The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-05-21
Former Chickasha Young Lady
Dies Of Broken Heart
Grieved for MonthsOver
Loss Of Her Lover
SWEETHEART KILLED
in RAILROAD WRECK
Fiance, a Brakeman, was Man.
gled Beneath Wheels on
Christmas Eve Wedding
only a Month Distant

Huntington, w va, May I'll. de.
clarlng repeatedly that she did not care
to live because her sweetheart had
been killed on the eve of their mar.
riage, Miss Gertrude Weser a pretty
twenty-one-year-old girl. died yester.
day morning at the home of her moth.
er Mrs George Weser l752 Fifth
avenue, physicians say with her heart
literally broken. as the tragic ending
to a years yearning for unrequited
love.
The Weser family moved here a year
or more ago from chickasha. Okla. 55
Miss Weser was once a prominent
society girl Of Parkersburg. and came
to Huntington about two years ago.
She was wooed and won by Edward
Smith, twenty-three. a dashing young
Baltimore & Ohio brakeman, son Of
William smith, Of lower Sixth avenue.
They were engaged ard plans had
been laid for happy wedding that was
to have been held during the winter
holiday season Of 1911.
On the dag before Christmas. 1911.
the girl watched her Young lover 90
away on the last Trip he ever took.
He was killed on Christmas eve at
Glenwood, W va, his body having
been mangled under the wheels Of a
train he was attempting to board.
It was sad Christmas for pretty
Miss Weser, then but nineteen years
old. She received telegram telling
Of tie tragic ending to his life. The
wedding was to have occurred that
month ana the bride-to-be was happy
in preparation for the nuptials.
II was then that change seemed
to come over the girl SO her relatives
and Intimate associates say Her
! rosy cheeks became blanched, her
Z expression strained and her eyes grew
wistful with the sorrow that had come
'4upon her She did not weep after
The first shock of tbe death had pass
ed by Her conversation was dull ana
listless, and her mind appeared to be
occupied with the goat sorrow Of her
life Gradually her Appearance chang
eduntll, although She still preserved
her erect carriage and yestige Of the
beauty that was once hers. she began
to droop
Her mother watching with anxious
eve, noted the failing health OF her
only daughter with sadness. yet feared
to reprove the maidenly devotion to
the dead lover.
Three days ago she lapsed into IN.
hysterical and in the meanderings of
her love tossed mind, the name OF her
lover was heard frequently It was
decided to operate upon her. DR.. Ira
Clay Hicks performed delicate ma.
nipulation OF surgery. but this failed
in its purpose. and the beautiful girl.
her form wasting away gradually
grew worse.
Three days ago she lapsea into nn-
consciousness, broken only BY the
light She seemed to sec from beyond.
and then she died
s The doctors who watched her slow.
troubled and sorrow-strlcken passage
from this world to another. declare
( emphatieally that It was broken
a heart That the 10y and devotion ID
IA her lover Yielded 70 melancholy d..
sire to be reunited to him. aud finally
vi her heart rent in twain by anguish
caused her death.
Miss Weser was known to her IS
lt sociates as a girl Of sweet, kindly dis
position aha Aad many admirers
both before and after her sorrow. vel
I'D to all She turned deag ear shs
Y would have none but her rallroadaE
sweetheart
She is survived By five brothers
George. Carl. Irwin. Harry and Fred
Four 81 fhetn sssaeA 4o,.., tsr tI.a4 -