Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-16
LFrom the Chicago Evening Revicw.1
SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE IN CHICAGO

AN EX-AlEMBER OF CONGRESS AND A BANK
ERS WIFE
The city was startled early during the past
week by the rumor that leading banker had
discovered lis wife to be holding improper in
tlmacy with distinguished lawyer, and soon
the story got at1oat, as all bad ones will and
the facts-in various FORMS and dressed to
suit the teller-have since been ventilated in
every place where two or more persons have
been gathered together.
The case has remarkable features in it, and
fewer pallating circumstances than perhaps
even the famed Sickles affair. Neither of the
guilty pair is handsome on the contrary, she
is a slight, SalOw woman, very plain, only in
teresting for her fine black eyes and black hair,
thirty-two years of age, the mother Of two
girls, and a third, an infant in arms. She was
meek, lowly woman, apparently absorbed in
her Christian and domestic duties member
Of a fashionable church on the avenue, and
seemingly much wrapped up in her selfim-
posed work in the Sabbath school She was
brought up under the roof of an ex-member
of Congress in New York State whose honor
and fair fame in private life have never been
sullied.
She was adopted by him her generous
dover furnished by him his sensible ideas of
dress were implanted in her bosom, for she
was remarkable in our streets for neatness of
apparel, while her unostentatious manner was
the theme of comment. Many times she
might have been seen dragging the baby car
rage through the streets with her own hands,
although she was surrounded with servants,
and lived in a villa-buiI5 palace of Milwaukee
brick, on Michigan avenue, on tie graperies
and hot houses Of which alone 100000 had
been expended by her generous and too con-
fding husband. She was plain, modest,
courteous woman, Of more than ordinary in
bar 4.nIl = oi,,Ix,
prising than if she had been young, giddy,
pretty woman, badly brought up, and sudden
ly arisen to fas hionable life and all the blan-
dshments of a new and fiatering position.
The seducer is lawyer of some eIoquence,
of considerable ability, and marked success
He was member Of congress from neighboring
State, and is a husband and the father of eight
children, and resides in North Division.
Any one who has attended our Courts has
observed tall, thin man, with turn-up nose
light hair, sprinked with gray, face almost
covered with hair, and shaved in the English
or Lord Dundreary style, with rather an af-
fected, but nevertheless able manner conduct
ing cases before the several tribunals. This is
the Honorable Mr.. st, the man who has
brought ruin and shame upon this woman,
who has crushed the heart of Que of our best
citizens, and who seems now, by his brazen
parade of our streets, to be without shame.
Inc reasons ior snch a lall are as dllncult t'r
us TO comprehend as II was Tor Hamlet to &C.
count Ior ms hother CRIME, the numbering
OF ner nople liuspanu lor ms craven Drother.
W hat makes tlle crime sun worse much OF
the business OF tlS honorable ~ was gained
through the man whom ne hau SO pasely
wronseu ana the pest OF lt--the lucrative
rallroad attorheyshlpS ne nel9-were gained
through the wronged mans influence with his
unfortunate wie,s adopted father lie was
likewise the bankers attorney, his confidant,
his friend and was not only received into his
home, but through HIM he gained access to
other families OF note and responsibility.
Shall we sermonlze upon base ingratitude?
No. Let this suffice. For eighteen months
the villain has been defiling the home of his
best friend. Beside being libertine, he lost
some $4,000 at play about two years since at
one of our leading hotels. While in Wash
ington he was the subject of a rumor as being
one who tried to ruin daughter or niece of
new Cabinet Minister; in 1867 he effected the
ruin of a married woman on the North Side
and while he was betraying the bankers wife,
this ugly Lolhario was recently seen dancing
at the hops got up by abandoned women. We
will not dwell on the hypocrisy of this man, or