The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-04
WoOED AND ROBBED BY CAPT. COLLINS,
 TEACHER sWEARS
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ternoon. and he told her his mother had arrived unexpectedly from Scot land that the banks were closed and he had used her S222 to tide him over Sunday On Monday. she says he told her some money ae had been ex-s pectInss had not arrived
 T told him had to pay my pas sage on the steamer and that I must have it the next day. she con ntinued- H kept putting me off till the day the boat sailed. and that morning he gave me s45 to pay my passage. He said he would send the remainder by a fast steamer that would be on the other side before got there. The money never came Worrying over the money spoiled my whole summer abroad. did not know how I was to get back. did not want to tell my fatfler of the incident. and finally, when it came time for me to return, l. had to borrow the money from my sister.
 Later, Miss Lauterbach says, Col lsns refunded enough to reduce the
 Miss .I.auterbach has a letter she says Collins wrote to her while she was in Europe which she quotes a s follows:
 FINANCIAL SITUATION BAD
 .sSothing doing so far am hay
 
 light ahead, and hope to be able to send what promised you The hnan- cia1 situation is so bad, hope that I will be able to get over the summer I feel terrible about the delay men tioned.H
 ssWhen I returned from Europe, 2 Miss Lauterbaeh resumed, I called on his sister, Miss Cornelia Collins, who then lived at No. 465 Madison avenue. She agreed with me that her brother had acted like a. cad She told me she thought he ought to be locked up. Then she suggested that borrow the money from Miss Wheeler and in that way pay my. sister. Collins called me up several times after my return from abroad He all 1 ways promised he would pay me, but he never did, and finally I got tired dieted for larceny
 1 Assistant District Attorney Mintorl l immediately had search instituted l for Collins. and it WAS found that he was in Baltimore under bail A rep resentatixe Of the prosecutors office l of that county came to New York and l it was agreed to hold over the larceny seharge here, pending disposition of l the alter in MafyIond.
 l Collins at once engaged well known attorneys to fight his case. Repre- I sentations were made to Mir. Minton I lIldL S1le IAlOACy dliSS5CO# lO nave bcCfi l given by Miss Lauterbach to Collins had been merely loan, which the Isdefendant had every intention of re- turning.
 NO PLOT, SAYS ACCUSER
 The theory was advanced by. friends I of Collins that Mr. Wheeler had l learned of the loan through his de- 1 tectives who were trailing Collins and had immediately seized upon it as a | pretext for criminal charge. Miss Iauterbaeh has given assur- I ance that Mr. Wheeler knows abso- I 1uteIy nothing about the case and
 that she is acting entirely on her owr 1 behalf Sll<. insists that she wants
 the captain prosecuted to the full ex- l tent of the law
 Ut is not pleasant for me to have T all. this notoriety.'' said Miss Lauter,
 bach ''I am school teacher and the publicity hurts me. I am doing mere ly what I think is my duty I an
 pressing this charge in the hope tha- T other women will be warned I Capt. Collins has personality ane
 magnetism! He needs some one tt
 call a halt on him, and I am going tt 1 try to do it.
 I Capt. Collins is living at the Hote zI AItamount in sEutaw place. Baltimore T Westyi1le. N. S-Two men were in
 stantly killed, three died several hour later and several others were serious 1y injured when boiler exploded yes