Evening journal., 1901-09-07
SURE HUSBAND
HAS ELOPED
DeImar Woman Gives CaS(
TO Her Attorney
WANTS GERMAN ARRESTED
BETRAYED Wife SalS She Would b
Willing to Die to Have Her
Wish Gratifed
WANTS GERMAN ARRESTED

Delmar, Sept MY greatest dd|
sire is to see him caught, and | woul
be willing to die to have my wis
gratified."
These are the words spoken We.
terday by Mrs. Mitchell II. Germall
and they can scarcely express the fee
| ings of this unfortunate woman, who's
husband is supposed to have deserted
her after thirty years of a peacefl
and happy married lie. The sac
faced woman, buoyed up by the encoui
agement of her children, sits weepinl
in her home in almost destitute ci
cumstances.
No word has reached here of Ge
mans whereabouts since August .
when he is supposed to have left De
mar with nearly $4,000 in his posse
sion. The popular belief prevailing
here is that he is in the company 1
Mrs. Rose Harmson, who took trad
for Philadelphia the night before I'll
missing man disappeared Germa
who had considerable property in De
aware and Maryland, is said to had
mortgaged everything he owned
nearly its face value before leavin
He procured money wherever obtai
able, so that Mrs. German is practE
cally left without a cent to prosecu
the search for her husband
Il had heard several rlmors that II
husband had been seen with this
man, said the wife to a reporter, "be
paid no attention to them. During III
last six months he had been exec
tiOnally kind to me. For long tin s
he had been persuading me to visN
my married daughter in Brooklyn, al
/ finally consented to go. left Dc
mar on August "a and he said he wou
follow me in about a week. ha
not seen him since. On August &c, ty
days later, he went to Philadelph Z
He had mortgaged every bit Of OF
property and withdrew his money fro
the Delmar bank A short time pr
vious he had obtained my consent
mortgage the property by saying tn
he needed the money to make inve.
ments in Aberdeen, Md. AS treasufN
of the Delmar NJ. p. Church he had
in cash, and he took this also.
II fully believe that he went off wi
that woman. but have no idea whc
they could have gone. Mrs. Harms
is said 10 have several relatives
q Philadelphia, and they may have Wis
. ed them. My only hope is that he W
be caught and prosecuted to the +
extent of the law. as he deserves.
will not be satisfied until
him safely lodged in jail"
{ The theory that German eloped W
1 Mrs. Harmson is largely based on I
statement made by Frank +. LynchN
2 prominent lumber dealer of this pla
J "I left Delmar on the midnight trs
2 on Sunday. August %, for the Pa
4 American" he said. Mrs. Harms
[ was ON the same train, and khen
D got off the train to spend the night f
n Wilmington she continued on her joE
r ney to Philadelphia. took the fl
train the following morning and re
ell to Philadelphia in the same car W
G Mr.. German When he left the tr'
d at Broad street station he met "A
Harmson, who seemed to be wait
for him. / spoke a few words to
German as I passed and I have
seen either since"
! Mrs. Harmson did not live with
: husband, and was housekeeper up
I the time of her departure in the he
e of William l.. Sirman, former spea
4 of the Delaware Senate. She is
\ scribed as a tall, stout woman, "
J, light hair and small gray eyes, 4
4 about 30 years of age German is s
= years old. and of average height
= weight. He has stiff black hair
e wears a mustache. He walks Will
decided stoop. and his left hand
badly crippled. He wore a dark b
suit when he left Delmar. Mrs.
l. man has placed the case in the ha
L OF Attorney J. Williams. OF Salisbl
y Nd.