Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-19
LOVE AND POISON.
a pErRAYED GIRLS pEspEnATE Aur
Iuiytuaicu for Her Employer Lover iu.
uucCs tier to rake Poison Ia tho
Presence OF Bis Bride.

uuCce her 10 take fotsOn la the
Presence OF Bis Bride.
a young woman frantically ciinging 20
coach door and screaming in the most
hcartrCnding manner alarmed the neigh
bNrhoNd Of Fourth avenue aud One Hun.
dred aud Twenty tifth streets, New York
about midnight Tuesday. 4 crowd soon
gathered, shutters were tluug open and
people appeared at the windows Of neigh
! boring houses. An elegantly dressed
woman with her hands cla5ped in entrcsty
aud prosperous looking mau with flushed
face were the occupants Of the vehicle.
Tho man was striving TO loosen the girl's
hold upon the door. An officer hurried to
the scene, to tiud tine young woman almos,
exhausted, but still desperately clingiug
20 the carriage door. The frantic girl
| proved to be tIe servant of the man in the
coach aud his companion was the bride
Of few hours
She is crazy" explained the man
" take her away
sun the servant maintained her hold.
The vii,cr cautiously concluded To take
I concerned 70 the station house, despite
the ent-satirs Of the bride aud groom.
To the sergeant az the police station the
man told his story. Il was TO the 2 feet
that he aud his bride were married that
night at tho residence OF the lady, at
Mount Morris avenue aud OnD Hundred
and Twenty second street, and had gone
20 the livery table TO start on their wed
Ding journey, when the girl, who was
FTida Stad or, y German, prevented them
by chnEiug to the coach door. She had
been the servant of the groom until his
marriage. The groom gave his name as
Ferdinand Braun, of No. IL East one
Hundred and Ninth street.
The girl meanwhile had become very
faint and her limbs refused to support her.
As she Was placed ut the desk she nodded
assent to these statements and added that
she had taken poison because her employer
had married that night and that she wanted
to die Il she could not go with him. Fall
ing suddenly in heap, her strength gave
way entirely. She said that she had saved
up 800 and wished it to be used in bury
ing her decently. Ia the sight of the ser
geant and the wedding party she lost her
senses aud fell into stupor that was sup
posed 10 be death.
The sergeant telegraphed for au ambu.
lance, and, finding no cause to detain the
bride and groom, allowed them TO take
their coach and start on their so sadly
interrupted wedding journey. The bride
was greatly shocked, aud wept as she went
Jut leaning on her husbands arm. Upon
he arTiva! Of the ambulance the applr-
'ntly liieless girl was hurried to the hoS-
pitaL Vigorous restoratives and
..omaCh pump revived her at that iustitu
ion. The poison proved to be oxalic |
Icid. About noon the girl had sufficiently |
covered to tell her story.
My name,' she said, 'is Frida Stadler; |
am Il years old and have been in this |
country three years. My folks live iu |
Germany aud have no friends iu this |
country. \ year ago came to live with |
Ferdinand Braun, the large furniture
at No ~ East l09.h street
Mr.. Braun was a widower aud has two
children-a girl of ten years and boy of
l3 years. He made love to me and made
me believe he would marry me. believed
what be said and was happy, for | loved
him. 1t was only the other day found
out that he was going to marry another
glrl, the daughter of wealthy people who
live at Mount Morris avenue and l22d
street. Her name is Fanny that is all
know. She is rich. | am poor. have
only what have saved out Of my wages
Last night the wedding took place at the
girl's parents house. did not want to
live when knew II. bought the poison in
y 7NplV OA lAh' IDI LllNtsb CuEutE VI oue
Huldred and Tenth street and Third
avcnue-ten ceuts wOrth-and kept it
with me. At midnight, when | knew
they were gong TO start from the stable |
"a Oue Hundred and Twenty fifth street. |
where the coach was waiting for them, |
Teut around there and waited. took |
he poison when heard them coming and |
.ried to get into the cab with them, that | |
nj hit die there. Mr.. Braun told the driver |
!" dive on and leave me, Oh Then l |
forgot what bappened-we we're at the
police station, know"
Mr. Braun is rich and is about thirty
SIX years old. Tuesday he did not come to
the Office and no one there knew anything
about bis movements. The bride is the
daughter Of well TO do residents az Mount
Norris avenue, near One Hundred aud
I Tenty second street.