Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — How a Young Man Was Swindled by an Omaha Girl. [ARTICLE]

How a Young Man Was Swindled by an Omaha Girl.

About a month ago, or perhaps longer, a young, good-looking woman came to this city from Plattsmouth, in search of employment. She soon found work in a boarding and lunch houseon Tenth street as a waiter-girl at the table. Being convenient to the Union Pacific Railroad, overland travelers frequently take a lunch there while waiting for the train to start. One day there came to the bouse a map named Sol. Jenkins, from Missouri. He made arrangements to remain here a few days, as he wished to purchase a span of horses, as he said. The truth of it was that he became captivated and fell in love with the pretty waiter-girl on sight. The bachelor Jenkins easily made the acquaintance of the girl, and soon declared his love in the most fervent terms. That love was seemingly reciprocated, and when Jenkins proposed marriage he was accepted. He also suggested a trip to San Francisco, where they would lie married, and the girl acquiesced. He seemed to have plenty of money, and acted very liberally. As the story is told, the girl was all the time in “ cahoots,” so to speak, with her empployer, who had kept himself well informed as to the progress of events. It was arranged that the deceptive maiden should' get all she could out of the victim, start with him for San Francisco, and at Papillion station, just as the train resumed its westward course, step from the cars, and return to Omaha in a buggy with her employer, who would be there for that purpose. She needed a ’complete outfit in the clothes line'and she easily secured it from Jenkins, at a cost of about S2OO. He also presented her with some money and jewelry. The day arrived for the departure. They took their seats in the cars, side by side, after she had obtained possession of a first-class ticket to San Francisco, worth, we believe, about sllO. Her trunk had been placed in the baggage-car and checked through. That trunk was a fraud, as it contained only worthless ballast, subsfituted 'fbf 'ler cTotHTng. which had been left behind. The train arrived at Papillion, some fifteen miles from Omaha. The girl was taking a drink of water at one end of the car while her victim, was at the other, looking over some papers, having not the least suspicion that the idol of his heart would, as the train started up, step out on the platform and oft’ on the ground. But she did and, as the train went rapidly to the West, she was soon in a buggy with her employer, driving toward Omaha at a very lively gait, every step increasing the distance between the two. —Omaha Bee. —An undeniable case of “ broken heart” occurred in New Jersey the other day. Mrs. Jane Atkins dropped deauwhile preparing for her husband’s funeral. A postmortem examination revealed an actual rupture o’s heart, which w-as undoubtedly caused by the emotional excitement consequent upon her husband’s death. —The chicken and egg crop of France is worth annually $80,000,000. Eggs-actly how many hens are engaged in the business is not stated. Although it requires a good deal of scratching to' get along in this fowl treadle, the managers are determined to pullet through.— Timet.