Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-09-24
THE EVENING STAR.
The Chicago Wife-Seduetion Case
BASE BETRAYAL OF CONFIDENCE

II ape that Mr.. BigeIow married his
wife, FANNIE Davis, about two years ago in the
city Of Springfield She was the daughter of
very wealthy and respected citizen OF that
city She - about twenty years of age and
very progressing in her personal appear
anCe. On the LIST of April last the youpe
couple came TO this city, the hu sbapd intsndins
TO 20 into business. They took rooms with
their brSther-in-law, gentleman named Full
Ter; VINO KEEP, boarding house on the corner
OF LAKE ana U MON streets. At this time there
was boarding at the same place a young man
named Frank Andrews, 'he defendant IN the
case now pending He was a street commits
son broker Soon after the ARR val of Mr.. Big
Glow and his wife at the boarding house. An
crews made the acq uaintance OF the lady, and
the acquaintance rapidly grew into an inti-
mscy not IN harmony with the position and
circumstances in which the parties stood
toward each other. IL was observed by
the boarders that his attentions were more
warm and assiduous than they were commend.
able. AT last Andrews persuaded her to meet
him ciandestinely. and about the first Of
July last, according TO the subsequent coufe
20 comply with his desires and .he wa. a
ruined woman From that moment she asserts
that ne commenced TO exercise over Der an a..
most desPouc power by means of threats. The
villain told her that unless she complied with
hls wishes from time 10 time, he would make
an exposure OF their intercourse and that in
such case there was prooa bility that her
husband would take her life. BY means of
snch threats he managed TO preserve for some
ilHe an almost unlimited authority over her
During this time the two managed so adroitly
"a 20 escape the slightest sus picion on the part
OF the husband. He had the fullest confidence
In his wifes honor and loyalty. The whole
truth was, however, presented TO him in a
moment, when. on the evening of the 10Th of
September. he came home TO meet, not the ca
resses OF a loving and virtuous wife, out to
find her and Andrews together under such cir
cumstances as left him no alternative but to
believe all that his broken hearted and penitsnt
wife afterwards confessed 10 him. Andrews
succeeded NJ that time in effecting his escape
by jumping from second story window and
secretiDg himself but the enraged husband
Immediately determined upon his revenge
The wretch who had so imposed upon his
confidence and injured him he declared should
not live. He obtained a revolver and spent the
whole of two days In searching for his in.
tended victim; but he was not to be found In
the meaptIme, friends OF MT. Bigelow at last
persuaded him not TO carry out his bloody
purpose.
SO the matter rested for a day. when An
drews, in state of inebrety, il is said, boosted
npon the street, and in saloons OF his per-
formance, and e1ulted over il. This deter.
mined the husband to appeal TO the courts for
justice, and since the laws of the State affix
but nominal penalty for the crime of adult
large pecuniary damages. For this reason he
has. as has already been stated, claimed dam
ages in the sum of $1,000.
The greater number of citizens will nm.
doubtedly sympathise with the husb band and
pity the wife. Andrews has ALWAYS been re-
ceiyed in the family rs an upright, honorable
man. and the base character OF his condpct
in the betrayal of confidence is all the more
glazing.