The Penn's Grove record., 1901-07-26
TRAGIC END OF A ROMANCE
Boy and Girl Sweethearts Found Shot
in an Oyster Sloop.
PARENTS OPPOSED A MARRIAGE


Brothers Said That They Agreed to
Die Together and Then She Shot Her.
self - Her Relatives Believe That Hs
Killed Her-Their Farewell Letters.
New York City. - Ida Dupuy, agsl
sixteen, and Hermann Treetz, aged
eighteen, believed that they were all
the world to each other. Their par
ents 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
Kill Creek, Staten Island. Both were
desperately wounded. The girl died
later In the Smith Inflrmary.
Ida Dupuy was the daughter Of
Austin Dupuy, a prosperous oyster
dealer of Staten Island. A few even
! ings ~ 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.. Treetz, 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 off al
together with Ida for Il year.. Her.
mann agreed with apparent meekness,
and after a p%rotracted farewell talk
with Ida went away.
The following day one of Ele girls
brothers saw her on a car going to-
ward Richmond from New Brighton.
She was apparently alone then, but
later In the evening some n saw her
with Hermann Treetz in an kce cream
place in Richmond. As Ida lid not re-
turn home that night the Dupuys
started a hunt for her.
While this search was going on, an
other brother, Christopher. who knew
nothing of his sisters disappearance,
went for cells in Fresh KIN with a
friend. AT 5 O'Clock they reached the
outlet of the creek. About half Il mile
off shore they were surprised to see
Austin Dupuy's oyster sloop, the
James X. Polk. On the deck they
made out n 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
up his mind then that Ida was on the
boat too.
Get a row boat and go 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 a 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 a faint groan
In the boats cabin.
They leaped aboard the sloop and
found their sister and Treetz lying in
the cabin. Treetz made a crazy
lunge 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
with blood from wounds in his throat
and neck.
The brothers threw Treetz into the
bottom of their row boat and then
lifted their sister in rather more gen.
tly. 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 Infrmary, 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
tHelr lONe. Inc revolver was MS. ne
said. He said they were on the boat
together all day. Hermann said that
Ida had taken the revolver from him
and shot herself in the throat. When
he was sure she was dead he shot him
self twice.
In confederation 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 Treetz
had written 1t. District-Attorney Raw
son went aboard the sloop with the
police and made a careful examina-
ton. He found n bullet hole in the
forward part of the cabin which
looked to him as though it proved that
the girl had been shot while she was
lying down and that she had not held
the revolver herself.