Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-03
HE MOURNS HERLOSS.
A Beltzhoover Man Says His Wife
Has Eloped With a Contractor.
MIXED CASES OF IMPLICITLY.
She Turned Over $4,000 Worth of Prop
erty to Her Husband.
NOW SHE HAS SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED

Jacob Rein, of Beltzhoover bo rough, mott
ned the police yesterday that his wife had
disappeared Saturday, and left note stat.
ing she had left him and would never re.
turn, and that any attempt to ascertain her
whereabouts would prove futile.
The letter which Rein placed in the
hands of the police officials, written by his
wife, stated she would not live with him
any longer, as he abused her without just
cause.
Coupled with tine disappearance OF Mrs.
Rein is the sudden departure from the city
on Monday Of Emil Bof, carpenter, who
resided in the next house to Rein on Wash
ington avenue, Thirty-frst ward. In report
ing the disappearance OF his wife, Rein said
that Boff sympathized with his wife because
her husband had ill-treated her. This led
Rein to believe that his wife had eloped
with Boff.
Bof left his wife and five children Mon
day, and they have received no word from
him. Mrs. Boff thought her husband had
gone away with Mrs. Rein. From the story
Mrs. Botf told the police her husband had
no reason for deserting her and leaving her
almOsL pennlless.
LEFT HER FIVE DOLLARS.
Before he left the house he gave his wife
s., and told her he would return in the
evening. As he did not appear again, she
concluded he had deserted her. The disap-
pearance of Mrs. Rein and Boff within
three days excited considerable talk among
the neighbors on Washington avenue, who
knew Boffa and Mrs. Rein, and surmised that
eF hot IL
arranged. A gentleman living near both
families, stated that about a month ago
Mrs. Rein sued her husband before Alder
man Beinhauer, for abusing her, and for
failing to provide for maintenance. Rein
was fined by Alderman Beinhauer who
threatened to commit him to jail if he did
not treat his wife better.
About four months ago, Rein accused his
wife with transferring her affections to Boff
On one occasion while Boff was visiting at
the house, he had a quarrel with
the latter and threatened to sue
him for alternating his wife
affections. The suit was not entered and
matters quieted down for the time being.
In the meantime Mrs. Rein and Boff be-
came better friends and the outcome OF the
matter was the supposed elopement of the
pair on Monday. The parties in the case
are quite well-to-do, and Mrs. Rein had
considerable real estate, which she trans
ferred to her husband after the suit before
Alderman Beinhauer and told him he could
have it all if he would release her.
GAVE HIM THE PROPERTY.
This he did not consent to, but his wife,
however, turned the property over to him
and said that she would have nothing
further to do with him. The property
is worth about $4,000. She told him
in her letter he could do with it
as he wished. Bof has had large business
as contractor, which he neglected of late,
as most of his time was spent In the COM
pany of Mrs. Rein.
About month ago he was arrested at the
instance of his wife, who claimed he tried to
shoot her. He was subsequently released
on his promise of good behavior.
Bof has been a very prominent member
of the Allentown Turn Verein, and has for
some years been prominently identified
with other German societies on the Southside.
A grocery store near the house of Boff
was the trysting place of both Mrs. Rein
and Boff ior the past six months. Here
they met until the husband of Mrs. Rein
found it out. He waited one day un-
til his wife left the house, and then imme-
diatcly repaired to the grocery store, where
he engaged in a quarrel with Boff.
This started the trouble between Rein and
his wife, and they had numerous
quarrels at home. The story of Mrs. Rein's
intimacy with Boff is discredited among
her friends, who entertain high regard foi
husband solely on account of him abusing
her. Rein however, thinks that Boff is
with his wife, but says that he is willing to
forgive her if she will return