The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-10-02
Girl Bride Has a Tragical
Experience.
"ACH|CAGODRAW|NG TEACHER"
Who Makes Practice of Mar
rying Girls Just for
Their Money.
AN INCIDENT OF CITY LIFE
The New York World says:

The New York World says:
The police of this city have been
asked to find a young man with
piercing brown eyes," who, 1t Is
alleged, brought an unsophisticated
country girl here as his bride, lived
with her a few days in the Hotel AL
bert, on University place, and then,
on the pretense of looking for a fiat
in Brooklyn, vanished with 5000 of
his wife's dowry. She had to re-
turn, heartbroken, to her parents
farm near La Fayette, Ind.
William Richard Edward Freund
was the name the young man used
when he married the girl, Miss
Wilson. The search for him Is be-
ing made by William w. Vein
hardt, head of private detective
agency of La Fayette. who in a
printed circular sent to the police
throughout the country, calls
Freund "a noted swindler."
His game" says the circular,
lis to advertise for a wife, marry
the woman, take her to New York,
Chicago or some other large city,
rob her of all her money and leave
her in the hotel. He then writes
that he is leaving for the West and
will never see her again"
The La Fayette bride said she
had known Freund several months
before her marriage and supposed
he was a drawing teacher in Chica-
go. After the marriage, several
weeks ago, he told her there was
bigger field for his talents in New
York; so the couple came here, the
bride bringing with her about 500
her mother had given her as we'd
ding present.
The couple arrived here August
90 and registered at the Hotel Al
bert. Freund, she says, suggested
she put her money in the hotel
safe. She kept out $50, without
telling him of it, and intrusted the
rest to him and saw that he gave
it to a clerk, who put 1t in the safe.
But she did not notice that her hus-
band signed only his own name to
the receipt slip.
The next day Freund, she says,
kissed her and said he would run
over to Brooklyn and pick out a
nice fiat. Three hours after his de-
parture she received this note from
him:
II have met an old sweetheart,
and l find that | still love her. I
am going West and you will never
see me again."
The bride tainted in her room
and was found there unconscious,
she says, by a maid. The servant,
after reviving her and hearing her
story, said: You'd better see il
your money is in the SAFE"
Your husband took the package
away with him this morning." was
the clerks reply when the bride
asked for her dowry. She went
back to her room, wept for an hour
more, then paid the hotel bill out
of her $50 and started for her old
home.
At Chicago she fingered for sew
eral hours until she had overcome
the dread of going back to her
home and facing the village gossip.
Then she reappeared at the farm
which she had left so happily as
bride.
Freund, the circular says, is
about thirty-six years old, feet
or inches tall, with those piercing
brown eyes already mentioned and
a darkish mustache. His hair has
a tinge OF premature gray and he
has a deep scar on the right cheek.
Weinhardt says Freund is still in
New York City and is known in re-
sorts around Union square and
Times square.