Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-12-10
Washington City, December 8, 1855
PURSUIT OF 4 rRE4NT HUsBAND.
From the ottou- ,.il.-.,-, rrrv Trader.

From the Ottox. ,.IIs-oi-) rrr- Trader.
for the last four years there has resided in
this city. with occasional intervals, one DR..
Askenazi. Hungarian physician "A small man,
of ill-favored yet strongly marked Jewish
eountenance speaking English and several
other European languages very brokenly, claim
ing To haze been surgeon in the Hungarian
patriot army in 1919, and to have come to this
country with kossuth, but by his vernacular
betraying that he was originally either form
Polanl or Southern Russia. His mode of life
was in the highest degree parsimonious-oecu-
pying generally small. cheap room, which
answered as well for his office as dormitory
and kitchen, in which he prepared his own
meals. Among his in,imltes, who were very
few, he passed as a man Of great learning, and
by those with whom he praeticed, a physi-
elan OF surgeon, he regarded a man of
great professional skill.
"Dr. Askeuzai, Hungarian was thus get
ting along smoothly and prosperously, until
some ten days ago. when his dream of repose
was very materially sFFg hh9sd f f6 be his
a|m TeGled rp pGGg5fiFh2I Garia6 mIriT Raf claims and
pcrierred against him certain wcighty charges,
the effect of which have been to place this lit
tie doctor in limbo from that day TO this.
The lady having proved the identity of her
man, sought legal adviser, in which she made
substantially the following statement:
Some twenty years ago. then lass of ff-
teen summers-the favorte of her parents,
who we're in easy circumstances. living in the
village of Kreena Krasnor p Russia, nearthe
boriers of Poland jcwess-she made the
acquaintance of young man-pOor. but dis
tingni>hed for hi. learning and piety named
Asbur Seltzar He had been educated for a
rabbi, and had greatly won the esteem and
confidence of the chief rabbi of the place, that
he was frequently entrusted with the admins
tration of The Jewish laws in his the chief
rabbi's) absence. Her parents and all parties
asserting, she was married to the learned
young rabbi.
On their marriage her parents gave them a
marriage portion Of about : 900, on which
they lived about n year at kreena. when the
young rabbi suddenly disappeared. and was
gone some three years before she ascertained
his whereabouts. Finally, she heard of him at
Danizie. in Prussia. whittier she followed him,
found him. and returned with him TO Serai. in
Poland. Here they lived together another
year. during which child was born to them.
When the child was some three months old,
they went on n visit to her mother at kreena-
remained there few weeks, then started back
for Serai. Arriving at the border, the rabbi,
it appeared. had provided passport only for
himself. and intimating to an officer that the
lady was none Of his, and had no passport. he
was conveyed across the stream, while she was
left behind. This the last she had seen
of her loving spouse until she met him ten days
ago in Ottawa.
But she unwilling TO give him up So
Arming herself with funds and the necessary
papers, she started in pursuit. She found traces
of him in various places throughout Europe,
but was never able 10 TX his locality until, after
some wears she learned that he had been at
Jerusalem-had been there married to a Sec
ond wife-had in year left her-had thence
been wandering over Europe, assuming the
character of ..Jerusalemite," begging funds
for the destitute children ofIsrael at Jerusalem;
that in this way he had accumulated consider
able money: that a brother of his second wife
had pursued him, found him in Germany, and
got Jewish writing of enforcement from
him. returned with it to Jerusalem and found
ii defective. followed him a second time. and
found him in London, where he got another
writing that was in due form. Then all traces
of him disappeared until some two years ago,
when she learned that he had deposited some
money with banker in Hanover, with orders
to forward it whittier he should direct by letter.
The banker finally got letter directing himto
send the money to a banker named Israel, in
Kalamazoo. Michigan. Thither she followed,
and there was informed that the money had
been sent 10 Seltzar in care of DIR. Askenazi,
here by accident met Dr. A. in the street,
whom she at once recognized as her truant lord.
The doctor made a feeble effort TO deny his
identity, but soon caved, and showed dispo-
sition to come to terms.
Her demands were reasonable enough. All
she asked was a enforcement and some 800 in
money TO enable her to return to her parents.
The first the Doctor was willing enough to ac-
cede TO, but being great miser utterly scouts
the latter proposition, TO evade which he tried
earnestly TO persuade hertO live with him again.
This she peremptorily declines, but commences
a proceeding in our Circuit Court for divorce
and alimony, and for fear her rabbi may
take leave of her again, she has him locked up
on a writ of ne Great.
The Doctor is known to have some eight or
ten thousand dollars in gold in his possession,
and could easy discharge the lady's moderate
demand but is so miserly that he may lingera
long while in Jail before he will do it. The lady
is not unhandsome, apparently very intelligent,
and evidently brim full of grit.