The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-24
AN UNHAPPY FATHER,
The Daughter Of an Austrian
Count Leaves Her Home.
Lands in New York, Leads Life of Infamy
and Refuses to Return With Her
HeartbrOken Sire
Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dfsnato, !

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch. |
New YORK, Jan. 23.-As the steamship
Umbria sailed out from this port two weeks
ago Wednesday, it bore away the heart
broken, discouraged Count George Szirmay.
privy chamberlain to the Emperor of Aus
tria, the holder of high military position,
and man respected throughout the empire.
He came to this country to reclaim his
daughter, born countess, from a life of
degradation and he went away alone be-
cause she preferred the life she was living
here rather than to return with him.
The girl is Jeanne Marie Szirmay,
eighteen years old, and a handsome blonde
She was her fathers idol His MARTA
lie was not happy and divorce was OBJ
talned by him and he lived in seclusion for
time with his daughter, their only com
panion being the housekeeper, who had
grown up with the family Affairs went
along in this way for two years, but the
girl is said to have fretted over the re-
straint imposed upon her by her fathers
life. The monotony of her home at Pesth
increased her desire to see the world.
America and Americans were painted to
the girl by the housekeeper, who had rela-
t1yes hele, in such brilliant colors.
that finally the young woman con
ided TO her elderly companion that she
wanted to come. to these shores.
| The woman at first refused to aid her
to leave her father, but the announcement
that the count was about to marry again.
coupled with the fact that he had begun to
treat her more as servant than a COM
panlon, induced her to give her protege a
helping hand
July q, 1888, Jeanne arrived at Castle
Garden from the Cunard steamship Au-
rama. alone. She had money, pretended to
have friends here and on the representa-
ton of a man named Wunsch the commits
sloners of emigration allowed her to land.
She accompanied Wunsch to Jersey Citv.
He devoted too much of his time to dis
cussing Socialism. His business failed and
he finally blew his brains out year later.
NO marriage ceremony had been performed
between Jeanne and Wunsch, and almost
pennlless and alone she wandered to this
city. Meanwhile her fathers housekeeper
had come to this city and married tailor.
Some twenty months ago the two women
met on the street. The old housekeeper en-
| couraged the girl to keep up her mode of
life.
The count during all these months had
been travelling over Europe searching for
his daughter and hoping against hope
Finally he received a letter from the Aus
trian consul TO the effect that his daughter
was in this city. He obtained leave of alb
sence and arrived in this city on the Sd of
this month. But the girl somehow had
| disappeared and could not be found, not
withstanding advertisements were inserted
in the German papers. The count, his hair
turned snow white with .age and ogrlef,
paid visit to the home of his housekeeper
Only ca friends presence prevented a
stormy scene between him and the woman 8
| husband. Finally his leave of absence
drawing to close, the old man was obliged
to return.