New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-30
BUSHES NIECE
AWAY FROM COURTS
Rudolph J. SChaefer and Girl
Dodge Grandmother and Proc
eSS Servers to Go Abroad.
JUDGES WRIT UNAVAILING
Daughter of Army General Es-
pes Crcer to Appear < An
swer to Habeas Corpus
Proceeding.

Rudolph ]. Schaefer who owns a
controlling interest in the f. and NJ.
Schaefer Brewing Company and lives
at the R;tz-Carlton Hotel sailed YES
terday with his family on the kaiserin
Auguste Victoria just time 10 cs-
cape being served with writ Of
habeas corpus to produce in the Sill
preme Court his niece. Miss Frieda F..
Schaefer. and have the court deter
mine his right 10 take her to Europe
with his family. The name Of Mr.
Schaefer and his wife. Mrs. Fredericka
V. Schaefer, against whom the writ
was also directed, and their children
appeared on the steamship passenger
list. but not that Of the niece, al
though she accompanied the family.
Miss Schaefer is a daughter Of General
Emil Schaefer who died eight years
ago.
The writ Of habeas corpus was sworn
out by Mrs Aurelia +. Runk. grand
mother Of Miss Schaefer, late on
Wednesday. ordering Mr.. and Mrs.
Schaefer TO produce their niece be-
fore Justice Pendleton yesterday morn
ing. A process server tried to serve
the writ. but the persons to whom the
paper was directed had gone TO Ho-
boken TO board the Kalserin Auguste
Victoria. and the New York order was
Of no effect in New Jersey. Thereupon
the proceeding was abandoned.
The abandoned action Of yesterday
was another move Of series or &C
tons in which Miss Schaefer and her
sister Eleanor have figured, due 10 the
disagreement between their mother
who was Miss Aurelia Runk, and their
father. General Schaefer. The parents
Of the two girls married in 1880. Cen
eral Schaefer was then vice-presiden'
OF the T. & NJ. Schaefer Brewing COM
many. on February II. 1903. when
Frieda was six years and Eleanor
wear older. they were Kidnapped IN
Mount Morris Park by their mother
who had left her husband, who was
many years her senior.
Far and wide General Schaeier
caused search TO be made for ms chll-
dren. and finally they were found with
their mother in New Jersey. where the
father began habeas corpus proceed
lngs. declaring that his wife had eloped
with Gorham A Worth. a Stock Ex-
change broker. Mrs. Schaefer and
Worth were arrested in MorristoWn for
misconduct. subsequently Nice-Chan-
cellor Pitney gave the genera! the Gus
tody Of his children.
General Schaefer began divorce
suit naming Worth. but because OF III
health failed to prosecute the suit. Mrs.
Schaefer then sued him for divorce In
New Jersey on the ground Of abandon
ment. and got a decree. She then went
10 Canada to live. When General
Schaefer died in 1908, he left about
S5OOooO TO each Of his daughters. His
former wife came here from Canada
and took her daughters back with her.
Detectives who were sent in search
Of her failed TO get any trace Of her
whereab bouts until Mrs. Schaefer com
municated with the relatives of the
general
Mrs. Runk. the grandmother. said in
her petition for the writ Of habeas cor
pus on Wednesday that Mrs. Schafer
was now living at Cut Knife, Sas-
katchewan. Canada. and that Miss
Schaefer has no guardian in New York.
She said that the girls uncle. the
brewer. induced her TO come 10 New
York and that he sent his secretary 10
bring her from Canada to New York.
She vas at the Ritz-Carlton a week.
said Mrs. Runk. before Mr.. Schaefer
notified the grandmother that she was
in the city.
Mr.. Schaefer announced that he was
going 10 take his niece 70 Europe for
a sojcurn Of several months. although
Mrs. Runk said that this was in viola
ton Of an agreement under which Miss
Schaefer was TO I've under her guardian
ship whenever she came 10 New York
Mrs. RunS called on Miss Schaefer at
the Ritz. but was not permitted 10 be
alone with her Mrs. Runk said Mr..
and Mrs SChaefer were trying 10 turn
their niece against her.
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