The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-01-05
NE WANTS 4 MlLLl0N
FOR MARRYING GIRL
German Officer Asks a Big
$500 5owry With Busch's
Daughter.
WEDDING IS DELAYED
81. aGous Beer Masnate Refuses to Pay
Large sum-sensational Develop
nents Follow Elopement of
ST. Louis Maid.

st. Louis, Mo, Jan. 4.-The announce
#ment last Friday following he frus-
trated elopen,ent of Miss Wilhelmina
Busch, daughter of Adolphus Busch,
aud Lieutenant Edward Scharrer Of
Stuttgart, Germany, that they would be
quietly married at the Busch mansion
New Years day was not carried out.
Instead, Miss Busch has gone TO the
Grant farm to spend some time, and
her father has asserted that there is
ord the lieutenant. An air of mystery
seems to pervade h affair. Lieuten-
ant Scharrer,s at his hotel apartments,
declined to discuss the matter.
AdolphIs Buscll said he had nothing
to make public. Ali that the father
would ia was, lieutenant Scharrer
and are still very good friends"
Said to Have Demanded Dowry.
A demand that $1,000, 900 dowry be
settled upon Miss Wilhelmina Busch,
daughter OF the multimillionaire brew
ger, Adolphus Busch, is said to have
scaused1the rupture and the deterlnina-
ton OF Busch to send his daughter to
California to spend the balance of the
winter.
elopement of Miss Busch to Belleville,
MI, last "wednesday with Lieutenant
Scharrer q BEEN SO numerous n SO
contradictory that it is hard to learn
just what are the facts. .The Busc
family, from being communicative and
inclined to treat the matter n a jocu-
lar ct first, have become
strangely reticent and no reporters
Were admitted to the Busch home.
Lieutenant Is Reticent.
lieutenant Scharrer is locked in his
room at the Southern hotel and refuses
to see n one. A reporter held a
short conversation with him through
the transom of his bedroom, but it was
unsatisfactory.
Is your engagement with Miss
Busch I" was asked.
&sI have nothing to say" replied
sScharral.
win you deny that Won coerced her
into accompanying you to Belleville?"
No reply.
tsDld you threaten to commit suicide
IN the carriage unless she promised to
marry you that day and hour?"
5ssl am not going to tell about the
matter now came in sullen tones
through the transonl.
Have you had a quarrel with the
Busch family?"
please go away and let me alone in
peace
Registered as Man and Wife.
us II true that you registered at the
tuOJSI Us lkldI anu VIE anu lIldI you
deliberately compromised Miss Busch
COrsthe purpose of extracting a large
cOwry out OF her fatller?2''
$%ScharTar ri out his lights and a
Few minutes later could be heard snor-
ing heavily. He$is said to have been
Srinking heavily.
Friends of the Busch family who are
familiar with all the details of the
SBeleville elopement are responsible for
the story that Scharrar deliberately
sought to compromise her by taking
her fto Bellevtlle and registering at a
hotel as though hey already had been
married for the selfish purpose of fore
ting her father to agree to their mar
%ftage and settle a large dowry, $1,000
S0C0 in cash, upon her.
Zip to the time he made this alleged
outrageous demand, it is said, Adolphus
& EEusch was willing for Scilarrar to mar
Miss Busch, for h entire family
had genuine liking for the dashing
md accomplished officer, whom they
had #knownf for several years and who
la visited at their home two years
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