Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-26
Bride=to-Be Creates Scene on
Street as Her Escort Is
Taken by Detectives.
PRISONER PROMPTLY HELD
FOR GRAND JURY ACTION
Police Claim Defendant Has
Criminal Record, but Promised
Bride Refuses to Listen.

Trapped by the girl who was to be
his sister-i -in-law, Joseph ]. Schmalz,
who the police say has a criminal rec
ord and has masqueraded as a single
man, was seized by the police as he
was walking with his fiancee, 1s-year-
old girl, said to be prominent socially,
and locked in a cell in the Sixth Pre-
cinct police station Schmalz was ar
raigned today before Judge Herr in
the Fourth Precinct police court and
held in default of $1,000 bail on eight
charges of forging and uttering worth
less checks.
Later Schmalz was taken to poilce
Headquarters where he was photo
graphed for the rogues' gallery. the
name of the girl who was engaged to
be married to Schmalz is carefully
guarded by the police, but 1t was
leart,ed that she lives in Summer ave
nue. near Delavan avenue, and that she
and her parents and friends who We're
arranging for the wedding are amazed
at the turn of affairs and how the
girl had been duped
Schmalz, when booked, gave his age
as 3S years, and his occupation as
plumber. At police headquarters he
was recognized by Detectives Tuite and
1Iorter as the man they had arrested
charged by Captain Churchill with the
larceny of guns and firearms, and Tor
which crime he served nine months IN
the penit entiary.
THE accused man admitted to the
police that in 1898 he went to Athens,
Ga. with the Third Regiment New
Jersey Volunteers, and while there met
and married Mamie Bell, of 700 Prince
street. whom he deserted after Two
children had been born.
When he came to Newark he made
the acaIiaintance of the 19-year- -oia
girl. The girls parents and her Sis
ter. II is declared, did their best 10
break off the attachment ana the
girls sister then did some quiet detec-
five work. Whenever Schmalz was
asked about his relatives he was
reticent, which convinced the sister
that all was not right. She heard whis-
perings that he was a married man
and that he was dishonest She went
10 Guide Bros. Il Keifer Company,
wholesale butter and egg dealers, at
9S Mulberry street, and was told that
Schmalz, who had been employed there
as a collector, was discharged for dis
honesty. Then she followed the trail
and learned, she says, that he was cir
eulating bad checks.
With what she considered a complete
case she went to the Sixth Precinct
police station and told the story of her
discovery to Plainclothesmen Heller
and Holzhauer.
She told the detectives that 1t was
the custom of her sister and Schmaiz
to go out walking every afternoon
and that they generally chose Delavan
avenue, She said she would telephone
the police when they left the house foi
their afternoon walk. This she did
Yesterday afternoon and the two de-
tectiyes hustled from the police station
and waited in Delavan avenue for the
couple to appear
AS the girl and her escort came along
the detectives stepped up to Schmalz
and quietly told him he was under ar
rest Schmalz protested, but when the
detectives tod him some more he
ceased his protestations The gr
made a scene as ocDI1ldlZ Was tdhcl
from her Friends who had been at
tracted to the scene took her to her
home, where she now is Ill. She refuses
to believe that Schmalz is the man the
police say he Is.
At the hearing before Judge Hahn
today the police said that it was the
custom of Schmalz to go among the
storekeepers he collected from when he
was employed by the butter and egg
house and respresent that he needed
change. He would offer checks vary
ing from So to s12 and have them
cashed.
The following persons were in court
today and said they had been victims
of Schmaiz's forged checks: Gustav
Wehling. 116 Watson avenue; Mrs
Mary Hoyt, 127 Custer avenue; Fred
Wollenberg, 1927 Runyen street; Fred
Buechle, Twentieth street and Spring
field avenue. and Mrs Ella Fuchs, 27a
Orange street. The police say there are
three other complainants and may be
more.
Schmalz has worked at various times
as bartender in this city.