Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-10
MARRIED A BURGLAR.
Pathetic Romance of Pretty Barbara
Morse of Yonkers, N. Y.

When Barbara Morse left her hum
BILE home in Yonkers, N. Y, to take UP
her residence and work out a fortune
in the city of New York she did not
think that within a few months there
after her remains would lie in paup-
er's grave in st. Louis. Before Barr
bara left her home she was known as
one of the prettiest girls in her native
town. She was sought after by many
young men and no entertainment or
social gathering was considered COM
plete without Ter presence. Young
beaus bought her presents, took her
driving and wed with each other in
doing her services. These batteries
filled the girls head with foolish
ideas AID soon she decided that life in
YCnkers was too slow, that it lacked
the gayety and pleasures to be found
in large cities which make life sweet,
though short. New York was the only
place where an ideal life could be
lived, she reasoned, and accordingly
one day she severed the home ties
and to New York she went.
She procured a position in a dry
goods store in that city and all went
we'll until she met Edward Hoffman.
It was a case of love at first sight. He
said chat he was in the real estate
business and wealthy and SO they were
married. They settled down in a pref
ty cottage for what appeared to be
long and happy married life
Hoffman went into the city every
day and often he did not come home
at might He explained these absences
by saying that he had an important
real estate deal on hand and had to
stay in the CITY, He always had money
and there was nothing that his wife
asked for that he did not give her.
Now and then he brought her a hand
some diamond ring or pin or some
costly trif1e. She had gone into the
city several times and had called at his
office in Broadway, and she rarely
found him in. When he was in he
was usually reading some novel or pa
per. He employed no clerk or stenog-
rapher. The wife was unsuspect1ng
and when her husband was arrested
for burglary the shock FRUSTRATED her.
His real estate office was but blind.
He was a burglar and the trinkets he
gave her he had stolen and the money
was the proceeds of his crime. He
was convicted and sent to Sing Sing
His wife could not stand the disgrace
and, their child dying soon after, near
ly drove her insane
Mrs Hoffman determined to leave
the city and seek a Living somewhere
in the wide world. She drifted to
Rochester, Cleveland and finally to st.
Louis.
She had been there but a short time
when she was stricken with pneu-
nlonia. Her savings we're soon gone
and it was then she was sent to the
city hospital, never again to- go out
alive.
She told her story one day to DR..
Suffer and after her death he wrote to
her husband and received from him a
letter. in which he said that as soon as
his term had been finished he would
come to st. Louis and remove the re-
mains of his wife to- Yonkers. Her
parents have died and as far ais DE
knew he was her only relative. the
nan in hts letter discloses an educa:
tion and in it he is proIuse in his
thanks to DR.. Suffer for preventing
his wife's body from being sent to the
dissecting table. 1t was the poor
woman's story that induced the doctor
not to send her body to one OF the
medical colleges for dissa elton, as Is
usually dome