The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15

Which Further illustrates the Adage
That Truth u Stranger Than
Fiction"

Speaking of the wife trade between Au-
gust Richter and Dr. BsumueIler, in connec.
tion with the suit al Mrs. Richter against
Che Sentinel, . gentleman connected with
the Bar in this city related an incident
which had fallen uy der his observation, and
which is as strange f1 its results as the Rich
ter-Baumueller COMPLICATION. The story re-
lated is substantisils as follows:
Several years sso young Irishmsn and
IN attractive German servant girl were mar
ried In this city and settled down at mousse
keeping, evidsntly eontented and happy IN
the choice which thsy had made OF lie
companiou. Both were industrious and
.soonomic,l- The husband tolled at his
trace dav in and day out. while the wife
kept her small but comfortable house IN o
neat, tidy condition. ana aaoeo 10
TO do days WORK for
neiohbor at the end of three years the
couple had saved 200. when the husband
was seized with the Western fever. and, Ike
a great many Others, left his TRENDS, ana
selling bis little household goods moved to
Minnesota. Here shey were lost sight OF for
period OF four years, when the wife re-
turned to this city, accompanied by
sprightly German whom she had marriad IN
Minnesota. Frous her story, which was re.
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legal business which he transacted for her
soon after the arrival of herself and husband
il was learned tbatu reaching Minnesota
differences arose between her and her lrish
lord she wishing 20 return TO Indiana and
he being determined to build up fortune
in the West. The more the bone OF conten-
ton was discussed the hotter ran their Gel
1ic and Teutonic blood, and from words they
finally came to blows
In the Minnesota village in which they
located there happened to reside family
in which the husoand was German aud
The wife CO Irish descent. The two families
lived close neighbours and were frequently
together, in fact being intimate friends, and
their society limifsd almost exclusively to
each others company. The strangeness of
the situation, the Irishman married to
German girl IN thf one case and the German
married to an Irisa girl in the other, led
them frequently 90 speak OF its singularity,
and propositions FOR trade were jokiDgly
proposed on more than one occasion. In a
short time the German woman, who had
left here with her Irish husband had cause
to suspect that tbs visits OF the latter to the
house of her neigbbor were frequently made
IN q clandestine Elanner. and upon charg-
ing him with infielity he acknowledged
that he bad learned to love the woman Of
his own nationality, who, he claimed, like
himself, had been Ilismated in her matrimo-
NAL ties She was shocked at the declara-
tion, but when the truth was forced upon
her, and she beganeto contrast her neighbors
husband with hfr own, the admiration
which she had felt3or him on account of the
national tie which existed between them
she found to have taken q strong hold upon
her affections, and the two families began to
consider ia earnest q mutual exchange oil
husbands and wives. aud the details were all
arranged ar d agreed to.
The family which had left this city then
moved to another sown in the sams county,
and in the coursesof a few months the two
wives were divorced, the husbands making
no defense against the proceedings.
When the divorces had been granted the
German woman and the husband OF her
neighbor started to return to this city and
were married at the house of friend al
Chicago. The Irish couple Immediately left
Minnesota, and it sis supposed were married
in Western State, to which they moved
Under the agreement the property of the
two families was equally divided, and when
the German family reached this citv the
husband found himself possessed of sufficient
means to enter business in e small way
They sre now living in this city, and are
evidently happy and contented. Amone
the friends OF the woman, who is now the
mother of two children. il is generally sup
posed that her frs. husband died soon aftel
leaving this city FOX Minnesota.
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