The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-26
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N GRIP POVERTY |:
Wife Of Grandson Of Famous
Prussians g ellera I'D pendent
4. Il. Oh Charity.

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IS "A humble roof In q ma rrOyv street d Of 4
East London shelters an old woman, who,
BY marriage, can claim relationship with
the great Butcher, once field marsha S 2
the Prussian army and corsYict ''s'I
wellington at Wate rloo. iIs
u she Il Is al pleasant-faccd, cheery l. o lSl
woman, who, when young. married i. Henri
yon Blucher, n a Prussana HI had n I'M
warrantably shortened III hts army SER: SER.
vice " six months and co mo to y .ondon%
where he prospered and Iell iii love Ile
died a quarter 81 century g 30. his con- NJ
stltution impaired By wo unds and the HI
hardsflps luc'er,a h sic
prefers 8to be Gale for tn old lady has
healthy, democrat lslike OF the ar lslEE
Etocratic prefix YES now with the
Eonly daughter lief to her Eof eight ~
children / & Lon i Or street Nile End ]
nd s upp ements a5llttlc Guido by
the Industry Of her dcft fl ngers.$
A Difficult 4 Courtship NJ
M al ways underst TODD, she said yester-s
day 10 lint III Y husband vas GRANDSON ran .,
of Marshal $ls luctler Ife AT ineS !Atii
Ife stood % feet 2 inches in his stockings
Why, i could walk easl under MS O VI
stretched arm. S s5 81 81 S8
81 1a III anne counting. Blucher
knew 10 Ilnsl lsll, and Ills nancee had not
a word 4 % # German. j Ut 10y when fll
laughs at locksmit this, made ] ght OF the
| barriers of LAM &c !. T he court ship pro-
cressed, but the rant e a co nsrnon rne-
Idlum Of 8conversa tor 10 Sdon pt#preVehted
Won Blucler communism J. = y! w w
oots fINA
57"But lie often told me- SHE said how;
he left the army. / He had been In three;
4 camnn igns, " and was wounded In several
Nm 90 On the back, the should ers and the.
head A The most serious wound was IN efi g.
lhend * III Il had + been trepanne d-I% think
That ID he right word md Ba piece OF sil-
liver, let into the skull, The wound fre e.
lsuuently panied him and made NJ m & frl-;
liable, but the ctors snid y IN ust pear5
with him. because he could help it.8sA q.
lanyrate. thiilk twas the hards hips /, ne
ha M, undergone and the suffering he still
endured that d ecided I him s to leave the
s Escaped to London 19si
tsuEI a had tvs elder brothers, who la q "a
t,ir engineering works In Prussia the big
| pest n5the country L always inderst oofl---
innd they helped him to get way he hid
! M Il cornfleld for two or three days, wear
ling his uniform and then his bro 81 t ll,,
brought hin, plain clothes, and In these he
managed to escape to tLond on. "a x,
I@8OfShis ntionslp to grim old Marsha =
,.Vorwa re- u BlucherE rarely spoke, but It
WA : az cepted as a 5fact5by his wifesand by
| the FEW friends he made In Lontlon chief CHI!
! IL tholmedlcal men who attended him. It
was SO t forth In la big German Bible'
which contained his pedigree, but which
/ Mrs. Blucher, rather to her regret gave
away ssonloE time 90. Ills f8 81 "
Whatever his posi- ton and pro aspects s's N
1.-The Fatherland, Won I3lucher3 was. content
4 ~ work In London a g q baker. u FL sue
cceded so well that, before his death 4 he
was the owner as his widow puts $it,,8o u!
1.-two fine shops, one In lambeth and the
other iii Bethnal- green. With his death III
came dark days, and now his idow is lv--.
ling In straltened circumstances IN the
East END. $5i3 IA