The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-04-01
WIFE HAS BEEN
SERIOUSLY Ill
SAID THAT THE MAN LEFT HIS
HOME ON ACCOUNT OF BUS
MESS BLES-HEADED FOR
JACKSONVILLE.
TOLD HIS LITTLE SON TO PUT
IN HIS COAT AND THEY LEFT
HOME-FATHER WAS IN SEARCH
OF WORK IN THE SOUTH.

Since the hnonS OF Richard Al
hrecht and his little son, OF New
Bruins wick, n. j., drowned near Ev-
eIett City. the peop:e OF Brunswick
nave been anxious 10 near some OF
the particulars OF his ieayins home.
The following, from the New Bruins
wick Home News, OF March - with a
ian account of the entire affair, will
be interesting to our readers
IN a little creek near the small town
a. Everett. away down in Georgia,
Richard Albrecht and his little son,
Joseph, aged S, went down to death
one day last weeh, just when, no one
knows.
NO one saw them die, and much
mystery clouds the manner OF their
taking on Abrechts business trou-
Ines, coupled with his sudden disap-
pealance from home. give pladsibility
t. tac tneors 9f suicide, but on the
other hand the dispatches from
Brunswick, The nearest big Town to
Everett, say that Josephs neck was
broken ana that he was otherwise
bruised. Moreover, the dispatches
which the Home News have received
Indicate that the death of the father
ana son may nave been accidental
altei ali Certainly if Albrecht in
tended 10 commit suicide 1t was
strange that he should go 50 far away
from home to do it, Then. too. it is
now known for certain that he in
tended TO return TO New Brunswick
atter he was tired ot wandering
AIprechta Leave-T Taking.
1t was just two weeks ago today
tnat Alblecht mad a talk with his
Vile about has business affairs at the
Windsor hotel Things had not been
going we'll for long time Small
creditors were pressing him. He was
IN debt to his landlord. George Lam
mertz, but not for very much. He had
been to-Fatcrson to nave an interview
with Mr. Lammertz, to whom ne paid
$50 a month for rent OF the Windsor
notel property and on his return was
very much detected.
He said in ramo-lng sort of way
to nls wife that he thought OF going
elsewhere and starting up anew as a
bartender. She did not discourage
him, Tor she thought the load they
were Doth carrying at the .54n~sor 40
tel was 100 mucn, anyway
On the afternoon OF Marcn 10, with
out saying much to his wife, Albrecht
left the hotel He called his little son
to put on his coat and the youngster
answered, not knowing where he was
going, but the father and son were
wonderfully fond OF eacn other and
the boy fespoded with aIacrty.
To some Albrecht said he was go
ing to New York to pay a visit: to
others that he was Cling to Newark.
He really intended to put people off
the track it seems, for when ne met
Peter Wyckoff the letter carrier at
the depot tnat Monday afternoon and
about O'Clock. he told him he was
going ~ Trenton Subsequent events
Indicate that he did 90 In tnat direc-
ton, for on March J.. he had arrived
al Baltimire. ana stopped at a res
taurant kept by Albert Groth, OF No.
1872 Block street. There he sat down
and wrote tenGer, affectionate letter
to his wife, saying that he was going
10 Jacksinville; that he and Joe were
well; that he hoped to find a good
position in the south, and asking taat
she write to him in care Of the gen
eIal delivery at jacksonville That
vas the last anu only letter that Mrs
Albrecht had from her husband
For several days the Home News
told OF the hotel mans mysterious
disappearance. Mrs. Albrecht was
sure ne had gone to Jacksonville. but
said lite about it. Another p erson
who was sure of it was Albrecht's in