Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-09-26
FRITZ SCHNEIDER IS
STILL AMONG MISSING
Left Town and Many Debts About
Two Weeks Ago.
OPENED GERMAN RESTAURANT
Ran Accounts With Several Merchants
and Also Negotiated Loans-Said
TO be in Baltimore.


That is what number of local mer-
chants and private citizens would like
TO know to the tune of some several
hundred dollars. He disappeared
from town early two weeks ago, leav-
ing behind a multitude of debts, both
of business and personal nature,
and his creditors hae waited in vain
for him to turn up and square thigs.
Schneider, of German descent, as
his name will imply, about 45 years
old. extremely courteous and polite
with everyone with whom he was
thrown in contact, opened up lunch
room business here about two months
ago. The place, known as the Ger
man Restaurant, is located above
the Main street store of Gus Cardes,
and bade fair to become one of the
leading satisiers of hungry appe-
tites in the city, because of the
character of meals served up, to-
gether with reasonable prices, and
though Schneider has "fiew de COOP
the place is still doing business
under temporary management.
Schneider was a competent chef
and could prepare a bowl of chow
der, or plate of salad, or any
ocher dish that would tempt the most
fastidious of epicures. He first
came to town when Bonds old din
ing rooms went under the manage
ment of Mr.. Phil Frielander. He soon
left that establishment, however, to
start business for himself, and enter
ed into a monthly contract for the
rental of the Main street location,
which, by the way, seems to be
"ho jdoo" fer all business enterprises.
He developed good business there
right at the outset, but apparently it
soon became a case of running things
on "other peoples money"
First of all, it is said that Schnei-
der ''got into" a warrant officer on
duty at the Naval Academy to the ex-
tent of something like $500, in order
to start out. The business seemed
to prosper day by day, and Schneider
often expressed satisfaction over
how he was getting along. He was
promptly given credit by the local
merchants and kept above board for
time, but several of the merchants are
losers by the transactions at figures
ranging from $40 to $25, and more.
Meantime Schneider, it is said, also
won the confidence of several private
citizens, from one of whom, it is
known he secured a loan of about $100
with the promise that in about
month he would repay it with sub
stantial amount of interest.
1t was on September Ia that Schnei-
der suddenly left town. That date
was on Saturday, and it is said that
Schneider had promised to settle up
lot of his bills. And so he went to
his creditors and gave out checks for
varying amounts, but it developed
Monday morning when the merchants
presented these checks at bank, that
Schneider had no funds whatever on
deposit. He did not even pay the
weeks salaries of his help, which in
cluded a cook and three walters.
Two of these were Germans, brought
from Baltimore at SIS per week, and
they were an angry pair Monday when
they started in search for Schneider.
But they gave up all hope Of re-
covering their wages upon finding
that their employer had left his room
taking all of his belongings with
him. He told no one of his plans
of departure. Those in close touch
with the affair say that Schneider
left debts aggregting $500, and per-
haps the only two debts amply sat-
isfied were the rent of the lunch
room, which had been paid in ad-
vance, as had also his lodging at the
Germania Hotel. Schneider. it is
said, was seen in Baltimore a few
days ago, not, however, by any OF
his creditors.