The Washington times., 1915-12-17
WOMAN HELD FOR.
POISON PEN NOTES
Flood Of Anonymous Letters
Leads to Arrest Of Miss
SamueIs, of Goshen.

GOSHEN, N. T., Dec. H-Theresa
esmuels. thirty years old, unmarried
and a member Of a well-to-do and re-
spected Hebrew family. OF this village,
Sas arrested by Postoffice Inspectors
$atch and Duryea and charged with
ZritinE the slanderous anonymous let
ters that have so painfully affected the
lives OF many young women and their
York for the past few months.
In certain particulars there were dis
tinct similarities in the handwriting Of
all Of the letters. The language en-
ployed in all was practically the same
as follows:
Dear Madam: write to you at
random. being an entire stranger to
you. to put you wise to the fact that
- is my husband and father OF
my twin babies. six months old. He
was forced to marry me by the irate
Tense is useless to relate. How can you
claim another's property?
How he evidently had the cast iron
nerve of posing to you as single fei-
low ! cannot understand; So YOU better
drop him at once or will be after you.
He left me at the time my twins were
born, saying he was going on trip
West. and would return In six to eight
weeks. though l have never seen or
heard anything of him since. 1t is only
recently I learned Of his whereabouts.
ETC.. and will make 1t hard for you and
him both. So il you know what Is good
for you YOU had better drop him at once
or l will be after YOU. Now please re-
member he has a wife and babies.
You should find a man out before
taking such serious step as matri-
monv''
In each case Of course the signature
assumed to be that of the "wronged
wife OF the bridegroom Of the reci-
pent.
One of the letters to which Inspector
Fitch paid particular attention was in
closed in an envelope upon the back
Of which was printed Private Pavilion,
served this for a clue while he sought
for others. He had already esta blished
through Expert Kinsley that in all
probability all Of the letters were writ
ten by the same person.
Search Turned To Goshen.
At first the writer was sought for in
the immediate vicinity of New York.
Then Mr.. Fitch learned that one woman
in this village had received three let
ters. and this fact indicated to him that
she was the especial target OF the letter
writer's venom. and that. therefore. the
letter writer probably lived in the same
village.
from time to time as letters were re-
ceived by the wife Of Assistant United
States Attorney Claude A. Thompson.
Miss Elsie Seydel and by various other
young women. led Inspector Fitch to
this village this afternoon. Here he
learned Miss Samuels had visited Mt.
Sinai Hospital In New York frequently
previous to the death there OF her
mother several weeks ago. He was told
Miss Samuels' handwriting correspond
cd accurately to the handwriting Of the
anonymous letters. He developed other
points of his investigation In a way that
satisfied him he was justified in es-
corting Miss Samuels to the parlor OF
the Occidental Hotel here. where she
was questioned.
The result Of the inquisition was that
she was placed formally under ares,
in the presence OF inspectors Fitch and
Duryea and Postmaster Charles Fitz-
patrick of Goshen. She was taken be-
fore United States Marshal Roberts and
placed in his custody to await examina.
ton. her bail meanwhile being fixed at
5000 1t is expected here that bail viii
he furnished promptly by members OF
her family.
Thought Mentally Unbalanced.
1t Is said of Miss Samuels that she ha.
become unbalanced mentally because o.
the grief and melancholia that seizec
her after her mother Mrs. Dora Sam
uels, died.
The superintendent of the Mt. Sina
Hospital said Mrs. Samuels died in tn,