Arizona republican., 1910-02-26
STRANGE STORY Of
 4 WORLD WAhDERER GEO. A, SCHUMACHER TELLS THE TALE OF HIS LIFE DRAMA. Clears Up the Mystery m Which a Milwaukee Divorce Case Was
 Clouded.

Absent from home for thirty nine years and after thirty eight years of patient waiting for some kind of an answer to numerous letters written during the early. years of absence. George A. Schumacher of this city in the early days of February. 1910, wrote his wife in Milwaukee d message of greeting to his son, whom he has nev- CT seen, Frank P Schumacher. secre- tary of the Milwaukee park commis- sion. His answer was delivered to him at the fair grounds Thursday night by Deputy Sheriff Jeff Adams. in the form of d legal notice to make answer to d suit for divorce. filed in Malwau- kee by Mrs. Schumacher. There will be no answer to the suit and Mrs. Schumacher will most likely be grant ed a divorce by default. These facts or part of them. having been given the public through the Milwaukee press and echoed in the Phoenix press. have moved MT. Schumacher to further appriSe the public concerning his strange. sad story. in justice to him
 
 would he do so now, only that the publications made have left the in ference that he was a willful deserter of his happy home, discovered in his hiding place by those he had wronged. all of which he denies and ayers that he sought diligently for years to com municate. while he feels more than cer- tain that his wife could easily have found him had she been so inclined. unless she has been imposed upon by others. Now. at 62 years of age, with out malice and cherishing only an in born grief over things as they are and ought not to have been. tells his story of disappointment and misfor- tune, planning no interference with the purposes of his Milwaukee rela- tiveS. His only desire is to set him self right before those who know him in his present surroundings. now that the poison of untruth concerning him has been disseminated. Mir. Schumack- CT came to Phoenix in the fall of 1908 and is now engaged in training and breaking horses on his own account at the territorial fair grounds.
 Milwaukee was the childhood home of George A. Schumacher. whose father was for twenty years it's city engineer During the civil war George enlisted and served two and a half years with the union army, returning to Milwaukee in 1869, to find the of flee Of city engineer filled by man named Nick Engen, who had been his fathers protege and successor En- gen gave him employment and not long thereafter he was married. He was proving efficient in d subordinate ca pacity and says that Engen seemed pleased so long as he carried a rod, but in the course of events he was ad vanced. Finally the friends of the young man began to encourage him to look forward to better things and even to hint that some day he might fill his fathers place.
 Such remarks coming to Engens ears from time to lime seemed to poi son his mind against the young man, according to the latters story. and his growing jealousy finally caused Schumacker's dismissal from the city's employ. He recites that thereafter he secured number of positions in Mill waukee, one being that of bill clerk in wholesale house. and one after another Engen in his jealousy used his influence to work his undoing. Then he made an excursion up state for a few months, but finding no attractive employment he returned.
 A conference with his wife, his mother and his sister followed, and all agreed that his proper course was to strike out somewhere and seek proper employment. He left home on the friendliest terms with his wife and the relatives of his own blood. He soon found employment in the engineering department of the Illinois Central railroad and was making good progress, when one day he was sum- marily dismissed by his chief. Inquiry