Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-08
Love at First Sight.


About four months ago Mrs. Bertha
Heyduck, a lovely young German lady,
had the misfortune to lose her husband,
to whom she was tenderly attached and
to whom she had been married several
years. They lived in st. Louis. Mr..
Heyduck fell from q window, received
fatal injuries, and died, leaving fas-
cinating widow in INDECENT circum-
stances. Mrs. Heydnck, overcome by
the terrible loss she had sustained, sold
her effects, thereby raising sufficient
means to pay the expenses Of herself
and child, the latter 5 years old. to this
city, where her mother, brother, and
step-father resided, hoping through
their influence to procure remunerative
employment to provide sustenance for
herself and little one. But alas for hu-
man hopes! No cordial welcome greet
ed the grief-stricken widow and her ia
therless child upon their arrival here.
She was given to understand that she
must depend exclusively upon her
own exertions for livelihood. Heart
broken, without money and friends,
she vainly sought employment
without success. Last Saturday even
ing some difficulty occurred between
Mrs. Heyduck and her mother, which
so incensed the latter that she angrily
turned the penniless widow and child
into the street. For q moment the poor
woman was completely overcome, but
remembering an acquaintance, Mrs.
Dwyer, ALI Bush Street, to whom she
had been introduced since her arrival in
this city, she sought the hospitable
home of the kind lady, and with trem-
bling limbs attempted to mount the
stairs leading to the home Of the Dryer
family. Her strength, however, failed
her, and with q cry Of despair she sank
upon the stairs insensible, and, with her
child closely clasped to her bosom, fell
to the bottom. The noise of her fall
aroused the inmates, and they crowded
into the hall where they discovered Mrs.
Heyduck lying senseless at the foot Of
the stairs. It was q singular coinci-
dence that just four months to day
previous to the evening Mrs. Heyduck
met with this accident her husband lost
his life in o similar manner.
The mother and child were immedi-
ately Conveyed to an adjoining room,
where, after the proper restoratives had
been applied, the former recovered con-
sciousness-the child having sustained
no serious injury. Among those SYM
pathetic persons present was j. w. Par
sons, friend of the Dryers, gentle
man not only well known in this city,
but also throughout the entire Pacific
coast. For years he has bean in the
service of various steamship companies
of San Francisco, and is vt present
steward Of the Tam O'Shanter, which
plies between this port and Seattle. So
impressed was he with the beauty of the
fair widow, and 50 stirred by the tale Of
her sufferings and hardship, that his
sensitive heart was touched, and before
the evening closed he laid his hand and
fortune at her feet. Mrs. Heyduck ac-
cepted the generous offer Of the chiv-
alrous steward, and on Monday evening
the two were joined in the holy bonds
of matrimony by the Rev. Mr.. Williams,
of the Episcopal Church on Folsom
Street, the bride, in the absence of her
relatives, being given away by Mrs.
Dryer. The bride is brunette, about
% years Of age, refined in manners, and
IN accomplished musician.-San Fran
cisco ChroDicle.