The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22
EXILED FOR MLE7ANNEss.
After Stabbing Baron Roths-
Child's Gamekeeper He
Failed to Settle.
GAINED INEVITABLE TITLES.
In Old Age the Once Prosperous
Farmer Became Diseased and
DospiSed.

y IL " OHh, N. u, June Zl.-L we've
years ago wealthy peasant farmer was
caught poaching on the forest preserves of
Baron Rothschild, near Froschausen,
which is not far from Frankfort-on-the-
Main, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. The
head forester, whose name is Schlange,
| came upon him one day just as he was
knitting deer he had shot. The peasant
sprang upon the keeper and plunged his
knife into him.
That peasant committed suicide last
night, in miserable room under the slant
| of the roof of 11S Second street His name
was Adam Buser, he was IS years old and
has large family OF married sons and
daughters in Germany. The case was re-
ported as "iust bum suicide" meaning
it was the end of a wretched person and
contained no "story." But countryman
of der alter ADAM as the dead man
particulars of his friends life, already
mentioned, besides others, showing the
man to have been q type of the German
peasant.
Adam Buser divided with his brother
the inheritance of a fat farm and it's
accumulated products of generations of
cultivation. Adam was the Oldest son and
got the larger part, SO that he was heir by
general consent to the title 'Froschbauer,"
composed by the other peasants out of the
first syllable of the name of the place,
Froschausen, and the word for peasant,
Bauer. He was not popular, however; he
was ignorant. shrewd, purseproud and
quarrelsome.
Even when he married he did not settle
down. He loved sport and preferred to
poach, though he could have got permits
sion to hunt in the neighboring forests or
to pay for his pleasure. The knowledge
that Schlange, the baron's head forester
was hunting him while he hunted the
rich city mans game increased Adam S
delight in the chase.
He boosted over the beer board that he
would shoot Schlange if the forester
caught him and would then buy the family
off. The villagers applauded the promise
of fight, but they despised the braggart
and his money and gave him another title,
'Protzbauer, or purse proud peasant
When the meeting did occur in the woods
and Schlange was stabbed, not shot, Buser
did offer to settle. He made two offers.
with assurance in the power of money, his
friend here said, and he was pretty nearly
right. Schlange, who recovered from his
wound, listened to the overtures, but he
asked so much that another weakness of
Froschbauer came into play. Adam
offered 1000 marks, Schlange wanted 5000
marks.
Then the peasant raised the bid to 5000
marks and the forester came down to 1000.
There they stuck. The "Protzbauer" won
another title by his obstinate meanness
His neigh bors called him the "Trotzbauer,"
the stubborn peasant.
The Protz-Trotz- Froschbauer had to run
away. He made arrangements with his
family to send him means, and hurried
away to America. Here he lived on the
East Side, leading an idle life and develop
ing his original bad temper, and sustaining
the reputation he brought from Frosch-
ausen. He made few acquaintance
among peasants from his part of the coun-
try, but they could not become his friends
because of his disposition to ferret So he
drank beer in silence and gloom till age
and weakness laid him open to disease.
He was i'll with many complaints, but he
had brought with him his old prejudice
against doctors, and refused to go to the
hospital.
Among his papers was a greasy order
from DR.. Einhorn for his reception at the
German Hospital. He had never used it.
Moreover, he had complained that re-
mittances from home had not come regu-
larly of late. So in this year, when his
time was out, his liability for the crime OF
stabbing the forester outlawed, he killed
himself. He was seen last night. This
morning he was found hanging by strap
to clothes hook in his dirty, dark and
miserable room, and the neighbors told
one another that the Froschbauer was
dead.