American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper., 1846-08-01

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CRUEL DEsERTIoN AND BASE INFAMY. The
lburn Advertiser relates the following facts
relation to the career of a villain, which for
lelty and base ngratitude, has but few par
Ies:
A Villain. A lady came into our Office yes
rday morning, to ascertain from our files
mething relative to a statement that has APP
ared in many papers, headed "Heress found, :"
d setting forth that the "heiressr (tolwhom,
was said, a large property in Scotland had
llen,) was the wife of Ezra Gregory, por-
ait painter, now residing at Chicago.
We furnished the desired information, where
pom the lady made in substance the following
atement; Her maiden name was Susan b.
mith. In July, 1887, she was married in this
&illage, by Rev. Mr.. Tooke, then the Metho-
ist clergyman here, TO Ezra Gregory, who was
that time bookbnder, in the employ of
1r. Lindsey, who is still engaged in that bus
ness in Auburn-and is son of Mr.. Gregory,
prmerly of Fleming, who built, and for time
coupled the house i'll which Freeman murdered
he Van Ness family.
They resided here about two years, when
hey moved to Syracuse. In 1880 they moved
o Rochester. There he abandoned her and
her two infant children-went to the South
md was absent about three years, during which
lime she did not hear from him; but has since
lscertained that, while absent, he married an
orphan of Is, who had property Of some
B IS, 900, and whom, in a week after their mar
tiage, having first possessed himself Of her prop
Zerty, he basely deserted at Natchez,
] He went to New Orleans and then to New
#Vork yuhan hn far hic tDifa and nbil1ro,
swho, few months after his desertlon of her,
came to Auburn, and supported herself and
children by sewing and folding books. They
met in New York and settled in Brooklyn,
lwhere they lived together four or five years, he
working at his trade of book-bnder.
During this time he took up the art of por-
5trait painting, which he soon made his chief
business. He finally sold out at Brooklyn, with
pa view of fmovng to Chicago, and sent his fam
lilly to Auburn, to remain among their friends
for a few weeks, until he could come and take
them West. During that time one of their
children was taken sick and died-and although
often written to, lie never came. She went
back in the Fall to New York and found him;
and they lived together, occasional absences
excepted, some two years.
During that time, it having been ascertained
that he and another woman were living in the
same street as man and wife, he was arrested
and sent to the Tombs for neglect and abuse OF
his family The matter was settled-but he
abandoned them and went off with married
woman, who with her husband had been board
ing at the house in which he had his painting
room. During the two years that followed, he
lived under ieigned name, with still another
woman at Patterson, New Jersey-and with
still another woman at Philadelphia, under an
other feigned name, that of Seymour.
In the mean time his family came to Auburn.
But soon he by letter solicited his wife to ap-
ply for divorce from him, proposing to pay
all the expenses, She went to New York for
this purpose. Proceedings were commenced,
but were discontinued by the solicitor in con-
sequence of her husbands failure to pay the
costs. He again went to Philadelphia, where
he lived with pretended wife; thence he went
West, and two years ago married the woman
with whom he now lives, and who is said to be
the "heiress.n
His deserted wife, since he last left her, has
supported herself and family at Brooklyn by
keeping boarding house till last winter; when
she was burnt out at the time of the destruc-
tion of Mr. Wilson's Spice Factory. She is
now on visit to her mother and other relatives
in this vicinity, one Of whom, well known here,
accompanied her to our office.
Her object in making this sad domestic his
tory public, is to prevent heartless villain
from the robbery and abandonment of another
victim.
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