Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
BRIDE WAKES TO FIND HER
HUSBAND TO BE A BEGGAR
Girl Of Seventeen IL Lured Into Mat
rtmony by Mendicnnt Calling
HimseIf Travelling Man.


When Margaret Gold OF Topeka. Kan, Is
years OF age, married Harry Schutt, also
OF Topeka, on June n last, she thought she
war marrying a travelling man, SIX months
later she found he was a professional beg
gar, who, by means of an appeal printed
on little cards In several different Ian
guages, managed to reap a handsome In
come for himself and wife.
II was a bitter awakening for the little
bride, and she has not vet recovered from
the shock. The next chapter in the case
will be written in divorce court, whittier
Mrs. sohutt will bring action 20 nave the
marriage annuilsd. In this she has the
backing OF her mother, Mrs. Amelia A.
Chffe OF Topeka, through whose efforts
Bchptt's dual life was exposed to public
light.
sohutt was taken into custody on COM
plaint Of his wife. who vowed she was
through with him. h disgrace of hay
ing a professional begEar Tor a husband
was too much for her, and schutt Is now
persona non grata at the humble little
home Mt s2i7 South Twenty-fourth street,
where, as a matter OF fact. he was more
OF a stranger than the head Of a home.
Margaret Gold met schutt In Topeka, LAST
May, schutt paid aBsiduous courtship and
the result was a marriage on June q,
when the Eirl was barely II years OF age
and Schutt was a.
Immediately following the
Schutt brought his wife to Omaha, where
for a month they lived with his father, 271E
South Twentieth street, then going to
housekeeping at the South Twenty-fourth
strsst address. Sehutt fitted UP his lit;lt
home in a manner calculated to make his
young wife one OF the happlest of mortals
For a few days all was happiness and sun.
shine. schutt did one days work for a
local barber, after which he announced tC
his wife he was going on the road as 1
travelling salesman for a Chicago cigar con,
Germ. He was gone for two weeks ana ther
returned to Omaha for a week. About tn,
middle Of August, after Just two month,
OF married life, six weeks OF which wer,
spent with his wife. Sehutt left home. say
Ing b4 would be gone some little time. Ant
q Hag time Il was.
quite regularly his wife received remit
tsnees from him from points In the pa
kotas, Minnesota. Iowa and other states
the sunni ranging from e to Sl5. In letter
oouehsd An tender terms sohutt told OF nj
success ~ a cigar salesman, ana the llttl
wife looked forward with Joy to the tim
when he would return to Omaha. As n
weeks passed and he failed to come, MRS
sehutt began to wonder. There were man.
peeulisrities in her husbands action
which she failed TO understand.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Cliffe. the youn
wife's mother, came here for a visit wit
her daughter, and 20 her the girl poure
out her story. A week ago Mrs, Schutt rs
eeived a telegram from her husband N
auesting her 20 meet him in Sioux CIT,
which she did, When she stepped froI
the train she was greeted by sehutt, VIII
wac attlrsd IN rough clothing ana Ieanin
on q pair OF crutches.
schutt explained TO hia wife he had m,
with an accident, but offered no explains
tion a. TO his wearing apparel. That nlgi
sehutt discarded the crutehes. but the 70