Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — WIDOW HAVE TO HAVE HIM [ARTICLE]

WIDOW HAVE TO HAVE HIM

(Remarkable Story of Worldwide Chase for Man Who Sought to Evade Matrimony. Regretting an engagement into which he had entered, a young German named Dreher, an employe of a large Lancashire (England) firm, threw up his situation and left for Berlin. No news of any kind reached his fiancee, a widow of some means, and, as her rspMttd letters remained unanswered,

she soon became very anxious, when her Uneasiness suddenly gave place to rage on receipt of an anonymous communication, telling her of her faithless lover’s flight and informing her of his address. Next day, accompanied by her brother she left for Berlin, only to find on her arrival that Dreher, no doubt scenting danger, had fled southward. * Through Austria she traced him to Italy, where he was found in Rome, employed as waiter at a case. Overawed by the. brother’s threats, he con-

sented to accompany the couple t« England, but contrived, on landing at Dover>,to give them the slip. Once, again was the hue and cry raised, but Dreher managed to reach New York with his pursuers on his track. For a second time did he avoid capture, and succeeded in reaching San Francisco, where he had the misfortune to break his leg. Crippled by the accident, his means almost exhausted, and broken in spirit, he no longer attempted evasion, but allowed himseU to be taken possession of by ths widow