The true northerner., 1874-12-11
WHOLE NO. 1923.
Come to Their Own.

Mons. M. BARITONE was a wealthy
shipping merchant of New Orleans. He
had been married-his wife died, leav-
ing him two children, son and
daughter. They were well-grown in
1859, when their father had become
enamored of beautiful woman, Sarah
Waltz, and married her. The children
did not like their fathers new wife,
and would not recognize her as a moth
er. To make peace in the family, Nj.
BARITONE sent his children to school in
New York, and provided literally for
their maintenance. He lived alone
with his wife, for society had shut its
doors against him and her. At the end
of about year he became i'll, and the
doctors did not understand his disease.
He grew worse, and they had q consult
alton. Mrs. BARITONE was her hus-
bands sole nurse, and would accept no
aid in the sick room. She nursed ane
gave the medicines, and was sleepless
and unremitting in her attentions. The
doctors, in consultation, pronounced
the disease with which M. BARITONE
suffered incurable. Mrs. BARITONE
burst into paroxysms of grief. The
next morning she was gone, and also
her jewels, and fine dresses, and large
sum of M. Barthone's money, was gone
with her. She was gone with Hans
Smith, an old lover of hers, across the
sea, as was soon ascertained. The ply
sicians did not at once tell BARITONE of
al this, but they thought they had
found the key to his illness. They as
certained the nature of the poison upon
which he been feeding, and set about
trying to save him now that his attentive
nurse was gone. They succeeded, and
NJ. BARITONE got about again, but never
recovered from his treatment ard the
shock of his family troubles. At length
he closed up his business in New Or
leans, sold his property, and removed
to New York to rejoin his chill
dren. He could not find them.
They had months before left the
institution in which they were
placed, and the managers supposed
they were at home in New Orleans. NJ.
BARITONE never more heard a word
from his children. He died in Brook
lyn in 1864, and left his property to his
wife, should she ever appear to claim
it, and in the hands of the Treasurer OF
the city of Brooklyn, subject to her
CldlLu. SOLiC ucNtI Grille. IIdIcly luo
son aud daughter appeared, and gave
an account of themselves. They had
never known of the residence of their
father in Brooklyn during his life. The
daughter was married. She had run
away from school to consummate this
happiness, and had not made mis-
take. The young man had been pursu-
ing an obscure career in New Haven,
Conn. The son and daughter of NJ.
BARITONE commenced proceedings to
prove their title to the money their
father left in the hands of the Treasurer
of Brooklyn. They engaged lawyer
and employed detectives to discover
what had become of the runaway wife
of their father. Experts went to New
Orleans to work up the case, and they
did it effectually. The eloping pair
went to Paris and lived in luxury long
as Barthone's money lasted, then Hans
Smith left Mrs. BARITONE to her fate.
The deserted woman succeeded in max
ing her way back to New Orleans, and
closed disreputable life in that city in
1873. Proofs of the death of the woman
were obtained and presented 10 tho
authorities in Brooklyn, and
the son and daughter have just come
to their own, the court having issued
an order on the Treasurer of Brooklyn
for the delivery of the money held in
trust by him into the hands of NJ Bar
thOne's children.