Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-23
= atautsa DON QulxoTTE- OF i LOWER

We yesterday mentioned that 4 Mrs
Helen Smith and Charles F. Mellin hat
been arrested on charge of adultry. ant
. would be tried before ,Suufre Gulick at
O'Clock in the AFTERNOON. The court room
was filled 20 repletion. and when the pris
Ioners were brought ir IL created decided
sensation. T., sgig ~ ~. esza 1-s 5g5 ge5
Mrs. Smith is q rather good-looking wo
I4lan. petite in.fgure and as smart as stee
trap. Her paramofjt.s ia 4 fall. thin, chan
with penderous and long side whiskers
land an ythfng but t a Don Juan In appear.
ance. Mr. Smith is a rather portly indi-
lyiduaI. one who. iudeinp, from bis looks
would rather be at his ease in PhiladeIpbia
than chasing a runaway, wife IN Ohio. THE
tparties are all German. 49, - ~, { II y
The facts developed ON theltrial are these
| Mr.. Smith kept a grocery store in Phila-
deiphia, the care of which was entrusted
to Mrs. Smith, while he carried on business
\ down town. > Tn order to increase business,
Mrs. Smith concluded to take in boarders
/ To this Mr.. Smith consented, little think
ing he was taking serpent into his Eden
The serpent came, f. S'f.io re- ssSs24a - -1ieog
1t was the gay deceiyer Mellfn. 5-o TsH
| Mellin is peddler, of German maya.
Zines aud newspapers. He had travelled
| much and was a CAV talker.t He was. also.
Of 4 rather Quixotic disposition. and. .eif we
may believe him, smadea It his business; To
| rush around the country saving Young
men from the ,contaminations of large
cities, and saving weeping and overworked
| wives from the, to him, brutal demands of
tyrannical husbands. -. - -
In addition to Mellin,l there lived with
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith. brother of the lady
a youth of about nineteen srmmers, " ho
loved his sister and his beer. To the well
fare of this young man Mellin devoted him
self. He advised him to give up his occu-
pation-baking-and come to the Far West
the great State OF Ohio. and make cords of
greenbacks in the genteel and noble occu-
patton of peddling German literature. He
drew rose-colored pictures of the country,
telling of mountains of pretzels and rivers
of beer. The bait took and the young man
agreed to seek his fortune in the West. IT
Then this insinuating book agent COM
menced his gameon the unsuspecting wife.
He told her of her troubles; how she would
be all alone and in the power of this ter
rife Smith; this misunderstanding this
Imurderous Smith; how her brother, was
going West, and painted for her picture
OF the Arcadian bliss the three would enjoy
with her own country women in the beau
itiful, city Of Columbus. Their ives and
their loves were to be entirely Platoni
Nothing of a gross or sensual nature
should ever be between them. He only
sought to save her brother from ruin, and
TO make her perfectly happy.
One quiet and sultry afternoon, the last
day OF August man with ponderous side
wniSAers, pretty little woman big boy
anu ieatner oeu hlgh1 nave oeen seen In
an emisrane car oil pennsylvania Central
aiirroanu,.oouna 70 Ior the west and for hap
plhess. Ihese were tne gay Dook peddler,
bits. ohlGh, hef Drotner and the plundtr.
ror' De 1t KNOWN they mad lett the grocery
SURE - unaetehoeo nHles anu wlue open and Smith
IN Perlece Ignorance OF Lne whole transac-
rlon' But they' TOOK a feather bed-the
only one IN the house-and all the money
tney couio lay tneir hands upon.
om,1n returned 70 MS home to find it de-
ser'eo' MS "iie ana oeo gone. He was
nuhsly anu ho supper was there 10 appease
niS T. appe'ile. linen ne got mad. HIS
D1uecn =. was az up, and, selzlhg soup ladlea
ne neid IL toward Heaven and swore to be-
reVenged! AN inquiry among the neigh
pors revealed to the distracted Smith shis
desolation, and the direction taken by the
fugitives.
The chivalric book agent, fearful that
his action might be misconstrued, and
anxious also that his being in company
with another mans wife might not be mis-
understood, told all questioners that she
was his own wife-who by the by, with
four infantile book agents-is living in
peace and Germany.
Or. their arrival here he, after boarding
for few days and occupying the same
room with the unfortunate Mrs. Smith,
proposed to go to housekeeping. In this
view two rooms were hired and furnished.
The arrangements were rather queer
Mellin not being able to sleep in bed re-,
tired 70 his vfrtuous rest upon the floor
Mrs. Smith occupied the only bed. while the
b other slept under the stove in the back
room. But everything was of tbe most
r. n,ust ha 90. aaar Aano oe."een 'lelii.
Rut the rronaaman,d d,a .. ,,. ,-
smifh swaibo reachad thi
dov uo nd -, 80 ,"'' S%'o
# warm. Re also oot, ont a w.rrant go aor tps ths
arrest of the rnn.wov u,;fo and tho CT
ot;c hool, ,,ada,.- -, 80 n. '.e 80
fatba barIy wo, ,ha d;s.ro.,..,,
he still called his wife
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