Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-25
LOVE AND FAITH.


Interesting History of Polish Family. |
TscO Walls, but 40 Heirs-Tbe Property |
Claimed by Rec. Netcland Maynard-Cdn |
Aliens Inhe7if
brooklyn Eagle
Rev. Newland Maynard. chaplain of the |
Forty-seventh regiment of this city, has |
an action pending against his brother, !
Foster J. Maynard, of Flushing, for the |
partition of real estate situated at Amity- !
vile, L. 1. The case was on the calendar |
of the circuit court of Queens county for |
trial yesterday, but after hearing counsel |
Judge Barnard took the papers, remarking |
that he would either send it to referee or |
grant stay Of ninety days. The reason |
for this was the fact that some alleged |
heirs in a foreign country are minors, and |
representative of their interests is ex-
soon to reach New York. A bill affecting
the same property is at present pending in
the legislature. 1t provides for vestipg
| the title to the property in Foster j. May
| nard, the prior owners at the time of their
decease leaving no direct issue to inherit
| the property. The Maynards claim to be
related to one of the parties, by whose
death and will the property descended to
her husband. but advantage has been taken
of the death of both husband and wife to
probate the husbands will only. If the
heirs of the husband contest the
claim of the Maynards questions of inter
est will arise On the trial. The woman
died first, and the case at present has the
novelty of a dead woman inheriting an
estate.
There is a tragic side to this case.
Joseph de Sendzimer and his wife came
from Poland and settled in Amityville.
He had been soldier IN the Prussian
army. They had money and made an in
vestment in a farm. He was an educated
man, but eccentric, his neighbors said.
For many years Mrs. de Sendzimer was
afflicted with rheumatism and walked but
little. Her husband took her about the
country for pleasure in two wheel cart
drawn by a mule, he walking and leading
the animal. In 1872 they made their
wills, he bequeathing everything to her
and she to him. Mrs. de Sendzimer died in
June, 1881, and was buried in the village
cemetery. Mr.. de Sendzimer was almost
heartbroken. They had often expressed
wish to die together and be buried in the
same grave. Mrs. de Sendzimer's body
was buried in a vault in the village ceme-
terry, specially constructed of brick, and a
stone weighing two tons was placed over
it. From evidence found in the home
stead it was plain that Mr.. de Sendzimer
contemplated suicide soon after his wife's
death. On July he wrote note and ad-
dressed it to the coroner, saying that he
had committed suicide. This was found
tucked away in a pistol case. Though he
delayed taking his life, it seems to have
been to enable him to arrange his worldly
affairs. He had his self-destruction con-
stantly in view. Early in August he be-
gan giving away his personal property, in
GLIDING the live stock on the farm and his
household effects.
THE OLD MANS DEATH.
On Tuesday, August 16, he wrote two
letters. One he mailed and the other he
nailed to beam in the carriage house
coupled with slip of paper requesting
the finder TO do him the favor to mail it
two weeks after his death should have been
discovered. That night he stole quietly
out of the house and proceeded to the
graveyard. He was missed the next morn
ing. In his room was found note he had
written and addressed to Ketcham Heartt,
saying that he had concluded to follow his
wife, and closing as fellows:
with my funeral make the least fuss.
I want only a soldiers burial. No hearse,
no preaching, no funeral. Put me quietly
in the grave my wife is in, and cover me-
with earth and the stone slab"
The mans dead body was found beside
the grave of his wife. With a razor he
had cut his throat from ear to ear. On the
stone slab he left his pistol case, and be-
side it two revolvers which he had carried
in the army. Both were loaded. Two
razors, with the blades exposed, and his
old clay pipe lay near the pistols. The
pistol case contained his handkerchief, col
lar and necktie, a box of percussion caps
a bottle of beer containing arsenic, and a
letter addressed to the coroner. In his
coat pockets were a revolver and pocket
knife and his wife's old slippers. He
carefully arranged his straw hat and a
rubber blanket at the head of the vault.
He leveled the dirt at one side of the vault
with his hands, spread blanket over the
ground, drank the poisoned beer and, then
lying down, severed his windpipe with the
razor. He was seventy eight years old and
an infdel. His wife had been Christian.
In his letter to the coroner he Said 81 con-
slider suicide a perfectly private con.
J Germ. Life has got no allurements for me
now. l desire only to be with my wife
anyhow"
The will left by the suicide was as fol
lows: ''By this will and testament be-
queath and give all my property and ex-
pectations to my beloved wife, that she
use it according as she wishes and dispose
of it after her death as she may please.
Mrs. de Sendzimer's will bequeathing her
!. property to her husband was in similar
language. Foster J. Maynard, who had
the above will admitted to probate, was ap-
pointed administrator of the estate with
the will annexed. Mr.. de Sendzimer has
brother in Warsaw, Poland, and there
are said to be other heirs, including chill
dren of deceased sister. Mrs. de Send
timers will was never offered for probate.
Fond an Excuse.
Detroit Free Press.