Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-23
TURNED ADRIFT.
Inhuman Conduct Of q Marietta
Daughter.
She Turns Her Gray Haired Mother Out
of Doors at the Demand Of
Man She is About
E. to Marry.

Thursday evening there arrived in this
city from Pittsburgh, over the Panhandle
road, an aged German lady, gray haired
and bowed down with years, utterly desti-
tute of either money or friends, who had
lust passed through an experience OF hard
ship and suffering terrible to one so old,
and which, inflicted as it was at the hands
of a child, was
DoUBLY HAIR TO
A REGIsTER reporter seen her just after her
arrival, and from her CLEANED the follow
ing facts in her history:
The lady's name is Mrs. Catherine Meyer,
aged SO years, and she has heretofore re-
sided with her daughter, her husband be-
ing dead, at Marietta, o. On Monday, the
4th inst, Mrs. Meyer was driven from her
home by her daughter, who was about to
marry q man residing at Marietta, but who
refused to have the ceremony performed as
long as his intended's mother was about
the house he was to enter. The daughter,
whose i~nfatuation for her alliance was
stronger than her natural affection for her
parent,
TURNED HER ADRlFT
without a dollar OF money or sufficient
ClOlDlUR, anu WlNuOub Sah "a
existence except by begging. Mrs.
Meyer had a daughter residing in
Pittsburgh, and having no otherI resort ex-
cept to become an inmate OF some county
infrmary, she resolved to travel on foot to
her daughters, a journey OF over two huh
bred miles, and there claim an asylum dur
ing the few remaining years OF her life.
She accordingly set out from Marietta, ana
after toiling painfully for four days and
nights, begging food from farm houses ana
in the little towns along the route, she ar
rived at Bridgeport on the evening OF Fri
day, the Sth inst.
Crossing to this city she remained here
until the following day, being given shell
ter and food by some OF our German citi-
zens, when she
RESUMED HER PILGRIMAGE,
| reaching Pittsburgh sometime last week.
Here, however. a 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 there rendered her some assistance,
no one could be found willing to receive
her as a permanent addition to their fami-
". She was, therefore, turned adrift once
more in the great city without the where
withal to purchase q bite TO eat or a place
to lay her head. The old lady, by this
time
MOST BROKEN HEARTED,
| found her way to the Pan Handle depot,
intending to return to Wheeling on a
ticket furnished her by Pittsburgh friends.
But, apparently still pursued by fate,
she missed the train, and was compelled to
sleep in the depot all of Wednesday night.
taking the train the next day, and reaching
this city as above stated, on Thursday
morning. She had determined TO return
once more to Marietta and make a final ap'
peal to her daughter to give her food and
| Shelter, and thinking the sight Of her suf-
fering condition might move the guilty
couple to pity, some Germans here inter.
ested themselves in her behalf and found
her comfortable quarters in a private fami-
L.. and also procured from the Commits.
| sioners of Madison district a pass on a
steamboat to Marietta. Sometime after
midnight Thursday night, Mrs. Meyer,
UTTERLY WORN OFT
in mind and body, took sick, and not wish
ing to become a burden to her benefactors
in this city, gave up her pass and crossed
over into Bridgeport, intending to find
some one there or in Bellaire who would
| care for her and keep her, as she expressed
il, until / die, which won't be long"
Mrs. Meyer is almost heart. broken over
the treatment she has received, and the
blow coming on her in her old age has un-
doubtedly shortened her few remaining
days and hurried her feet toward the brink
| OF the grave she must otherwise soon have
| reached. Her daughters conduct, inspired
as it was by her lover. merits the hearty
| condemnation of every citizen of the cOm-
munity she disgraces, and the couple
should in some man1er be called to &C
count for the suffering and misery they
have cauSPi