Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-03
LONGING FOR DEATH.
Bernhardt Mueller, Who Entered
Paris as a ConquerOr, Now
A HOMELESS, STARVING vAGRANT.
Discarded by His Wealthy Father for His
Coustancy in Love.
HIS BRIDES DEATH WRECKS ais LIFE

Bernhard Mueller, who ranked as Ensign
in the Uhlan Regiment when it was the ad-
vance guard of the German army which
entered Paris after the gay city capitulated,
slept in cell in the Central station last
night with a charge of vagrancy registered
opposite his name on the police blotter.
Yesterday morning Inspector McAleese's
attention was attracted to a man going down
Diamond street, The man was handsome
and we'll built, but the picture OF decayed
gentility, and in the last stages of decay at
that. HIS clothes, or what was left of them,
bore evidences of being designed by an
artist in cloth, and the material was of the
finest. They hung in sheds about his form,
exposing the satin lining. His elbows and
knees appealed desparingly to cold world
for shelter; his cuffs were fraYed, and the
fringes on his pants while artistic displayed
too much of red ankle to be comfortable.
His hat was battered out of shape, and his
shoes were merely an apology for being bare
foot The figure was the apotheosis of
being too homes. to steal, too proud to beg,
and unable to get work.
Later In the day the man applied at
Central station for shelter. That he needed
rest and food was selfapparent, and his
manners denoted that he was man of cul-
ture and refinement, but he was unable to
speak English. The man was turned over
to Sergeant Metz, who speaks German, and
after a time the stranger told his storTy,
although with great reluctance.
The Wandering Sad Story.
"My name is Bernhardt Mueller" he
said, "and I am 81 years old. Ny father
is banker In Darmstadt and well-to-do,
while my mother is the daughter of the
Baron Won Seibel. 1 was educated at
Heidelberg, but when the Franco-Prussian
war broke out 1 insisted upon my father
getting me commission in a Uhlan regi-
ment. served during this campaign, and
while I was not the first man to enter Paris
after its capitulation, as the formationEof our
regiment prevented that yet l was one of the
first hundred. After the war was over re.
turned to Heidelberg, where 1 graduated.
Then went into my fathers bank, it being
understood that l, as the only son, would sue
coed to the business.
ut was about 10 years ago that my trouble
commenced, and it was borne to me on the
wings of love. / do not repine, for / have
tasted that draught of divine elixir which is
never Ouereu TO a man DuL once. AT q small
social gathering met a young lady to whom
was inst tantly attracted, and to whom, despite
her modest difhdence. l was not repellant. She
was the daughter of small shopkeeper, but
had received an education not usual with one
of her station in life. She was beautiful
girl and charming vocalist I met her con-
stanlly for several months and we avowed our
love to each other and were engaged. When
l went to my father to gain his consent he
stormed and raved He said he had higher
prospects for me; he desired me to wed
wealthy and titled relative of my mothers, not
only as an advancement for myself personally,
but to shed an additional lustre on luy fathers
rank to which he was as devoted as q mother
to her first born.
Discarded by an Angry Fathe,.
ut was in vain that 1 argued that Suth my
love and my honor were at stake in this matter;
that my word was pledged, and that, even
banker. was bound to redeem my promises.
He would not listen to me. l must marry the
woman he had chosen for me, or was no
longer his son. He would cast me of forever,
disinherit me. l thought that these words
were merely the ebullltion Of a fit of passion.
My father had always been kindness itself to
me, and believed that he would recall his de-
cison. know now that was wrong. Never
for moment in all these Yeas has he wavered.
"Freda and / were married at her fathers
home. had a little money saved. with which
we purchased home, and we cared not for the
future for we loved each other. :! left
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