Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-03
TWO RUINED HOMES.
A Gebhardt in the Case, but not
Freddie.
A NEW YORK POLITICAL IncKsTss
Playing in a New Role - He Elopes
With the Only Daughter Of
His Most Intimate
Friend.

NEw York, May 2-By the step taken
by ex-Deputy Sheriff VIM. F. Schneider,
in eIoping with the only daughter Of Jacob
Gebhardt, two happy households have been
rendered miserable. Schneider's wife, on
hearing the news, tainted away, and the
shock to her nervous system was so great
that she now lies dangerously i'll at the
family residence, s07 Fourth avenue.
The home OF Jacob Gebhardt is even
more desolate,
AsHe and His Good Wife.
who are somewhat advanced in years, are
deeply grieyed at the conduct of their only
child. In conversation with q reporter,
the grief-strieken couple said that it would
perhaps have been easier to besr had their
daughter become infatuated with a single
man; but to have gone of with married
man with family Of grown-up children,
who had been so intimate with them, was
what made the case so trying.
They first became acquainted with
Schneider when he kept a barber shop in
Bleeckeristreet, and they cigar shop three
doors above. That was seven years ago.
He and different
Members OF His Family
were then constant visitors at their house,
and they liked him very much. They new
er saw him pay any particular attention to
Louise, further than to laugh and joke
With her as he would any young girl.
When they left Bleecker street and moved
into Charles street they did not see 80 much
of him or his family. He occasionally drop
ped in and smoked cigar, but seemed
more
Interested I'm Politics
than anything else. He seemed to be some
what interested in Louiss's progress in
music, but they never saw anything suspi-
ciouS in his actions toward her. After they
removed into Avenue A, Schneider called
occasionally and smoked q cigar. They now
suppose that Louise, when she went up
town TO give music lessons, was IN the habit
of holding
CIandestIne Meetings
with Schneider, and that she finally be-
came so infatuated with him that he found
il an easy task to induce her to elope with
him. She came home as usual on Friday
afternoon, and during the evening she re-
ceiyed note, the contents Of which seemed
to excite her q great deal. Her parents
asked what the trouble was, and she said
she was about 70 lose one of her best pupils.
The family was
Going Into the Country
fer the summer, she said, and had written
her to come up 70 their house early next
morning to get her salary. She said she
should leave home early and then retired.
Next morning she partook Of q light break
fast and then hurried away, remsrking that
she would be home before long. This was
the last seen of her, and her parents heard
nothing until they received letter from
her written in Jersey City, at noon on Sat
urday, stating that she loved Schneider,
and was going 10
EIope with Him.
She hoped they would not curse her, as she
could not live without him, and requested
that they would not attempt to follow her,
as she would soon be far away. There
were two or three steamers leaving Jersey
City for Germany that morning, but Mr..
Gebhardt does not think the couple en-
barked. He says he has reason TO believe
that they took train for Philadelphia or
Baltimore. He Furthermore thinks that
his daughter will
- Return Home Before Long,
but says he can never receive her back as
his daughter. She took away great deal
of her clothing, but how she managed to
get il out of the house without the knowl-
edge of her parents is more than they can
tell.
Mr.. Gebhardt says that Tombs' messen-
ger saw Mr.. Schneiders son at the Tombs
yesterday, aud told him that he had
seen his
Father with . Pretty Girl
and about dozen pieces Of baggage at the
depot in Jersey City on Saturday evening
last. II this be true the couple could not
have departed for Europe that day. Schnei-
der is a handsome man, with blonde
mustache carefully trained, and is forty
four years of age. Louise is fine-looking
blonde, twenty four years of age, of refined
mappt rs, and speaks German and English
fuentIy. Schneider is supposed to have
taken at least $1,000 in cash with him.