St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-07
A CITY OF SENSATIONS.
The Insanity Of a Deserted Wife as the
Sad Sequel to a Romantic
Marriage.
A Society Lady Who Wouldn't Wink
at Her Husbands Lapses Granted
Divorce.
Malignant Their Sum-
mary Method Of Revenge Aired
in the Courts.
Correspondence of the Globe.

| in the Courts.
Correspondence of the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, June "A very sad romance,
| which for many reasons has not found it's
way into any of the local papers, came to
it's end on Thursday. The daughter of one
of the prOprietors of the chief German
paper in st. Louis some years ago made a
love match with young actor and became
Mrs. Rihoff. The match did not turn out
very happily and after very ecstatic honey
moon the couple came back to the brides
fathers house to live. 1t was not exactly
| love match, bnt it was q wedding which
was bitterly opposed by the ladys family.
Things were not made very pleasant for Mr..
Rihoff, but he stood it long enough to leave
two pledges of his affection with his wife.
| Then he disappeared, year or so ago, and
Influenced by the family Mrs. Rihoff got a
divorce. and few months since Rihof
married again, and his first wife was in
formed of it. From the time that she re-
ceived the news she was a changed woman.
She brooded continually and seemed to be
unable to find peace, and her friends finally
| became very anxious about her health.
Their anxiety, as the event proved was
well founded. On Thursday she was taken
| to the insane asylum and the best medical
opinion in ST. Louis is by no means sanguine
as to her ultimate recovery. 1t is case OF
madness for loves sake, as surely as was
| Ophelia'S.
~
Just now nearly everybody in the city is
abusing Coroner Nidelet for his verdict in
the Reynolds case. r. VI. Reynolds was the
first auditor of the treasury up to the list of
May last when he was displaced by Secre-
tary Manning. He came to ST. Louis and
on Tuesday morning fell through the open
space in the Southern hotel rotunda from
the third story to the marble floor beneath.
Of course he was instantly killed. The
coroner declared the case one of suicide,
and the family and friends here are exceed
ingly indignant. The body had been
shipped to Washington, Mr.. Reynolds
home, before the verdict was known, and it
is said now that the family will send the
remains back here and have the inquest re-
opened. They have a number of additional
witnesses who will testify against the
suicide theory, but GROWERS quest law in
Missouri requires the witnesses must be
sworn over the dead body. Thus this poor
corpse will be kept travelling back and for
ward across the country until it is vindi-
Gated.
|
/ The Mersman divorce case. of which
| gave you number of particulars month
OF more ago, came to trial this week, and
the lady was declared free. She testified
that her husband had beaten her with
riding whip, so that long welts were left
upon her person, that he had again and
again beaten her with his fists and used
other violent disciplinary measures. All OF
| this occurred in one Of the most fashionable
hotels in the city, and in the bosom of
family which, while it has not very much
blood, has been able to pay its way into
good society. It is now known about town
beyond the shadow of doubt that FIRED
! die' used his wife thus because she had
found out his amour with the wife OF a very
wealthy young man, and had refused to be
reasonable" Mr.. Mersman's ideas OF
reasonableness were based upon the manner
| in which his lady love and her husband
| conduct their family affairs. They are both
willfully blind to each others lapses, and as
| lie Mari Sage is one of the fat advertisers
of the city, his name has been kept out OF
the affair carefully.
! #x*
But even the scandals in the Mersman
case have been unable to divide the atten-
ton of the public with the Chinese feud,
foulest and most cold-blooded assaSsina-
lions ever known in the history of st.
Louis. Lou johnson. one OF the Gantopese
leaders, was hacked to pieces Blythe paid
assassins of the Hong Kong society and his
dead body reversed and stood upright with
the head in a bucket of rice, the last mark
of obloquy and infaIMy of which the China
man knows One of the heads of the Can
ton society from tho headquarters in New
York, most Intelligent, resourceful and
gallant fellow, named "BatlSte," was IN
the city and he at once put the Whole OF {,
the Canton society at the service OF the
police. AS result seven Cinnamon will
/ hang. 1t is now certain that three OF the
richer Hong Kong men last week offered
reward of 5000 each for the death of Lou
johnson and Batiste. Chyo Pocll, a Frisco
! desperate. undertook the job. He Sublet
the different parts of the assassination to
other Chinese, three in number, beside HIM
self, paying each 500, and intending to re-
tail. the balance for himself. The dead man
was watched until he was at last found in
a house alone asleep. The informer, Cong
Seng, one of the lesser assassins, very coolly
told the cOroner's inquest to-day how ChyO
Pock had set him to watch the rear, and
another to watch the front Of the house;
the chief and another then went into the
dead mans room, and Cong Seng heard the
knives working. Johnston called out three
times. ''aie.o ''aie'' "aie,'' and everything
was still The witness went into the room,
cleaned up the litter and the blood and helped
to fix the corpse in the position III which 1t
was found. He was given SIS at the time
| and told to 60 South, and send his address
to the chief of the Hong Kong society here
Chyo Con, when he stopped anywhere,
and the other $S5 would be forwarded to
him. He was arrested while travelling
South as directed. He told
Batiste very calmly that the
reason he Batiste) was not killed was be-
cause he got up so early. The prisoners
who had been heretofore captured. and who
include all those implicated, save the chief
assassin, Chyo Pock and one of his tools,
Hoe Slack, were marshaled before Cong
Seng for Identification. They did not know
1 of his confession and called to him in
Chinese not to betray them or it would be
worse for him. He told the coroner what
was said, as did other Chinese present, and
he then pointed out the men who had paid
the money for the killing, Chyo Con, Yuo
Sing and Pock Seq. The scene for a few
moments was one of extreme confusion
The Chinese babbled all together, and the
prisoners became as white as though they
were bleached Chyo Cons attorney, MIR.
Ben Clark, came to Batiste few minutes
afterwards and told him that he knew he
would be murdered before the end OF the
week, begging him to take care Of himself.
And so the case stands. There are few
cities in christendom in this nineteenth
century that can match the story.
| It reads like a leaf from the history