New-York tribune., 1922-01-19
Deserted Wife
W as Tauntedbv
Sister She Slew
eCootiuusd 'rsm Pave eno

10 be pest. so did not go. All the
time the nights got longer and ,onosr
and was afraid. not hearing from ,,.,
husband" my
wife Remained on Farm
why d'dn't YOU shut up the bouse
ana so to live in New Yori; with ,onr
husband =" '''
u But the livestock-,hc cbicla. 80,
'he doe-how could ] leave Them ~ she
asked m astonishment a. the oues.;o,
Iouldnt you sell tnem9'
% one shook her head. Clearly there
~1.'' sopa, oollgat'ons superior 70 any per
S9naI soma urgency. Tins WAS one OF then,.
me hers were all ready TO beo;,
laE'hg We wooio nave had to s.s,.
planned s"e en-
=, Inc sister came il September y,s
henze elman said she had scalce>v ''s' sr,
acquaintance with her. The fonr c;rlss
OF thelr family all livel out in seTvico
a"o met only at holidays IN their home
d. bremen Gernine, the Youngest
,sS: "Ss seventeen when Mrs Renzelmsn
,eae germany The blonde, assured
woman OF twenty-Seven who arrived
was very different from the child she
remembered 'u o"e
Herhlne remained on the farm five
weeks; when. against her sisters urr-
,ns' Sne left to take place in \cw
"ochelle. Rcnzelman. who had re.
NAMED on the farm all this time. left
s Ne same TIME to so bacn to his lob
III ne" fork. Neither Of them was
sa}cn 10 writing letters, and Mrs. Rem
He'man heard from neither for two
fo,.,{
SAID she spoke to no living soul. no omo
came TO see her. nothing hapnened ~
ofeak the monotonous round Of her
,,ending OF tn baby, the dog and the
livestock '"e
Sisters Deception Discovered
SO she remained at home and wrote
TO the woman for whom her sister sa;d
she worked. The answer cana bacL
mat her sister had never worked there
-, AZ CHRISTMAS time Renzelman and
MISS y, vessels came up to the farm and
Mrs. Kenzclman confronted the Girl
with the letter. There was A notice
able intimacy between Renzelman and
the girl, Mrs. Renzclman said. and
once IN quarrel the girl hinted that
she. and not the wife, had ascendancv
over the man N''0'''s
At that time. Mrs. Renzeman said it
was not jealousy but fear of being left
alone that preyed on her mind. She
begged the girl to give up her Work and a
come to stay with her on the farm at
ieast through the winter. Her husband
insisted that she had no right to keen
the girl, and that if she would lot hcr
go back ne would himself give up his
work IN New York and stav with hcr
FINALLY she wrung from the girl the
promise that she would stay, and from
the husband promise that he would
bring Miss Wessels's things into the
country.
A few days later Renze]man wrote
that it would be necessary for tho o,T,I o;,i
to come down and settle her afrairs
in person.
Wife Traces Couple
After her sister left the farm. Mrs.
Renzelman spent ten days of brooding
before she made the final decision She
abandoned the chickens and the dops
locked the house and came to Nav
YORK with her baby, where she STAYED
with friend. She went to the ad
dress her husband had given and found
that he was not there. She went to
her sisters address and found she had
not been there for months At the
place where her husband was employed
she got the address of his lodgings, and
there. according to her story, She found
her husband and sister living together.
"Was that right of sister," the
pale. taut woman asked over and over,
locking and interlocking her fingers.
"Was that right of sister? If she
were stranger and came between me
and my husband but sster!"
There was no quarrel then, Mrs Rcn-
zclman said. But when there in the
single lodging house room she re-
preached her sister and said she would
have gone away rather than allow her
self to be loved by her sisters hus-
band, the girl tossed her head and said:
You cannot put anything between true
lovers"
"There was knock at my heart when