Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
VIENNA JUDGE IN STRANGE
DOCUMENT, SEEKS HEIR HERE
Paper, Heavily Weighted With Official Seals Bound With
Bright Green Ribbon-Men Plead Guilty to Conspiracy
Jury Finds Does Not Exist

Many strange documents and let
tiers find their way to the county
court house at times, but one OF the
strangest of all recently came to the
county surrogate's office from Vienna,
Austria via Trenton, n.
This was a typewriter document
on paper a foot in length by eight
inches wide, sealed with all sorts of
seals from the United States CONSUL
ate generals. at Vienna. official SEAL
with the American eagle rampant
and 81 fee stamp attached, to the
official seal of Schlecta, the Austrian
minister of state and foreign affairs.
The document, which embraces nine
pages is bound together with a rib
bon so vividly green that at first
glance one would think the document
was a st. Patrick's Day proclama-
ton.
Instead it is the request of DR..
Jakob Fluss imperial royal judge
of the county court of Vienna HI
Alserbachstrasse 81 LIST. floor No. 10"
for information as to a legacy he
believes he is entitled to from the
estate of Tomas, alias Tobias Flus1
ser, who died a few years ago and
resided in your State, most likely in
Newark"
The document, which is typewriter
in the English language, was adj
dressed ITO the most honorable
Judge of the Court of Probate for the
county of Essex, Trenton, N. j." and
was forwarded by the secretary of
state to Surrogate Isaac Shoenthal.
DR.. akob Fluss is doomed to dis
appointment as there is no record
in the surrogate's office of the estate
of Tomas, alias Tobias Flusser, but
the Australians judges letter seeking
information makes interesting read
ing just the same.
After stating that he is a blood re-
lation of Flusser, the letter goes into
details of the history of the family
in the following terms:
Since immemorial times the family
Fluss Is residing in the middle of
Bohemia. he members ofthe family
in the middle of the eighteen century
were given the surname of 'Fluss,' as
they were occupied with the manu-
facture of potash and it's by-products,
which products are called fuss by
the ordinary language. AS Emperor
Joseph II. ordered that all Jews
might, and must, have a family name
beside their birth name, of the sons
of 2. stamm father, Solomon Fluss,
the one Josephe chosed the name of
Flusser; the second, Sussman, the
name Flussman, and the third, Enoch,
retained the name of Fluss (Fluhs),
already used by him."
What the word "stamm father
means in the above cannot be
fathomed by any of the experts who
have looked at the document. The
document then goes on to tell at
length of the family history.
In 1S4S or 1851 1t appears that Salo-
man Tobias Flusser married Kath-
erina Fluss and that later he left this
wife and son "becasue she was quar-
relsome," and went to America. This
son was educated by relatives, and is
the man who now writes seeking in.
formation of the man he believes was
his father
The document then takes up the
residence of Tomas, alias Tobias,
Flusser in this country, and reads as
follows:
1.-THE said Saloman Tobias Flusser
Gall through the document Flusser is
referred to as both Tomas, alias
Tobias, and as Saloman Tobias F1us-
ser) had most likely in America
dropped his blrthname and has called
himself Tomas Flusser. 1t is said
that the partook in the war of the
North and South States and that he
gained merits in this war After the
war he shall have made a fortune by
founding a ship business in the Hud-
son.
"At the time of the International
Theatre and Art Exhibition in
Vienna, in 1893, I was visited by an
old gentleman of about sixty-f1ve to
sixty-seven years, who enquired about
my origin and my parents.
He made the impression of an
earnest, quiet and, according to his
conversation. universally educated
man. His eyes were vivid and dark.
He was bald and the remaining hairs
were gray and the ball spot was COW
cred by a small cap, as used by Cath
oils clergymen or monks. He had a
long, nice, gray. patriarchial beard
and was of middle stature"
The letter then tells of this visitor
asking questions about relatives of
DR.. Jacob Fluss, the writer, but at
no time did the visitor admit or say
he was member of the Flusser fam
lily. 1t appears that he requested Dr.
Jacob Fluss to come to America with
him, for the letter continues as fol-
lows:
"He requested me to follow him, as
/ would find it very agreeable. As I
asked him if it was far to the place
where to go, he informed me that it
was about 100 miles zehind Chicago.
On my question if / was to marry
somebody-at that time l was prose-
cuted by marriage offers-he answered
that 1 might even marry there.
LAS I questioned him why l should
follow him, he told me that he would
inform me about that. | told him |
was a deputy judge in Vienna and
that I could not simply run away
from my state office. He, therefore,