Widow Asks $10,000 for Love Swindle

Charges She Found Fiancé Had Wife Who Wanted Her to Buy Divorce

She promised to marry him—then discovered he was married. That, with certain other elements of humiliation, is worth $10,000 to Mrs. Mary Krystanowicz. Her suit opened in circuit court yesterday and will be resumed today.

The woman is 35, a widow, mother of five children and lives at 1108 Van Hook Street. The man she accused of obtaining her love under false pretense is Anton Trzaskowski, 45, of Red Hill, Pennsylvania. He boarded with her in Philadelphia and Camden after her husband died, she testified, proposed to her February 1, 1932, received her consent, postponed the ceremony several times, got $1650 from her to buy a car and a $60 suit and hat as the "wedding day" neared.

Then he tried to borrow $2000 from her to buy a farm. This deal hadn't gone through, however, when she visited her admirer's Red Hill farm and asserts she discovered his wife there. But the "last straw," she said, was when the man's wife hit on the idea of obtaining a divorce with cash advanced by Mrs. Krystanowicz.