Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-02
HUNTING FOR JACOB.
Mrs. Lena Sauers Would Like to Find
Her Betrothed Husband.
A BLONDE WIDOWS HARD LUCK.
She Buys an Outfit for a Eamssake, bat
He Has Disappeared.
DETECTIVE BEkDEL ON THE TRAIL

Mrs. Lena Sauers, q blonde, plump and
prepossessing widow, has started the ma
chinery Of the Department Of Public Safety
in motion. and with Detective Bendel at the
throttle it is speeding after Jacob Sauers.
The latter is not a blood relative of the lady,
but she hoped to be related to him by mar
riage on the first day.of next month, when
Cupid and Hymen play hide-and-seek
among the June roses.
Mrs, Sauers' husband died in Germauya
year ago. The widow was disconsolate,
but about three months ago came
to this country, hoping that q change
of scene would divert her mind
from her great, and as she believed, ire
parable loss. She had read wild, weird
stories. printed in German text. of the won
drous beauty of the land of gold across the
Atlantic, and she wanted to see for herself
the hordes OF painted savages and countless
millions of buffalo which roam the flower
starred prairies. Therefore the came to
Pittsburg.
Lena Meets With Jacob.
Mrs. Sauers took up her residence on
Washington street. As a stranger in
childless, she often sighed to hear the soft
and musical gutturals of the Fatherland.
She longed to meet someone who mad
strolled Unter den Linden in old Berlin,
and who could call before the minds eye
scenes dear to memory.
The widow had any amount of leisure
and some money, and as she had nothing to
do but make friends, it was not strange that
she became ace uainted with Jacob Sauers.
The similarity in name proved sharp
edged tool with which to open the hermetic-
ally sealed can of conversation, and to-
eether they climbed their respective genoa
logical trees and delved among the roots in
an endeavor to find a connection between
the two families In this they failed; but
while defeated, they were still unconquered,
and having decided that their families
ought to have been united at one time or
another, they determined to marry, and
thus indissolubl u weld the two families.
Combined Business With Love.
Jacob Sauers was prepossessiRg young
man, perhaps q trihe more youthful than
his betrothed. He had been in this couu-
try three years, and be was business from
the ground up. He had been Wrestling
living from the world by peddling show
cards. but his ambition was not satisfied; he
wanted to reach out,
Jacob and Lena INDUCED in long tete-a-
tetes, as lovers will. They discussed the
stvle of cot which they most affected, and
agreed to dot upon the particular shade of
roses which should climb to their lattice
window and awaken them in the morning
by their fragrance. Now and again Jacob
would interject a little business talk.
Some method had to be provided for
paying the rent. Landlords do not rent
rha Of he
Then, again, Jacob thought an occasional 81
bill would help to Jolly along" the butch
er, baker and grocer. Finally he brosched
his plan. He thought be could make money
peddling cigars, hnt to DO that he would
need horse and wagon and little capital.
Lena was verv much IN love, so she bought
horse and wagon, for which she gave S85,
paid $40 for 900 cigars and gave Jacob an
other $40 in cash.
nB Jacob Drops Out of Sight.
Jacob professed undying constancy ard q
determination to make a fortune. He started
on Monday on his quest. No word was
heard of him on Tuesday, and Wednesday
evening, the halfway house of the week for
fond lovers, passed without any sign of the
erstwhile afectionate Jacob.
The little blonde laid awake all Wednes-
day night thinking. Early Thursday morn
ing she made a tour of all the livery stables
in the two cities. Jacob might have dropped
dead, but be could not have carried the
horse and wagon with him to better world,
she reasoned. She didn't find the rig, and
il finally dawned upon her that she was out
S165 in cash and prospective husband.
Yesterday Mrs Sauers told her story to
Inspector McAleese. That official was
puzzled. If Lena had given the outfit and
money to Jacob he had a legal right to do as
he pleased with them; and she could not
punish him for breach of promise, for the
date for fulfilling the marriage contract had
not yet arrived. In this dilemma Inspector
McAleese turned the case over to Detective
Bendel, who has taken up the trail, and pro-
poses to keep up his record of never going
after a man without getting him.