The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-03
WHERE is LINGENAU?
A Seemingly Insane Man Wan
ders From Home.
cRezEo sy HIS wFE's DEATH.
After GfvIng Msny signs of INSANITY,
Joseph Linxenau, Man With
Hisrory. yanishes.

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birth, has disappeared, and, despite ths
| efforts of his friends TO find him, his
| Whereabouts remains mystery, as much
so, in fact. as the exaet canss which ied 10
| his vanishing So far as has been dtscoy-
! cred he had no reason TO skip out ana
| the theory that he has been put
out OF the way is not sustained D.
| the known facts. His actions since the
| time Of his wife's death have been queer at
times, and IL is possible he may have wan
dered away during tit OF mental aberra-
ton. Some OF bis friends, however, think
that he was murdered for sum OF money
| he claimed TO have found in his wife's sew
| ing machine after her death.
/ The history OF Joseph Won Lingenau
| enbodies the elements OF a complex SEN
sational story. lie claimed TO be from
| the aristocracy of Prussia. and az times
| showed marks on his body, which he
said were caused by the beatings he re-
| ceived as a prisoner in Siberia
| Once in talking with Mrs. Alice
| Collins, one of his Lewis street neighbors.
he SAID that when ne escaped from ST.
/ IBERIA he assisted friend, doctor who is
/ now living in the East, TO get away with
| him, and that the race to the steamer was
| so close that the doctor had TO jump
1 aboard as the steamer pulled away from
the dock. After be reached this country
1 he went to Chicago, and by peddling
I shoes, made 81, 900, which he put into
1 saloon and restaurant. His ignorance Of
| business tricks Was exposed when Ii was
| learned that the business was heavily
/ mortgaged and he lost everything he had
/ put into the establishments.
Before this he CHANGED 10 meet Hulda
| Greter. widow whose maiden name had
| been Dorm. Lingenau was not versed in
making love, so he told the object OF his
| affections that she had better think Of
| marrying him. Then he ran away to
| conceal his embarrassment Hulda took
him at his word and the first justice of the
| peace they came to tied the knot Lin
/ genau had another fit of embarrassment
| and fought shy of his wife for five days.
| After they went 10 Leavenworth, Kan,
| Lingenau joined the Knights of Labor and
commenced to talk about wages. capital
| and labor In 1889 he took out his first
| papers at Leavenworth. After coming to
this city about 1890 he worked at various
trades and purchased lots 5 and in the
| Sander Bowman addition. He built
| small one-and-a-half-story house aud
started garden. and his wife put out
A
| washing. They pretended to the neigh
bors that they were poverty-stricken. and
Mrs. Lingenau made practice of begging
/ from everybody.
Lingenau did not get along with his
neighbors owing to his bad temper. Three
| years ago he got into a dispute with H.
Schulz, laborer. and was biting his fin
ger ii when a street car conductor sepa-
rated them. He did not take much inter-
est in labor when he could talk politics,
and the police grew to know him well as an
! agitator. Just before the last election he
was haranguing crowd at Yesler avenue
and South Third when Denny o'Brien,
well-known character. yelled out:
why don't you go home. your 'Arni-
| chist7'"
Lingenau rushed at 0'Brien in pas
| sion. the two mon chnched, but Detective
Cudihee separated them.
Three months ago Lingenau went to
County Commissioner Gasch and asked
for the services of physician, saying that
his wife was i'll. One of the best PHI ysicians
In the city was provided. but despite his
orders to remain in bed. he no sooner got
out of sight than she would get up aud
frequently go out into the garden and
spade the earth. She died in giving birth
TO child. despite the strenuous efforts of
two physicians and nurse TO save her.
The husband acted like a wild man,
blaming the doctors for his wife's death.
After she was buried he made practice OF
getting up at O'Clock in the morning,
going out on the front steps of his house
and yelling like fiend. One day he
called on Gus Mueller, tailor on Third
street, and happened TO meet Frank Graf.
fenberg, one OF the miners who were in
| iured in the Roslyn mine horror. lie
seemed 10 pity Gratfenberg and gave him
a haif-dollar also asking him 10 come out
and make him visit. Mueller vas sur
prised at Lingenau's generosity, knowing
his character. and asked him if be was
not unusually we'll oil for money. Lnge-
nau replied that he thought the poor
fellow needed the money worse than he
did. and then again said.
al know now that had good wife. for
when | broke open the sewing machine a
day or so ago found money. and think
there IS more ia another drawer of the
| machine"
lie made Mueller promise To go with
| him out to Ravenns park July % 70 a single
| tax meeting. Mueller said that he dill not
think there vas TO be a meeting there. but
| agreed 20 20.
GFaiienberg went ont to Lingenau's
house Friday. July -. and stayed all
night The next day Lingenau gave him
- cents 20 get meat. and in the meantime
| killed hen aud went ont 10 sell il. sun
day morning about o'clock Graffenberp
was awakened by a yelling. and on look
I ing out of the window saw il was msde
| by isnFeuau. who vas standing on the
! front steps He told Lingenau 10 stop
I but gct sharp answer. Afte, breakfast
he told Grafsenberg that he vas going out
. 10 Rayenaa PARK to see man named
! Clark about clearing some land. and
| promised 10 be back at 5 or o'clock.
! What DO you want for sapperg" said
| 0railenherg Get what You want" was
I the reply Gradenberg SAID he vas going
/ 20 make some potato pancakes, with eggs.
u don's want any eggs in mine. said
/ Llngenau. because / once sucked nine
/ teen eggs on wager, aud won the tltle Of
1 champion eKg-sacker."
Mueller went 70 the house IN the after
noon and waited quite wh4ge 20 10 10 the
/ single tax meeting with Liagenau. Graf.
1 tcnberg waited tao days before reporting
TIE case 70 the police and the Seattle D~n-
CkraL Not the slightest clue was obtained
untll a fes days ago Mrs J. r. Mason
I who lives on Lewis street Learned from
{ Ars. telsner. Of Green Lake. that the
same ,gneay LlnEenau left home he took
/ dinner a. felsneFs house. eating very
hite- IL Is also sad that Isagenau sad
/ be eHp~ctcd q be arrested the uex,
Z day because he had wrtfsar, f. l.f.o-