The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-04
WOODED AND ROBBED. BY CAPT. COLLINS,
 TEACHER SWEARS.
Warrant Issued for Fix Illus
 band of Natalie Schenck, Whose Elopement With Miss Wheeler Was Rolled
STOLE $l22, CHARGE
 OF MISS I.AUTERBACH
He Is Fetching" and Con vincing, ' She Says, and Needs Some One to Call a Halt.

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 Halt.
 Local society. is very much interest ed in the thwarted romance of Miss Amelia Wheeler, whose attempted e1opements with Capt. Glen Collins were given columns of space in the the daughter of Samuel H. Wheeler, owner of The Stratfield. From Chi cago it was reported that MT. Wheel CT had left that city, where he had just prevented his daughters latest effort to elope with Capt. Collins. It way to his country home in Fairfield
 At Mir Wheeler,s local office today it was said he was not in the city and it was not known when he would be here
 The following appeared in the New York World of today.
 District Attorney Whitman of New York city, has filed with the authorities
 at Baltimore a warrant for the arrest l of Capt Charles Glenn Collins, former English army officer. who was divorced 1 by the former Miss Natalie Schenck. whose second husband, S. Osgood 1 Bell was killed in an automobile. ac- I cident near Long Branch. L. L. | The warrant was issued as the re l Slttl OL l<1St14i4O1Ay SlNGu sb0IOTS Ld0 Grand Jury by Miss Elizabeth lLauterbach, young school teacher, of No. 205 West, One Hundred and Third street. who met Collins a year l ago at the Baltimore home of Miss I Amelia Wheeler, who has run away deayor to marry Collins Miss l Wheeler is daughter of Samuel Wheeler. the sewing machine capital f ist, Of Chicago He has spent tho11s-
 ands of dollars in thwarting the. mat rimoniaI plans of his daughter.
 Teacher Charges $122 Theft. I Miss Lauterbach charged the Cap tain with the larceny of S122- Repre- sentatives of Collins have been unsuc-
 cessfu1 in an attempt to convince As sistant Observation-Disclosures John Min Ito. who has charge of the case, that 1 the complaint of the school teacher should be dismissed.
 MT. Minton takes little stock in the allegations of Collins friends that the charge is being pressed by Miss Lau- l terbach at the instigation of MT. l Wheeler. He said yesterday that as soon as the charge pending against I Collins in Baltimore. growing out of passing an alleged bad draft for $25, is disposed of the Captains extradition will be demanded
 According to the story told by Miss Lauterbach she went to Baltimore last summer to visit Miss Theodore l Wheeler. who is studying medicine
 at Johns Hopkins University. CT met Miss Wheeler at Vassar, .. said Miss Lauterbach. She went to
 Baltimore later and came to the 1 Teachers College in New York It happened that the day went to Bal
 timore to visit Theodore, her sister.
 Amelia, went there too. Capt. Col 1 Iins learned that Amelia was there ! h. irtr 11o o<ad 1 to him there
 Says He's Fetching and Convincing.
 ..He is very polished. He has much I savoir faire,s which in his case | amounts to an innate ability to TO- nance at a moments notice. was much surprised when returned to New York to have him call me up at I the college. He wrote to me and per
 sisted in calling me on the phone
 ..He really has a very fetching way | with him. He is convincing. He all
 ways finishes on high note. in I vited him here, where I am staying
 with friends He called and inn i was a member of Parliament, and how he had been presented to the | Queen
 i ..No, he never said he tried to Dor 1 row money from the Queen, although if he had really been presented to
  1 tried He showed us pictures of his estates in England and-well, there's no use denying it-he told me that if l
 wanted to become the mistress or l these wonderful places all l had to do was to say the word.
 .sI never thought he was an adven- turer You have no idea how well he | talks. It is wonderful. He would
 melt money in your pocket. He said | he was living at the Ritz-Carlton-5 Al
 ways he sent me flowers and new l books and bonbons. He came in an II automobile did not know then Fl that he was trying to marry Miss | Amelia wheeler I did not know, | either. that he was going around tell ing every one that I was the daHgh- | ter of Edward Lauterbach, the law
 yer That's what he was doing
 Indorsed Draft to smith .I had saved s222, teaching school
 all winter, and I got a draft for the
 amount in order to pay my passage 1 to Germany and back. That was last < summer I was going over to see my
 father and mother. I went to the
 steamship office and reserved passage
 to Europe and back. I told Capt Col
 lins that had a draft for $222. and he took it from me and said he would get his secretary, MT. Smith, to have E i+ cashed for me. He told me to in- . 1 do1.se it to the order of Smith did
 as he told me. That was on a Satur-
 day He told me he would give me Fl the money on Monday
 & Miss Ixauterbach had asked him for