‘FADE-OUT’ MAN
HALTS WEDDING
Wealthy Fiance of Sophie Loder
hose Provides Brooklyn
First-Class Mystery.
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BRIDE-TO-BE IS SICK
Day Before Wedding News Is Received
of Man's Death in Auto Accident—
Investigation Shows No Such
Accident Occurred.
New York.—Miss Sophie Loderhose
^447 Dean street, Brooklyn, is un
der the care of physicians following
her heart-breaking experience with a
fiance whose personality is shrouded
in mystery.
The man she expected to marry was
known to her as “Dr. A. William Hoff
man, Jr.,” an officer of the United
States navy, a man of wealth, who was
supposed to have homes in Millbrook.
N. Y.. and Pasadena, Cal., and whose
father was supposed to have been a
well-known physician of Brooklyn.
Miss Loderhose met “Doctor Hoff
man” first at a dance through a wom
an who said she was Doctor Hoffman's
sister.
Courted by Telephone.
Following the engagement last
March Miss Loderhose received many
valuable gifts from the man, including
a four-carat diamond ring.
She was constantly called on the tel
ephone by “Doctor Hoffman” and
tflfc'se calls purported to come either
from Millbrook, and more lately from
Pasadena. Cal. Miss Loderhose some
times conversed for hours with her
fiance, who. she said, told her he was
in Pasadena supervising the erection
of Ihe home in which they were to live.
The date for the wedding was set
and invitations were issued. Elaborate
arrangements for the wedding were
made, including rearrangement of the
Was Constantly Called on the Tele
phone by “Dr. Hoffman."
seats of Immanuel Lutheran c-hureh,
whose pastor. Rev. John C. Holthau
sen, was to have performed the cere:
mony.
^ Halted by Death Report.
The day before that set for the wed
ding came the news that “Doctor Hoff
ma|” on his way east from Pasadena,
wh* in an automobile with a friend,
“Doctor Cochrane’’ (who had been
named as one of the ushers) had been
killed in an automobile accident at
French Lick Springs, Ind.
The information came in the form of
a long-distance telephone message to
'Miss Loderhose, from a person who
said he was Doctor Hoffman, Sr., fa
ther of the mysterious fiance.
Doctor Holthausen’s suspicions had
become aroused, as had those of W. P.
Phillips of Brooklyn. Miss Loderhose’s
brother-in-law. Independent investiga
tions by both men have established
the fact that no Doctor Hoffman is
known either in Millbrook or in Pasa
dena ; that no automobile accident oc
curred in or near French Lick Springs
on the date of the supposed death of
Doctor Hoffman, that no Doctor Hoff
man is listed in the medical directories
of Brooklyn.
STEALS SACRAMENTAL WINE
Thief Siphons Nine Barrels of Li
* quor From Dealer's Cellar
in New York.
New York.—Theft of nine barrels
of wine, intended for sacramental
services in churches, was recently
reported by a wholesale dealer.
The owner said the wine had been
siphoned from his basement, where
it was stored, to an adjoiniqg cellar
by means of a 75-foot pipd. The loss
of the liquor was not discovered until
some time after the theft.
‘Dead' Goat Lived When Thawed Out.
VVinsted, Conn.—Going to his .goat
barn early in the morning, B. E.
Moore, found a newly-born kid, which
^apparently had frozen to death. He put
it in the oven in the kitchen. The little
goat thawed out and soon was able to
stfemper about the house.
YOUTH IS FOUND
LIVING IN SEWER
Rats as Companions Had tfo
Terror for This Buffalo
Boy.
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Buffalo N. Y.—Living in a sewer,
with rats as companions, has no terror
for Anthony Kaskiniski, sixteen years
old. Thirty one morning he was hauled
from his underground apartment by
police after the lad had been seen en
tering a teap to the sewer.
When the police came upon the
youth lie was sound asleep. He was
annoyed at the rude awakening and
wanted to. know why he was being dis
turbed.
While the police were urging the
youthful hermit to come out several '■
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“They Never Eit Me Once.”
friendly rats ventured forth and
watched proceedings from the corner.
The young prisoner said .he left his
home about six months ago. Two
months later, he says, he decided that
the sewer should he his future home. !
He had covered the walls with canvas j
sheeting, had bought tin old mattress
from a junk man for a bed, had a dis
carded blanket for covering, and said
he was happy.
Tlie lad told the police he had tried '
several experiments with boys as com-1
panions, but that they always were i
! frightened by tlie rats,
j “I never knowed any nicer ’r better
rats,” he explained. “They never bit
me once; maybe that was because I
was good to ’em and gave ’em lots to
eat. I had two specially good pals
with them and them two used to sleep
in the mattress with rue every night.”
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The silver in a dollar now costs five
cents more than the dollar. But then
in these days a dollar isn’t so much.
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Divorce Suit Too Old.
i Los Angeles.—Ten years is too long
j to have a divorce ease hang fire,
Judge Taft ruled when he dismissed
the action of Primitino Piatte against
Ramona Piatte. The suit was tiled in
I 1909. Piatte never pressed the action,
but ye-aerday Mrs. Piatte came to
court seeking a decree on her cross
complaint.
“This case is as dead as Caesar’s
j ghost.” said the judge. “It’s so stale
! that I'll dismiss it.”
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MRS. SWANBERG
PROHIBITION
HAS REDUCED
NEW YORK, March 12 (by Associ
ited Press).—More foreigners are
eaving the United States than are
irriving, on account of the prohibition
ict, according to Congressman Isaac
Siegel of New York, a member of the
mmigration committee of the house of
representatives. He said that 53,000
mmigrants had arrived here since
January 1, and that 61,000 persons had
eft during the same period.
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PAUL QESCHANEL
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Paul Deschanel, who was elected
president of France to succeed Presi
dent Poincare. He was born in Brus
sels in 1857 during the exile in Bel
gium cf his father, Emile Deschanel,
senator and professor of the coliege ot
Paris.
I NOSKE MUST KEEP BERLIN QUIET j
Rioting in Berlin and other cities
of Germany directs attention to Gus
1av Xoske, German minister of de
fense. Martial law, which had been
done away with, was again declared
and Xoske was appointed commander
in chief for the greater Berlin district
and Brandenburg province. Xoske is
generally regarded as a strong man for
whom drastic measures and bloodshed
have no terrors.
The first rioting, which resulted
lp the death of forty-two persons and
the wounding of 105, resulted from an
attempt to start a general revolution.
The uprising was to occur in all Ger
many and was led by radical govern
ment officials, it is officially declared.
Developments indicate that Presi
dent Ebert and Premier Bauer in
vited the trouble by the raising of the
state of siege which had been hanging
over Berlin since spring and in other
wise moderating tne regulations cal
culated to restrain the independent and Communist agitators.
The government is apparently supported by all factions except the ex- *
treme radicals. The Social Democratic party has issued an appeal asking
whether the workers will permit national representation to be placed under
terrorism, and telling them that the German nation can be saved from com
plete destruction only by work.
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