Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-07-17
MAY HIDE
 A BITTER TALE Deserted Mother and Babes Spend Many Wretched
 Hours
BOY FINDS FATHER
With Another Woman Who Did Not Know of New York Wife
 and Babes.


 my father. Mother and two other children live in New York City and have lived there for years. You are not his wife said 19-year old youth giving his name as Eugene Gottchalk of New York City, 1906 High street, as he explained to the woman who has for nine years believed she was the wife of H. J Gottchalk that Gott- chalk has wife in New York City and that regularly each month he has sent her a check for the living ex- penses.
 Gottchalk, who is a German, appar- ently, came to Little Rock about a years ago, lured, be said, by adver- tisements that fortune was to De picked up in the road here. He is a cabinet maker by profession and al- though possessed of but one hand he makes furniture which demands a high price in this city. After becom- ing convinced that he could not make his fortune here in a day but that good honest endeavor demanded it's reward and received it, he set about securing employment.
 A man with one hand was not de- sired by the average business man en- gagged in his line of business There fore he opened cabinet makers shop at Second and Center streets and with the aid of his wife he turned out work which demanded attention in .his city. He prospered with increas- ing progress, and was respected and liked in the community where he lived. Childless the two Were much alone, and without friends, they ap- peared to prefer to be left to them selves rather than to have those in the community to pay them any at- tention.
 They were considered :"queer" by those of the same neighborhood
 Then appeared a youth, declaring he was 19 years old, and son Of Gott- chalk. He introduced the youth to Mrs. Gottchalk as his foster son and asked her to take care of him while he was in the city, that he would soon return to his home in New York.
 Mrs Gottchalk was not satisfied with the story and when Gottchalk went to work the following day she proceeded to question the youth
 Who was your father?" she ask ed
 Why you know him. He just left here" said the young man.
 "Yes, know, you are his adopted son. Who was your real father, mean" said she
 Well, he is my real father. Moth CT lives in New York City and I am here to see why father has not sert us money to live on" was the reply.
 Convinced that her suspicious were we'll founded the woman quizzed the boy closely with the result that the youth told her that he had lived with with his father and mother and two other children in New York City for 10 years. Then the father left but each. month his mother received from hold expenses together with some think additional for clothes, pleasure and the like,
 Three months ago the checks ceased to appear and the mother sent him to Little Rock to ascertain the cause
 Mrs. Gottchalks 8 story is that nine years ago just about the time the youth says his father left his home in New York City she married Gott- chalk, and for eight years and lit t1c more she lived with him in that city never dreaming that in another part of the same city there lived an- other family which he never visited but which he sent monthly cheeks for their support.
 Going to a neighbor's house Mrs. Gottchalk detailed what the youth had told her, and declaring that she nev CT heard of the other family before and that she would leave the place immediately, she returned to the home where she had lived for nearly year past donned her hat and departed.
 Yesterday Gottchalk, who is said to have departed at the same time. was located in his workshop at Second and Center streets, and at the desk sat-the woman who has lived with him here as his wife.
 The youth is gone, sent back 10 Kew York City by his father, according to tho stnrv told hy the neighbors at