New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-20
AUDUBON BANK CLOSES CAUSES frances ARREST
Breach of Promise Suit Follows
Talk of Prolonged Vacation.
$500 DOWRY INVOLVED
Letter Demanding Money Grieves
Prospective Bride, as She Had
Rejected Several Offers.

ITO a happy fate, may IT rise and sprou'
like fresh garden. He who found WIG
found happiness. To begin with, the young
man above mentioned takes II unto him
self TO marry the bride above named
Thus ran the engagement agreement
made January ] last between Miss Elsie
r. Hollandcr and Nathan Ertscbik VINO
werc the young woman and young man
"above mentioned" Now Miss Hollande'
is suing Ertschik for $4,000 for breach o'
promise. and intimatcs that Ertschik
promise has about the same elasticity as
the commodiiy in which he deals. Ertschih
being a manufacturer of elastic web goods
According to Miss Bollandcr. ne refused tc
make hrr his wife because her father
would not give him si.Jo) TO help him in his
business.
Julius Iollandcr. who lives at NO Z.
West ll5th street. is manufactures ol
children's dresses. He was willing To nell
Ertschik. but not until after The young
man had married his daughter, when he
was 10 get a dowry.
Ertschlk was arrested Yesterday by a
deputy sheriff on an order issued 10y Justice
Gavcgan. and later was admitted TO 500
bail Arrests in civil actions Of this KIND
are made only when IT is believed that the
defendant intends to leave the jurisdiction
OF The court.
Miss IIollandcr and Ertschill met for tho
first time last September. lie began al
once 10 dcvot, himself exclusively To her
and out Of three or four visits week there
grew mutual affection. Then came the
proposal and the acceptance. An engage
ment reception was held last New Year
Dav at the home of Miss IIOllandor's par
ents
There. in the presence OF their relatives
and friends. they signed the document OF
botrothaI that now becomes Exhibit III
the case OF Hollandcr vs.. trtschik. NAV
agreement said He shall give hcr pres
onts. and he shall give her dowry. She
shall bring to him pillows and bedding
The paper stipulated that the one VINO
broke the contract was TO he accountable
10 the laws of the land.
So the contract was closed, with n blank
space I'm the covenant where was men
toned the dowry that the bride was IA
bring her husband In March last 1t was
arranged mat lI' N'h'lhS "''"'' '
placc June TO- Ertschll was in daily tele-
phonic communication with Miss Hollander
until April Then mis- attention seemed 10
wanc
The prospective bride asked Ertschik II
he had undergone "A change Of heart, ana
no told her that as her parents were
wealthy her father could advance INN
81 800 to put in his business. Miss lioi-
lander explained that her father would
help him after the marriage. Ertschik was
insistent on the immediate enforcement OF
the dovrv clause. so on MAY he wrote TO
Dear father-in-law'' a letter in which he
said
II seems IN mo that your whole dealing
is neither one way nor the other. YOU
make a promise. and then say that YOU
did not promise me any dowry. So let MS
sneak openly. You promised me tl.D and
YOU thought Of making the wedding. out
of my business ! cannot support wife as
required. and # you do not want TO. or
cannot nut down tho promised doWry, |
shall he Obliged to wait until God VIII help
me that ! will be able 10 marry without
the dowry.
When Miss Hollander saw this letter II
caused her great grief not only because
of the circumstances involved in the &C
ton of Ertschik. but. as she explained. be-
cause she had rejected several other offers
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