Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-12
ALMOST A TRAGEDY.
TIE HAPPY BINDING OF A COMEDY on
ERRORS.
A Jealous Wife Threatens Suicide and Her nus
band Takes Reconciliation in a Hos
pital-A Very Queer Affair that Hap-
psnsd in the Metropolis

New YORK April ll.-There was hap
py ending yesterday, at Gonverneur Hos
pital, TO a comedy of errors in which ieal-
ousy had played battledore and shuttle
cock with the hearts of husband and wife
until each was weary OF life and r.pe for
suicide
The man was Frederick Wassmer. now
26 years old, who four years ago. me. Miss
Ella Smolinsky, comely grl of about his
own age a brief courtship ended I'm mar
riage, and up TO few weeks ago they oc-
cupled a prettlly furnished fat and seemed
only happy when IN each others company.
They had no children.
\ short time ago the husband. without
50 far as could be learned. any reaso,. be-
came imbued with the idea tua. lie
was receiving attentions from others. and
the young wife, on equally baseless
grounds, began 10 think, whenever her
husband was detained by business. that he
was worshlpping az some fair ones shrine.
There were no recrminatiOns. and each
suffered in silence. His suspicious made
the husband sick, and last week he was
able 10 work but few days As he was "A
steady man, his employer advanced him
his weeks wages. The wife learned of
this and, thinking he wished TO spend the
money on the imaginary charmer. went to
her mothers home TO spend the night.
As his wife was away when ne reached
home, the husband concluded that she had
deserted him, and he roamed the streets all
night Next morning the wife returned.
Her husband was not az home. and instinc-
lively she rushed TO the closet and threw
open the doors \ glance showed her that
his best suit Of clothes was gone, and she
jumped TO the conclusion that he had
eloped with the woman OF her thoughts.
Almost heartbrOken she sat down and
penned letter, which she left upon the
table She sought refuge, late in the even
ing at her mothers. Hardly had Fila gone
when the husband returned and his eyes
fell upon the note. He tore il open and
read
'DEAR FRED-I see you took your suit,
and | see all hope is lost with me. You
know that | cannot live without your love,
so | will end it all when | have the cour-
age. / waited with your supper for you
until | looked in the closet and saw that
YOU took your clothes and that settled me.
Good bye, darling; dear love, good bye.
God bless you and the one you love. have
nothing against you. Goodbye. Your
ever-faithful wife. ELLA.
"P. .S.-DOn't think hard of me. At the
foot of Market street is my graven
The truth dawned upon Freds jealousy
couded brain His wife had been jealous
of him. and had perhaps drowned herself.
He tore into the street, sought the police
man on the beat and poured his tale Of woe
into the bluecoat's ears.
Don't you worry" said the officer;
'your wife will come back"
"Oh, no, she WON'T moaned the hus-
band. "She has drowned herself. II
only had courage enough TO kill myself"
he moaned sadly.
The policeman counseled the man to take
matters philosophically, but Wassmer
strobe angrily away The neighbors heard
him groaning in his room yesterday morn
ing, and broke open the door. He lay on the
floor writing in agony, having swallowed
a large quantity of paris green. An ambu-
lance removed him to the Gouverneur Hos
pital. where the house physician succeeded
in pumping out the poison In the
meantime Mrs Wassmer heard Of what had
happened and hastened to the hospital.
Her husband was in too precarious con-
dition TO be seen. She lowered about the
place until o'clock yesterday afternoon,
and then, as Wassmer had become stronger,
she was allowed 10 see him. The inter
view was affecting, and even the usually
nurses shed tears The
mistakes of the past were all explained.
1t was late in the day when the wife was
forced by the regulations 10 leave the hos
pital Her husband is on the road TO
recovery and happiness.