Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-27
Brandt S Letter
 To Mrs. SChiff
CONTAINED IN A STATEMENT
 MADE BY HER HUSBAND.
TELLS OF AFFECTION
Missive Resulted in Discharge of the
 VaIet-schiff Says That Brandt
 Threatened to soandaIizs Mrs. sehiff

New York, Feb. 26.-While Folke E. 1 Brandt still remained in jail tonight,
 as the result of a technical legal delay in admitting him to bail, his former employer, Mortimer L. Schiff, gave out 1 a statement 10000 words long, setting forth the pertinent facts connected with the Brandt case as far as they are within my knowledge"
 Substance of schiff's Statement.
 Having been denied, he says, an op- portunity of testifying either before | Commissioner Hand, who was appoint ed by Governor Dix to determine whether Brandt was entitled to a par
 don, os as yet before the grand jury
 which is Investigating allegations of 1 conspiracy relative to Brandt's sen ! tence for thirty years for burglary in
 the first degree. Mir. Schiff says that public statement to the press seems
 to be his only resource.
 Brandt's Letter to Mrs. Schiff. The statement for the first time makes public the letter which Brandt wrote to Mrs. Schif in March, 1907, | and resulted in his discharge from his position as valet. MT. Schiff charac- terized it as "an impudent declaration of affection
 Addressed to Dearest Lady"
 The letter, addressed to 'AIissrs. M. l.. Schlft, Dearest Lady," reads in part as follows:
 i I'm d poor fellow. but have a heart which l would part with to a lady which I love dearest on earth 1 Cit is you. dearest lady,). I do not know if you are interest or like my l person nut l do know that l am aw- l fly fond of you, in every respect I like and admire you emensklig, my
 feelings toward you dear lady has 1 grown every day in larger circumfer- | ence. Inside my heart is the eternal
 feelings which cannot be expressed in words (only actions can speak )-and
 night, until the slumber takes me
 away think of you dear lady, 1 The letter is signed Lovingly" and ! contains (P.S.) beseeching Mrs. Schiff for mercy don't show this to l your husFand or anybody"
 After setting forth the details of the assault made upon him by Brandt, and
 the robbery of his stickpins at his l home on the night of March s, 1907, 1 MT. Schiff takes up Brandt's convic- | ton. He says that after having re- 1 ceived q note from Brandt, asking him 1 to visit him in the Tombs. he sent | Howard s. Cans, his counsel, to see ! nim instead and that MT. Cans re- | ported to me that Brandt had said to 1 him in substance that if the charge was pressed he would make reflections i upon Mrs. Schiff'
 A Lying and Scandaous Tale. | MT. Schiff then details the entrance 1 into. the case as Brandt's attorney of | Carl Fischer Hansen, and mentions a 1 letter written by Brandt which he says ! Fischer Hansen brought to Judge Ro- | salslly.
 This letter." Schiff continues, "con- tained the first written information of Brandt's lying and scandalous tale, l that he was in my house by invita- | ton. The outrageous falsity of this letter is shown by the letter that brought his discharge"
 Shall Oppose srandt's Application.
 This same Tying story" was the | basis, he asserts. of Brandts appeal | to Senator Knute Nelson of Mime
 sota and of his application to Governor Dix for a pardon
 l If Brandts application had beer. | based upon sincere repentance and l contrition I should not have opposed 1 it,T MT. Schiff concludes, but based as l it was upon lying and seandalous at ] tAck upon my honor l shall continue 1 to oppose it.