Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-15
SHE IS PROSECUTED
The Strange Case of Mrs.
DOminick EnderlitZ.
ABDUCTED WHEN AN INFANT.
Taken to Switzerland and Put in Care Of
Cruel Peasants.


of a Weelthy Observation-Disclosures, and
Determines to Seek Her Parents--Her
Efforts Bring Persecution Upon Her
and Frequent Attempts ar" Made to
Steal Her Children--A Romantic and
Mysterious Story.
NEW YORK, Oct. IS. A romantic
story of the alleged abduction of a child
of supposedly wealthy New Workers, of
her isolation in a lonely spot in the wild
mountains of Switzerland, of her subse-
quent escape from her cruel keepers, of
her return to this city and persecution
here by mysterious personages, came to
light yesterday, through the following
advertisement which appeared in one of
the local German newspapers:
4 LADY WHO WAS ABDUCTED WHEN
York City or vicinity, and taken to Switzer-
land, seeks her parents; Information may be
5th St.
A reporter found Mrs. Enderlitz in
small, neatly kept room on the second
floor at that number, with two pretty,
dark-eyed and swarthy looking children
tugging at her skirts and gazing at the
intruder with awed establishment.
Mrs. Enderlitz said that she was the
heroine of the story vaguely revealed in
the advertisement, and then narrated
her romantic history as she had gathered
it here and there by bits and woven
into coherent and plausible whole.
She says that she has vague remem-
brance of having been carried away from
her parents by strangers and taken
across wide expanse of restless waters.
She was a child at the time, perhaps 2
years of age. When she had grown up
bat Oh of hor
roundings she found herself in the hands
| of cruel and rough peasants away down
| in the dale of an isolated mountain in
Switzerland The nearest village was
| about five miles off, and could be reached
only by a primitive, dangerous path
| along steep mountain peak. Thither
the young girl had often to wander in
winter time through deep SHOWS with a
| basket full of butter and eggs to take to
| a merchant.
| While on these errands she picked up
| from the villagers now and then slender
| threads relating to her sudden and mys
| FERROUS appearance in the household of
her keeper and of occasional visits to
the village of a well-dressed foreigner,
suppos edly an American, who would
hold conferences with her mountain
keeper and give him money. 1t was
| common gossip among the villagers that
the Durrs Chat was the supposed name
| of her supposed parents) were not b er
parents at ALL as they had given out to
| the village pastor when he was called
upon to christian her Annie. Besides
this, Annie heard snatches of conversa
ton now and then regarding her and
the money that the foreign gentleman
| was sending at inter walls from New Yo k
and other points in the vicinity for
! keeping Annie.
There came time when this board
| money ceased to CONE and the peasants
treatment of Annie became more and
more cruel. One day Durr told her that
he would not keep her any longer and
came out with the story that she was
the daughter OF some wealthy American
Annie was Is years old when she left
her bondage and started out in the world
with the hope or finding her real pa
rents.
She worked for a while in hotels where
American tourists sojourn, hoping
against hope that she might learn some
thing or her parents through them.
About ten years ago she met an honest,
Industrious young painter by the name
of Dominck Enderlitz who was am
bilious to pursue his luck in ''the prom
Used land'' of America. Annie encour-
aged Dominick's attention to her and
eventually accepted his offer of mar
riage.
They came to this city, but lack of
money prevented Mrs. Enderlitz from at
once instituting the search for her sup
posedly wealthy parents. About two
years ago she inserted the first adver-
tisement in a newspaper
To the amazement of the honest couple,
instead of getting an inkling of the
identity and whereabouts of the sought
for parents, they found themselves per-
secuted by mysterious persons who
seemed to be intent upon stealing one OF
their pretty, dark-eved children.
Late one evening, upon leaving the
Atlantic Garden on the Bowery, where
they had gone with their two child rem
to spend a pleasant evening, Mrs. Ender-
litz found herself followed by a we'll
dressed, closely yelled woman. Her
husband was a few PAGES ahead of he1
carrying the younger of the two chill
dren, when the yelled woman rushed
silently up to her and tried to snatch
from her little Annie, who wa' walkin G
at her side, holding her hand. After
that similar attempts to steal one of t he
children were made several times at
their home.
Mrs. Enderlitz in her despair finally
went to Inspector Byrnes for protect ion.
The Inspector advised her to move and
never to allow her children to run
around in the street. The advice was
implicitly followed.
Mrs Enderlitz believes that these at
tempts to abduct one OF her children
have some mysterious relation to hel
efforts in finding her parents, but she
fondly entertains the vague hope that
she will be in the end successful, an
that big fortune will yet come to her.
She tells her romantic story in an in
telligent, coherent and thoroughly
plausible fashion. Neighbors corrobor
ate the story of the attempted abduc-
ton of her children, and fully believe in
Mrs Enderlitz's other tale of her own
abduction.
| A Valuable Dog Now.