The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-26
BAMBERGER WAS
 SPIRITED AWAY
 rs . BY ARMY MEN
Strange Romance Disclosed in
 Clearing up Broad Street N Mystery 7
Twice Deserter From the < Army to Cherish His Young Bride

Y A strange and sad staIe1of womafss love for errant man, hope, love and loyalty through fortune. and -Vfcissf- . .sude-was unfolded when the altfolr- 1ties seeking to suTfraveI the tangled rnfysteryr surrounding the personality and 7 disa ppearances of William r 1saan- berger and his pretty wife from 7e0 Broad street. on Thursday last. fin ally E a ttaihed sthe seolution today. '~-zBe1n in 5affllsent circumstances, reared in .thesslap Of. tux ,.s.Barn- 0Merserx MaS+ 2, sae desesndens e9s of aggeud through the death of his ia tl1er, s5t1e e loss of a large fortune tbe4ueathed his mother. and her gsubsequent. ,. re- upon the Tneagre wages his ainexper- fence was. able to- comma nd 4 slIppIe-
 nented from time to time by ssuch financial assistance as a wealthy aunt in New Jersey saw fit..to render
 In a mon1e1n of despondency fe left the white lights of Broadvqa ay in the army. He was stationed at Fort Hamilton, BrookIyn,- N. Y There he met and became infatuated with Susan Mans1t. we'll ssi dressed, pretty and sord d ly wise, the divorced wife of a Well-known New York or- cheStra leader named Oakley and the daughter of Lorenzo Mansir, manager for the Jamaica Estates. with a hand some residence upon Homelaw ave- n1e, JaInaica. L. l. Her. mother, Lil- fan fan Marsir. formerly resided in liam smith. now living at 34 Berk- shire avenue ss. s ,yzsr
 After a 1brief scourtsFip -she couple were married near Red Bank N.e J., where Ba9nberger4is, said to have sbeen Visiting the summef home of his aunt. while upon furlough from the army Money was plentiful and the expiring Bamberger making an ex- slse1 for his leaving her t temporarily at the home of his mother. near It is alleged thar9he' was not absent long, deserting and joining his new 1y made bride It is understood that he: was captured shortly afterwards, and returned to Fort Hamilton. A gain he deserted and his wife eIecting to share his lot, they came to Bridgeport. seeking shelter at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Smith. with whom she had not been since infant over twenty years ago. They stayed but a week moving to 76o Broad street and as stunning the name of BaHbert- Nol daring to write further to his reIa- ti yes f9e money. or disclose hiss fden- tity hes sought work under various names at the City Ice and Coal Cos, SpragueT and Naugatuck Ice Com pa mics, shifting constantly as the fear of detection oppressed nm. Finally obtained money at various times She sought assistance from her mother under | her maiden name Of Mansir On one occasion, fearing her daugh- ter to be destitute the fond mother visited her at the house Of Mrs. F., H He1big, Jr.. where the couple were stopping. Later came the necessity for medical treatm entE at the hospital when their son was born.
 Though tFailed by government au- thorities even then in Bridgeport. and driven from one refuge to another the plucky wife. electing to brave fortunes with her husband arranged to have the infant cared for by kind-'t ly hands and according to a relative the child was sent to the home of Mrs. Sidney R. Smith, Greens Farms. 1 to their lodgings on Sept. | }, s-thes couple were, almost constantly | aarricaded s by detectiyes ur tiiys5fhe | Of Sept 12, when an officer | appeared and placing Bamberger un-i fer arrest took him back to New York. l Frightened and ashamed of facing i those whom she knew, after a brief | visit at the house of her aunt, Mrs smith the young wife sought other 4uarter ons Broad street zuntiI the ar -ival Of her mother from Jamaica to | whose home she was later persuadedj 0 return. Thus through the efforts ,f Detective Sergea nt Edward F. T onin has the mysterious disappear lnce of William :. Ba nbert.. and hisii pretty wife been solved.