The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-30
Says, However, That She viii
Marry Man With Whom
She ElOped,
HER FATHER TALKS To
DENVER NEWSPAPER MEN
He Tells Story of Pretzenberger
and Girls InfatuatiOn
for Him.

Convinced that Louise Schwartz, the
sixteer-year-old girl known at police
headquarters in Denver as Elvira Mil
ler and Elvira Bergman, arrested In
company with Adolf Pretzen berger,
alias Herman Klein, alias William &.
Dooring, is innocent of any wrongde-
ing and simply the victim of Pyetzen-
Saturday forenoon and turned over to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L,
Schwartz, of this city, VINO went to Den
yer last Monday TO get their daughter.
Tho girl arrived in this city on an carly
morning train from Denver.
Miss Schwartz has had most
checkered career since running away
Zenberger.
Will Marry Lovor.
it was not until after the father had
promised that the girl would he al
lowed To marry Pretzenberger that she
consented 10 return TO Salt Lake.
While confined in the Denver city
Jail, tine girl attempted TO commit sui
eide by taking the contents OF an eight
ounce bottle of liniment
On Saturday morning, when the par
ents went 20 visit their daughter IN
Jail, she announced sbo would not re-
turn to Salt Lake, but would remain
by the side of the man she loved The
father told her she would be taken by
force II necessary. The girl still holds
10 the story that it was she who com
mitted the robberies charged against the
two, and that her lover is innocent.
The GIRL father, who works as a
polIsher in local furniture store. told
the following story to . Denver news
paper representative.
Story Of Father.
rr.f,
berger. 4 convert to the Mormon church.
came to Salt Lake City. He was out OF
work and he being g countryman or mine
felt sorry for him and helped him out,
had often worked as paperhanger and
painter In my spare hours and had all
the implements Of those trades at my
house. he being paperhanger by
trade I gave him those Implements and.
him, No man was ever treated better
than this fellow, and Just TO think that
he repayS me by running my dear child!
My daughter disappeared on August
last and later / learned that Pretzen-
berger had left the city a few days be-
fore her. l learned he had sold all the
implements l had given him and had
about SiO0 when nc left. Though l sus-
pected as much, l never knew for sure
he had run away with my daughter,
Louise wrote to me on August that she
was going 10 San Francisco. I hired
detectives and told the police about her
case, but / never could find any trace OF
her until l saw her picture and the story
OF her arrest IN the papers a few days
ago.
The picture OF the man arrested with
her l recognized at once as that OF PretZ-
enberger, For years my wife and had
put all our money Into little homo. and
when we saw the story In the papers we
didn't have any money on hand. / took
UP mortgage Of S15o and came TO Denver
10 help the poor girl.
! am convinced that Pret5enberger has
hypnotlZed my daughter and has told her
to tell all those lies TO the police here in
Denver. Sho never could have thought
OF all this stuff she has been telling the
police regarding her past life. A better
child than Louise never lived. She never
ran around with any boys and was work.
ing IN private family when he ruined
her.