The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-10
MISS BREITUNG
DID THE WOOING,
KLEIST AYERS
Letters From Bankers
Daughter to EX-Garden-
er Tell Of Love.
SHE GAVE HIM PAPA'S
SOCKS. WITNESS SAYS


the two tarried so long that he almost
missed his train. Then Crowley offered
In evidence the first letter which Miss
Rrcitung wrote to Kleist after ne left
for Cleveland.
The first letter was dated NJ Mar
quettc october 9, 1913. and began:
MY DEAREST: ! have been wanting
60 write YOU the last two days and this
Is the first chance / have had.
Il thank you very much FOR your two
kilograms. | sent YOU a telegram this
afternoon. ! hope YOU will get u all right.
] am sorry you have been worried about
mo maybe YOU felt that ! have been
feeling badly because have had n
heavy cold But / am sure TO be all
right In a day or two
II have some awful news for you now.
Monday afternoon mother received n let
ter from some woman who wrote that
you had been showing me attention and
that you had left on Saturday evening
and a lot of rot. &c As luck would
have It, she could not spell or write well.
so IL was not easy to understand what
she was writing about nevertheless, IL
was almost a Matchmaking letter. as the
woman only gave her initials and no ad-
dress, OF all the rotten things. that
was the very awful But mother and
father were very decent about II, and |
am sure II won't amount to anything, so
cause ! have not.
~ am sorry to make so much trouble
for you, cause ! hear Morrison IL cross.
Speaking OF trouble again. 1 made you
terribly late for your train. ] am very
sorry about everything"
Then follow instructions from the girl
not to write her AT Marquette or at the
Hotel st. Regis, New York. The letter
continues:
Max, dear the telegram Il sent YOU
was very cold. and the letter ! am writ
ing 10 YOU Is anything but pleasant.
The reasons are that kilograms are not
personal, and writing these disagreeable
things is awful. but you must know
about them | miss you terribly.
guess / am silly TO tell you that the only
thing ] could think Of after you left was
why did | ever let YOU go"
The letter tells Max mot to worry
and ito keep we'll" II says, "T love
you and never forget for one moment"
II ends, with much love"
Tells of Her Love.
The second letter indicates that there
had been trouble in the Breitung house
hold over her fondness for kleist. II
SAYS: Il did not think anything would
come OF 1t Inviting Kleist into the
housed, but, dearest, the truth Is ] did
not use my head. cause never should
have let you come in and see me the
way | did.
That reminds TIC % scnne+h,rs Mic"
. 20 tell you, and that Is that have mad"
UP my mind that I will marry you as
soon as | get to New York and find a
good chance. | certainly nave mad an
awful time lately
The writer takes the blame and says
my love was very strong and II is stu
strong for you" The letter closes
with
Max, dearest, | love YOU and | was
not sure before I would come to you 80
soon, because I wanted to give you n
better chance TO do we'll. but I have
made up my mind that will marry you
the first chance 1 get. With all my love,
juliet"
There were other letters which Juliet
wrote to her Romeo, but they We're kept
over until to-day So the Judge could
examine them Kleist says he was in
structed through them 10 come to New
York. He arrived here November 9 and
met the girl almost every day there
after The couple went to City Hal and
procured a license and We're married at
Grace Church on November 22, 1913.
1--WE went to a hotel in Seventy-sec-
ond street." continued the witness III
answer TO questions by his attorney,
I'VE stayed there until o'clock and
then | wanted Juliet to go West with
me to my folks But she So Please
let me go bone, Max. ! am coming our
N society soon | told her I did not
think that was the proper thing TO DO
but she said. 4 promise you | Will &c
with you after | have come out In So
clety.' With that promise | let her e
home but she visited me every day a
my apartment at 655 Lexington avenue.
Tho honeymoon proceeded unrui'iec
until November 80, when Kleist got q
telegram from his bride telling him sh'
could not see him that day and advising
him TO "stay clear OF Hope. lie Is youi
worst enemy BE careful that no on'
sees you until ! can write and explain
Meets Breitung Family.
The next day detective tapped
him on the shoulder and told hin
Mr. Breitung wanted to see him az TN
ST. Regis that afternoon AZ 4 O'Clock
He met the members OF the Breitunl
family. their counsel and detective
Mrs Rreitung got me 10 one side
he said. "and accused me OF forcin'
Juliet 70 marry me. I told her tina
was not true. She spoke OF annullinI
the marriage. ! told her she could no
do IT, Then I heard terrible crying II
another room. Mrs Breitung went GU
and returned with note which read:
MAX, don't love you any more
i realize lldt ] nave Hlhu' ~ l'Ii Nv
mistake. Juliet
"Then," continued the witness, Mrs
Breitung brought Juliet into the room
She was crying and She told me m
note she had written was true, bu-
took her hand and led her 10 tn
window. | told her | could not belicv
Il and I asked her 10 go away with me
She said, no, can't; my mother won
let me
The next interview Klelst had wit
the Breitungs and his bride was %
December 7, and in the testimon
Klelst gave he revealed the first low
character" Of the girls attitude towpr
him how she had given her father
clothes as gifts to kleist.
Breitung started the interview.
cording TO Kleist's testimony, by sayIn
he was opening new mine AT Sllve
City, n, NJ and would give lfleist
job there - assistant foreman or as
sistant tin'eiecper, and would see tn
thar he, kIcist, became a mining er
gneer In two years.
Its a grand chance for you
help yourself Mr., Breltung t"ld M
but protested against going away frol
my wife 80 far and he said:
Well, II you don't accept my propC
sition | will have you arrested
Why" | asked
For stealing my socks no sal,
said, i didn't steal your socks The
were given TO me as "A present n
SAID, We'll, ] will have you arrested fC