The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-30
Bulletin.
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From the New York SUM-
HOyEsDALE, Pa, August 22.-In 1913.
John Se,z, young German clerk in a
store ia New York City, was engaged to be
married 10 German girl named Katherine
Eief The California gold fever breaking
out, Sci'z joined a party bound for that
region. The first letter that he received
nom home contained the int bgenee thai
Miss Rel was soon to become the mother
Of his ebilI. He wrote back that, tut for
the distance ard lack of means, he would
retrun at once Al j marry her. He pledged
himself TO come back as soon a. possible
and make her his wife. Soon after the birth
ofthe child the young woman came to Hons
dale with the family OF a brother. They heard
occssionly from Seitz. lie always renewed
his pledges, and said he was seeking for
tune alone to enable him to come East 10
get his wife and child. Then nothing furth-
er was heard from him, and after two or
three years he was looked upon as dead.
Mis- Refs brother was acarrisge.maker.
In his employ wssa young blacksmith,
named wendt. This man had professed
great love for Katherine from her first sp-
pearanee in this place. She refused his Of
fers of marriage for four or five years. At
length, believing that her lover was dead,
aud wishing TO relieve her brother OF the
burden OF herself and child, she accepted
the blacksmith, and they were married.
They went TO New York to live. Wendt
turned 4 TO be a brute. He abused and
neglected his wife so shamefully that she
soon broke down In heath.
4 few months after the marriage letter
came to Honsdale from setZ. He lad been
for long time in out-of-the-way diggings,
| and had nj last made his fortune. He was
about to start East after his wife and child.
| This news created great sensation in the
| family. Seitz arrived in Honesdale in due
| time, and was stunned al the news he was
| told. He determined to see once more the
woman he had loved and proceeded to New
| York for that purpose. He found her In a
| miserable tenement, dying of consumption
with no one near her but her infant child.
| She died a few DAYS sttefward, charging
| wendt with having caused her death. Seitz
| had her remains inferred in Greenwood
Cemetery. week afterward Wendt, no
doubt hlled with remorse, visited the spot
| where she was buried, and thot himself
| through the heart over her grave.
l seitz returned TO California, placir 9 his
| Guild in the charge OF his mothers relatives,
in Honesdale. The boy grew up under the
| pane of John Ref II was not until after
he was OF age that he learned his history
and right name. He became ajeweler. Six
| weeks ago he was Frustrated with hemor-
| rhsge OF the lungs, and on. Tuesday last he
| died. The night before his death letter
| was received from San Francisco saying
| that John Seitz, Of that city, was lying at
| the point ofsdeath. News has since been
| received that he died there Gil hour or 80
| before his sons death here. Seitz marie
| in California, and az the time of his death
| was very wealthy. He owned u handsome
residence in San Francisco, in which there
Is room, furnished elegantly, which seitz
called ''Johnny's room" 1t was fitted up
for his son in this place. who was too much
attached to his childhood's friends 10 go
there and occupy it, as his father frequently
| requested him to do. In all his letters Seitz
declared that his son should share equslly
with his other children in his wealth. 1t /.
supposed that the young man. dying as he
| did subsequent to his father. was heir TO al
handsome property. As he beqneathed al,
bis property to the aunt who reared him
this will tall TO her.