The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
MRS. BREEDEN'S HUSBAND
SHE HAS ASKED THE POLICE DE-
PARTMENT TO SEARCH FOR HIM.
He Told Her He Had Come Into a For
tune, She Says, and Then
Deserted Her.

Mrs. Jennie Breeder, No. 2115 West Norris
street. appealed to the city detectives yes
terday for assistance in finding her hus-
band, Benjamin Parks Breeder, who &C
cording to his statement to her, inherited
fortune short time ago. Breeder disap-
peared, she said, on Feb. 1, and his con-
tinued absence led her to fear that he had
met with foul play or had deserted her.
Mrs. Breeder informed the police that she
yesterday applied at the Union Station for
a private car, which she had been informed
by her missing husband would be here Fri
day as a forerunner of the wealth be-
queathed him on the death of prominent
official of a railroad known as the Mime
apolis, st. Paul & Chicago No one knew
anything about a private car for her, she
said and she was finally forced to infer that
either the car--or perhaps the whole for
tune-was a myth, or that the bequest had
gone astray. She said she was greatly dis
appointed for she had called at the Deni-
son a few days after her husband told her
of the expected fortune and made arrange
ments to move to quarters there that
would be more in accordance, she thought,
with the dignity of people having private
cars and the money to make them ''go."
Then she commenced to investigate her
husbands disappearance. She learned that
he had stopped at the Oneida Hotel on the
night of Jan. 81 That was the last time he
was seen here, as far as the wife could
learn and she feared that he had been spir-
tied away by some one who wished to come
between him and his large bequest.
Mrs. Breeder told the police that her hus-
band explained to her that the fortune was
left him by Alexander Fritz, who, he said,
had been a prominent railroad official.
Breeder stated that the private car was
only portion of the remembrance left him
by the railroad man, for whom he had once
done a great service. His wife said that he
had had considerable correspondence re-
Gently concerning the fortune" but he did
not show her the letters. Finally he told
her that the car would be here yesterday,
and that he feared attempt would be
made to collect income tax from him il
he were to personally claim the car, so he
arranged that his wife should call for it.
He gave her a note addressed to Mr.. Will
hams, the man who was to accompany the
car to indianapolis, empowering her to take
possession. Meanwhile he was to be in
Louisville, and, with the expressed intention
of going to that city, he babe Mrs. Breeder
goodbye last Tuesday. She said that so
infinitely did he explain the circumstances
by Which he was to come into possession
could not believe he was laboring under a
delusion. No trace of Breeder, she said,
could be found in Louisville. The police
held two interviews with Mrs. Breeder yes
terday. They could offer her little hope for
nnding the missing private car, but prom
ised to search for her husband. Mrs. Bree-
den is forty-tiVe years old, her husband be-
ing several years younger. She was in the
grocery business at No. M19 Morris street
three years ago, when she was married to
Breeder. Recently she sold out her BUSH
ness there. The money she received in the
transaction was taken to pay off incum-
brances on other property owned by her
she says her husband did not get any of
this money.
Manager Cullen, Of the Denison Hotel
says that Breeder some time ago talked to
MIN about giving a banquet to his friends
at the Den1Son. Two hundred covers were
to be laid, and the list of guests that Bree-
den had prepared embraced, according to
his statement, many of the most prominent
people in the city He called on Manager
cullen month ago and told him a story
similar TO that related to Mrs Breeden
asking the manager to estimate the cost Of
banquet. Breeder informed him that no
expense need be spared to make the ban
quet the most elaborate ever given in the
city. According to the figures prepared by
the Motel man the banquet would have cost
Breeder over 81 900. Later Mrs. Breeder
called to investigate the ARRANGEMENTS and
seemed pleased with every detail. She said
they would PROBABLY move to the hotel a
week or SO before the banquet, which was
TO have been given Feb. /. AruerWard Bree-
den called again at the hotel and said that
on account of the illness of some of his par
tlcular friends, he would POSTPONE the piv-
Cullen said last night that the affair seemed
a little strange at the time, but he sup
posed the man had suddenly become
wealthy. just as he stated. He further said
that mrs Breeden was evidently firmly
convinced Of the actually of the fortune
her husband claimed to have