Nebraska advertiser., 1869-05-27
From the Missouri Democrat.
The Romance Of Crime.


invOlentary appearance at the Central
Police station, in st. Louis, recently.
We give the story connected with this
appearance as il was CLEANED by the
police from the parties themselves.
RIB. Wilson, a man now of 3S or 40
years of age, was a resident of st.
Paul, Minnesota. When he married,
some eight years ago, he was as poor
as Jobs turkey, but with the help Of
his wife in a few years he acquired
some means, probably six or seven
thousand dollars. We did not learn
his avocation, but believe he was a
contractor or something Of that sort.
Wilson took it into his head to dabble
in politics, and he was elected to the
Legislature Of his State. Here the do
mestic broils begin. His wife alleges
that negleeting her all one winter he
eohabited with awoman of evil repute.
OF course the wife was angry, and
would submit to no such usage by the
man who vowed to her his allegience.
Being a woman of strong mind, Mrs.
Wilson made her displeasure manifes-
ted, and it may be readily surmised
that she made it very warm for her
direlict husband. This course did not
reform him, if we are to believe her
statement he became a gay LathariO
and associated with many of the fair
and frail. two children were the re-
suit of the marriage, and it becoming
necessary to employ a nurse, a young
woman named Lucy Swan, fair to look
upon, was engaged in that capacity,
and lived with the Wilson's for two
years. Some time ago Mrs. Wilson
left her husband, but whether Lucy
was the immediate cause of the seper-
alton we are not appraised. The chill
dren remained with their father, and
the nurse was retained. In the vOlun-
tary dissolution of the life cOpartner-
ship, Mrs. Wilson soon got $500 of the
proceeds of the firm, and Wilson was
left a balance of five or six thousand.
About the time Of the separation, Mrs.
Wilson asserts, Wilson went to Chi
eagO and consulted an attorney about
getting divirce. This lawyer wrote
to Mrs. Wilson, informing her of the
circumstance, and offering to procure
the divorce for her, if she desired it,
but no further steps were taken in this
direction by either party
The scene now changed from st.
Paul to ST Louis. A few days since
the Chief of Police, Major Lee, reeeiv-
ed q telegram from st. Paul requesting
him to arrest q man and woman who
had taken passage with two children,
on the steamer Minnesota, bound
from that port to this. The boat ar
rived Monday night, and yesterday
morning the parties mentioned were
apprehended by the police, who po-
litely escorted them to the Central
Station, where they were allowed the
freedom" of the place outside the
cells in the calabOse proper. Mrs.
Wilson then appeared and was admit
ted to their presence, the personifica-
tion of a woman scorned." Such a
tongue-lashing as she gave her hus-
band would have been pronounced
''beautiful' by spinster who abhor-
ed the whole male sex. There were
no tears no softness, even when she
saw the two pretty little bOys-aged
respectively about six and three
butshe indulged heavily in bitterness,
sarcasm and vituperatiOn. Wilson
and his Lucy had little to say. Mrs.
Wilson told her husband of all his
shortcomings, and showed him dOcu-
ments in proof. She said she would
never live with him another day to
save his life. Atone tiInein the scene
when he was about to eXpostulate or
deny some assertion, she called him a
villain, and threatened TO slap his
mouth. At another she shook her
finger in his face-she was standing
he was sitting-and unbraided him
for his cruel conduct toward her. She
would smile at his misery, but 'tnary
tear" appeared in her bright but terri
| BILE eye. She asserted that at one time,
he had spanked her like child, f"
called her little boy as a witness.
At first Mrs. Wilson demanded her
children, but the husband refused to
surrender them. lThen she proposed
to take the youngest, but the little
fellow clung to his father, as if 10th to
go with his mother. At last she told
Wilson as he had left her penniless,
he should provide for the children,
but warned him not TO mistreat them,
or permit their mistreatment-she
would keep track of him, she said,
and he ought to know by the illustra.
ton she had given him in this in
stance, how well she could do it. The
''injured wife" at length withdrew,
and the storm was over.
Mrs. Wilson consulted with the
Chief of Police and concluded to let
her truant husband go his own way.
The parties were therefore released
from durance.
Mrs. Wilson is rather a "stOut, ~
good. looking woman stylish in APP
pearance, of perhaps thirty years of
age. To say she is smart and intelli-
gent would hardly express the idea
intended to be conveyed; apOlice Off
Ger who heard her talk, expressed il
more tersely when he said she was
lightning" That she is pure and
VirtuOus none would dare to gainsay.
"Lucy Swan" is also fine looking
woman, perhaps twenty-five years of
age of a ladylike demeanOr. We no.
ticed that the youngest child seemed
pleased when it was transferred from
the arms Of its father to those Of its
whilOm nurse. We neglected to men
tiOn that the little one seemed ailing.
Wilson himself is a tOlearbly look
ing man, we'll dressed, with full whis-
kers. He is evidently man of more
than ordinary intelligence. Both
Wilson and his companion had revOl-
vers in their possession, and they were
well prepared for travel 1--WE are not
aware of their Destination having
checks for nine trunks, travelling bag,
shawls &c. Besides Wilson's purse
was well lined with money.
In her conversation with Captain
Hopkins, Mrs. Wilson savagely re-
marked that she "cOuld cut the heart
out Of Lucy" She also told that off
Ger that Wilson was one of the best
men that ever lived until he got into
politics.
We have given such Of this "r0-
nance of crime" as we could CLEAN,
and leave the reader to make any ap-
plicatiOn of the lesson conveyed as ne
may think the facts justify.
OLD Billy W was dying. He
was an ignorant man, and a very wick
ed one. DR.. Dan excellent pbysi-
oioD or,I n rrorxr Y,foaar mar, moe o&for,-