Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
Welded, BUT A MISS
Black-Eyed Maud McCrea
Tells Her Sad Story.
HER LOVER WAS MARRIED.
But he Took Her to Kentucky and
Made Her Walk Back Home.
THE ALLEGED BIGAMIST IN JAIL

Pretty Maud McCrea went to the Central
police station last night and told her sad
story to Police Inspector McAleese. 1t ap-
pears that she was deceived by plausible
man, whose record, according to the In
spector, could not be much worse. She is
the daughter of molder, who lives at No.
217 East street. Allegheny. She is'a very
pretty young woman, with almost perfect
form, regular features, large dark eyes and
dark hair. An elder sister is married
to a man named Fred Goebel, and lives at
No. is Franklin street. Fred is
salesman in Jackson's clothing house on
Liberty Avenue, and is highly respected.
John GoeBel, a brother, went few years
ago to Philadelphia and there married
woman named Lizzie. With her he visited
his brother in this city, and there met his
sister-in-law's pretty black-eyed sister,
Maud. John was smitten, and not long
after his return to Philadelphia, a few
months ago, be returned alone to this city.
He took every opportunity to meet Maud,
and used to go over to Allegheny to see her.
About the first of this month John Goebel
told Maud that he must leave the city for
the West to look for work. He told her
that be loved her, and proposed that she 90
with him and be married. She asked about
Lizzie, in Philadelphia, and he told the girl
that he had obtained a divorce from Lizzie.
A RUNAWAY MARRIAGE.
On Tuesday. May 6, John Goebel and
Maud McCrea secretly left Pittsburg for
Cincinnati. The next day they were mar
ried, at Covington, KY, by the county
Judge. They then returned to Cincinnati,
where they lived at a cheap lodging house,
while John pretended to be seeking work.
The disappearance of Maud and John at
thasame time opened the eyes OF Maud's
parents and sisters, for there is third sister,
unmarried and also very pretty, living
at home in Allegheny. 1t was at once
guessed that the two had run away. The
sisters wrote to Philadelphia, to Mrs. Liz
zie Goebel, whose address they knew, and
were Mortified when they received word that
she and John had not been divorced at all.
but that she was still his legal wife. But
no word could be heard from the ruaaways,
and where they were In the East, South or
West was beyond all speculation. The poor
girls parents were greatly worried, and the
unmarried sister, whose hair verees closely
on auburn, vowed vengeance if she should
ever again set her eyes on that John
Goebel'
The unraveling of the intrigue, as the
lated as Maud gave it. from her red lips, to
Inspector McAleese last night. And as
she told it her big black eyes seemed almost |
to emit flame.
HONEYMOON SAD ENDING.
John found no work in Cincinnati. All |
doors were closed TO him, but Maud thinks |
he did not skin his knuckles with knocking |
on them. At last their money was all gone, |
and when John had in his pocket only one |
well-worn euarter, of the vintage of rs, he |
told her that they must shake from their |
feet the mud of Cincinnati's streets and |
work their way, as best they could, toward |
hsold home In Pittsburg. So they croSded |
few articles of raiment into into bundle |
and started to walk.
They tfamped from Cincinnati to Colum- |
bus. 1t rained nearly every day, and some
times between rains. 1t was terrible Jour
ney, but the end of it was more terrible.
They took shelter in barns, in horse sheds bv
country churches, In deserted houses, and |
twice found rest in the beds of hospitable
farmers. 1t was slow tramp, dreary and
wet one, and many days one of hunger. But
they reached Columbus, and there, from
people who took pity on them because of
Goehel's doleful tale and the black-eyed
Maud's sweet but tired face, raised enough
money TO bring them to Pittsburg bv rail.
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.
They reached this city on last Friday
evening. Goebel went for the night to his
brothers house on Franklin street. and
Maud sought refuge under tie roof of her
parents in Allegheny. Her appearance was
pitilul enough, but the story she learned at
home made all her weary journey seem like
a pilgrimage through purgatory. She was
not a wife at all, but a deceived young
woman.
On Friday her sister Glide went with
the story to Inspector McAleese. He had
heard but little of it when he sent Detec-
tives Robinson and Shore to the house on |
Franklin street. John Goebel was arrested, |
taken before Alderman Gripp and held for
court. He is in the county Jail. The
wronged girl said that she would push the
case TO the last. The Inspector has written
to Philadelphia to secure the story of Mrs.
Goebel, but has not yet received reply.
The Inspector says that he has learned
that Goebel served in Philadelphia term
Of one year for robbery, and that before his
departure with Maud for Cincinnati, he
rohhed an a llepheny man of S45