The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-15
DESERTED DAUGHTERS.
Faster Erich and His New Wife
Accused Of Leaving Two Girls
Homeless in HobOken.

A sensation has been created In Hobo
ken by the announcement that Pastor
Eirlch OF the German Lutheran Church
nad gone 70 Ohio and left his two step
daughters destitute. The girls who are
sixteen and eighteen years old respec-
lively are handsome and accomplished
and. IL the stories told are true. have suf-
fered unheard OF humiliation.
Pastor Eirich's marital relations have
pot been very pleasant lie has married
three times HIS second wife, who Is
SAID 20 be most exemplary woman
- divorced from him and Is ut present
living in Brooklyn Mr.. Erich
last matrimonial venture brought on
trouble in the congregation, which finally
resulted In his being compelled to resign
the pastorate. His third wife WAS the
divorced wiIe Of the Rev. Mr. Mas. OF
Albany. This woman had two daugh-
ters who lived at the parsonage.
When Pastor Erich could not remain
10 the parsonage any longer he told his
Ohio and that ne was going there. No
body suspected that be would
leave his wife's daughters behind,
but 1t appears that he did, and il Is stated
that the girls were compelled TO seek
shelter beneath the roof Of the woman
who did the washing for the family.
Mrs. Sierck. Of Hudson street. a promi-
nent member OF the church, said today
Pastor Richter. the new pastor of the
German Lutheran Church, and bis wife.
nave been stopping with Us until
the parsonage was vacated by Mr..
Erich and put In condition Mr.
Erich agreed TO surrender everything aud
go away. Two days before Christmas
word came here that the parsonage was
ready. Pastor Richter, his wife aud nv
self went 10 the house to examine ir. On
the stoop we found q woman crying Bit
terly. | questioned her aud asked her
If she had lost anything and she said it
was worse than that.
Finally the woman burst out crying,
and said, Mr.. Erich's two beautiful step
daughters are left without a home TO
shelter them. Their step father and step
mother have gone West without Them
-. Scarcely believing such thing could
be we questioned the woman further
She said that she was a servant In the
family and loved the girls. She said that
she lived with her husband in a tenement
house and that on the night previous
Mr.. Eiricn's two daughters had slept
In their humble cot while her family
slept on the floor. / instructed this
woman to send the girls at once 70 my
house. The next day the elder girl called
on me and we had long talk. The poor
girl seemed almost heartbroken- She
said that her younger sister had gone TO
Troy TO stop with her grand
mother and that she was thinking about
going to her father, who lived In New
Brunswick. But with tears in her eyes she
said:-"My father may not receive me.
He is married 10 another woman and
my mother 70 another IMAM" Touch
ed with the girls story in
troduced her TO Mrs. Mattlsge, of our
church and she was offered situation as
companion to Mrs. Mattlage's children.
/ think she accepted IL. l learned later
that the girl was stopping with a Mrs
Doughe-ty, at No. 2l7 Washington
street."
called at the above address in the hope
Of seeing the girl / was told that she
had been there for a few days. but had
gone to New Brunswick to visit her
father. MIR. Erich, it is said, was in Ho-
her daughters.