The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-05
A HEARTLEss.DAUaHTER.
Driving Her Aged Mother From Homo to
Please Her Lover,


Driving Her Aged Mother From Home to
Please Her Lover,
A Wheeling, West Virginia, correspon-
dent says: There arrived in this city this
morning from Pittsbarg, over the Pan
Handle road, an aged lady, gray-haired
and bowed down with years, and utterly
destitute of either money or friends, who
had Just passed through an experience of
hardship and suffering terrible to one so
old, and which, inflicted as it was at the
hands of an only daughter, was doubly
ter her arrival, and from her cleaned the
following facts in her history: Her name
is Mrs. Kate Meyer; she is SO years old, and
has heretofore resided with her daughters
family at Marietta, Ohio. The daughters
husband died year ago, and she being
remarkably prepossessing woman, although
40 years of age, became engaged to we'll
known m.n Of and Mariett wealthy Who young o%,
ever, demanded that the old lady be
driven from home or otherwise disposed of
Accordingly, on Monday, the 18th inst,
Mrs. Meyer was driven from her home by
her daughter, without dollar of money or.
sufficient clothing, and without means OF
existence except by begging. Mrs. Meyer
had another daughter residing in Pitts
burgh, and having no other resort, except
to become an inmate of some county IN
Urinary, she resolved to travel on foot to
her daughters, journey over two hun
bred miles, and there claim an asylum dur
ing the few remaining years of her life.
She accordingly set out from Marietta, and
after toiling faithfully for four days and
nights, begging food from farm-houses and
in the little towns along the route, she ar
rived at Bridgeport on the evening of Fri
day, the 10Th inst, after tramp of about
seventy-five miles.
Crossing to this city, she remained here
and food by some of our German citizens,
when she resumed her pilgrimage, reach
ing Pittsburgh last Tuesday. Here, howev-
er, q fresh trouble awaited her. Her
daughter. she found, had removed some
fifty or sixty miles outside the city and
had there died, and although German
friends rendered her some assistance,
no one could be found willing
to receive her as permanent addition to
adrift once more in the great city without
means to purchase bite to eat or place
to lay her head. The old lady, by this
time almost broKen-hearted, found her way
to the Panhandle station, intending to re-
turn TO Wheeling on the ticket furnished
her by Pittsburg friends. But, apparently
still pursued by fate, she missed the train
and was compelled to sleep in the station
all of Wednesday night, taking the train
the next day and reaching this city this
morning. She had determined to return
once more to Marietta and make final APP
peal to her daughter to give her food and
shelter, thinking the sight of her suffering
condition might move the guilty couple to
pity. She intended leaving to-day, some
citizens who had interested themselves in
her behalf, furnishing her with means. but
utterly worn out in mind and body, Mrs.
Meyer this morning became sick, and has
rapidly grown worse until her life is now
despaired of, and it is probable that to-
morrow will see her out of the lovers way
for good. The affair has created a tremend-
GUS sensation in Marietta, where all the
parties are well known.