The Washington times., 1920-08-12

servers from the office of District
Attorney Swami searched in vain yes
terday for c. F. Yaeger. wealthy
chemist. Efforts to find him were
made so he could be questioned re-
garding his friendship for Charlotte
Schuetze, the sixten-year-old German
immigrant, whom he met on a voyage
FROM Germany to America She be.
lieved that he was unmarried.
When process servers called at
Yaeger's apartment, col Cathedral
Parkway, he was not there. No In
formation as to his whereabouts
could be learned. He was not at his
| office. Last night a reporter was told
by employees at the Cathedral Park
way building that Yaeger had left
| there about 9 o'clock Tuesday even.
| ing.
| Assistant District Attorney Unger
| said that search for Yeager would
be continued today, as the inquiry was
disclosing facts that make Yaeger's
| evidence essential
SHE TELLS HER STORY.
Charlotte yesterday told Unger OF
her affection for Yaeger. whom she
| met on voyage from Germany to
America, and whom she had believed
| to be unmarried.
| The days investigation was con-
| fined to the reasons for Miss
Schuetze's mysterious disappearance
from her home at Ridgewood, Queens,
July 80. and her whereabouts between
that date and last Friday, when she
was found by a social worker at Penn
sylvania Station. Last night Unger
said:
There are some peculiar details
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crepancies which will call for another
| day of questioning"
The Intention is to determine II
| there are any features that warrant
| laying the matter before the United
States Attorney.
SHE WAS FOND OF HIM.
When seen by n reporter on Tues
| day, Mrs. Yaeger said that IL she
learned that her husbands interest in
Miss Schuetze when they were fellow
passengers on board the steamship
Manchuria were other than father
| ly." she would "leave at once" She
added:
81 was fooled into marrying Yaeger
myself. l knew little or nothing
about him. I didn't even know his
parents were living or that he had
been married before, until a few days
ago. This girl has my sympathy.
Probably she is so infatuated 1t will
affect her seriously at her age"
Miss Schuetze made no secret Of
her attitude toward Yaeger, who is
said to be forty-two years old. Ques-
TONED at the district attorneys office,
| she admitted she was deeply fond"
of Yaeger.
MYSTERY DAYS CLEARED.
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office with her mother. Mrs. Freda
Trinkle.
Unger earlier conferred with A.
Henry Ploenis, an employe of a Man
haitian hotel. Ploenis volunteered the
information that be and his wife had
cared for Miss Schuetze for three days
while she was penniless in New York,
and after she had told him she had no
parents and was alone in the city.
Ploenis said:
when l read that the girl said
that she loved Yaeger and that he
had promised to marry her, accord
ing to her story, / didn't want to
see him accused of having been a
party to Turing her away from home
or keeping her away"
Miss Schuetze told Mr.. Unger she
left home through love alone for
Yaeger," she added:
II went to her home somewhere in
New Jersey when couldn't hnd
Yaeger at the Broadway address,
where he had told me his chemical
business Offices were:
"Then l went to the Meyers Hotel
in Hoboken and met a woman named
Siedersleben there. She sent a telo.
gram 20 ST. Louis, where I thought
Yaeger might hN9a gone then