Estate of Luesmann

The testimony of the husband, the daughter, and of intimate friends of the family, established the facts:

Anna Elizabeth Luesmann, the wife of H. H. Luesmann, disappeared from her home, in this city and county, on the morning of June 24, 1890, and no trace of her has since been discovered, though every effort has been made to find her. A reward was offered through the newspapers for information that would lead to her discovery, and the police were notified and instituted a search, but without results; and great newspaper notoriety attended the disappearance of the lady.

Mrs. Luesmann was a woman of good habits and excellent -character, and her married life was very happy. She had the full confidence of her friends, and the entire affection of her husband and little daughter and she had no cause for discontent with her condition which would have induced her to break the domestic and social ties with which she was so pleasantly bound to life.

There seemed to be but one cloud on her horizon, and that was the fact of the severe illness of her little daughter, Amalie, to whom she was entirely devoted, which illness has extended over a period of almost four months, and during which…