Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-18
A BABY BRIDE.
/ Tale Of the Welded Life Of Fran
els A. Ditsler.
!, Cured by q Patent Medicine Man
who Marries Her.

&sville, January 15.-The Com
publishes the following st range
Il About two weeks ago a very
family moved into the neigh
bd of Campbell and Jacob streets.
$ented few rooms in the second
II house three doors north of
The family consisted
elderly-looking woman, a
man and alittle girl about eleven
bid. They were poor-looking,
eir strange actions excited the
ons of the neighbors. The little
Is kept very close, and seemed
lnlike any other little girl. She
Hate in her manners, retired, of
BIRDS and very melancholy. Her
spirit seemed to be weighed
by some terrible pressure. She
aughed or played as other little
her age. Though well formed
ssessed of striking beauty, there
|total absence of spirit in her eye
hntenance. She was continually
with her doll, and sought the
w of older people. The attention
body was attracted to her, and
Interest in the history of the
was developed. Curious old
in the neighborhood would
K girl off, and then, by willy
10. endeavor to draw from her
Dry of her strange family. But
proved too sharp for their tricks.
5 always on the alert and in
kly parted all their attempts to
Sny information from her. BY
aeans or other a rumor was cir
that the old man had
III strange connection with
Al little girl. Numerous
REPORTS were circulated also, but
fe alone seemed to make an inn
M upon the minds of the neigh
Md grew from day to day, and
Z assumed such magnitude than
2tbrcak was inevitable. The men
t&ned to investigate the matter
fDlves, but their wives, deeming
+ actions as unwholsome for the
1 and quiet of the neighborhood.
|knpon a better plan, and yester-
|nformed Officers Diefenbach and
acpl of their suspicious. They de-
ined to investigate the matter, and
he man and little girl under ar
they We're taken to Clay street
1n. and the keeper was just sharp
y His pencil to register their names
a5@ a woman rushed in
OUT of breath. She claimed
! the mother of the child. In her
/ 6he held n piece of paper which
han ded to the station-keeper. The
i was unrolled, when, to the
khorror of all those present it was
j4ered to be a marriage certificate.
fe the date of February %, 1882,
ftified that the rites of matri-
q We're legally solemnfzed between
5cis A. Ditsler and Emily ID.
Nh. The marriage took place in
6lty in Squire Stephens office,
Eje certificate bore bis signature.
I Sead aloud, and all present We're
" dumbfounded. The pencil
q from the station-keeper's
# and the prisoners were
ii. The old man
ed his youthful wife
His arms and carried her home.
va ridiculous and pitiable sight.
man is poor rake OF fellow,
|tforty years old, with long black
d nd a full beard that gives
IAspeculiarly wild and idiotic look.
girl is scarcely eleven years old,
even childish of her age, were 1T
for the feeling of matrimony that
esses and smothers the exuber-
fOf life and spirit common to one
Mage. A reporter of the CONNER
visited their home yesterday
noon. A few knocks on u kind OF
Hoor that opened at the head of a
&hdicular flight of steps brought a
0hse of come in, that sounded
n dirge coming from the cata-
3 of Egypt. The great door was
q and the reporter then stood in
Kitchen. The mother-in-law was
ing over the stove, cooking some
h for supper. The lazy husband
spon bed in one corner of the
d, rubbing his eyes with both fists
8ase away the drowisness of a
ID nap. His little wife, perched
a chair, was nursing doll. The
Her took a seat and began to inter-
1.-THE husband, opening with the
Jon:
this your wife, Mr.. Ditsler?n
ing to the little girl on the chair.
is, sir.n
hen did you marry her?"
e 18th of last February"
is she any conception of the re-
that exist between you and
ean't say that she has. She
) calls me papa and | always
er Emily. Her.mother gives her
~ lecture every morning upon
ed life and the relations that
- 10 exist between man and wife,"
en you married her with her
consent ~
es, suggested it, was the re-
GU the old woman, while she
piece of bacon upon the spit.
HM the little girl willingly con-
W marry YOU ~ asked the re-
again turning to the husband
pow leaned back lazily upon the
pn't think that she knew any
Z about it, though she answered
70 all questions put to her by the
Itrate.n
~ could not possibly have loved
,end you could nc. have, under
@nsideration, formed a passion
4 irl of her age, and how you came
l. Try her must remain secret, un-
ou choose to throw some light
MI y
tfll, | will tell you the whole
for there is no use of keeping u
81 About year ago j was can
}g the city for a medicine. My
nd her mother were then living