The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-08-07
TRAGIC END Of A ROMANCE
Boy and Girl Sweethearts Found Shot
in an Oyster Sloop.
PARENTS OPPOSED A MARRIAGE
Ms Boy Captured by tho Girls Angry
Brothers Said That They Agreed to
Die Together and Then She Shot HeS.
self Her Relatives Believe That DO
Killed Her-Their Farewell Letters.

Die Together and Then She Shot He1-
,,lf- Her Relatives Believe That Ho
Killed Her-Their Farewell Letters.
New York City. Ida Dupuy, aged
sixteen, and Hermann Treetz, aged
eighteen, believed that they we've all
the world to each other. Their par
snts did not approve Of their affection
FOR each other. They were found
lying side by side in the bottom of the
oyster sloop James X. Polk. off Fresh
XIII Creek, Staten Island. Both were
despcrately wounded. The girl died
later in the Smith Infirmary.
Ida Dupuy was the daughter OF
Austin Dupuy, a prosperous oyster
dealer of Staten Island. A few even
fngs ago Hermann Treetz went to see
her. He was not welcomed by her
family. The, families of both young
persons were quite thoroughly wor-
ried by their actions. Mr.. Dupuy. who
did not know that Mr.. Ireetz, Her
mann's father, had just rebuked the
boy for thinking about the girl to the
exclusion of all other subjects, served
formal notice on him that he must
get out of the house and break of al
together with Ida for a year. Her
mann agreed with apparent meekness,
and after a protracted farewell talk
with Ida went away.
The following day one of the girls
brothers saw her on car going to-
ward Richmond from New Brighton.
She was apparently alone then, but
later In the evening some one saw her
with Hermann Treetz in an ice cream
place in Richmond. AS Ida did not re-
turn home that night the Dupuys
started hunt for her.
While this search was going on. an
other brother, Christopher, who knew
nothing of his sisters disappearance.
went for eels in Fresh Kill with a
friend. At 5 o'clock they reached the
outlet of the creek. About half mile
of shore they were surprised to see
Austin Dupuy's oyster sloop, the
James K. Polk. On the deck they
made out man. He was sitting with
his head in his hands. The young
man shouted to him. He raised his
head and they saw that he was Her.
mann Treetz. After that they shouted
again and again, but he paid no at.
tention to them. Christopher Dupuy
went home at once and told his father
that hermann Treetz was out on the
Polk and that he had taken the boat
from its anchorage. Mr.. Dupuy made
p his mind then that Ida was on the
boat too.
"Get row boat and 60 out there
and bring both of them in. Hurry"
he said to Christopher.
Pierre and the other brother, who
had been looking for their sister,
went along. Christopher and his
friend went out in q row boat to the
sloop. AS they came alongside they
called their sisters name and Her
mann Treetz's again and again. There
was no answer until the side Of their
boat rubbed against the side Of the
Polk. Then they heard faint groan
In the boats cabin.
They leaped aboard the sloop and
found their sister and Treetz lying in
the cabin. Treetz made crazy
mnge at them as soon as they laid
hold Of him. According to the story
told afterward by Austin Dupuy, with.
put contradiction by the boys, they
had to use a good deal of force to
quiet him. The young men found that
their sister was quite unconscious.
There was a bullet wound in her
throat. Treetz's chest was covered
Ir ~ ;n "a
and neck.
The brothers threw Treetz into the
bottom Of their row boat and then
lifted their sister in rather more gen.
hy. When they reached land they
turned Hermann Treetz over to Pierre
and Vignard. Ida Dupuy was carried
into the Washington Hotel in Rich.
mond and put to bed. Her two BROTH
ers, half supporting and half drag
ging Hermann Treetz, took him to
Richmond Jail.
Surgical aid was summoned from
the Smith Inflrmary, and Ida was
taken there. Then the surgeon insist
ed on seeing Treetz. He found that
the boys condition was but little bet.
ter than the girls. He, too, was then
removed to the hospital.
When Hermann was able to talk
he said that he and the girl had deter.
mined to shoot themselves because
their families failed to understand
their love-. The revolver was his. he
said. He said they were on the boat
together all day. Hermann said that
Ida had taken the revolver from him
. md shot herself in the throat. When
he was sure she was dead he shot him.
self twice.
In corroboratio of the boys story
were two notes found by the police in
the bottom of the boat. The notes
were addressed to the parents Of the
two and contained their last fare
wells
The police, who took possession OF
the letters which were found on the
sloop, intimate that in their opinion
the girl had not written the letter
signed with her name, but that Treet2
had written it. District-Attorney Raw
non went aboard, the sloop with the
police and made a careful eXamina'
ton. He found a bullet hole In the
forward part Of the cabin which
looked to him as though it proved tna'
the girl had been shot while she was
lying down and that she had not held
the revolver herself.