The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-06
From the Daily OF Tuesday.
AN E~SOULAPIAN LOTHAT[ 10.
DR.. Weitman Steals the Affections
OF a Wife and Mother, and
L. Invited by the
Citizens to Take
q Walk.
Boulder's Latest and Greatest
Sensation.
Tell-Tale Billet-DOux.
Tell-Tale Billet

special Corr. Of tho MINER.
BOULDER CITY, June 2. 1883.
The wife of a gentleman living in
this vicinity has been taken sick
every. few days during the last six
mouths: During all this time, Dr..
). I. Weltman, . physician residing
in Boulder, has been attending her.
Every ether day, or every
rev. days at the farthest,
the Doctor has been hastily
summoned to her bedside to find her
apparently in q helpless state or
writh1ng in the agonies of pain. On
some of these occasions the Doctor
would give her . powder; on others a
hypsrdermic injection, which would
have the effect to restore her to
health in . few days, but no sooner
would she recover than she would be
taken down again, and it has
been repeated over again every
few days during the past
six months. The entire community
s~ympathize with the stricken family.
A month or two ago the husband
thought the Doctor could not under
stand his wife's case and proposed to
call In another physician, but she
would not consent. A change of
physicians she said would kill her.
She kept on getting sick all the same
and the Doctor was almost constantly
at her bedside. At length the hus-
bands suspicious were aroused, and
family jars ensued, and she declared
that she would live with him no
longer.
A few days since, during her tenn
porary absence from home, her hus-
band entered the house and stole out
a oasket or box in which she kept her
jewelry and other valuables, and car
ried it to the house Of a friend. On
opening it q whole volume of the
most ardent love letters written in
the unmistakable handwriting of the
Doctor, was found and perused. In
them was revealed a plot to get pos
session of the husbands property
and wreck him physically and NOR
ally, and advising her to play sick in
order that he might have an oppor-
tunity to visit her at all times.
Last Thursday afternoon the hus-
band got q few of his friends together
and had the letters read to them. It
was with the greatest difficulty that
they were restrained from hanging
the Doctor at once. That evening
souriers were sent out to leading citi-
zens of the valley, many of whom
came into town. A long and excit-
ing conference was held, some urg-
ing that he be hung, others voting to
tar and feather him, or ride him out
of town on a rail, while others in
sisted that a more mild course be pur-
sued, and that he be ordered out of
the town with a warning never to re-
turn. The counsels OF the latter pre-
vailed, and at daylight yesterday
morning the entire crowd waited
upon the Doctor at his hotel, and
read to him the verdict of the. meet
ing and ordered him to go, and not
to stand upon the order Of his going
but 60 at once. He "a polite enough
to go, and when LAST heard from was
vending his way on foot over the
mountains toward the West.
DR.. Weitman came from Philips
burg to Boulder. He has lived in
Oakland, Gala. He is about five feet
eight inches tall, very heavy or pus-
sy, light complexion, with scars on
face and hands. He leaves debts be-
hind him amounting to five or six
hundred dollars. Every man in or
about town in business of any kind
has been victimized by him. E.