After various failed commercial enterprises and the split with his wife Mathilde ( who became an eminent figure in the U.S. abolitionist and suffrage movements , and who lived together with the American feminist and writer Mary Booth from 1860 until Booth 's death in 1865 ) , Fritz moved to Chicago , where he died on Sunday night 8 . December 1872 , after an accident . The short-sighted Anneke had fallen into a construction pit . Lighting was very bad in Chicago in those days , and the city was , one year after the Great Chicago Fire , full of such pits
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Fritz Anneke