Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-04-24
CASH AND WIFE BOTH MISSING
Mrs. Fred Turscher Sells the Furni.
ture and Skips Out Of Town
in Turscher's Absence.
A Bank Account Of 81 400 Has Also
Disappeared with Her -
Turscher DesOlate.

"A Wllo'eyeQ ana desOlate German
farmer, named Fred Turecher, called
Friday at police headquarters and told
his tale of woe to the sympathetic chief,
hoping to receive some aid and comfort
from him. The story is about az follows:
-Four years ago Turscher married q
young German girl, named Witteck,
who lived near East Helena. Their mar
ried life was, according to Turscher,
happy enough, and child, now about
two years of age, was born to them.
They lived on dairy ranch near Helena
and by working hard and selling butter
and cheese. they managed to save up
some $1,000, which was deposited in
their joint names in Thos. Cruse's saw.
ings bank in Helena. Several weeks ago
Mr.. and Mrs. Turscher came to Great
Falls to see what the outlook was for get
ting ranch and starting a small dairy
business here. Meantime he and his
family rented a house on the South side
and moved their household goods there.
The man did not find an opening in the
dairy business that exactly suited HIM
here, but hearing of a desirable place
for sale near Phiipsburg, he concluded
to make trip there and investigate.
Meantime, he left his family in Great
Falls, and, according to his story, there
was not a cloud the size of a mans
hand on his domestic horizon when
he bade his wife goodbye few days ago,
and the matrimonial barometer set fair,
This is climate, however, in which sud-
den changes sometimes occur, and when
Iurscher returned, expecting his wife to
rush to his arms as he approached the
domestic hearth, his affectionate heart
received d deadly chill when he found
the house deserted, the household furni-
ture in the possession of of dealer in
euch goods, and his wife nowhere
to be found. His alarm WAS turned
to despair when be found that
the $1,000 deposited in the Helena
bank had been drawn out, that his wife's
parents had no idea of the truant wife's
whereabouts, and that two full tickets
had been purchased by her at the depot
day or two before his return and ex-
hibited to the baggage man at the time
her trunk was checked. The tickets and
trunk check called for passage to Cas-.
cade, but letter received by the de-
serted husband WAS mailed on
the train between Helena and
Butte, and indicated that the Cas-
CAGE destination was blind
and other tickets had been purchased
there for the rest of the journey. Not
withetanding the fact that the purchase
OF two full tickets indicates that some
one besides the child left in company
with Mrs. Turscher, the husband re-.
fuses to believe that any man is mixed
up with his wife's strange conduct, and
declares that he is still confident of her
virtue. lie exhibits as proof of this the
letter he received from her, evidently
written on the train with lead pencil
and couched in atfectionate but mys-
terious terms. 1t is written in German,
and Turscher translates it about as
follows:
my Dear Heart: l have to leave you
and go far away. My heart is sore, but
l must follow my eyes. and you may
never see me again, dear heart.
"loUR WIFE"
The husband is left without dollar
In the world, and he is in despair,
lamentlng in broken English now the
loss of his wife and again the loss OF the
money be worked SO long and hard for.
lie gives the following description of his
truant wife:
Thirty years of age, 5 feet 5 inches in
height, weight 1i5 pounds, brown hair,
blue eyes, small mole on right side of
nose, slightly freckled three front teeth
filled with gold. wore black cape, and
black hat with red flowers.