The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-24
MRS. OELRICHS BARES
WAR WITH HUSBAND
Mystery Of Their Separation
Solved; Due to Fight Over
a Fortune.
SPECULATED AND LOST
Man Supposed to Be a Mil
lionaire Died Practically
Penniless.
BY international News Service.

| BY international News Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, o8.-For
more than decade there has been
mystery over the strange estrangement
of the late Hermann Oelrichs and his
wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs of New
port, daughter of the late Senator James
G.. Fair.
The report at the time OF their sepa-
ration was that it was due to money
troubles. That this report was tho cor
rect ono would appear to have re-
ceivcd full corroboration in q sworn
deposition by Mrs. Oelrichs's filed in
the local courts on August l, in which
she makes the direct charge that her
husband converted to his own use $780,
600 worth Of bonds belonging to her
and took other money belonging to her
to invest for himself and lost large
amounts in speculation.
Deposition in Suit.
The deposition was made In suit
brought by the First National bank
against Mrs. Oelrichs, her sister, Mrs.
w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Charles M.
Oelrichs, TO determine ownership of
$4,000 remaining in that institution g
possession from the estate Of Mrs. Oel-
richs' IS late husband. In the deposition
Mrs. Oelrichs says in part:
I told Mr.. Oelrichs he had taken
100000 worth Of bonds out of my
safe deposit box without my con-
sent, and unless he made over the
entire Fairmont hotel property to
me at once l would bring suit and
have him arrested for stealing my
bonds, which it was, nothing more,
nothing less.
He told me II I did not allow
him to retain those bonds ho would
be obliged to go back to Oelrichs
& Co, as a clerk, being penniless,
having spent and lost everything he
had in the world.
Made Him Promise.
I saw he was in bad condition and
said, eff you're willing to make
over the Fairmont to me absolute
ly and give up all rights to the
money which my sister has given
you, ] will allow you to retain
those bonds for life. They will
bring you in an income of $4,000
a year, but you must promise me
when you die to make a will leav-
ing them to your boy" He said he
would.
I said, every well, then, Will
allow you to retain them and WILL
overlook the fact that you have
lost 100000 of my money in the
North German LLOYD and Oelrichs
companies, and that you bought
10000 shares Of lead with my
money to put in your own name.
Big Man Cried.
He cried and went to pieces and
said he would be ruined man and
made scene. He acknowledged
that he had done wrong, but told
me that he was an old man and at
IImes his mind was not clear and
he did not know exnctly what he
was doing. He said his life had
been o failure, and went on like
baby
Mrs. Oelrichs said that her attorney
prepared an agreement In accordance
with tho foregoing, and she and her
husband signed 1t, This agreement is
incorporated as part of the depost-
tion.
When Oelrichs was dying at sea In
September, 1906, while returning from
Europe, however. he did not abide by
his agreement, for he left his property
to his brother, Charles NJ. Oelrichs, and
his other relatives.
Mrs. Oelrichs contested this Will, but
compromise was effected. By this
settlement 100000 worth Of Mrs. Oel-
richs g Southern Pacific bonds were re-
turned to her and her son received $5O,-