Haunted New Braunfels by Erin O. Wallace

Author:Erin O. Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

The café at the Phoenix Saloon. Courtesy of Ross Fortune.

By this time, Johanna Sippel’s affair had become blatantly obvious to everyone in New Braunfels. This brought John humiliation and caused him to sink into an even deeper depression. Then, as if to add insult to injury, his prized building suffered a small fire, causing it to temporarily close. When it reopened in 1896, new proprietors Holzmann and Oberkampf hoped to offer John a bit of happiness by naming the remodeled building the Phoenix Saloon in honor of its beginnings. To no one’s surprise, this sympathetic act had no effect on John’s outlook on life. By now, he had reached a point of no return and was unable to control his emotional and mental stability. This once highly respected businessman had been transformed into an irrational menace, capable of causing harm to himself and possibly others. John had finally snapped, and his life would soon be changed forever.

One evening, as his brazen wife made her way to her lover’s home near Landa Park, John followed her. He knew exactly where she was headed. As she entered the single man’s home, John took a comfortable spot on the ground to watch the couple’s embrace through an open curtain on one of the windows. Having lost all sense of rationality, John then pulled out his loaded revolver and took aim at the couple. He fired numerous rounds, hitting only the building and mercifully missing the pair. Of course, New Braunfels being a small town, everyone near and far began to run toward the gunfire. As chaos ensued, John raced back to the Phoenix Saloon. Knowing that the sheriff would soon be at his doorstep, coupled with the continued shame he would be forced to endure, John then did the unthinkable. Having lost his will to live, on the evening of April 25, 1900, the once esteemed John Sippel placed the small gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He was found dead on the second floor of the Phoenix Saloon from a fatal gunshot wound to the right temple. The town was stunned by the horrible outcome. The ironic result of the senseless incident was that John’s wife, Johanna, eventually ended her relationship with her lover and remained unmarried until her own death at age ninety.

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