New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-25
After Luring Her from
Home He Sent Her
on Streets.
TOLD HER WHERE
TO AVOID POLICE
When She Found He Had
Married Another She
Went to Swami.

Prompted ~ questions. Katherine
Kaufman told Assistant District Az
torney Smith last night how, as she
insisted. Gustave Kugelman had forced
her TO adopt n questionable life.
On the desk by which she sat we're
several hundred letters from kugelmah'
the man whom she had expected TO
marry and with whom it was apparent
she was still infatuated, buttressing IN
part at least the story that she told
In the West Side prison at the same
time was Kugelmsn. unable to provide
the $4,000 bail Magistrate McQuaide
had imposed when he was arraigned on
warrant charging him with slavery
Should he procure it, he will have TO
furnish bail on another warrant. this
one based on an indictment handed
down against him yesterday. More IN
dictments are expected.
Kugelman when arrested was with
another woman, whom he had married
on June 20 last, and with whom he was
living at 1851 West First Street, Coney
Island. Still another woman TO whom
the Kaufman woman says he was mar
ried is in North Carolina.
1t was Kugelman's marriage to the
Coney Island woman. while provided
with money which she says she fur
nished. that led the Kaufman woman
to the District Attorneys office. She
had previously learned of the existence
of the "wife" in North Carolina, and
had discovered that his story OF
wealthy relatives, told in mis- early WOO
ing. was untrue but she believed MIN
when he told her that he was being
divorced from the Southern woman and
would marry her when he was free to
do so.
Her First Meeting.
To the assistant district attorney
she then told of how a seemingly harm
less filtration had led TO her ac-
ouaintance with Kugelman, who called
himself King. how for more than a
wear he paid her every attention and
promised TO marry her, how, because
of this she left home to live with him
as his wife. giving him her wages as
stenorrapher, how he finally told her
he had no money and that she would
have to 20 on the streets, and how
she. acting always under his direction
and much of the time under MS eye
patrolled Broadway until she dlscov-
cred his faithlessness.
i All this time she was employed as
a stenographer, and by his instructions
she always carried her stenographer
note book with her for the purpose OF
deceiving any policeman who might ar
rest her.
ale told me-" she said. chat ! should
ALWAYS have my note book with me and
II was pinched TO give my right name
and my place Of employment so that
the case gainst me would fail. | was
TO saw that ] was just a stenographer
on nv way home, that the policeman
smoke to me and arrested me when
refused 10 talk with him. He said that
would get me out sure. ! don't know
whether it would or not for l never
was arrested
al was on Broadway at l50th Street
she said. when ! first met kugelman
or King as he called himself. There
was another girl with me and ne spoke
to us. | don't know whether she had
flirted with him first. That was IN
November, 1918. ! had finished at the
Washington Irving High School, taken
a course in a business college and was
at work. He called at my home num-
Der of times, and after while was n
steady caller. Yes. he was my only
fellow. When my folk would be away
he would visit me at my brothers
house.
about year after he proposed mar
riaee to me. He was always very nice
and well dressed. His family was
wealthy. he said, and he could not marry
me while his father lived, but as we
loved one another so much he thought
that should not prevent our being en-
qaged. / agreed with him and We were
engaged. II was quite a long time after
we became engaged that | learned his
real character.
Then She Left Home.
ain Novmber, 1914, had trouble
with my family on account of him.
They did not like him and ordered me
10 give him up. Instead ! left home
HnO went 10 live WIN HAiiA ~ ~ ~ ~
Forty-fourth Street. Soon after that
he told me ! would have to get more
money than ] was earning TO support
him. He took me TO Broadway and
Forty-second Street and pointed out n
number Of women there. Then he took
me to a number of hotels in Broadway
and Lexington Avenue.
"He told me ! must never speak TO
a man unless first spoken 10. To be
sure that | did not mistake any police
man he made il his business TO get ac-
duainted with the faces Of the men in
the station houses and | would NEE,
him al Broadway and Thirtieth Stree,
where he would point them out"
Meantime you wore working every
day ?" suggested Mr.. Smith.
Eyes, | would get up in the morning
about 1880 o'clock. cook breakfast,
which he usually had in bed, and be at
work at nine. would be through at
1880 o'clock, and then 20 home and fix
things IN, darn his seeks, wash his silk
collars so that the laundries would not
ruin them and get dinner.
ale used to tell me that he was n
clock salesman travelling for his uncle's
house in the South. Then he sometimes
would tell me that he had gone TO work
as a movie actor. lie had q big piece
printed about himself in New Orleans
paper and sent 1t TO me. Afterwards
he said he was a clocAer on the race
tracks, that he had got good job at
that.
Gave Him Much Money.
"All the time was giving him
money. | got SO a week as steno-
grapher. gave h.-a 500, $40 and $50
a week. Once ] gave him $3.50. That
was year ago. 1t was bonus had
earned for three years of faithful