The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-01
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Mention was made In the local columns
of the HtR,tp yesterday mornin ihhi
iIenh Neubtrl, the patentce Of NauoerPs
slone paving, was patient al the city nos
pital, where he was being treated Tor cpl
lepsy. His history IS OF more than ordt.
nary interest. A HERALD reporter chlleH
at the hospital yesterday to nave talh
with him, and found him wrapped IN Stun
Der, and was on the eve Of departing "hen
the patient 8woke WIN
cry Of pain. The steward came to his as
sislancc aud propped him up in bed. lie
Is A FrenChman by birth, naive OF l'of-
raine, France but his father immigrated 10
this country when he was mere child,
and settled in Charleston, south Oarolha,
where he amassed fortune, In following
mercantile pursuits, and speculauons III
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 q great desire for travel, lie VS.
tied the home OF his birth ana DINER parts
of Europe, and returned to new i tk'
where be met the unlucky star OF MS lie,
In the person of Susie Moore, better ana
Susie" with whom he became very much
enamored, and whom he subsequently
married. 1t was true she ulu
not move in the best of
social circles, yet the young tienchman
was so charmed by her marvellous beauty
that ho laid his all at her feet, and IN NJ
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 so much
wealth at her command to start a business
for herself, and she accordingly opened 8
large beer garden, which was irequented
every night by forty-three salarled
girls, whose business it was to induce the
men who visited the garden 10 buy wine or
Strangers were robbed in every conceivable
va, and so long as the police did not in
teri, re, which they occasionally did, the
"a en- made money fast and easy. The
t,c was very distasteful to him, for
his ordinations were to live honorably,
yet the siren had woven such a net
az ut him that he could not tree himsell,as
lie foolishly believed, from her iascinatlons,
and he sank deeper and deeper into tue
pool of iniuuity. The garden grew notorl-
Gus as a place of vice, sin and shame, anu
the nolice became more frequent N their
calls, but they scattered few seems VI a'nu
ness in the way OF dollars among them ,anG
the garden continued to make money. lie
knew that the woman he .adored. ana the
one whom be and the law recognized as his
wife, was polluted with crime, yet ne 9lung
to n, in the madness and lGiocy OF MS
burl,1g love. He watched her every
movement with jealous care, and When she
would sit upon the laps of the milllonaires
of Gotham, the green.eyed monster, jeal-
ousy, would take possession OF him and he
could hardly keep his hands oil them, Dut
when he would chide her she would tell
him that she cid it in Or
der to sell wine, and she did sell them
lots of it at fancy prices, II am making
money foByou and myself" she w9ula say,
"by merely sitting in their laps,so dom ret
about it, Among the number who visited
the garden was promising young lawyer,
named Southot, for whom the beauty gave
unmistaknble signs of affection. NenDert
saw this and in fit of jealousy, one night
as she was sitting in Soutnofs lap, ne shot
him through the head killing him instantly.
He was arrested and imprisoned ana sen
fenced to ten years imprisonment, put ne
appealed, and after she and he had spent
every dollar they had he was finally &C,
Quilted Being penniless, she ,quarre!lei
with him and he driftcd about New YORK
citv for some time, when he entered tie
service of the United States as a diver ana
operated on the Mississippi with Engineer
EadS. ana OH IDe COhSO Va Wv
GnIf of Mexico. He went back to New
York some time ago to look for her, to find
that she had died in a house Of shame.
On his way to Texas in stepping from car
ut Topeka, Kansas, he brOge his leg, when
has been mending rather slowly. He
worked his way to Denison, and nd y, was $50 So
down-spirited that he determined TO end
his miserable existence. He purchased a
large dose Of morphine, and hunting q Sc
Guestered spot, where he ina imagined inc ,,i ne
drug and Law down 20 die, but to use his
own words, "D-n it, a.cursed negro came
that way, discovered me, and reported a to
The police. who took me to the railroad de-
NOT wherr an Internal doctor pumped the
poison oyt 81 me, and brought me back to
a life of wretchedness and want
The HERALD contained q special about It,
bnt gof NV name Beubert. This was only
a few weeks ago." The patient is q, man OF
iine personal appearance and well educated y,s
Int SAYS that there is nothing in life for
him To- live for, and no one that he cares TO
live for.