The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-05-11
From the Henry County (Atcd) Dia2.
Extraordinary Domestic AZ

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Extraordinary Domestic AZ
fair.
4 Husband Leayes for California; !egea
Years E5qpse-He Is Given up for
Deaf, and Ais WIFE Narries Again
He turns up, and Spirits Iscqy His
I'uo Daughters.
About ten DAYS since, q middle aged
gentleman, of respectable appearance,
stopped a. the Kewanee house, via the
eastern train Soon after, he inquired for
the residence Of Mr.. Clyde, of " eth
ersfsld, and procuring horse and buggy,
he started thther. On arriving, he went
to the door and inquired for Jenny Bas
sett--a girl of about fifteen years Of age,
who was at service in the family. The
girl met the gentlemen at the door and
after long and earnest conversation, car
ried on in low tones, tue latter lett. and
Jenny informed the lady she was living
with that she wished to leave, as she had
been offered easier service at better wages.
The next day the gentleman called again,
and the girl left with him, with the con-
currence, as the lady supposed, of the
girls mother, Mrs. Greer, who lives in the
neighborhood.
1t appears, however, that Mrs. G. knew
nothing of her daughters intentions.
After having left her place, Jenny went
home to her mothers and obtained her
consent to let Ella Bassett-aged about
eleven years-accompany her to Mr..
Glyde's- The two girls left home togeth
err, but, instead of going where the elder
one had been living, they joined the mys-
terious gentleman above referred to, aud
all left by the next train for the east.
The mother of the girls was almost dis
tracted on learning Of this strange esca
pade Of her daughters; and then the pub
tic obtained clue to the probabIec cause of
this sudden and rnost unexpected disap-
pearance 1t came out that many years
ago the mother was married to man
named Dassstt, in Connecticut. They
lived together until the elder girl was four
years old, and the younger some three
months, when the husband and father left
for California For five years not sylla,
bic was beard from him by the abandoned
wife and naturally she concluded that he
was dead and she was married to her
present husband, Mr.. Greer.
Mrs. G. knew nothing of the existeEc
of her former husband but since the girls
were inveigled away, it has been ascer-
tanned that he communicated by letter
with the elder one, and thus, it is suppos
ed, obtained her consent 10 so with him
when be should come. jenny, as we have
seen, on his arrival, was made the instru-
lncnt to induce the younger child also to
abandon her mother, who feels her loss
keenIy.
1t is a most dastardly act in the man
Basse;t, after so long an abandonment OF
his wife, to rob her of the children whom
through years OF loneliness and poverty,
she provided with the shelter aud alec.
tiouate nurture Of home.
Since the above was in type,
we learn that the elder sister Of Jenny and
Ella has received letter from Jenny, sta
ting that they were in New York, where
they met their father, the person who took
them away acting as his agent. 1t seems
that the party stopped several days IN
Chicago TO repIeni,h tie wardrobe Of the
young ladies, Altogether, this IS very
singular affair.