The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
DON'T SEEK u.s. WIFE's PLEA
Husband Is Taken to the Kenosha Hos
pital Today Suffering from Broken
Heart and His Condition Is Regard
ed as Critical by Physicians.

Haig Booludian, thirty-three years
of age, an Armenian formerly employ
ed at the plant of the Simmons Man
ufacturing Company, was taken to the
Kenosha Hospital this morning suffer
ing from an ailment which is proving
a puzzle to the physicians attending
him, but to the friends of the Ar
menian it is known that he is dying
of broken heart. Booludian had
been working in Kenosha for the past
two years happy in his plans to pro-
vide home for his wife, a son and
a daughter who he had left behind him
in Armenia. Three days ago he re-
ceived letter from his wife. 1t had
been mailed from a port in Asia
Minor. In the letter the wife declared
that she and the two children and
many of their friends had been taken
captive by the Turks and they are now
being taken to the interior of Asia
Minor. "Don It seek to write to me as
my letter from you would probably
bring death to both me and our child
ren" was the injunction of the woman.
She was unable to write at length of
their being taken captive, but she de-
clared that they had been treated in a
most cruel manner.
The reception of the letter brought
dependency to the Kenosha Armenian
and since he heard Of the fate of his
wife and children he refused to take
any nourishment and he has fallen on
tx Sire several times in the past two
days. I'D is thought that he can be
forced to take nourishment at the hos
pital. He has been constantly calling
for his wife and children and his
friends fear that his mental faculties
are failing.
The letter telling of the capture Of
the wife and children was the first of
the so-called "orange juice" letters to
be received in Kenosha. To the ordi-
nary observer the letter appears to be
nothing more than a sheet of white
paper, but when heated the writing is
plainly visible without glass The
letter, which was mailed from a port
in Asia Minor more than two months
ago, tells several stories of atrocities
attributed to the Turkish and German
soldiers. It alleges that the worse of
these atrocities have been committed.
about the Christian settlement at
Arzoorum. This place was recently
re-captured from the Turks by an arm
ed body of Armenians and when it was
taken they found twelve Armenian
women housed in a barn. Tt is assert
ed that they had been held captive
there as the mistresses of German
army officers. There is the story of a
sensational killing Of two children in
the orange juice letter. It alleges that
one of the Christian women residing
near Arzoorum was busy with her work,
about the house when soldiers of the
Turkish-German army came to the
place. The woman was milking cow
at the time and the soldiers promptly
killed the cow and ordered the woman
to cook it. She asserts that after she
had heated the water to boil the flesh
of the COW that it might be taken
along with the soldiers, that one of the
soldiers caught two boys playing
about the kettle and threw them into
the boiling water and reveled in the
manner in which the two children met
their death. The Armenians insist that
the stories told in this orange juice
letter are true beyond question of
doubt
Booludian, who was taken to the
hospital this morning, is declared to
be in critical condition and it is said
that his condition is due entirely to his
worry over the fate of his wife and
children.