The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
Fritz Katz Is Locked
Up CHAR ed With
B'gamy.
PUT OUT WHEN CHILD DIED
Says Husband Discarded Her
Then and She Had TO Obtain
Employment, but Now It's a
Case OF Woman Scorned
Having Her Revenge.

Fritz Kratz, a diamond setter, was
arrested at noon today in Hamburg
place after leaving a jewelry factory in
Franklin street by Plainelothesmen
Kaas and Sebold, of the Fourth Pre-
cinct station, on a charge of bigamy
preferred by Mary Kruger, OF 209
Springfield avenue. The complainant
was Kratz's first wife. and her allega-
lions are that Pauline Lilienthal, or No.
?, was aware that she was lawfully
married to Kratz and was warned by
her own mother not to become too
friendly with him.
In relating the story to an EVENING
STAR reporter today the Kruger
woman said that her rival even at
tended the funeral of her baby last
July, and expressed extreme sorrow
e the death of the child. Her own
mother told her not TO act so free with
my husband, but she did not heed the
warning said the complainant.
81 met Kraft in the early part of last
year, and he appeared to be all right
and professed his love for me-" she
continued, "and We were married by
the Rev. Bernard Pickle, pastor of St.
Johns German Lutheran Evangelical
Church, at Court and Lincoln streets,
on August 81, 1906. We lived together
very happily, but when baby died, in
July last, Fritz changed, and in August
he put me out and did not give me a
cent since. l ven to New York and
secured work and was happy.
when I came mere a few days ago
and learned that my friend, Miss Lii
ienthal, married Fritz I decided to in
vestigate and found that it vas true
The complainant appeared before
Judge Herr Yesterday and told her side
of the story and was advised to get
certified copies of the second marriage
certificate and bring her original one
in court today. The woman went TO
the office of the city clerk and pro-
cured the certified copy and delivered
it as requested, and Judge Herr in
structed Clerk Pearson to take a for-
mai complaint and a warrant was is
sued. The Krueger woman said that
Kratz has been living with his second
wife at "a Bremen street,
The marriage of Kratz and his No
2 wife was performed by Justice of the
Peace Herman Simon, of 23s Court
street.
Inc rue NOiliGH Sdlb Silt WIS -
years old when she married Kratz.
She is rather pretty and intelligent
looking. She speaks GerNan more fire.
quently than English. She said that
she gave up her position in New York
city. and is now stopping with friends
at the Springfield aVenu address. She
has not seen her husband or the
lie married since August of
last year.
When she signed the complaint and
saw the warrant handed to Plain
clothesman Kaas she beamed with de-
light and intimated that She hoped the
law would punish Kratz for his in
fidelity,
Kratz is 26 years old. He will be
held until Monday morning, when he
will be arraigned before Judge Herr.
The Kruger oma said that the
funeral expenses of the child have
not yet been paid, although Kratz
makes good wages. "Thea undertaken
told me that he would have to be paid
soon or he would have the body disin-
TERED and buried in potter's field" said
the Il would never see that
DONE" she continued, for l would
work day and night myself tol earn
the money to pay the BILL
The Kruger woman has no relatives
here. but Kratz is well known in the
eastern section of the city, where his
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