The Washington times., 1908-09-09
Pretty Teresa Sisti Crazed
With Grief Over
DeSertiOn.
NO REASON GIVEN
FOR LEAVING HER
Heartless Young Italian Deserted
Wife of Nine Days-FIis Where
aboutS Unknown,


A bride of less than TWO weeks, de-
serted by her youthful husband after
suffering for nine days. and yet loving
him with all the devotion of her nature.
pretty, blue-eyed Teresa Sisti, Of 6l2
Fifth street northwest. today is fairly
CEaZed with grief
''Oh, if he would only come back"
she excIaims what have i done. eN-
cept love him with my whole heart?
when i first met Antonio Sistc at
the home Of my sister a month ago, he
was perfectly devoted TO me. Oh, he
was so nice 7 could not help but love
him" said the little wife. a German
girl, vino has just reached her seven
teenth birthday. II didn't want to mar
~ him until we had known each other
longer. but l just couldn't help myself.
and two weeks ago today we slipped
away to Rockville. Md, where the cere-
mOny was performed
Worked for a Tailor.
Antonio Sisti is an Italian. He has
been in this country five years, and up
10 the time he disappeared worked for
a tailor in Fifteenth, between II and q
streets The girl ne married was Teresa
Binden. who came here from Germany
four years ago. and has been makins
her home with her sister, Mrs. Victor
Sisti. wife of a well-known tailor at Oh
Fifth street
This singular alliance between a Ger
man girl and an Italian attracted the
attention of the neish5ors, and tae
young couple found themselves the
r cynosure OF an eyes ass they sJTOlled
hand in hand down Fifth street OF walk
ed IN Judiciary Park
To q reporter OF The Times, Teresa
Sisu said:
Sisu, who is a cousin OF Antonio, and
they were so happy that 1 thought
nothing OF my marriage on such shoI 2
W lovely 70 me before we Were mar MAJ
~, but, afterward-Oh, l can't cell OF
The First Quarrel.
we hadn't beer married three days.
when something angered Antonio. and
from that time on he refused to have
anything TO do with me
My sister had fitted up a front room
Of her home on Fifth street for us. and
/ expected 10 be very happy there. Why
my husband turned on me SO suddenly
] can't understand He treated me
cruelty, and one day last week tried TO
tear my wedding ring from my finger.
He wanted to get hold of our wedding
certificate, saying that he was going
to burn it up. We had been MARI d
Just nine days, when ne left me, ana
/ have not seen him since"
While The little German girl WIS pin
Ing for her Italian husband, Victor Sist,
says he is doing everything he can 10
smooth things out between the young
couple His cousin, ne says REUSED to
be reconciled for some unknown reason,
and the pair had many wordy argu-
ments.
Cousin Enters Game.
He is my brother-in-law. and is also
my cousin by blood, yet I gave him such
a thrashing in the Union Station last
Thursday that 1 guess he viii not for
get 1t in a hurry" said Victor SIsti
I demonstrated with him frequently
about his treatment Of Teresa, and last
Thursday, while was in barber shop
getting shaved. I saw Antonio board a
Uar for the Union Station, carrying his
dress suit case. ! jumped out of the
chair, wiping the laJher of my face as
ran could not get that car. but
took the one following. Rushing TO the
train shed at Union Station. I grabbed
Antonio just as he was going to board
a train for Philadelphia.
g." How dare you run off and Leave Te-
resa Ike Ihisg I asked him. but he
told me TO mind my own business and
seemed about 10 hit me. / lost my
temper completely and knocked him
down. When he rose to his feet / knock
ed him down again. A big crowd gath
cred, / was arrested. and some of An
tOniO's friends took him 10 the hospital
] did it for Teresa's sake. I don't know
where he is at present, but Il will SO
hard with him If Re ever comes to
Washington and doesn't treat his little
wife as husband should"
The Italian husband gave his age as
twenty-five when the couple were mar
ried but his cousin says that he is not
more than nineteen.
Tt is claimed that on the second day
the youthful couple were married, that
Antonio said 10 his wife:
My father is coming here from Italy
in a few days and You viii have TO
so to work to help me support him. DO
The girl readily agreed TO this, in fact
she was willing TO make any sacrifice
he demanded.
When he threw a plate al her she
tainted and IL was several hours before
she could be revived. Notwithstanding
all this, she is weeping herself sick over
him and refuses TO be COmfOrted