Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
ENDING OF A ROMANCE
By Happy Marriage to q Prosperous
PittSburg Merchant
LOVE, ELOPEMENT AND DIVORCE
With the Scenes In France, Philadelphia
and This City.
A CRUEL HUSBAND BECOMES INSANE

The last act of q French romance in real
life, as exciting as novel, has been played
in Pittsburg. The heroine, married in
America to escape the wrath of her rela-
tives, kicked out of her home by drunken
husband, left fortune by an aunt, has now
had her first marriage ties legally severed
and without thought of her first unhappy
welded experience has married another-a
Pittsburg man; and while the fates are
smiling kindly on her happy home
and fortune, the man whom she first loved
enough to elope with, has been driven in
sane by drink and the misfortune OF losing
his wife, money, and is now an inmate OF the
Norristown asylum. His name is Pierre
Pituo. The story of his life has been told
and retold to DR.. Nardyz, the Italian physi-
clan in Pittsburg, who now for the first time
makes it known to the world. In 1850,
Pituo, a reckless son of Paris merchant,
met the girl whom he afterward married, at
a small town in interior France named LIE
Cole d AIRS. The girls last name was Pelli-
sier. She was 10 years old, the daughter Of
a wealthy French farmer, whose pride was
as great as that of q royal family. The
young French maiden was as romantic as
the village in which she lived and as beauti-
full as the foreigners ideal girl of that
country. Pituo, whose life was all hts
own, stayed at LIE Cole d'Ars nearly
all the time after he met her, but
on account of the girls father having seen
him drunk at one time, he was denied ad-
mission to the house. Their meetings were
none the less frequent on account Of that,
however, and from the fact that they were
clandestine, their affection for each other
had all the more chance to become desperate
love.
E1oped to America.
So desperate was 1t that an elopement
was planned. Pituo easily secured the neces-
sary money, and the plans were then not
hard to carry ont. They came to America
delphia, and established their romantic
home among the staid old Quakers. Pitou
secured work in liquor house with fair
income, but despised by him because it was
work. Their rooms were on the second
floor of house on Pine street be-
tween Ninth and Tenth Until this
time DR.. Nardyz had not known them. He
was living in Philadelphia then, and one
cold night in the winter of 1887, while
walking along Pine street, he saw young
woman lying unconscious at the foot of
He saw at once that she had been
roughly handled and had her removed to a
hospital. A day afterward she gave birth
to child. 1t lived three weeks, and after
1t died the young mother told her story.
She declared she would never live with her
husband again, and as he did not know
where she had been taken she asked DR..
Nardvz to help her keep out of the way of
Pituo and get place for her to work. She
did not want to return to France or let any
Of her relatives know of her existence. The
woman was weak at the time and Dr..
Nardyz agreed to do as she asked, intending,
however, to send word to her relatives.
"A Fortune in France.
Before he did this he saw an advertise
ment in a French paper, signed by the
French Consul, asking for the whereabouts
of the wife of Piere Pitou. The advertise
ment simply stated that fortune had been
left her. DR.. Nardyz went to the Consul
and learned from him that sister of the
old farmer, 'Pellisier, had died, leaving a
fortune of 1000 francs to her niece, whom
she alone of all the family had pitied. The
will provided that the husband was not to
get any of the money in case of his wife's
death. The letter containing these facts
was received by Pierre Pitou about q month
after he had kicked his wife down stairs
He had been in a drunken stupor ever
SINCE but had enough sense left when he re-
ceived the letter to know that in it there was
q possibility of getting the money to continue
debauchery. He went to the French Con-
sui, related all the facts about having put
his wife ouAof her home and solicited aid in
finding her. He also said he was willing to
ask her forgiveness and wanted the inf1u-
ence of the Consul in getting it. The latter
thought it best, however, to simply state
the facts to the unfortunate woman, who
had so suddenly become an heiress, and
with DR.. No 81, the. two took the letter to
the hospitaI. partly undetermined what to
say to her about her husband, but fully de-
cided not to mention him when after read
ing the letter the young woman, with all
the feminine hatred of French nature, found
her chief joy in saying that henceforth she
would be able to live independent of
her husband. They refused to tell
Pituo where his wife was. He insisted,
raved, sought the aid of the police, and |
finally, after a drunken debauch, became |
Norristown Asylum, where he is now con- |
ined.
The woman, through the aid of the Consul |
and DR.. Nardvz, secured the money in a |
ew months, and was earnestly urged bv her |
ather to return home. She always said she |
vas ashamed to go back among her old |
riends, however, and lived quietly in Phil
Idelphia.
Married Pittsburg Man.
She secured a divorce from her husband |
wo years ago and never relented enough to
visit him at the asylum. She was told of
lis misfortunes, but asked no questions. A |
rear ago she met. a young Frenchman
n Philadelphia, who renewed the romantic
pirit of the days when she lived in LIE
Cole d'Ars. Their courtship was conducted
without opposition. A few months ago this
nan, whose name is withheld by DR..
Nardyz, came to Pittsburg and opened
mall store on Liberty avenue, between
7orty-ffth and Forty-si1th street. The
money to put in the business was furnished
W the divorced wife of Pierre Pituo, who
lad determined to act more wisely than at
Ter first marriage, and sent her intended
husband ahead to prepare the way. Last
week the young French storekeeper went
o Philadelphia, and was married to the
eroine of true romance. They came to
'ittsburg last Tuesday, and are living mod
stlv in little home, without any show of
Tealth, but with lots Of happiness and, DR..
'ardyz thinks, bright future ahead.