The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
SMART WIDOW MULCTS MANY
 OF THOUSANDS
Continued from Page 1.l

lSOHI4nUeQ 1Eom rage 1.1 partly to pay the heavy rent that Mrs. Chapman started on a campaign to get money from one and all, regard less of, whether they were menials in her employ or presidents of banks. It was learned today that Sullivan, sec ing that his tenant was ''in bad" was making desperate efforts to take pos session of his property.
 Mrs. Chapman, it is reported, be- came srnitten with A. A. Angerman headwaiter at the Fairfield restaurant. After her husband, Charles T. Chap man, died it was proposed that Ang- erman should marry her. She took him to South Norwalk, showed him the Clifford hotel and told him that sine would purchase the esta blishment for him She presented him with many pieces of jewelry and endeavor. ed to induce him to accompany her to New York on several of the periodic trips she made to the metropolis.
 Angerman, being somewhat skep- tical paid no great attention to the amorous attentions of the woman. He accepted with thanks the generous re- membranes she used to hand him after meals at the restaurant, but stat ed that he never put much faith in her promises to make him her life partner to enjoy the estate of $7,000,- 900.
 Besides swindling all the big depart ment stores in New York, she over looked nothing in Bridgeport Every store of any note in this city is anxi- l 4o put her account on the profit and loss sheet She is alleged to have bor- rowed $750 from Miss Teller, a cashier employed at Writings wholesale house. This amount was the life sav- I ings of the girl. She also got $10,00C
 in cash from Miss Carry Bunnell of Westport, besides going away with 8 diamond solitaire ring valued at $1,- 900.
 Her maid, Margaret Graham
 whom she brought to Bridgeport from New York, was also victimized to the
 extent of $1,200. She gave the Gra-
 ham girl a note for S1,050 and noth-
 ing whatsoever for the balance This
 amount also represented the life say
 ings of the girl. She induced hel
 chauffeur, William Rich. to get his
 family to loan her $16,00o, which, il
 is feared, will go the way of his owl
 $4,000 and his two cars
 At the Blue Ribbon garage it wa:
 reported that she bought $9,OO(
 limousine for A. A. Angerman, bu
 the machine through delay in ship
 ment was never delivered. She als, bought cars in New York from deal CTS, but what has become of them n
 one seems to know. The Heral,
 Square Hotel, New York city sue,
 her and got judgment against her fo
 $6,000 of which $4,9SS.4S was bor rowed money.
 } According to a statement made b Margaret Graham, the maid, ther t was never anything to eat in tn ) house. Mrs. Chapman seldom enter tained, and the only visitors she ha, . were relatives from 38 Bleeke l, street, Brooklyn, and A. A. Anger = man, whom she told neighbors wa l son of Charles Evans Hughes, ex
 governor of New York and Republ1 3 can candidate in the last presidentis = election.
 g J. A Phelan and his wife who re side next door to the Chapman hom, S were also victimized. The PheIa1 f were told that the big factory i }, Worcester, Mass, which the goyerr d ment had taken over as munitio
 factory, was to be theirs. Mrs. Char = man took Mrs. Phelan around a gref e deal, but did not succeed in mulctin = her.
 II When seen at her home in IIordshj n Manor today Mrs. Phelan was too n to discuss the matter. She merel g said: T am worried i'll about th e whole matter and feel very, very sol IS ry for the poor people who have bee 't swindled by this woman. I am wo, > ried to death by all sorts of peop l. who come in an endless stream to m Il home inquiring if l know where u l. Chapman woman has gone. The on e place that I know where she might l
 is in Brooklyn
 It is understood at police headqua
 ters that the Chapman woman n
 alone got money from bankers, b,
 even bilked a Fairfield avenue barb N out of $35O on a spurious note. Wht I discussing the matter today Capta
 Cronan said: 'It is nonsense for an, l- one to say the Chapman woman cal to not be brought back to Bridgeport n- criminal charges. If it developes tn IT, the sensational charges are in ord IT, she can be brought back for any ol O. of the couple of hundred cases of 0 Y taining money under false prete l., tions." a. Mrs. Chapman widely advertised t 7g fact that Judge F. A. Bartlett was he attorney and that he allowed her s1 ,ix a week out of her estate for P
 money. Judge Bartlett denies that . was the woman's attorney in, any c . pacity except where she was in cot
 on some civil suits. She also aHeg S1, that she had a great lot of money "A vested in the Mott Iron Foundry
 New York, and that her big linen ia a" tory under the name of the Chapm ln and Black Linen Manufacturers nd Belfast, Ireland, was the largest n 6 of it's kind in the world.