Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-31
MIXED UP IN SENSATIONAL CASE
Ladysmth Girl Has Plurality of
Husbands

LddySmith Girl Has a Plurality OF
Husbands
More strange than any fiction was
| the story told by the woman known
| in the court records of Leavenworth
county as Mrs. Rosy Herman to AS
sistant County Attorney Chas. Dolde,
B. F.. Endres, J. w. Glynn and re-
porter for The Times yesterday fol-
| lowing the arrest of Mrs Herman
and Joseph Herman, the man who
| has been posing as her husband, by
Officer Walker and Detective Glynn
at Third and Seneca streets.
By that confession Mrs. Herman,
or Mrs. Haas, which is her real
name, brands Herman, whose real
name is thought to be Harry Miller,
as a white SLAYER and herself an
| adultress. The couple spent last
night in the city jail and this morn
ing a complaint will be filed against
Herman, charging him with violat-
ing the Kansas white slave act. The
action against A. d. Hamilton, the
Tonganoxie liveryman against whom
Mrs. Herman preferred a charge of
criminal assault, alleged to have
been committed on July 3, will be
dismissed
! Still Accuses Hamilton
But throughout a grilling fire of
questions which lasted for more than
an hour the woman stuck to her
story that Hamilton did attack her
She stuck to it to the end, describ
ing again and again with unvarying
detail the circumstances surrounding
the alleged attack.
| Rosy is very pretty but there is
a something about her that suggests
a clouded mentality and only once
during her long recital of events
did she show the slightest trace of
emotion. That was when she was
asked for the story of the alleged
attack in TOnganoXie.
'I'd like to get my hands on that
man Hamilton some time" she
shrieked. Il would certainly get
even for what he tried to do to me-"
Won't Go Back
And Rosy is just twenty-one. Back
in Ladysmith, Wis, there is a blue
eyed girl of three years, an aged
father and mother and a husband
whom Rosys father brands as "a
good for nothing cuss."
| DO you want to go back and see
them all?' Rosy was asked
mo, l never do-that is not as
long as Haas Cher husband) is there
''They probably will send Herman
to the penitentiary for his part in
Turing you away from your husband"
it was suggested.
"He didn't lure me away lust
went with him because | wanted to.
If they send Joe to the penitentiary,
| want to go with him He is the
only one who has ever been good to
me-"
Letter From Father
On the attorneys table lay a let
ter from Rosys father in Ladysmith
1t read as follows:
| Ladysmith, Wis, July IA.
| To the County Attorney:
| will write you few lines in re-
gard to my daughter, Rosy Haas.
The fellow that is with her is not
her husband. I think his name is
! Harry Miller. He has persuaded her
to come down there. She is not of
sound mind. She had a spell of sick
| ness about five years ago and since
then has been acting very strange.
Sometimes she would 90 out for a
pail of water, sit the pail down and
we would not see her for two days.
| She would go any place with any
body, but as far as her being a pros
titute it is not so; neither was she
ever married before We have got
relatives in Lawrence, Kan, and
Miller knew it. He persuaded her to
| go down there and I think there
could be something done with him
for it. Her husband here is a good
for-nothing cuss. AS for Miller I
think he had better keep out of my
sight. WILLIAM OFFNER.
Were you ever sick?" Rosy was
asked.
Married Years AGO
At first she denied it, but later
she frightened and said she had
suffered an attack of typhoid fever
five years ago.
Three years ago last January Rosy
was married to Joseph Haas in La
dysmith. The marriage was arranged
by her father and month later the
baby came. Rosy would listen to any
one, her father said
Eighteen months ago there came
to Ladysmith, a good looking German