The Washington times., 1907-12-25
Esprit Kisses" of SouI TqUlls
Hailed Before Cold, Stern Justice;
Each of Pair Has Mundane Mate

NEW YORK. Dec. thorough Park.
Brooklyn. yesterday contributed a soul
mate" affair that IN some respects par
allels the celebrated Ferdinand Pinney
Earle and Julia Kutner romance. But
Il is strictly spiritual. with no earthly
features. The principal figures in it are
George J. Hermann. Of Sixty-ffth street
and Fifteenth avenue. a real estate
broker widely known for his advertising
methods. and Mrs. Charles B. Stoddard,
Of coils Fourteenth avenue. wife OF a
captain Of a Ward line steamer.
The case already has been taken to
the courts and will be threshed out
there.
It revolves around a twin-soul theory
held by Mrs. Stoddard and participated
in 70 a degree by Mr- Hermann also
Twenty years ago a twelve-year-old
girl in a little Nova Scotia hamlet, a
frail. nervous. visionary child saw in a
dream the face Of the man she was to
marry. In the morning she told her
mother, who laughed at her. But the
child still believed that her dream would
come true.
She grew to womanhoOd, still a vision
ary. She was a reader, a student Al
ways the occult attracted her. She held
the theories Of relncarnatiOn and Of
twin souls.
Welded Sea Captain.
Fifteen years after the dream Ella
Nickerson was still living in Wood
Harbor. the little village I'm Nova Scotia.
There one day came Capt. Charles 3.
Stoddard, master Of a Ward line steam
er. The dreamer-then a woman Of al
most twenty-eight years-saw hin and
felt that he was the twin soul Of her
vision. She willingly listened 10 hts WOO
ing and married him.
A long illness Of the wife caused finan-
cial straits in the family and year ago
last month Mrs. Stoddard obtained her
husbands permission 70 return 20 her
profession Of stenographer. In search Of
employment, she went to the office OF
George J. Hermann, a real estate broker,
at Sixty-fifth street and Fifteenth ave
nue., Borough Park.
Met Real Soul Mates.
The instant her eyes rested on HIS
face she started. He seemed affected
almost as she was. She realized that in
her recognition of Captain Stoddard as
her twin soul she had been mistaken;
that the man before her was the one OF
whom she had dreamed. She entered
his employ, and each day only strength
ened her belief that her employer, not
| her husband. was the one man for
whom she had been destined.
As a result Mr.. Hermann has been
sued by Captain Stoddard for 5000,
damages; Mrs. Hermann has had Mrs
Stoddard summoned into the Flatbush
notice court. and Mrs. StOddard has
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Hermann. and Mr.. Hermann's sister
I Laura Hermann. with papers in sui
/ fo,. $4,000 for slander and defamation
OF character.
/ AIvah w. Burlingame, attorney fol
! CAPTAIN and Mrs. StOddard, Is a convert
/ to the twin-sOul theory. He declares
! that not only does Mrs StOddard be.
iieve that her soul and that OF Mr.
| Hermann were originally one. but tha'
| Ir Hermann believes Il also. Letters
| which Mrs. StOddard says were written
4 bv Mr. Hermann confirm this, says Mr.
| PIrlinRane. There are said to be 9
! score or more of these letters, all signed
| cosmos"
! George Hermann Is a married man
and has four children, the eldest, a son
! tyyenty-one years ole. The family lives
! al HO3 Fourteenth avenue, Borough
: Park. Mr.. Hermann is known as a
( hustling real estate man, firm be-
Uever in modern advertising methods
J and an uD-LO-OdLc DuHALtSS man. lAAS lclo
| person who would be considered a holder
| Of souI-mate theories or student OF
] the occult.
Hermann Trimming Tree.
At his home last night a reporter
found Mr.. Hermann, his wife and
two OF the younger children, busily
engaged IN fixing Christmas tree
when asked about Mrs. Stoddard. ht
said;
| Il have nothing TO say. except that
It IS a case Of blackmail. pure and
simple. 1t may be, in part. the result
| OF a disordered imagination. II not
! worked for me and we have some be
! nefs in common. The rest-it is laugh
able that's all"
| Mrs. Sto6dar5 is a frail, delicat,
| woman, Of a little over thirty She I!
| Dretty-not beautiful-and has darl
| brown eyes and hair. She is rathe,
/ nervous, speaks rapidly and clearly, ant
IS Of a refined and Intellectual appear
ance.
Loved Him in Spirit.
Il loved Mr.. Hermann and I love hin
yet" she said. But there Is nothIns
earthly about our love. love my hus.
band in the flesh. but I love Mr.. Her.
mann in the spirit. The ordinary pub
Tic does not understand such things
they do not know that such things C..