umn, and 1t was in that way that the victim
In the case, Rosa Kaiser, a lady's maid,
first met him. Apparently abe was not
the only n with whom he had dealings
OF this kind, for in his pockets many letters
and other documents were found when
he was arrested, indicating that he made a
regular business of separating women
with matrimonial ambitions from their
money.
Miss Kaiser. who had long been employed
in a wealthy family in this city and had
saved considerable money, answered an
advertisement in the personal column which
read:
Hotel owner wants housekeeper. View Of matn-
mony. BUTLER. ia Herald.
She got a reply asking her to meet Butler
at the Grand Central Station and directing
her to carry a bunch Of violets In her right
hand so that the writer could easily identify
her. The letter was signed e. Paul. She
met Paul, who asked her TO a a walk.
he told her, che says, that he was the own
Of the Uncle Sam Hotel at Millville, Pa;
but that he was about TO sell out and start
in business in this city. He said he had an
option on q hotel In Sixth venue and wanted
her to be the housekeeper. He made love
10 her and she promised to see him again.
The next she heard from him was In a
letter in which he told Of making arrange
ments to dispose Of the Uncle Sam Hotel.
He said he had $4,000 clear, but that he
needed SO 900 TO carry out the New York
deal. A whiskey firm, he said, had agreed
to let him have 81 600 and II she would let
him have the other 81 900 he would give her
a note and pay her Q per cent. interest
whether she married him or not.
On May l she drew the money from the
bank and gave it to him. He promised to
meet her the next day, but instead she got
a telegram from him saying that the hotel
at Millville was burning and that he would
she got a letter from Paul in which he said
that the hotel had been totally destroyed
and that she would ave to wait until he got
all his affai Strengthened out.
On May 10 Miss Kaiser appealed 70 the
police of the East Twenty-second street
police station. Detectives Herring and
Schmacke ran across an advertisement on
July 8 that was almost identical with the
one on which Miss Kaiser had been caught.
A servant in the employ Of Schmacke
answered it, giving her employers address.
She received a reply asking her to meet
the writer at the Grand Central Station
near the flower stand. As in the case OF
Miss Kaiser she wa told to carry a bunch
Of violets. The letter was signed by Paul.
The girl did as directed n the two de-
ceedings. They waited until the pair had
them. Paul was just asking the girl to
take q walk with him.
Il guess you had better take a walk with
u.s." said one of the sleuths, and they
marched him OF to the station. There the
letter sent to him by the servant was found
In his pocket. Along with II was a bottle
Of choral and a mass Of other papers,
including a list containing the names Of
twenty-five women with whom he had
evidently been negotiating. Many OF them
were shocked OF with such comments as:
Not penniless." Has her own house, N
good" In another pocket was found a
bunch Of checks stock certificates and
bank books, all Of which are said to be
worthless. Z.
The trial was not finished yesterday,
Miss Kaiser went on the stand and told
her story. 1t was said that an officer from
Pennsylvania was waiting in court TO arrest
Paul for the alleged embezzlement OF 5000
from a WilkesbarTe brewing firm should
he be acquitted.