Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-21

Scandal I'm Fashionable Life--A New York
Merchant Finds his Wife Untrue aud m
villain Living By her Secret.
Thursdays New York Sun tells the painful
story, for the strict truth of which il vouches:
About three years since, Mr.. W, gem
tleman of irreproachahle character, and sub
stantial income arising from his business as a
commission merchant in the Second Ward,
was rash enough TO get married. The lady
was very beautiful, seemed to possess every
charm of virtue, intelligence and refinement,
and to her new home carried with her the
substantial charms of heavy bank account.
placed at her disposal by an indulqent papa.
The newly made husband was devotedly
attached to her, and his affection seemed TO
be returned, and the only bar now remaining
to their perfect happiness, was the frequent
attacks of despondency, which the lady
| always managed however, to pass off as the
results of indisposition.
These periods Of mental depression only
| called forth the renewed tenderness of her
affeetionate husband, who never, for mo-
ment, dreamed that aught else than the rea-
| son she assigned could be their cause. About
| year after marriage, theirunion was blessed
with a child, and the lady, absorbed in the
new care, overcame, for almost year. her
former melancholy. In June of last year,
however, she was suddenly attacked one day,
and without apparent cause by violent hys-
teric fit, and from that time until the present,
her melancholy has returned with tenfold
force and frequency, until at length the fear
forced itself on her husbands mind that her
intellect was impaired. Her expenditures of
money became lavish in the extreme, al
though she seemed to purchase nothing, and
her name appeared in none Of the fashi0na-
BILE sin-cloaks of charity societies. Her htls-
band finally resolved to question her on the
subject, but her only answer TO his interroga-
tories was violent hysteric fit, bringing on
| a fever, which lasted several days
During her delirium, some words she
| dropped had such an effect on her husbands
mind, that he obtained her key and opened
| her private escritoire, where he found
| package of letters which at once explained
| the whole mystery. They were all written
by the same hand and dated down from the
| month of June, 1859, to within few days of
her recent attack of illness. These letters
proved too clearly that before her marriage
| to Mr.. W. she had been seduced by man of
wealth and fashion in this city; that their
guilty practices had been carried on for some
time, and that the writer of these letters,
having become possessed of the guilty secret,
was using the power thus obtained to extort
money from Mrs. W. The wretched lady
had already paid her tormentor large sums Of
money, but the demand was still for more.
| The cause of her dependency was now
made plain, and on being confronted with
these evidences of her guilt, she confessed all
A separation will be effected between the
husband and wife at an early day as possible
In the meantime she has returned to her
fathers house, and all parties have resolved
to keep the affair as much from the public as
is possible. Mrs. w. repents bitterly the
| great wrong she has done her husband, but
avows that she loves him dearly, and since
her marriage has been true to him. Mrs. W.
is about, it is said, to visit the South, proba-
bly, with an intention not to return to New
| York.