The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-26
Mrs. Matilda Smith, of Mont
clair, Swears Out Warrant
for Theodore White.
TOOK $3.50 FROM HER AND
THEN FAILED TO MARRY
Supposed Object of Widows
Wrath Denies Her Story at
Orange Boarding House.

Declaring that she was duped by her
lover on st. Valentines Day out OF
$3.50 and practically deserted at the al
tar, Mrs. Matilda Smith, a buxom and
well-to-1o widow of / William street,
MontcIair, has sworn out a warrant for
the arrest of Theodore White, boarding
at IS Garfield street, Orange. A Mont
clair detective is today searching for
him.
Mrs. Smith says she is through with
men now. A year ago she met White
and they fell in love. He told her re-
Gently, she says, that he was superin-
tendent Of the photograph department.
Mt the Edison Works, in West Orange,
and that his work was so confirming that
he was losing his health He suggested,
that thew go into the hotel business,
and they looked at a place at Centre
street and Third avenue, Hoboken. She
was pleased with the place. and ON Frl-
day. February IA. she drew out $500
from the Montclair Savings Bank, Civ
ing White $3.50 to buy the hotel,
wedding Dress n Dead Loss.
Mrs. Smith, with Miss Augusta
Schultz, with whom she is now resid-
ing went to New York that day and
bought the wedding outfit, which Mrs.
Smith says is now a dead loss on her
hands. The wedding was to have taken
place Tuesday. February Is. On that
day she waited for him to come for her
te be married. Instead a Mr.. Baker,
of is Garfield street, Orange, with
whom White boarded, sent Mrs. Smith
a letter by a messenger asking her to
come at once to his house on special
business.
Supposing White had been taken sud
denly i'll, she disrobed herself of her
wedding garments and putting on her
everyday clothes she went to Orange.
When she was admitted to the Baker
house. she said Mrs. Baker told her
that White had lost the $3.50, and that
il would be best for her not to upbraid
him for IT,. as he might shoot himself.
She was admitted to Whites room,
where he was in bed, suffering with
nervousness, he said, over the loss OF
the money. Mrs. Smith said she was
not in the house more than five min
utes before Mrs. Baker asked her to
pay SOS which White owed her.
81 waited until last Sunday night
said Mrs. Smith, and then feeling that
l was duped, 1 made the complaint.
was shy on sundays.
'Come to think of it,, said MRS.
Smith, 'White never spent a Sunday
with me. He always mad to go TO
Brooklyn on Sundays on business, he
said. DO you know, | believe now, that
the fellow is married and went home to
his wife on Sundays
Mrs. Smith was born in Switzerland
and came to this country about TWEEN
ty years ago. Seventeen years ago she
married Frank Smith. who died six
months after they were married. She
has a son Frank Smith, who was born
1--WE months after his fathers death.
He is living with friends in Hawthorne,
near White Plains, N. y. To add to
her troubles Mrs. Smith learned today
that her boy is suffering from scarlet
fever.
At 10 Garfield place. Orange, last
night a man who answered to the name
of Theodore White denied in broken
English all knowledge of Mrs. Smith.
When her name was mentioned he
threw up his hands in surprise and
muttered in German, Mrs. Smith says
White can talk English well.