Arizona republican., 1910-02-26

of almost every month and year since his last visit to Milwaukee.
 ! But never since the first year of his
 absence from home. has he received d letter from his wife. and never has he seen his son, born a few months liter he left. nor had d written Inc ! from him Early in the present month, { he gave way to the ycarning of | fathers heart. and sent a special de- 1 livery letter to Mrs. Schumacher which must have been delivered or it would.
 have been returned to him. The let ! ter. he says was merely tO ask Mrs. Schumacher concerning their son. He wanted to know whether the boy be- 1 lieved him dead. If so he wanted hls
 mind disabused, and he added that it would be most gratifying to him. if his son would write him just one let ter. before he answered the final call. The answer was official notice of divorce proceedings, together with the public dissemination of the story that Mrs. Schumacher for nearly forty years had sought fruitlessly to dis | cover his whereabouts. It is that latest imputation that has wounded him most deeply. He says that he knows his sister and his wife have been on friendly terms, much of the
 time if not all the time; and he be-
 leves that if Mrs. Schumacher had applied to various of his relatives. any time except during the ten years when none of them wrote tn him. she could have learned of his abiding place. He has never sought to conceal it.
 But in all his story he makes no dis paraging remarks concerning Mrs. Schumacher. He believes. on the con- trary. that her confidence has been abused; that knowledge of his where abouts has been kept from her pur pOsely. or she has been dissuaded from following her natural curiosity and in terest in discovering his whereabouts. or that false impressions have been sown and cultivated in her mind by designing persons. members of her own family This is speculation on his part. admittedly. but it is the only way he can account for quite d number of things. And the reason for his con victiOn also explains in large part why Mrs. Schumacher now dWells in a different social atmosphere from that of her husband.
 She was the daughter of a German by the name of A. Weinman. who at the time of MT. Schumacker's marriage resided in Milwaukee. His circum- stances in point of wealth were similar to these of the Schumacher family. but he was possessed of a small tract of land near the city. then valued at q very. modest figure. It is now occupied or lies near to the famous SchlitZ brewery With the growth of that big institution and the growth of the city. the Weinman holdings became very valuable. MT. Schumacher has been told that single lots of fifty-foot front age have been sold at s20O.O .O00. In any event Mir. Wcinman was very weathy at the time of his death. His estate was divided between Mrs. Schumacher and her brothers, principally. It is the belief of MT. Schumacher that some of these relatives have persist ently poisoned his wife'S mind against him in view of the possibility of his returning and demanding either fami- ly recognition or a share in the fami ly's prosperity. He has had no such plans and if he had cherished such a notion he would have acted long ago. He has sought only to keep from in trudng and feels that he has done his part in an honest effort to keep in touch with his family. and regrets now the necessity of parading these facts in denial of what he believes to be unjust accusations.
 He has lived a modest life here. so much so that it was with difficulty he was found. not being widely known in the community, except by those his occupation brings him in contact with. Though 62 years old he is well pre- served and could easily pass for a man of 50 or less. He is apparently man of good education
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