The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-23
LOCAL INNINGS.
Few Leaves from the Life OF
Fortune Befeted Man..
A., Loving Father in Search OF
Loag-iost Son.
Tho Car Works and the Creditors
Telephone Courting.
Same Other Locals Of Much interest
"A STRANGE STORY.

s,s Incidents in the Life of Remark
~. ,pdiytdual-The Circe-From Afiiu-
.ooa To Poverty-Aimost Suicide.
Mantion was made in the local columns
- the HERALD yesterday mornin that
Henri Neubert, the patentee OF Neuoert's
Stone paving, was patient at the city hos
80 where he was being treated for cpl
ionsv His history is OF more than ordi.
.. lr,y interest. A HERALD reporter called
a, the hospital Yesterday TO have Il talk
~ NTH MIN, and found him wrapped in slum-
her and was on the eve of departing when
the patient ewose with u
crv of pain. The steward came to his as
ss,ance and propped him up IN bed. he
is a frenchman by birth' natlVe Oh Lor-
roina France, but his father lmmigrated to
This country when he was mere child,
and settled in Charleston, South Carolina,
where he amassed Il fortune, in following
mercantile pursuits, aud specnlauons in
cotton. The war swept most OF his wealth
away but still he started his son out in
life with $4,000 in hard cash.
The son had received liberal education,
and came home fresh from college pos
sessed OF great desire tor travel. lie Wis
lied the home OF his birth and other parts
of Europe, and returned 20 New 1orS,
where ne met the unlucky star OF his lie,
In the person of Susie Moore, better and
more Familiarity known as diamond
susie, with whom he became very much
epamored, and whom he subsequently
married. 1t was true she dlu
not move in the best of
social circles, yet the young Ffenchman
was so charmed by her marvellous beauty
that he laid his all at her feet, and in fit
ofmadness gave her both heart and fortune
At the time of their marriage Susie was an
actress and star at the Union Square the
atre, but she determined with 50 much
wealth at her command to start business
for herself, and she accordingly opened a
large beer garden, which was trequented
every night by forty-three salaried
girls, whose business it was to induce the
men who visited the garden 10 buy wine or
beer, which was sold at ruinous prices.
Strangers were robbed in every conceivable
way, and so long as the police did not In
terfere which they occasionally did, the
garden made money last and easy. The
life was very d,stastetul to him, Tor
his inclnations were to live honorably,
yet the siren had woven such Il net
about him that he could not free himself las
he foolishly believed, from her destinations
and he sank deeper and deeper into the
pool OF iniquity. The garden grew notori..
GUS AS a place of vics, Sin and shame, and
the police became more frequent IN their
calls, but they scattered Il few seeds oil KIND
ness in the way OF dollars among them, and
the garden continued 10 make money. iie
knew that the woman he .adored. and the
one whom he and the law recognized as his
wife, was polluted with crime, yet he chung
to her in the madness and idioCy OF his
burning love. lie watched her every
al a
would sit upon the laps of the millionaires
OF Gotham, 'the green,eyed monster, jeal.
ousy, would take possession OF him and he
could hardly keep his hands off them, but
when he would chide her she would tell
him that she did it in or
der TO sell wine, and she did sell them
lots of it at fancy prices. am making
money for you and myself" she would say,
by merely sitting in their laps,so don q fret
about it, Among the number who visited
the garden was a promisingyoupg lawyer
named Southoi, for whom the beauty gave
unmistakaoe signs Of affection. Neubert
saw this, and in fit of jealousy, one night
as she was sitting in Southofs lap, he shot
him through the head, killing him instantly.
he was arrested and imprisoned and SEN
fenced TO ten years Imprisonment, but he
appealed, and after she and he had spent
every dollar they had he was finally ac-
quilted. Being penniless, she quarrelled
with him and he dritcd about New York
city for some time, when he entered the
service of the United States as a diver and
operated on the Mississippi with Engineer
Eads, and off the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico. He went back to New
York some time ago to look for her, to find
that she had died in house of shame.
On his way to Texas in stepping from car
at Topeka, Kansas he broke his leg, which
has been mending rather slowly. He
worke! his way to Denison and was so
down-spirited that lie determined to end
his miserable existence. He purchased a
Large dose of morphine, and hunting Sc
qlestered spot, where he imagined he
would not be discovered, he took the fatal
drug and lay down to die, but to use his
own words, "D--n ii, a..cursed negro came
that way, discovered me, and reported to
the police, who took me to the railroad de.
pot, where an internal doctor pumped the
poison out OF me, and brought me back to
q life of wretchedness and want.
The HERALD contained a special about it,
but got my name Beubert. This was only
n few weeks ago The patient is q man Of
fine personal appearance aud well educated,
but says that there is nothing in life for
him to live for, and no one that he cares TO