The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-20
DESERTED AND DESTITUTE
Mrs. Bauer Follows Her Husband from Colo
RADIO in Vain.

Mrs. Bauer Follows Her Husband from Colo
RADIO in Vain.
A tall, slender woman with hair the
color of the ravens wing and features once
regular and comely, but now wan and
colorless through sorrow and suffering,
told to Commissioner Greenman that old,
old story last night of a woman's clinging
love and a mans duplicity The woman
was Mrs. Nellie Bauer, of 1872 West Tenn
pie street. A HERALD reporter accom-
panied Mrs Bauer to her home from
Judge Greenman's Office and on the way
there she told her story. She was married 10
Andrew Bauer in Denver, Colo, in 1885.
From there the pair removed to Leadville
in 'S7. The course of married life run as
smoothly as 1t does in most cases and their
union was blessed by the appearance of
three children of unusual brightness. In
1890 business became slack in Leadville
and Bauer went to Aspen to "try his luck
He established himself in business in As
pen and kept himself in communication
with his family in Leadville.
One day Mrs. Bauer was surprised by
her husband walking into their Leadvilie
home and announcing that he had closed
out his business in Aspen for 81, 400 and
was going to Salt Lake to go into business.
Like good and loving wife Mrs. Bauer in
terposed no objection to his going west, but
kissed him goodbye and babe him god
speed. 1t was the last kiss she ever gave
him.
After Bauers departure from the car
Donate camp for the Utah capital, stories
evil and strange and filled with tidings OF
her husbands duplicity began to come
to the ears of Mrs. Bauer She made
an investigation and found that instead OF
being saint of virtue he had been sinner
of unlimited proportions while soiournine
in the little camp of Aspen. Wine, women
and cards had led him from the path OF
rectitude and honesty, and he had enjoyed
the baleful pleasures of dissipation to the
fullest extent. Letters mailed to Bauer il
Salt Lake were returned to Mrs. Bauer a.
Leadville. Finally, worn out by suspense
Mrs. Bauer came to Salt Lake. This was
in last July. Her liege lord had departed
for the land of the setting sun. Almost
penniless and in a strange city, with three
small children to care for, Mrs. Bauer has
since eked out precarlous livelihood as
best she could
When reporter saw Mrs. Bauer she
said that she had gone before Commission
er Greenman to see if there was not some
way by which she could compel her hus-
band to care for their children; she was al
most sick, and destitute; winters chill anC
hoary blasts were coming on, and the bur
den seemed greater than she could bear.
Commissioner Greenman has taken the
case under advisement and will see if there
is not some way by which the husband OF
this woman cannot be brought to realize
that there is limit to the sorrow and sui
fering which he may infiict upon trusting
and loving woman. In the meantime the
charity which hovers over the city with
the approach of Christmas tide should no
forget Mrs. Bauer. Here is an opportun
ity for the good samaritans of society to d.
a deserving woman a great favor and re
fleet shining credit upon themselves.