Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-01
The Late DR. Kane and Hi Love.

The Late DR. Kane and His Love.
Some time ago we published a statement
full Of romantic interest, concerning tn
secret marriage of the distinguished Dr.
Kane, of Arctic memory, with Miss Fox
of Rochester-Knockings memory. Tn
article stated also under what circumstan
ces the book containing an account of thl
marriage and sundry letters, once sup
pressed, would shortly be published, tn,
explanation being, the violation of a sol
ema agreement by the relatives of DIR
Kane.
The book, as we learn from a Philadel-
phia paper, has made its appearance, and
we find in the same paper the authors &C.
count of the marriage, over the authentic
ity of which an attempt is made to throw
a doubt. We quote what the book SAYS
on this interesting point:
shortly before his departure DR.. Kane
came to tea and spent the evening as usual
with his beloved. Reclining on the sofa.
he talked d~espondingly of what might
happen in his absence. His health was
precariousi he might be i'll, he might die.
If l send for you, my own Maggie, will
you come to me be asked. Certainly 1
WILL she answered. Il fear you would
hesitate he murmured, and yet you know
you are my own-my Wife You remem-
Der what L have told your A moment
afterwards he added; Would you
like me to repeat what ! have said,
formally, in the presence of your
MOTHER Such a declaration, in the pres
ence of witnesses, is sufficient to consti-
tute a legal and binding marriage; a mar
riage as firm as if the took
place before a magistrate. Attend to me,
Maggie, would you be willing notv to en-
ter into such a bond 2" At this moment
Miss Catharine Fox came into the room.
DR.. Kane desired her TO call her mother. |
who came up stairs to the parlor; the SER
van and a young lady who was spending
the evening there, being also present. DR..
Kane informed them he had sent for them
to witness the solemn declaration that
would follow. Then, standing up and
holding Margarets hand, while his left
arm encircled her form he said /" Mag
gle is my wife, and I am her husband.
Wherever we are she is mine and l am
hers. Do you understand and consent to
this, Maggie ?" Margaret answered that
she did"
On this the Philadelphia Bulletin COM
ments as follows:
This statement by a writer interested in
making a case, and a brief note from DR..
Kane, in which he calls Miss Fox his
= dear wife constitutes the sole evidence
IF this so-caHed marriage. They never
wed together, and he neve acknowledged
Ter publicly as his wife. That he was in
that he tried to train her to be-
'one such a woman as he would like to a
make his wife; that he endeavored to
make her give up her trade of n spiritual
Medium, and to win her from the associ-
ties that it brought around her, are facts
lot to be denied. But he failed to do this. I
nd before his departure on his last vow
sc, he could not make up his mind to a
Ormal public marriage, and so contented
imself with a verbal agreement, of which
re have only a one-sided account. The
ase has not been made out, and we are
OF surprised that the relatives of DIR.
zane should refuse to consider the lady
is wife.
There have been controversies, and, to
certain degree, litigation, on this subject.
is not very creditable to the lady that
lis should have occurred, and it is still
ss creditable that the letters penned by
ma iAr~pfeet-ev-raavIcc, tiraU they snouId
oNOi NC Scth Dl any eye DuI MS, SHOULD
DIV be spread before the public in a SEN I
volume. That DR.. Kane loved i
er with a pure, honorable and chivalrous
We, is undoubted. If she were worthy
such a love, and if she respected his
emory as she should have done, she would
cherished the fact that she was the
lject of such a passion as a sacred and
cret remembrance, not to be profaned
7 publicity, nor to be made the subject
scandalous controversy. She appears,
,wever, to have been in the hands of bad
who are responsible for all that
Is occurred, and for the publication of
e volume before US. They do not, with L
the ingenuity, furnish a justification
at will be acknowledged as sufficient by
5ht-thinking people.
The case is not clearly made out, GER L
inly as against the lady. 1t appears i
at the relatives of DR.. Kane for some
ne proceeded on the presumption of the
and that the denial was an after
ought necessary to the violation of an
reement with the lady, which proceed
g provoked, if it did not justify, the
esent publication. There was some
oney in the case. The fact that DR..
me loved truly Miss Fox is admitted.
zen with what evidence is given above,
is not difficult to accept her word that
did marry her, and that she was really
wife.-Pitts5urqh Commercial.