The evening world., 1911-05-30

Mrs. Scheid had gone TO Cleveland to
visit his relatives, and might not be
back for some time. Scheid said no
would live elsewhere during her alb
sence, but would keep the apartment
and retur every week and pay the
rent For several weeks he came regu-
lariy and paid. or sent the money by
messenger.
Recently, according to Smith. Scheid
came with the rent and said:
In case 1 should get n few days shy
with the rent. don't get uneasy and go
into my place. I'll he around, all right.
and make good. 80 don't 20 inside
Talk Caused Suspicion.
The rule in the furnished apartment
houses II that the rent must he paid
every week. Smith said he became sus-
piclous at the way Scheid talked. al
though he couldn't ,ell why. At any
rate, when the rent. due last Thursday,
was not forthcoming. and nothing was
seen OF Scheid. Smith decided to take n
look inside, with the result already de-
tailed.
The detectives got n photograph of
Scheid. and started out TO look for tho
man whose obituary was In all the az
,ernoon papers. They learned at the
uaraSe that he drove n car for George
wyetfs Of No. 2ss1 Broadway, a wealthy
man interested in an ma
chine.
Al the mrage where Mr.. wyett keeps
his machine the learned that the chauf-
feur a Il out. and remained In hiding
In the neighhortood until after l O'Clock
this morning. When Scheid drove up
they put him under arrest. telling him
- -A- ....r4 for VNt ~ Wing "a nhAUf=
feur's license.
Said His Name Was Smith.
Scheid denied his identity. saying his
name was Smith. but when taken 70
Inc raraxe the employees said. '-rhst's
scheid all right" lie was hen con-
fronted with photographs Of himself.
and admitted his Identity. When asked
why he lad denied Il. he iauntily re-
piled:
'oh. John y. Rockefeller himself
would deny mis- identity II any one
came along and asked him questions
and he didn't know their business. A
lot Of people do IT,"
II was learned at the East sixty
seventh street station. according to the
police, that Schcid really Las no IL
censc, and that Il had escaped the no.
tice Of the authorities. although he was
recently arrested and fined for having
a smoking car.
The prisoner thought 10 was under
arrest for the simple misdemeanor nm
III the police suddenly Old him OF their
suspicious, and then he exclaimed. MY
God, that's not my wife, although, the
police say. nothing lad been told Kim
o. the hiding OF the body.
Married Five Years Ago.
schied seemed very cocksure nj hrst.
lie did a lot OF talking. and several
times contradlcted himself. But moth
ing he said. according TO the police.
threw any light on the whereabouts
Of his wife. nor could they get from
him any Information that might lead
10 the discovery OF her whereabouts. II
alive.
scheid told the police that his wife
was Miss Lillian Glover. an orphan, or
Holyoke, Mass. when he married her
fve years ago In New Jersey. She was
then twenty years old. lie seemed to
have only a vague idea az TO her rela-
tives and where they lived.
IN did a lot OF writing on sufragist
matters, he said. but he didn't know
wha. she did with her articles and
never knew her to get any pay for
them. lie said she was intensely Jeal-
.ous Of him 0nd imagined he was trying
TO firt wifi every woman he passed
on the street.
Said wife Had Lett Him.
Often. he asserted. his wife had tan
,rums and ragged and ranted and left
the house. UsSally II was always be-
cause OF her jealousy. and she did not
remain away long. Last summer he
got a position driving a car for n man
living at Amityviie. l.. I. She left him
soon afterward and came back 20 New
York.. telling him that she would live
with him when he returned to the city
to work.
II was then he gave up the Amityville
place and went TO work for Mr.. Wyeth.
They went to live in the Fast Seventy
eighth street apartment. On last Feb. ?,
he said, he went home and found n note
with the key to the apartment lying op
the dresser. The note. In his wife's
handwriting. said:
Il can't stand this any longer. There's
no use in your looking for me I'm
gone"
lie said he expected she would return
sooner or later and told It around she
had gone away IN Il visit. lie explained
his paying the rent for two places by
saying he knew he would feel lone.
some living In the east side apartment
and rented a room on the west sid,
near his work. lie admitted keeping NJ
two apartments was n drain on his re
sources.
Only Person Who Had Key.
He said that he was the only person
VINO had a key to the apartment. 80 IA
as he knew. although his wife Nigh
have had a duplicate made before sh'
left hers for HIN with the note. He de
ciared he had not heard from his wifi
since Feb, 2. when she disappeared, an'
said he had not been In the fiat for
month. hut had intended 10 go Their
last night and pay the rent and fn'
out II his wife had been about.
He told the police he had 40 idea VIII
the woman could be. bus that h" III
not believe Il was his wife. He did no
know how any woman could have gon
into the fiat. he said. and the woman
Identify was as much a mystery to hir
as 10 any one else.
The police confess ,here are man
puzziing features abcdt the case, ma
the least OF which IL what became a
the woman's clothes. The detective
found "A few llttle odds and ends q
clothing about the house, but nothin
that the person. In their opinion, coul
have worn 10 the house alive, The solu
tlon In the bathtub had 30 eaten ava
the undarclothes worn by the woman