Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — Servant Was Paid No Wages But Was Taken to Cemetery Occasionally Just as Treat [ARTICLE]

Servant Was Paid No Wages But Was Taken to Cemetery Occasionally Just as Treat

An unusual servant In these days of high-priced help appeared before Justice Cropsey in Brooklyn in Euphrosnia Wiegert, who worked 13 years for Mrs. Josephine Prentice of Brooklyn, and says she collected only $171.90 for services, says the New York World. She sued Mrs. Prentice’s estate for $3,398 and a Jury gave her a verdict for $2,066. ~~7~ Miss Wiegert testified that she worked for Mrs. Prentice from 1902 to 1915, when the latter died. The maid said Mrs. Prentice promised to remunerate her _ upon the. death of her mother, when she would come into an estate left by her father. The girl’s wages first were $lB a month, she testified; later they were raised to $22.Mrs. Prentice and her mother died within a short time of each other, failing to provide for the faithful servant. Mrs. Margaret M. John, formerly a neighbor of Mrs. Prentice, testified: “Mrs. Prentice told me she thought a great deal of Rose. She said that sometimes she gave Rose 25 or 50 cents, but did not pay her any wages. Just for a treat. Mrs. Prentice said, she would take Rose to the cemetery and buy her a lunch. She said she Intended to be very good to Rose when her mother’s estate was settled.”