The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-29
SENT HIM A COFFIN c. o. D.
Revenge Of tho Discarded Sweetheart
of a German Official.

Revenge OF tho discarded sweetheart
of a German Official.
The police Of the Silesian towns are
looking for a pretty young woman on
account of the vengeance she took re,
Gently upon a sweetheart who Tilted
her. She sen him a coffin G.. O. D..
and the police think she intended to
find a use both for it and another if
he had kept an appointment which she
tried to make with him.
The man In the. case is a Bezirko-
feldwebef, or district sergeant, at Lobau
in Prussia. The young woman is An
TOME Olenick, and she is the daughter
OF a deceased railway managing direc-
tor. her uncle being Major General r.
Won Kraine, Of Dresden. Official in-
quiry shows that she had ordered a
trousseau to cost $3.50 from a Looau
tradesman n had spent considerable
money on purchases for 1t in Dresden.
When her sweetheart told her he had
changed his mind about marrying her.
she Immediately disappeared from
I.obau. A few days later she entered
an undertaker's shop in Gorlitz, Silesia,
and ordered the coffin.
She showed marks OF profound grief
and told a story which completely i'm
posed on the proprietor. She said she
wanted a coffin built to At a woman Of
her size sent to her husband at Lobau.
She gave the name Of her recent fiance
as the consignes.
1t was for her sister. she said, and
she told how the poor girl had shot her.
self through the head because she had
been cast of by her betrothed hus-
band. a court official of Lobau. She
Yves very particular that the coffin
should be trimmed In the Vienna style
1t was the wish Of the deceased. she
said.
She. also gave the undertaken to ship
In 1t a myrtle wreath. a bridal veiI
and an deliberately printed card. printed
With deep mourning borders, announc
Ing, as h told the undertaken, her
SISTERS death. but really her own. OF
course under her maiden name.
The. coffin with it's contents was dulv
delivered at Lobau Ito the district SER
geant. who was first paralyzed with
horror n later with rage when the
Go D. bill for sgt was presented to-
him. He indignantly refused to pay a
pfennigs and then, in the German Way
he police. took a hand.
they at once saw something more In
the case than a CHASTITY joke. The SER
geant told them that the girl had writ.
ten urging him to give her a meeting
on the evening previous to the arrival
of he coffin. He had taken no notice
of the request, but Athe police had no
trouble in establishing that she was
on hand and waited until late into the
night, at the place she had appointed
o.c speii. LIE iliSnl IN the railway
station and in the morning hired a
sleigh to drive her to fReichenbach. q
town near Lobau. She told the driver
to wait for her at a hotel, but sl;pped
away and 0 a train to Gorlitz. There
all trace of her was lost. The driver
is still waiting for his pay.
The police are Of two minds. Some
OF them believe. she intended to shoot
her faithless lover and then herself
Others think h intended merely to
kill herself in his presence, iguring thar
his u~navailing regrets would make him
pay for the. coffin and.thus assure her
the style OF burial she craved for.