The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-06
SNEEZED HIS NOSE OFF
A FATAL sTERNUTATION LOST DAVID
FINKLEsTEIN HIS BRIDE.
Had n False Nose, which His Wife Did
Not Discover Until They Reached
the Bridal Chamber.

NEW YORK. April 5.-Yetta Isenbrock,
the pretty daughter of the Willet-street
Swat and the belle OF the neighborhood,
was wooed for nearly year by the gay
young tailor, Finke,stein, and did not dis
cover that he had a false nose. They were
welded, and in the excitement of the mar
riage night the nose came off, Now she
is suing for annulment of the marriage.
He is suing the great-whskered Swat for
alternating his young wifes affections.
Yetta he's seen scarcely seventeen sum-
mers David Finkelstein has seen twenty
two For several years he has been the
right-hand man for Prayer. tailor at 666
Main street. Bridgeport. Conn. The Isen-
brooks and the Prayers are distantly re-
lated. and the pretty Yetta spent the sum-
mer in the seaside city with the Prayer
girls.
Ffnkelstein was no ordinary swell. His
clothes fitted him better than those of
most young men with whom the Prayer
girls went Many Bridgeport girls cast
! Sleeps eyes at him, but when the kittenish
little Yetta came. with the prestige of the
great metropolis, she completely won him.
| Finkestein is dapper young man with
| a small black mustache. No one would
imagine that his finely shaped nose was not
| a real one. Indeed, the Prayers themselves
| profess always to have regarded it as the
| genuine article. Through all Of that sum-
| mers wooing Yetta and her long-bearde6
papa, the Swat, aver that they never were
near enough TO young Finkelstein to discern
the unsubstantial character Of his nasal
appendage.
Before Yetta left Bridgeport it was set
| ted that she was to become Mrs. David
FinkleStein soon as the young man could
1 q
! the big city several times during the winter
| to call on Yetta, and each time she loved
MN more anc more. Tor she saw that ne
| outswelled all of the SWANS whom she had
| in her Willet-street train
| READY FOR THE WEDDING.
| Toward the last of February Finke.stein
got two weeks vacation. He came to
this city and hired room at 14O Delaney
| street. On March the joyful day had
come. Rosie Prayer and Katie Cohen, Yet
| ta's cousin, came down from Bridgeport,
and the happy girl and her fiance met
them at the Grand Central Station. They
went to the Swat's home, at IA Willet
street, and tod the Isenbrocks that they
were on their way to the City Hail. They
must be married right away.
In the City Hall corridor they met Al
/ derman Jacob Wund. He bowed them into
the marriage room, and their moments of
single blessedness were soon over. They
went home as happy yoang pair as ever
| left the precincts of City Hall.
There was feastng and merrymaking in
the Swats home that night. Wine flowed,
and once, during the process OF mighty
| sneeZe, the bridegroom fell prone on the floor,
face down. He was soon up. however. with
| an Excuse me, i missed my footing" and
nothing was thought Of it.
But when the lights were oJt down stairs
| and the jewellers had departed and given the
| bride and groom chance to retire to their
chamber, there arose a great shout from
49,
brock and Mamma Isenbrock and two young
| Isenbrocks FASTENED into the bridal apart
ments. Lo! there was the bridegroom rush
ing around like mad, the best part of his
noce missing, and Yetta was in Mysteries.
/ 1t took little TO explain on Yetta's part.
| Perhaps 1t had been the wine, perhaps 1t mad
been his unconcern. now that the lovely
| Yetta was all his-whatever Il was. the
| bridegroom hadn't had the foresight to re-
sist an inclination to sneeze again as he was
| reaching up TO turn out the light. AS the
| startled Yetta looked up she saw her loved
| ones nose blown entirely off. 1t had struck
| the gas pipe, made carom on the corner OF
| the bureau plunked into the side wall, and
| had hidden itself securely in the midst of a
lot of wedding finery that lay in the corner.
! In his frantic efforts 10 recover his lost
nasal organ the bridegroom had not the pres
| ence OF mind to put out the light. Papa
Isenbrock apprehended him in the heat of his
| search.
| The Isenbrocks set up screams of horror
| at the sight that rivaied the outcries OF the
frightened Yetta. few OF the wedding
| guests who had not got out of hearing came
| hurrying back. The discounted young tailor
was seized and roughly shaken. Then he
| was given just time to find his lost nose and
| told to get out of the house.
BRIDEGROOM SLEPT ALONE.
The bridegroom would not go. Papa Isen-
| brock allowed him to remain in far-away
room over night. In the morning Isenbrock
| fastened to a lawyer. 1t did not take them
long to make out an action for annulment
of the marriage. They claimed trick and
device and many other things. Papa Isen-
| brock took the process server home with
them. The bridegroom refused to accept
service of the papers and pushed them
away. Papa Isenbrock grabbed him, opened
his shirt at the front. and Yetta poked the
papers in 50 far that they could not get out.
thai at 81 Chambers street. and poured forth
his woes. 1t was NarcA 80 before his law
isenbrock with the papers IN suit for $50
damages for alternating Yetta's affections
from the Bridgeport tailor. Lawyer Gren-
ennoon and reporea tSat he mad to chase
the bewhiskered Swat over three roofs be-
fore he could make him take the papers.
as his his WIFE" said iswyer Grenthal yester.
day. He was all right If he. hadn't laughed
snsezed Wnsn ne sprsads ais t fa9e P h
an"
Isenbrock. the Swat was too irate to talk
about the case when seen at his home yester-
day. Yetta, however, = hen assured that the
Recorder reporter wiss not an emissary Of
her husband, unbosorned herself.
81 loved Dave uD:.l I found ne. had de-
ceived me-" she said when he fell dowr
there during the wedding feast we thought
that he had hurt his nose. We asked him
but ne said even ther that his nose was al
right. We know now that his nose dropped
off then, and he fe'i down quick just t
hide 1t from US. i, shows his deceit: ant
he would never be trlo to me. He deceived
me when he married RE without telling ms
that he hadn't whole nose. for l saouldn
marry q man who hscn't any nose If L hat
known it, He needn she my father, De
cause my father hasn'c taken my affection!
from him. 1 think that he treated me JUS
too mean and I'll cell him so, too, If set
him in court"
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