Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-06-07
SAYS FATHER
TOOK K$I4,OOO
OF MOTHER s
Edgar KeuIing BIames His
Brother Fred fur Missing
CIergyman's Downfall.
SAYS He MAY JOIN
FATHER IN THE WEST
Insists Father Was PerSuad-
ed to Take Money So as to
Go Into Business.

New York, June 7:-The reason
why the Rev. Emil ]. Keuling, pas
tor of st. Luke's English Lutheran
church, Woodhaven, l.. L., and for
merly pastor of Grace church, Perth
Amboy, left the field of his labors on
May 26 without a word of explana-
tion to his wife or parishioners was
apparently established on good au-
thority last night, according to an
alleged interview in a New York
paper this morning. An unsuitable
yearning for riches, 1t is declared
over $4,000 of his wife's money
and disappear.
At their home, No. 46S Benedict
avenue, Woodhaven, Mrs. Keuling
wife of the missing clergymen and
her son, Edgar, decided last night tc
give out the facts for publication in
order to dispel the many erroneous
reports in circulation. Edgar Louis
Keuling, the twenty-year-old son
who is manager of the Scranton
Roofing Company at Scranton, Pa
hurried to his mothers home Satur-
day night upon receipt of telegram
from her stating that she was on the
verge of nervous collapse.
I'm all, my father got away with
over $4,000 of my mothers money
many pieces of silver and all hel
jewelry except her watch" said the
son, according to the interview. "But
that isn't all of this family disgrace.
My brother, Frederick, who is two
years my senior, and who is an ex-
pert repairman at the typewriter ex-
change of Alexander Mcdonald &
Greene, No. 296 Broadway. Manhat-
tan, Is morally responsible for my
fathers downfall. believe II II
wasn't for my brothers influence
over my father he would today be as
highly respected in the community
as before his ruin.
Wanted to Go Into Business.
For several years my brother had
been trying to induce my father to
abandon the ministry and form a
partnership in a typewriting busi-
ness For this scheme Fred had ask.
ed father to invest a few thousand
dollars Out OF the $4,000 my
father drew of mothers money from
the Perth Amboy and College Point
banks have found out to my salts
faction that he let Fred have large
sum. I ascertained that Fred cash
ed check for father the day before
he left.
My brother is married and lives
at Bath Beach. He came over this
morning, expecting to find mother
alone-anyway he didn't expect to
find me down from Scranton. He
came to warn mother not to say any
thing for publication When ! ap.
peared and asked him of fathers
whereabouts and regarding the
money father had given him, he hes
itated and finally informed me II
was none Of my business. Where
upon, with all speed, / rushed him
out of the house. He yelled back
words of defiance and stammered
how he was going to Join father out
West soon and that the money look
ed good to them.
"The day after father left he
wrote mother stating he would re-
turn to her II she would deed over
the real estate she owned in bis
name. The letter was from thistcity
but he inclosed no address. We
heard nothing more. We both be-
lieve ne has Joined his sister, who
owns large farm somewhere In
Minnesota, and, furthermore, we be-
lieve father is slightly deranged."
Wife Is Still FOrgiving.
Mrs. Keuling said II will forget
and forgive everything If my hus-
band will return TO me and prove he
has one spark of manhood left"