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Show ELSIE WAS FAT AND FORTY, BUT SUCKERS FELL FOR HER Supported Husband and Two Children Chil-dren by Selling Her Charms by Mail. Los Angeles. She was fat and forty, aud had a husband and, if you believe the government's postal inspectors, she had a sweetheart in every port, too. The lady In question Is Mrs. Elsie El-sie Weisert, who supported friend husband and their two children by selling her charms for cash by mail. Wouldn't some one like a nice German wife? A buxom girl of thirty who was a swell cook? Didn't some lad want to marry her? . . The romantic suckers replied that they did. The practical Mrs. Weisert and the chuckling husband wrote to the new boy friends asking ask-ing for railroad fare with which to hasten to waiting arms. But in stalked grim tragedy. The po'or little German girl's mother had died in Europe. She had to go home. So another romance was knocked on the head. That's the post office inspector's story nnd they are sticking to It. Mrs. Weisert Weis-ert and her husband, John, have confessed that the charges are true. , "Yes, that's the way we worked It," Weisert said in the county Jail, where he is held In lieu of $2,000 bond. "We had to live and that was an easy way to get money. "It's all my fault, though. 1 wrote so many letters that I was almost ready to marry some one myself." The "bride-to-be" was released on her own recognizance to care for their two young children. Date of trial lu federal court has not been set. According to postal Inspectors a Denver matrimonial magazine was used In the alleged scheme. The husband would write to the paper, eacli time listing his wife under a different name. . And suili nice German namc-s Anna Wolf, Elsie Schlitt, Elsie Hammer, Martha Schmidt, Martha Bowman. Then the magazine would send the name of the "lonely girl" to an inquiring "lonely man." But when the suckers started to protest about the railroad fares, the magazine mag-azine turned the matter over to the postal inspectors and the Weiserts were traced through some of the addresses listed as the home of the buxom German girl. |