The Detroit times., 1911-12-19
PENNSYLVANIA GIRL COMES
TO ACCUSE SPIElBURG
Says Hungarian Lawyer Desert
ed Her Two Days After Mar
riage, Taking Her Jewels.

Nicholas Spielburg. Hungarian at
torney, self-styled. and adventurous
wrecker OF women's hearts. almost
gained his liberty. Monday morning.
Since Friday. he has been locked up
in the central police station, his ar
rest having come about through
charge preferred against him by his
l7-year-old stenographer. His at
torney. Louis Wolf, obtained a writ OF
habeas corpus. Monday. and 1t looked
az though Spielburg would be free.
There came from Somerset, Pa,
girl. a beautiful girl. with auburn hair
and eyes that spat FIRE as she spoke
of her wrongs. With her was her
father. Emil Lipscher, a wealthy dis
tiller, OF Somerset He looked through
the bars that separated Spielburg from
freedom.
You beast" he said you be-
trayed my daughter, my Esther, ana |
could kill you"
Spielburg turned ashen and skunk
back in his cell. dreading TO race MIS-
accuser
In the ONCE of Capt. Baker, Esther
L.ipscher told her story, story OF q
girls misplaced confidence In we'll
groomed, sleek stranger, who made
violent protestatious of love the Hrst
day he met her. In simple. unaffected
manner. she told how this stranger
had gained the admiration OF her
mother: how, while the father was
away, the stranger had stolen her
from her people and induced her 10
marry him; how, after he went
through a form OF marriage with her,
he left her. taking her beautiful dia,
mond ring and a diamond jewel that
she wore with her dress.
"It is too much she said. II did
not think there were such men in the
world
II went one night 10 a wedding OF
one OF my relatives and | met him
there He paid much attention TO me
from the start, and asked II he could
see me often. He said he loved me
and he wanted TO marry me. told
my mother everything.
MY father mistrusted him. but said
he would go TO Pittsburgh and Wheel
ing, where my husband said he had
friends and relatives, and see IL he
could learn something about the man.
Yes, II was while was gone.
broke in the father. "He hypnotized
my wife and stole my little girl away.
When came back, they had been
married. They had an alderman or
some other Official. conduct the cere-
mony, and | doubt yet il II was legal.
He had broken my heart, and then
be broke hers. He left her after only
two days. They were married only
last July. He took her diamonds and
went. o. am glad we've got him.
The law must do something with
that man. II IL does not, there are
other ways, because there are some
| things that fathers cannot stand"
The jewels. which Spielburg is al
legged TO have taken, are valued al
about 5000.
AS soon as Capt. Baker heard OF the
writ for habeas corpus, he sent De
tective William Black for warrant
charging Spielburg with a serious of.
Tense. The warrant was issued with
dispatch and on this document, Spiel
burg will be held. Meanwhile, Esther
Lipscher, who is not yet 20 years old,
will journey back to her home in Som
erset and ask for warrants. charging
desertion and grand larceny. The po-
lice here have already wired the Penn.
syIvania authorities relative TO extra.
dition papers.
Capt Baker declares there is some
chance that Spielburg will be prose.
cuted here on charges preferred by
certain young women, whose names
are withheld. There is also an EN-
bezslement charge awaiting him in in.
dianspolis and altogether, the police
cannot see how the man is going to
escape the mesh in which his past &C
tons have entangled him.
His law Office is at No. 2200 Jeffer-
son-ave west 1t is closed temporarily