Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-09
LET HIS WIFE STARvF.
a SAD STORY or NEGLECT BY a
DIsslPATED HUSBAND.
He Spent All His Money Tor Drink and Pawnsd
the Bed Cohesive Weeks
on Crust Of Bread.

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| from the Midvale station, was an obvious
object Of interest to not few Inhabitants
| Of Passaic county yesterday afternoon
| Several hOrses,to which buggies or light
Wagons were attached, were tied to the
fence In front, and in the course of the
afternoon their number was augmented
by several more. Eight or ten men lott
cred about in the cottage yard or leaned
against the fence. Half dozen Of
them sat on the fence until its top rail
broke down under their weight The men
were country fellows of the usual sort.
with little to distinguish them from each
other.
Two, however, sat or stood little
apart from the rest who seemed to look
at the others and not altogether APPROX
ingly. They were father and son The
father had merry eyes and appeared
iovial, while the son seemed sullen.
Their name was Wyhle, the son being
called Charles in addition.
Two or three young women clustered
around the single door of the cottage,
which was open. Inside the cottage
opposite the door, was cooking stove
in which feeble fire did little to miti-
gate the chill November air that was al
lowed to enter. Near the stove crouched
an old woman, so deaf that she could
hear little or nothing of what was going
on around her. Two cats slept in
chnir beside her, equally ohliviOus of
their surroundings. Beyond the cats was
trunk and next TO that Il narrow deal
table. on which were a few plates and
pans. Near the table was a barrel of
turnips. A chair or two filed what re-
NAMED vncant along the bare white
washed walls Of the room, whose only
such rs farmers wear While a little
girl kept Il baby quiet ms best she could,
three men. better dressed than those
al md wit "a pnf n Utn al NRraF
about them, consulted together short
while. One of them removed his coat
ornament was broad-brimmed straw. bat
and put on n rubber apron. Taking out
of a small satchel several sharp instru-
ments he went into the remaining room
of the cottage. The only occupant of
that room was a dead woman, whose
discolored, bloated body lay on the bed.
A coffin was also in the room. The
dead woman was the wife OF the sullen-
looking young man who talked with his
jovial-looking father outside, As told
in The Sun yesterday, the womans
death was believed to be due to her
husbands neglect and i'll treatment
he had allowed her TO starye it WAS suld,
and beat and abused her.
That was why DIR. w. $. Colfax of
Pompton, the man in the rubber apron,
was about to make an autopsy, me
other two men We're Coroner Brown OF
Patterson, who had come TO follow mp
the autopsy with an inquest, and Dr. J.
@. Morgan of PomptOn, DIR. CuliaN 5
autopsy showed that Alr7, Wyhle had
died from want of nourishment, but no
marks or other signs indicating that
she had been injured were found. The
woman would have become mother IN
n few days.
Willie the dead woman's body had been
uudcr the surgeons knife the OLD ueal
,N In tlg uu1Olnlnk
room took Il nap. CorOner brown
formed jury, and the noise oil inc
inrvmen cTowding in awoke her, ana
she began to show some interest IN wnht
was going ON. The dent woman WIS
Mrs Cronk, the mother OF the deau
woman. =, -, ,.,.,,.,1
Mrs Wyble's body they set out Tor
Roome'g hotel. where the inquest was TO
he held, followed by the coroner tne IVY
doctors. the young women. the girl WIN
the baby and the men who had been
lettering in front of the brown cottage.
The inquest was held III what was
c,iIod the ballroom of the hotel, a ire
less APARTMENT, in which the boarders OF
the hotel as well as those who had come
from the cottage. arranged themselves
Coroner Brown. on taking his seat at
n long table. placed roll OF MY -eens
aud twenty-five cent pieces IN trout ol
| him beside the kerosene lamp, when was
now reunired to light the room. As each
witness finished his Or her testimony
| Constable Goodrich handed HIM or her
| tho larger coin. The quarters We're re-
| served for the iurymen.
The Testimony Of the different witnesses
was listened TO with unparent stoll1lty
| bv both Wyhes. who had carry tahei
| their places among the spectators OF
| H.. In
'"y VIVA, 'V was told by the witnesses will
| what was learned by u reporter by per
| sonal INQUIRY makes sad story M
| dead woman. it appears. was rnther SIN
| ple-minded. She was led astray las'
! spring by farmer near NarWlck, ~
| Y in whose house she was u servant
When the consequences of his act be
| came manifest he sent her back to hei
| mother who then occupied. MS she doe
| still. the house in which the hrst Mrs
| Charles Wyhle died last March, aite!
| making her husband. betor ne was =
years old, the father OF tnlrteeh Jlt
! dren They were both married whei
| about IL Although aware OF her con
dtion. Wyhle asked the victim OF th'
Warwick farmer TO become the step
mother of the three survivors OF the tlnr
teen children, and IN August, wlthih, !
week of the death of his seventh emo
they were married. Gossip says 'ha M.
they lived unhapplly from tne very s'', ,,o
which is not unlikely, a. Myhle Is ~
toriously an idle drinking fellow, wh'
! works ns little as he can help and spehu
what little he earns in drink. About wv
weeks ago he secured job rs Wo9u
! chopper from james kenworthy' Wh
lives near Pompton. MIR. henworth
cave him the uso Of o log cabin u IN
woods which were 70 be cut and Wynn
removed his VITO 10 II. His children u
! distributed aronud among those OF Ill