Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-22
FATAL SECRET MARRIAGE.
A Forbidden Union That Ends In .
Bridegroom's Suicide.

A Philadelphia special to the Baltimore
American says that at O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing John seitz, No. 1901 Wood street, took q
dose Of rough on rets and at l0:45 o'clock that
night he died About o'clock in the evening
DIR. Chas Bauer was summoned. He saw the
patient and administered strong antidote for
arsenicaI poison, but il had no effect The
diving man told him that he had swallowed
big spoonful Of the fatal mixture in the morn
ing and that he had suffered the greatest agony
since. He appealed to the doctor to keep the
fact that he had swallowed the poison with sui
cidal intent secret from the other members
Of the family For some time previous to his
death he was unconscious.
Seitz was thirty years Of age and had been
but recently married. Taken altogether, the
recent years of his life seem TO furnish no
cause for his final desperation. although a very
romantic thread runs through his story.
For the last seven years he had been victim
of continual melancholy. His moodiness is
attributed to difficulties thrown in the way OF
his marrying his cousin Lena Werner. The
young people seven years ago became very
much attached to each other and their fondness
alarmed Seitz's parents, who were bitterly OPP
posed to such q marriage. Means were taken
to keep the two apart and then the mans dis
consulate spells began. At times he was be-
heved to be actually out OF his mind and strict
watch was almost steadily kept upon his move
ments.
1t is evident that notwithstanding the vigil
lance of his parents, young Seitz and Miss
Werner had frequent communication. She had,
meanwhile, been employed in a store. OF late
they had managed to be much together, and
two weeks ago they succeeded in eluding the
surveillance placed upon them and consum-
mated the step they had so long been pre-
vented from accomplishing.
One evening Seitz left his home unperceived
n,,1 H. NxtRsxs. ant
Market-street ferry. They went over to Cam
den and were married, and nobody but them
selves and the minister knew of it. Seitz re-
turned to his home and the young lady to her
home, and up to yesterday afternoon no one
was any the wiser.
II is difficult to see why. Seitz having made
Miss Werner his wife, his melancholy should
Immediately thereafter become greater, but
that il did is evident from the testimony Of
those with whom he came in contact. 1t is
suggested that the secrecy of his maj riage and
the danger Of making it known may have
preyed upon him.
Tuesday morning younger brother started
for holiday in the country. and the father sent
word up TO Johns room that he would be re-
quired at the store. He sent reply that he
would go. and not long afterward ne was heard
walking about the room. As some time elapsed
and be did not come down stairs, some one
went up and found him very sick and suffering
from cramps.
information was Immediately sent to Mr..
Seltz at the store and he fastened to the house.
The young man was by this time much worse,
but he did not say and neither did any one
suspect that anything serious was the mat
ter. As time progressed, however, his suffer-
ings became intensified, and it was then that
DR.. Bauer was sent for.
To the doctor young Seitz confessed what he
did. and told of his marriage, and expressed
an earnest wish that he might see his wife be-
fore he died. He wanted the fact that he had
taken poison kept a secret, however, but the
doctor deemed 1t his duty to tell the sad facts
to his parents. The young wife sent for
and admitted to the room in which Seitz lay
and she remained with him until he died