The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-14
HERITAGE OF DEATH.

From the Brtoklyn Eagle.
.NConrad Stricnscc, N German %slippcr-
maker. ~ years old shot himself tn death
i'm n hack royn in the tenement las Lewis
street"
That was the brief Geographic dispatch
received at New York police headquarters
from the ESSEX market police station. To
the police. the coroner. and the reporters
who looked in in the gathering gloon, "f
the twilight the scene was dressrily fanil-
iar. The little hack room piled high with
the materials of the dead mans trade, the
corpse upon the floor, the slippery pool
Of bloud, the bright new pistol. the crazy
woman i'm tho next room-all thesc Swers
everyday features of life among the
1,OOO.OU I'm New York. tenements. The
bloosi-stained purple, thc s~tuucndo'is
crime-crime alleged, confessed. and ex-
plated, IL never committed that made the
name of Strucnsce forever notorious in
the annals Of European history these
were hidden from the sight of those to
whom tive name bore no message. And
che lips at the only one i'm that house who
knew. the dead mans widow. were sealed.
She yielded up reluctantly. even "a author
ity, her husbands last letter tn hcr.tiiotigh
IL could not ts.trsly her secret. II was in
German and ram as follows:
chased tic revolver for ss.So i'm order To
end my existence. AT u time when the old
despair and fearful nervousness have me
for heing always "a good and loving wife
90 me. A long Will. have kept from you
all knowledge Of my fearful suffering by
suffer too. n,ayhap- fall IN. But il has
come TAI an end now. can carry the de-
creasrs d.ily, burn or hurry my body. as
you will. Have il done as clhcaply as pos
sible. ! leave you my love. Adeiinc, all l
husband. "'' CoMM.m M
The letter contained the key to the sui
S Ssss i S'r, %;s small Tn~ w rs":pi ri. m ~ s"r..
though childless, WAS happy. There Was
nothing int nervousness that was his fam
lily heritage :" render his life miserable.
Tweniy-orc years ago he and his wife
had come 10 America, the only one az his
a sturdy young farmer, had hnlsily broken
with the tradition of his family and bravcd
sec's ancestors for generations had ever
since Prussia had ana existence held IL
place in the official life of the state. They
were Judges. doctors. and lawyers. His
father was "a high judge i'm Berlin until his
ieath. One of his brothers IL low ~
physic an 81 destruction, tin. other n judge
i'm Br.slau. Both had studied at Halle,
whence the family hailed. Conrad alone
had set at dciianc. the unwrittcn law Of
his kin. He became IA farmer and cmi-
grated.
In New York i,c prps,cr,sI in n small
way. He made az nnucl, money IA he
needed t0 live comfortably and wanted
nothing moro hut health. For eight long
years the family lived in the Lewis street
tenement with the curse coming slowly
nearer and nearer until yesterday when il
forecloS.d it, morty,vs. upon ITS victim.
who had sct il at defiance. S,ripcnsce had
been unusually iight-hsartcd. even jocose,
during the morning hours. II. was i'm the
work-rnHDin and his wife in their cherry
little trout parior when thc shot was fired.
She found linn lying on the fioor shot
through the car. He died in her arms.
Did that old wnInan's thoughts. aS she
sat rocking herself in fearless sorrow with
her dead husbands letter in her hands. go
back over the span of 100 years tn that
other letter. famous for it's indefinite
queen wrote on Lcr death-bcd tn her
brother. ti.r proud king of England, plead
ing for his love, and her ~innoccncc of the
fearful crime. for which the Count Str,ierI-
see. the poor s1ipISerlnaker's grcat-gri MI
uncle. had suffered IL disgrlceeui death
and she driven into exile: When asked
she whispered. almost "a. il afraid OF the
Thought: Yes; hc WAS his grcat-2ra nd
uncle"
who sriigrst'-d from the hand of his faith
ers IL written with letters OF blood on the
annals of the Kingdom of Denmark. which
he made his home. Ii was one of the most
sensational c~trsiIS of the eighteenth CEN
tury history. Like this dead mau's brother
in Breslau, John Frederick Stru,usss.w was
n physiciati. ~ man of great ability and
many gifts. In Denmark lac became the
ali-powcrfuI %favori,c of the imbccile king.
Christian VII. whore naturally bright
mind had been wasted toy frirolity and
exce-sA,s. The king made him "a count
and his minister of state. Strticiiscc was
aggressive and made enemies among the
great aud powerful. A. party headed by
the queen dowt-cr ami Count Brrnstorir
opposed him at court, jealous uf his iutiii-
ence. A. every step the foreign minister
trod their ancient privileges under foot.
He raised the periant and appointed
trained Judges where the mobility had for
sperly set their Iackcys in Judgment over
che people. The proud aud hixh-spiritsd
Queen Carolina Matilda, haincd to "a
driveling idiot by the bonds of wedlock.
admired the bold German: more, she
loved him. History has dccrceI that that
was the extent Of her crime. The cnbal at
court was less merciful. She fell with
Struenssc, the victim of the foulcst of COM
spiracies. On the. night of Jan. Ia, Ira.
the nobility forced Am entrance to the
kings bedroom while u great court ball
was in progrcss i'm the castle of Copcn-
hagen. compelled HIM to sign AN order for
the ARREST of StrgIensee, his friend, the
Count Brandt. and the queen. They were
all arrested at the hall.
The world knows the rest of the sad
story. Struensce. threatened with the
rack, signed N confession that he had been
criminaily intimate with the unhappy
queen. Bold AS had been his course. be
was personally q coward. Carolina Ma
tilda was confronted with the confession
and told that IL she would attest its truth
she would save him. She loved and con-
essed- N lie. StrueIlsec and Brandt
were b< headed i'm the public square of Co
penhagen. Only the interference of the
British minister. Lord Keith, saved his