Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-03-19
LOveat Sixty.-A Romance Again
from Court.

from Court.
Tie trial, conviction, and sentence 10
death of DR.. Paul Schoeppe, a young Ger
man physician, for the murder OF MISS
Steinecke. a maiden lady, aged sixty years,
in PENNSYLVANIA, and his obtaining new
trial and acquittal, created much interest,"
last year. 1t will be remembered tha1 tiie
old lady was very wealthy and Schoeppe'
who is an adve,ittrer, ceurted her, asid, as
he alleges. married her. He is now suing
for her property in the Orphans Court o.
Baltimore. The trial came on Tuesday
and the s'Sun' says:
Mr.. Slingluff opened the case for Scho-
eppe, and called Robert A. Dobbill, VINO
testified that Miss Stelnnech had drawn
draft, of a will which he under stood nau
heen urobated in this court: that Will
drawn from the draft Was III MS liahdwri'
ING He also identified Miss SteliiEeckei
iand writing in a number OF letters II al Ny
| the counsel.
Mr.. Slingluff then read letter produce &
| Inv the executors, which was i.uhu ai:iols
| Miss Steinnecke'S enectS af.er her deat i.
II WAS written to her by Schoeppe IN ~ :
cember. 1868, and expresses grea. lhter''
| in her, alludes to tine expected departure
for Europe of II physician VINO had "HeleG
| To him his practice, worth $lU,OOO yeai
proyided he would first buy .hree houses Il
| the ply siclan, for $4,000.
| He also read ii letter, claimed to be III
| Miss Steinneckes handwriting, heade"
Contract of Marriage" dated lith Jan
| nary. 1869. entered into between Pau
| SclioeYpe and Malia M. Steinnecke, be-
| trothed December 8, 1868, STIMULATING to
paw ochoeppe S., 900, she to retain control
4,
| OF all her property until af1er her deatii.
when it Was to 60 to him; also fecelpI In
Schoeppe's handwriting for Jhe Si ,Uoo pohu
AS part payment OF the 5000. This was
also found among her effects. Also the
codicil empowering john r. Keiso, Jr.,
r and Rev. Mr.. Schoeppe, with Mrs. Sarah
/ Rice az umpire, TO determine any dispute
lin regard to her property.
MIR. Slinglutf put i'll evidence the note
Fer "A 900. on which it was stated suit had
been made in the Superior Court OF Baltl.
mo,e e: also a letter from Miss Stelnnecke
90 Dr.. Schoeppe, dated December 70, 1868
in which she refers to his next visit, and
asks him not to mention their petnIotiial
10 any one: a letter of December 20. ad.
dressed dearest DR.. Scheppe-Loved
ONE and a letter ut January 8, 1859, say:
ing the German wine given her by him had
An excellent effect, enabling her to sleep at
night. and requesting him to send heI
more. A letter was read, dated January
4. the day of the alleged marriage, telling
him to come at p. m. and she would give
him "a wedding present OF a vi .O0O Missouri
State bond and the note for 81, 900, payable
about April l, 1863.
Also letter or the 10Th, the day a1tel
marriage. addressed to my Darling II U.s.
band. y and stating she had gone to the
rank and drawn the money, and If he would
call that day she would give him the money
which he wanted. Another letter was read
of January Is, asking him to bring her ties
lament, that she wanted to make Il codlcll
anc another letter asking him not to buy
property of DR.. Hartman, AS she was told
by a gentleman that it was not worth the
money he was to pay for it, and asking
Schnppe to call and see her. She also
wrote that she had walked by his office the
day before, Sunday and that she did not
THINK it a safe place to deposit valuables
in, and that she longed 1Or his next visit
l'another letter asked him not to sell the
S4,O 900 note, as she would soon pay it.
A letter, dated January 81, addressing
Schoeppe as her Dearest Husband il
which she says: 'sDid / live those precious
hours last night" and that she would altel
hel will and give all her property TO hel
husband at once, as the Scriptures required
She wrote to him that she Was going tt
Baltimore on the I'D, and on the next day
that she would go OH the oath, and would
redeem the note for $4,000 on her return
closing by saying she 'longed for his visit
that night On the oath She wrote to hin
20 call, and that when he came TO see hel
That night she wanted his opinion Oh hel
studying German, if it would not injure
| ier ewes, On the 18th she sent him CHECK
on the Baltimore bank for $500, and asked
| .iin to return letter Oh credit for thai
| amount.