The morning news., 1888-11-29

She blushed crimson. Her hands
nervously grasped the crook handled
umbrella in her lap. 81 do not wish any
thing, thank you"
REPORTERS LUCK.
As was bowling myself out she asked,
"Why do you call me Mrs Scheffera"
Il am from the Herald, Mrs. Scheffer,
and wish you to tell me of your husbands
trial.
1t was some time before she answered,
and then only to express a hope that her
secret would be kept. But explained that
the Austrian papers had been full of the
case, and tried to persuade her that she
ought to embrace the opportunity Of telling
her side of it. A maid came in with some
hand bags and she rose. l argued for an
| interview later in the evening. After a
time she consented. No. she was not goiug
back to Brooklyn. but to hotel. Hotel
Martin? No. She at length gave me an
address in that locality, that of the best
French boarding house in the city, and a
rendezvous for o'clock. What luck
Satisfied, l waited until Z O'Clock and then
sauntered up to the house indicated. No
such person had been there. | knew the
people and had confidence they were telling
the truth. Then in hurry to the Hote
Martin, then over to Brooklyn. All useless
otAO boO SlNC Cu LAlO IL0 BO n.y. uOW
the luck runs with reporters
DOES NOT THIS BEAT FICTION!
But the story is too good to be missed for
all that. 1t would have been more interest
ing to have had the woman's account of it,
however.
1t commences with an idyl and merges
into drama that was almost tragedy.
Imagine two young people, both healthy
and handsome, pa slOnately in love with
each other They lived at Linz, some twenty
miles from Coblenz, and there they were
married. Young Scheffer thought of moth
ing but his beautiful girl wife, and she-she
adored him. This beatifc state of affairs
lasted for three years.
Unfortunately both were too ambitious
for their station in life, and were always
longing for luxurieS they had not means to
possess. Scheffer wished his wife to go into
the best soci ty, to be the most envied there
for her grace and beauty; he sighed to give
her the setting such a jewel demanded.
And she, on her side, suffered to see her
husband, whom she believed to be the most
capable of men, doomed to labor ignonin-
iously for mere living.
This was the idyl Now for the drama
Mine Weser, distant relative. was left
an orphan, and what was more to the point,
was left an heiress of several million francs
The young girl soon grew tired of living
alone in her solitary grandeur, and wrote
her distant relatives, the SchefferS, pro
posing to take up her residence with them.
The proposition was eagerly accepted and
Miss Weser warmly welcomed. The ami
able couple had their dream fulfilled, for
the young heiress was liberal AMI she had
no near kin left to claim her fortune in case
of death. So several months went on.
But suppose Nina Weser were to take it
into her head to get married. This dire
thought took complete possession of
Scheffer and his wife, who trembled at the
idea of this magnificent fortune escaping
them. What, in the name of everything,
could they do to prevent this!
The girls millions were the tempter; the
crime soon followed. 1t limited itself: ii
was secuted with horror. 1t came again.
and the erstwhile happy couple could not
look one another in the face without seeing
the foul thought there.
1t was fate. 1t must be DONE But how
without arousing suspicions
MURDER PLANNED IN LOVING WHISPERS.
An inspiration came toE Nine Scheffer
She made a discovery. She twined her
arms around her handsome husbands necs
and whispered 1t to him. Nina Weser wa:
in love with him. This was easily to be
seen, although the young girl thought she
guarded her secret SO we'll
The plot then came readily enough and q
most diabolical one it was. They would
take advantage of this imprudent passion
But howe Well, Nine Scheffer should dis
appear, be reported dead and her husband
would marry the girl. Then?
Then he would slowly poison her, after
which Mime. Scheffer would return to her
husband 10 enjoy the love of their youth in
the heart of luxury.
1t took long time to plan the simulated
death-a longer one than the real one which
was to follow. But Mme Scheffer went
to visit some friends While there an acci
dent occurred on a local railway, in which
several people were killed. She heard of it,
telegraphed her husband that she had
started by the train, and hnrried to Havre
She came to America, and lived for a time
in Brooklyn.
Meantime, search was made at the scene
of the railroad accident for her remains
They could not be identified, but the tele-
gram proved that she was one OF tie killed
THE WICKED TRIUMPH FOR A TIME.
Scheffer was a widower for a little less
than the customary period, and then mar
ried Nina Weser. She was madly in love
with him, and he simulated a similar pas
sion in return. At the same time, he was
carrying out the preconcerted plot OF
slowly poisoning her, and hoped to join,
with her wealth, his first wife in the New
World
This simulated passion, however, became
too much for him. The passion became
real, and the thought of losing his Nina be-
came death to him. He sent to Coblentz, to
Berlin even, for physicians to remedy the
effects upon her of the poison he had ad-
ministered. He ignored his criminal prom
ise. The girl recovered, and in his happi-
ness he forgot it.
But Mrs. Scheffer did not. She often
went to the general delivery window of the
Brooklyn postoffice for the letter that never
came. A year passed and no news Of
Mina's death. She could contain herself no
longer; she went to Europe.
When she found the true state of the case
she partially lost her reason. Maddened by
jealousy, she told the whole plot. Schetfer
was arrested, tried and convicted on the
double charge of attempted murder and
bigamy.
NOTICE. OF "REAL ESTA TIE"