The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
TO A SOULLESS SWEETHEART.
SOULFUL LOVER ASKS FOR HIS
PRESENTS BACK AGAIN.
Mrs. Nerrault's Lawyer says the Govern
ment Is Trying TO Put the Love Trust
In jail at the Instance Or the Insur-
ance Trust Woman Not IN JAN Vet.

Mrs. Bina Verrault Of ~love syndicate"
fame wasl again before United States
commissioner Shields in the Federal Build
tnu Yesterday. TO answer to the charge of
sing the mails for an illegal purpose.
she was accompanied only by her attorney.
Hugh Gordon Miller. and wore a gown OF
blue with a lace bodice. u becoming hat
to match and brown furs. Behind a thin
veil her black eyes sparkled and she smiled
from time to time as her couns referred
TO the complainant. Leo Kiesler. The
room was crowded, but she was the only
NomIn present. She was entirely self pos
soSsed. The only time she seemed to be
at all self-conscious was when a newspaper
photographer trained his machine on her.
Then she raised her nun to hide her face.
The first witness was her husband. George
l. Ncrreanlt of Buffalo. He was particu-
larlv iusi-tent that the name should be
spelled with the two "e's." He testified
ma, he married the defendant on February
10. 1891. They were married by a Judge
ID Buffalo. ne said, and neither had divorced
the other.
Is your husband the man you horse
vhlpped?" asked Mr.. Miller, turning to
Mrs. Verrault.
commissioners Shields sustained an OBJ
lection to the question and Mr.. Miller then
produced a copy Of letter. which he handed
- Mr.. Nerreault. asking him il he had
written the original.
4 did not, Z" replied the witness with
heat. This is a forgery"
You liar Kissed Mrs. Verrault, turn
iug 10 face him
The letter was one received by the Man
haitian Elevated Railway Company in re-
gard TO a suit instituted by Mrs. N%errault
-. A. --.Nll,au .A - aNnsa
inents that Mr.. Yerreault had previously
made TO the effect that his wife was not
injured and was entitled to no damages.
Mrs. Verrault said she got it out OF her
husband after he had written the other
letter TO the company. Verreault persisted
IN calling il a forgery.
Leo Kiesler. the complainant. who is
connected with the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, and who says that Mrs. Verrault
got large sums of money out OF him under
promise of marriage, was recalled and
requested to read his last letter to Mrs.
V~errsult. which he did placidly. 1t read
in part as follows;
Ny DEAREST SWEETHEART: While "sonl-
less would be more appropriate. IL Is al the
dictation OF my heart that ] am using the
above endearing terms. Had you a heart
and soul that conforms with the funda-
mentary qualities Of a noble. womanly
woman, YOU could have impossibly treated
me as shamefully and disgracefully as you
did. Perhaps you are under the influence of
some one else who instigates all these deeds.
Can you not free yourself from those in
huences? Are you not strong enough to
p~Xtricate yourself from those surroundings?
To me you are still the same; my love for
you is eternal no matter what your future
action may be. ! love you more than you
ever were or will be loved.
The trinkets l have given You were all as
ISOLATED with my best wishes. true love and
-- g.. $500 A-VkA Woa hasa
always entertained the same opinion about
me as you expressed in your last letter, or
only recently changed ii, l do not investigate
now. But with all your expressed bias and
hate for me I wonder what your opinion Is
about retaining those trinkets. With an ounce
II honor you could-under the present condt-
tions-hardly retain them.
l trust you will not deny me an answer.
! appeal to you with all my heart and soul.
With infinite love and affection, ! am ever
and forever your truest sweetheart.
This letter was written in answer to n
in which Mrs. Verrault had told kiesler
shat il was all of and had said some I'M
complimentary things about him.
IL was upon this letter, read by Kieeler,
that Mr.. Miller based his appeal in part
for the liberation OF the woman. The letter.
he said, showed plainly that the articles
in question we're gifts pure and simple and
that to retain them was no crime:
For the Government to make a case,
Mr.. Miller said, it was necessary for its
attorneys to show that there had been a
scheme to get property unlawfully and That
the use OF the mails was necessary to the
CARRYING out of the scheme. He denied
that there was such a scheme or that the
use OF the mails would be necessary to carry
out such a scheme. as the telegraph or a
messenger could DO employed. Even ad-
hitting that such a scheme existed, he said,
both parties were equally guilty, as the
complainant had started the acquaintance
by advertising in a newspaper. Ihen ne
turned his attention To kieeler ana scored
him in the harshest terms.
Kiesler, he said, was a foreigner who
rad come 70 America with a 10 " opinion or
our women and who thought he could try
a scheme TO get their goods and chattels
under pretence OF marriage. When the
plan miscarried, Mr.. Miller said, the COM
pLainant had brought the matter to court.
thinking he could get an American Jury
20 indict the woman. As q matter OF TACT;
he had got a dose OF his " medicine and
wasn't man enough to stand ior the con.
sequences. 1t was a proof Of the fact that
the complainant was making love 70 MIS-.
Verrault for b there was In II, Mr.. miller
said. that be was spending some ones else
money in winning and dining her. and that he
had TO get the money back in some way.
b inference was that he Intended 70 get
the money from Mrs. Verrault as soon as
he was her husband. There was nothing
in any Of her letters, Mr.. Miller SAID. mat
tlONtu tD8S u UII11 h%A
ised to marry the complainant.
IL is a strange thing he added, IN ron
c~lusion, that In thsse days OF trust prose-
Cutions the only trust the Government
should seek 70 put In jail Ii the love trust
and thai at the complaint OF the insurance
trust.
Mr.. Houghton opposed Mr.. MiIler's re-
quest that the case be dismissed.
While there rs nothing In this woman's
letters to show that she promised TO marry
kiesler,' he said, cit a not been denied
that abe made such q promise and that IN
the face Of the fact that she was already
married. What was her intent? Purely
and simply 90 defraud the complainant
under promise Of marriage
After Mrs. Verrault had got Kiesler
under her influence, Mr.. HOughton said,
she went 70 Boston and drew him on by
letters. She never asked for money, but
her letters were 80 worded that the COM
p~lainant knew she wanted money, and
very kindly and in good faith sent her
money.
Commissioners Shields reserved decision;
Mr.. Miller then asked that the second
complaint against Mrs. Verrault, sworn to
Nv a man named Mcclellan. be dismissed, as