The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-28
A MEXICAN ROMANCE.
Fortunes Of q Rsputsd Lunaho--Th
Romantic Career Of g German Ply
sician.
After Acquiring Wealth In Mexico, He Asks
Deliverance From the Asylum In
which the Alleged Ayarice or
His Relations Has Con-
signed Him.
Philadelphia Eews.l


positions taken before a notary public here
recently.
DR.. August Schultz, the patient in ques.
ton, is Al years Did. He can claim to be a
~cosmopolite. Born in Germany, he was ed
ucated in Paris, and after years spent in
walking the most renowned hospital of the
continent he carried his medical diploma to
the city of Mexico, and settled down for life
practice there. His attachments speedily
earned him lucrative practice and the fame
of being one of the most successful physi-
clans in the Southern Republic. He found the
people of that revolutionary cline in one Of
their chronic eruptions, but contrived TO e.
cape all such complications by stick
ing strictly 10 medical practice. Surprising
cures, rs they were regarded then, gave him
eminence in his profession. The fact that
he was a Frenchman to all intents and pur-
poses gave him high influence among the I'm
perialists, who blossomed into national ma
jorlty after the invading army Of Marshal
Bazaine had occupied the country. he was
made a member of the Prussian legation at
the City of Mexico, Baron Wagner represent
ing the North Germans there. Although he
held no position in the army of the republic
or of the empire, he was installed as the
private physician of the imperial court and
of most of the high French officers families,
including that of Marshal Bazaine. He found
his time fully occupied by professional duties
during all the time that the French army oc-
cupied Mexico, and when the order for evac-
uation came he found himself so well provided
with money that he determined to spend a
year OF two in foreign travel. He sailed from
Vera Cruz only a day before the embarkation
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the Emperor Macmillan met a soldier fate.
Desiring to return to Mexico he visited this
country a. a halfway stopping place, and
spent several months in our Eastern cities.
On his resettlement in Mexico he found no
difficulty in ~reacquiring practice. One of bis
first patients was the Marquis of Guadalupe
a representative of Iturbide Imperialism and
the head of one of the wealthiest and proud
est of the old Mexican blue-blOod families.
The old nobleman was i'll of a disease which
had bafied the skill of other m~ediciners, and
DIR. Schultz was called in. He wrought q
complete cure and established himself firmly
in the good graces of the old nobleman. Soon
sfterward the pretty daughter of the mar
quis was taken very i'll. andDr. Schultz again
demonstrated his superior skill. That cure
proved the source of the doctors ills, for the
pretty ~senorits gave unmistakable evidences
of Partially TO her healer, and he was not
slow to avail himself of the improvement in
his fortunes which alliance with her family
promised. The male defendants of
the marquis consisted of twU sons, who had
earned considerable celebrity IS gamblers
and fast young men, who scrupled at moth.
ing. They did not oppose the marriage; on
the contrary, they promoted it as promising
them resources for their dissipation.
The marquis had large estates in several
Mexican States. So great was his confidence
in his son-in-law that on the marriage of the
senorita all the estates were divided among
the brothers and sister. Madame Schultz be-
came possessed of haciendas in Leon and in
Agnes Calientas, at which the newly-married
couple made arrangements to spend most of
their time. All went well until DIR. Schultz
awoke TO the conviction that he was the hus.
band of an extremely jealous woman, of
great capacity for making her jealous conceits
heard, and the brother-in-lsw of two young
bloods, v no were able borrowers of cash.
DIR. Schultz's practice increased apace, and in
spite of the drain in loans to his wifeis re-
latives he accumulated wealth. he
established a hacienda and breeding
farm near the city, which came
to be regarded as one of the local places
of interest by reason of the completeness of
its appointments. His wife was a woman of
high social ambition and she seconded his
taste for a liberal hospitality. The trouble
was that the merest compliment which he
address to another woman became q terrible
Indictment against him at her deliverance
She contrlved to make his home so unhappy
that after the birth of their third child he
suggested and she agreed to a separation.
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The brothers-in-law meanwhile had con-
trived to become his debtors in nearly $4,000.
They would not pay and he sued. The court
awarded his full claims, and judgment was
satisfied by mortgages upon the estates which
each owned near the city. 1t was at this
time that the hostility of the family culminat-
ed. Mrs. Schultz had gone back to her
fathers house, where the doctor visited her
occasionally. His troubles had subjected him
to alcoholic temptation. He refurnished his
hacienda and restocked his stables. His
property by this time was valued at 100000.
Early last summer he was surprised by
what is known in Mexican law as a writ Of
prohibition. This enioined him from manag-
ing his own estate. and gave it into the hands
of his wife as trustee or tutrix. The writ was
based upon an alleged infirmity OF mind.
The issue was tried, the doctor says, before a
packed commission. Able and impartial ply
sicians were challenged and excused until
such were obtained as would serve the pur
poses of his prosecutors. The only testimony,
as he claims, which they brought in support
of the alleged lunacy, went TO show that he
hid bought furniture for his hacienda that
was not tasteful, and that he kept so horses
and mares for breeding purposes. The result
was that the writ was sustained, and his wife
was appointed his guardian. The doctor at
this time was residing at the hacienda in
Aguas Calientas, about 100 leagues from the
City of Mexico. His custom was to visit his
wife at least once a month at the hacienda in
Leon. Mrs. Schultz was in very delicate
health from pulmonary difficulty, and, de-
spite their bad terms, her husband continued
TO prescribe for her. BE sent her on one oc-
casion wine, which was not fully fermented,
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