New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-03-02
HEARTLESS LEAVE TAKING.
Peter Pertmantgen, after Year of We'd
ded Life, Takes Sudden Leave.
He First Abuse ses bis Wife and then Skips
to Dakota.
A Story of Injury and Cruelty that Sounds
Inhuman.

About as cruel and inhuman a case
OF treatment of wife by husband as has
recently gone on record has just been
exposed to public notice in the town OF
Milford, only few miles from New
Ulm, Peter Hermantgen is the heart
less husband in the case, and Lizzie, his
wife, who is daughter OF Peter Schmi:z
tells the tale of neglect and abuse. The
particulars are as follows:
About year ago they were married.
Everything went along nicely for few
days, but the marital happiness did not
last long. She, the ne1ghbors say, re-
mained true TO her VOW and worked
hard for the welfare of both. While he
was out threshing, she would plow their
fields herself, and only until recently,
when she took sick and became moth
er, did she cease to labor for their NUT
ual happiness. Then it was that her
husbands nature manifested itself.
When the babe was only two days old
he took knife and walking to the beo
where the mother was resting with the
child in her arms he asked how she
would like TO have him cut the little
ones nose of. The fright occasioned
by such inhuman suggestions resulted
in sickness, and then followed day after
day OF abuse. He kept up his sugges-
tions of injury to the child, as if with a
purpose in view, and finally the wife's
parents insisted on removing her from
the place. This was done, and while
she was being taken care of at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Schmitz, the unnatural
husband packed all the household goods
and took them to Springfield. From
there ne shipped them to a point in
Dakota, but it is not known whether he
went to the same place or not. Not an
article was left in the house with the
exception of a castor given to her on
her wedding day, and before leaving it
is said he even deededsov yer lis property
u MS 1ather VINO alded INN III moving.
AT first the parents of the abused gi
were inclined to keep the affair from
the public, but now that her husband
has carried matters so far as to take
with him what belongs I'd his wife and
also leave behind him many debts thew
have no hesitancy in telling all that has
actually occurred.
In the House on Wednesday Picker
OF South Dakota and Lind of Minnesota
stood up for the rights of the Indians.
Ihe Southern members appeared deter
mined to cut the appropriations down to
an unreasonable limit. The pay of all
Indian agents except the six in South
Dakota has been reduced and when the
general provision to expend $50, 900 for
irrigations purposes on the reservations
was introduced the brigadiers wanted
this cut out altogether. Picker stood
up for the amount recommended by the
committee and offered an amendment
appropriating $4,000 for an artesian
well at the Pierre Indian school. PEN
dieton, of West Virginia, had a good
deal to say against the government In
dian policy and Lind asked him if he
had ever seen an Indian or a tribe of
Indians, Pendleton confessed that he
had never seen a tribe, though. he had
seen an Indian. 'sThat is all wanted
to know" said Lind. 81 see that the
gentleman is fully competent to discuss
this question. He has actually seen an
Indian probably one of Buffalo Bills
warriors.