The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-09-09
ARREST WOMAN
IN DRUG DEN
FORMER SIOUX CITY GlRI. FIG.
uRES IN 100000 LAWSUIT.

| Sioux City, Sept. "a pathetic
story OF frustrated mother love, a
story of maternal instinct that
struggled to find expression only to
be blasted by dope" Of a career
that began in a refined English
| home OF wealth and ended in the
dreary observation ward of hos
pital; the story of Mrs Nicholas
Schaefer, formerly of Sioux City, has
come out of Chicago.
Caught in a raid on a negro mar
cotic den and confined in a Chicago
hospital, where she is being treated
for the drug habit, Mrs. Marrabel
Howard Rockwell Schaefer, said to
be heiress to large English estate,
is the central figure in $1OO,000
suit started by her husband, Ser
geant Nicholas Schaefer, against Os-
car Bunte, millionaire candy king.
| Schaefer charges that his wife was
ment in luxurious style by Bunte,
whose money furnished the fumes
for the purchase of drugs that re-
suited in the woman becoming
hopeless addict. Bunte denies the
| charges.
Following her arrest i'm a negro
| dope den, Mrs. Schaefer was placed
in the observation ward of hos
pital. Tossing wildly on her cot and
consumed by the craving for drugs.
it is said the woman pleaded that
| she might be permitted to see her
| foster son. 1t was learned that she
| once had been resident of Sioux
City. and that the child, Ralph Rock
Boys and Girls home here on March
20, 1921. The lad was later adj
| judged feeble minded and sent to
| the state juvenile home at Toledo,
| la.
Peniless and facing tarvation,
l.. Rockwell, called Mrs. Ada Scar
ing, probation officer, to her room
in hotel here and, after explain
| ing that she was without funds and
| that neither she nor the child had
eaten anything for two days, asked
/ Ilipl thC OOy Ot IdhCh Ndb q Ols
According to her story, she had
4 adopted the child at the request of
a dying friend. At that time she
claimed to have been a nurse in
Winnipeg, Canada.
Later, she explained, she was mar
ried to Rockwell. an aviator at Fort
Sill, Okla. Rockwell was staying at
another hotel and had refused to
support either her or the child, she
declared. She asked that the lad be
placed in some home until she could
find work and take care of him her.
SELF
/ A little later Mr.. and Mrs. Rock
well were arrested on a charge of
defrauding a hotel keeper. The
couple disappeared shortly after the
case had been settled out of court.
/ Mrs. Soaring received letter
from Mrs. Rockwell in June from
Winnipeg, inquiring about the boy
and stating that she had sert mon
ey to pay for his care. The money
never had been received and subs,-
quent investigation revealed the
fact that Mrs. Rockwell had been
held in Winnipeg jail on charge
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Last fall a person claiming to be
Mrs. Rockwell called the Boys and
Girls home on the telephone from
Chicago and demanded the release
of the child. The woman gave Chi.
cago as her address, but subsequent
investigation by police failed to 10
,tcate Mrs. Rockwell. Apparently the
: dope demon once more had clutched
his victim and she was swallowed
up in the depths of the shadow,
. region haunted by forlorn wrecl,s Of
beins that once were men and WON
: en-.