Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-25
AFTER RICH BUILDER
Brooklyn Man Hot ii the COL
lar Over Lost Love.
WlFE'S AFFECTIONS GONE
Sues Borough Park Resident for
Damages in $4,000.
SOUL LOVE" THE CHARGE
Wife of One Sues Madame and Two
Others for Alleged
SANDER.
WlFE'S AFFECTIONS GONE
SOUL LOVE" THE CHARGE

NEW YORK December 2J.-The soul
carrenters of the supreme court in Brook
lyn have a pretty piece of repair work on
hand In the suits of Charles B. Stoddard
and his wife. Ella. against George j.
Hermann his wife. Hanna. her son and
his sister. Laura. Stoddard has sued to
recover s.O.OGn damages from Hermann
for the alleged alienation of Mrs. Stod-
dard's affections. Mrs. Stcddard has sued
Mrs. Hermann. her son and Miss Laura
Hermann for $1,000 each for alleged def
amation of character.
George j. Hermann IS builder of
Borough Park. who has made fortune
by inducing the Newlyweds to live far
from the madding crowd in houses
of his construction. He is about fifty
years old churchman and the father
of four children: the eldest, Wallace, is
twenty-one. Everybody who r.,,es in the
street cars is familiar with his advertising
signs.
On November g. 1906. Mrs. Ella Stod-
dard anne stenographer to Hermann.
In her complaint she says she entered
upon the employment with her husbands
consent. Her baby had dieu half a year
previously and she had undergone an
operation which had consumed the saw
ings of her husband. a mate on one of
the Ward line steamers She wanted to
help her husband.
Soul Love" Letters.
Behind the suits of the Stoddards is
bundle of letters which. it is alleged
were written by Hermann. These epis-
ties are in the hands of Alvah Burling-
game, jr.. the Stoddards' attorney. and
1t Is understood that they are molten
with expressions of soul love-" They
said TO be si~ned Cosmos" and they
pulsate. it is said. with ethereal aspira-
tons toward marriage in "a mystical
beyond where broken pieces of souls
find themselves again without aid of
hands. The love theme of Cosmos" was
that his soul in the beginning of things
had been part of Mrs. Stoddard's.
Borough Park folk began to talk about
the attentions of Hermann to his stem
ographer after they had watched him es-
corting her from the office to the street
car daily for several months. Mrs. Her.
home is at 51st street and 18th avenue,
Borough Park. and the neghborhood is
no different from any other. So one day
last week Mrs Hermann appeared in the
Flatbush police court and got sum-
mons for Mrs. Stoddard and Capt. Stod-
dard.
1t appeared from Mrs. Hermann's story
that her husband was i'll at home De-
cember 3. when Mrs. Stoddard insisted on
talking TO him by phone. Mrs. Hermann
said he could not leave the bed AS Mrs
Stoddard hung up the tele phone the book
Keeper In Hermann's office said, she or
r.
The bookkee per telephoned this to Mrs
Hermann, Hermann got out of bed and
lett his home to avoid trouble. He had
hardly left when Mr.. and Mrs. Stoddard
appeared. Mrs. Hermann sent for the
police. Before they arrived Mrs Stod-
dard convinced that Mr.. Hermann was
not on the premises. led her husband
away. When the StoNdards answered the
police court summons mo complainant ap-
peared, and then tha couple employed
counsel to begin legal proceedings
The suits of Mrs. Stoddard against Mrs. |
Hermann. Wallace Hermann and Miss
Laura Hermann are BASED on alleged de-
tImatoY and slander9us statements in
he res sS Moro Mp. H III mGnan concerning
MrEstoddard Disappears.
| Mrs, stoddArd moved yesterday evening
from the AIse in Borough Park. in
which ehs~h3d lived for months. She
put, her>rnects in storage and left no
address,. Her attorney said last night he
did not know Where she was. She is
descfibed as about thirty. graceful and
ATTRACTIVE. -
Whse Mr. Hermann was seen last night
at his home he was busy with his family
decorating a Christmas tree and the
Look said Hermann. pointing at his
family. N,ots Of evidence in that. isn't
theres that my wife distrusts me? Let
me tell YOU one thing, this Mrs. Stoddard
won't collect a nickel from me- If III
wrote her any letters l said nothing in
them That would give her husband ground
for an alienation suit
The fact that | signed myself Cos
mos, If Idid, and I'm not saying that
1 did. has no occult meaning 1t simply
was nickname. given me by Mrs Stod-
dard.
A few days ago | settled a suit of
hers against me for $50. the amount of
the costs. She has threatened to blow
the top of my head off if l didn't make
good. What she wants me to make good
on ] don't know. And what her husband
wants fortune from me for / can't I'M
derstand. unless he thinks it's a shame
not 10 pick it up when il looks easy
All Rot, All Rot!"
kiss her? Say. she says so. doesn't
she? Can a gentleman deny that sort
OF an Impeachment? Mo- But our Office
, Is not shut off. and any one can see
everything that's going on inside Do III
LOOK as though I'd do kissing stunts
With the wide world getting a free ticket
to the show? All rot, all rot, Good
night. | must fix up the tree for the
family whose confidence have so rudeIy
betrayed. and who. you can easily see
Ttet.