The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-04
PLANNED TO DIE TOGETHER.
THE WENDLANDTS WE'RE UNABLE TO
LIVE BY POETRY AND MUSIC


Drowned In North River. with Her Baby
In Hor Arms-wendiAndt Supposed to
Have Drowned Himself, Too-A Central
Park Suicide VITO Looks like Him.
The body OF woman with baby held tight
ly In her arms foated down the North River
close to the Jersey shore early yesterday morn
Ing Patrick Donovan, a laborer and Special
| Policeman Jones saw II as they stood on the
end Of the pier at the foot OF Fifth street, In
| Hoboken. It was within an arms length OF
the pier and Donovan slipped down q pile al
most to the water. and reached out and grssped
the womans clothing, while the policeman
| held him to keep him from falling into the
water. The two men lifted the bodies up on to
the pier. They tried to take the chds body
away from the woman. but her embrace was
too tight The woman was about So years old
and good looking. Her clothing was not OF
costly material, but was nently made. She
wore black lace hat, and there was q plain
gold ring on the third finger Of her right hnnd.
marked with the letters A. W. A cambria
handk erchief, with the same initials embroi-
dered on one corner, hung half out OF her
| dress pocket. The baby was q boy about three
| months old. He was clothed in a long dress
| richly embroidered. aud was wrapped up In a
| quilt An ambulance took the bodies to
! Cranes morgue. where with difficulty the wo-
mans death grip was relaxed and the baby
was taken from her. No one OF the crowd that
followed the ambulance to the morgue knew
| the woman.
The Rev. J. W. Freund OF the German Evan
| geical Church. Hoboken had received In the
| FIRST mail In the morning this letter written In
| German:
HIGHLY RsrEnnEp Sin De not condemn me II We
should not any whom you receive these lineS
| Poverty and tho meanneSs Of an unwomanly woman
drove TO death What owe you will reach you
through my father from Germany. Farewell and pre-
| serve for me kindly remembrance.
FnANz wRSpLANpT.
Mr.. Preund recognized the handwriting and
| the name as those Of ayoung man whom he
had helped financially.
Bv the same early mail ]. II. Kaiser OF 146
Park avenue also received a letter written in
German and signed by Wendlandt. 1t read:
When this letter reaches your hands We shall no longer
be among tho living fatheSs woman who had loaned
US SIS until the I'D lust but who had broken her word
to-day and deprived OF belongings has driven us
to death Don't take offence that for sake you have
much trouble In the house, Have thanks for your
hindns.s and SmisDS tn only wish that
Plsass KEEP us in kind memory: .,, ,r,,. ,o,,, ,,
letters and pictures destroy aud assure YOU as
ma you VII ni oar las. wishes Tue nook
please preserve as souvenir.
Wendlandt had been a tenant OF Mr.. Kaisers
NJ
and child, four rooms in a house at 40 Park
avenue. Kaiser went to the rooms at once.
He found the door unlocked and everything in
order, Ip the garret room were the packages
described in the postscript to the letter; He
Where ne
the finding Of the bodies Of the woman and
baby, He showed Sergeant MarnelI the letter.
fle en- had heard Of The ndine Of the bod es and
R%s fS"f the e SUSs as s'
From the morG4e sier TS,n Msrne and Mr.
Sergeant took charge Of the effects Of the FAM
ily. Soon afterward Julius Noble OF so Park
avenue came in and remarked:
without any trouble"
What s6inGsr asked asked the Sergeant -,
IT Sa5 baa1S Es a } %sna Sb had
mftted suicide: The Sergeant locked W tho
planning about not being able to collect his
in IL pSsse P" to we're ss BOY se TSls
written In German. Most of them were an
s%eTs to ppc ssS s5S Gr wSrf I her W.d
ande was f sEnei eSdony
Mrs Wendlandt,s It's sister ter, The card vas closely
lett Pc yHp SsS Go
Franz Wendandt, author
In the package wrapped in q newspaper, was
Handsomely bound. Nendland 5 name AS au-
thor was printed at tn the end OF mHny Of the
and his wife and plush collar and cufl case.
On u note IN the case we're the words; This
Mr.. Kaiser took these things home with him.
He showed them to IL sun reporter in tho alter
some young man, and woman evidently older
than himself She wore spectacles. His arm
Cn s M HG SAID ae'f he hid
known Wendlandt only Two months. He
SIss IN hFa ate S sfdS" ss R5 an and cb
He did not associate with the people In the
nelghborhood Every pleasant evening he
and sit there with her until late. They seemed
to be very happy: The last time he saw them
They were Laughing together He saw Wend-
landt alone an hour or two later. Ho couldn't
have committed suicide. Ho had nevor heard
OF Wendlandt'R having any trouble with any
The Rev. MI Fround said that Wendlandt
pr. Gobbler. the editor Of the beleI%'s.c!hes
Wendiandt was not able to got along on tho
SALARY, no was getting. He was a first class
g could not get him any pupils" said tho
minister " but got him pa place az Y, orGenist In
small but 1t was better than nothing and he
He WAS n!Kniy educated. ana impressed
He was The han dsomeot man | ' ever
saw. | learned that he was married thirteen
months ago in GERMANY. Ho came TO THIS
several times, She was, an excellent woman,
but not as we'll educated as he. | never ques.
toned him as to why he came to this country,
but formed the opinion that he had married
social social ostraoIsn, lie was SO years old. Ills
wife was 35. He never seemed able 10 get
him money. The last time he came TO
row 500. i couldn't lend linn that
sum. but l gave him all / had.
lie wrote me several letters after that regret
ting his inability to repay me. ! answered
them and told him not to worry about IL. ! |
never called at his house for lear no might |
think was dunnInG him, In the latter part Of
which he was the author | am not surprised
that he committed suicide, or that his wife iol-
lowed his example A man who would write
whole book OF poems Is naturally sentimental,
and believe Wendandt was too proud 10 stand
tho supposed disgrace Of having his things
sold at auction. and that he talked tho mater |
over with his wife and they decided that 1t was
best to die"
Ia. slal To- h IA Han