The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-18
TWO WIVESFACE TOFACE
pApaAEL BEERMAN LEAVES
THEM TO FIGHT 1T OUT.

The Stock of Goods in Bis Store on
Marietta and Peters Streets Also
Left 20 be Fought for-His Business
a Lucrative One-rhe Story of the
Discovery.
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 17.-Raphael Beer
man. a merchant who has been doing a
lucrative business on Marietta and Peters
streets for four or five years past, has dis
snpesred. His store Is locked up and two
wives are ali but pulling each others hair in
contention over the possession Of the stock
If goods. Beerman and his wife, with
their two children, have always enjoyed the
respect of their neighbors. and yesterday
when Mrs. Beerman No. arrived from
Baltimore with a third child, her appear
ance created a sensation. Beerman had,
however, heard Of her approach to the city
and was not present at the scene.
OTHER INTERESTING FEATURES.
Aside from the fact that it is a case of
bigamy in a hitherto happy and respected
family, there are other interesting features
in the story OF the Marietta street mer-
chants career. Seven years ago he mar
ried in Russia. He became an exile from
that oppressed country and began life
anew with his young wife in Germany.
After two years there he took his family
and went to London, and then crossed the
Atlantic to seek his fortune, leaving his
wife and two little babes behind. Beerman
landed at Norfolk and being of thrifty
nature, soon got a good start in business.
Naturally he longed for his wife and chill
dren, and as soon as he was able to send
tickets for their passage from London to
Norfolk he did So
TEMPTED BY ANOTHER WOMAN.
He had a nice cosy home prepared to re-
ceive them, but the mail had hardly de-
parted with the tickets to the anxious wife,
when temptation came. A woman was the
tempter OF course, a woman and money too.
A young girl by the name of Miss Fanny
Kemp, who had considerable money in her
own pane, became infatuated with Beer
man, and while his wife and
babies were strRining their eyes from
the ships deck, looking eagerly toward
Americas shores. he and Miss Kemp loped
from Norfolk. Miss Kemp's father had
them followed, and Beerman was arrested
in Atlanta, but released in few hours be-
cause Mr.. Kemp found his daughter had
been married and he did not want to see
her husband go behind the bars.
ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST WIFE.
When the wife from the old country ar
rived in Norfolk she was met by the father
Of wife No. q He gave her money to go on
TO Washington and Baltimore, but refused
to disclose the whereabouts of her husband,
also the husband of his daughter, because
he did not want Beerman prosecuted for
bigamy. as it would disgrace and injure his
own child. All the time Beerman and his
second wife have been living in Atlanta
enjoying q prosperous life on the money he
secured In marrying her. his deserted wife
has been laboring In Baltimore to support
her children, sometimes, she says, earning
only 81 week. One of the children died
under the privation aud the labor of the
mothers hand was lightened, though the
sorrow in her heart was made heavier.
THE DISCOVERY.
A week ago she CHANGED to hear drum
mer, who had sold Beerman goods in At
lanta, speak of him. She made inquiries
Of him. and becoming satisfied that it was
her faithless husband, took her child in her
arms and came on to Atlanta. But the
bird had flown before she reached here
and now the chief of police has been ap-
pealed to to decide the ownership Of
the goods Beerman left IN his store
Mrs. Beerman No. l says she will
prosecute her recreant husband to the bittea
end if be can be found. task which the
police are now engaged In. She is quit
pretty and in her dark eyes there is look
Of determination as she describes heI
wrongs and the hardahips she has andurad