Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-19
THE CITY.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Distressing Case of Female Infidelity
"A Wife Betrays her Husband,
and Falls a Victim to an
Invalid Officer-Intrigue
-DishOnOr- divorce.

An extraordinary case Of Grim. con. has
been for several days past the topic of con-
versation among number of citizens con-
versant with the facts; and, as it is to be-
come the subject OF legal investigation,
there can be no reasonable objection to CIV
ing it publicity, not only as an illustration
of the decentralization of the times, but as a
warning to Others of the certainty of being
sooner or later exposed to all the ills that
follow discovery Of lawless love. A
wealthy citizen, who-with young, beauti-
full and aristocratically connected wife, re-
Gently removed from Wisconsin to this
city, devoted most Of his time to the prose-
cution of an extensive business, leaving
his better half to fill up the tedious
hours of his absence as best she
could. Breaking up housekeeping on Rich
street, the pair took up their abode at a
fashionable boarding house on High street,
whereat there were o number of dashing
young military officers, most of whom had
Wisconsin merchant. Among these officers
was a gay Captain of the Invalid corps,
whose name closely resembles the name of
the country from which the first expedi-
ton to America was fitted out, and which
furnished the ships to the great discoverer
whose name this city bears. This officer,
like Othello, had seen some service, and like
the Moor again, had a smooth and oily
tongue, against which the virtue of the
young wife, although fortified by the teach
ings Of Broad street church, of which she
was member, was not proof.
She fell-whether easily or after heroic
resistance, we are not told. The street cars
afforded comfortable and easy access to an
out-of-the-way house, above the depot, and,
when the unconscious husband went out to
business, his wife repaired northward with
her paramour, and together they whiled
away the long afternoons of the heated
term. The intrigue was carried on for sew
eral weeks, and OF late so boldly that it ap-
peared that every one but the person who
should have known it was aware of its ex-
istence.
But as we have said, all such cozy and il
licit arrangements, sooner or later, come to
the light OF day, and the parties to grief
Some disinterested member of the church
to which the husband and wife belong,
dropped the deluded husband note, by
means of which he awaked to the astounG-
ing proceedings going on around him. He
rushed home just as his wife reached their
apartments, and there was scene over
which the curtain may be drawn in chari-
ty. Suffice it, that the erring beauty con-
fessed her guilt, and the husband telegraph
ed to the brothers of his wife, both minis
ters in Michigan, that they should come for
their sister. One of them came and con-
veyed his erring sister to her early home;
not, however, until she had, as we are in
formed, given written acknowledgment
of her crime to her husband, to facilitate
divorce. nH ...-
The husband armed himself it is said, and
at one time contemplated the destruction of
the destroyer of his happiness; but BROTH
er officer of the Captain (who in anticipa-
tion of an attack also carried pistols,) vol
unteered his services and either by demon
strating that his friend was as much sinned
against as SHINING, or some other means,
settled the affair as well as such thing
could be settled. The husband makes i'm
mediate application for divorce-and the
Captain makes himself exceedingly scarce
about his usual haunts. So ends domestic
tragedy-for an affair in which the happi-
ness of two human beings is forever de-
stroyed, can be called by no softer term
than tragedy. do ....