Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-25
that policeman would pass within hall

an hour. Then they returned home.
All happened as they expected. The
policeman found Mr. Halle lying on the
sidewalk, and knew from his breath that
he had been drinking. As Mr.. Halle
would neither answer nor move, he natur-
ally supposed him to be dead drunk, and
had him expressed to the police station.
The next morning he was brought before
the Police Court on the charge OF drunken
ness. He was still under the influence of
the drug and acted as if he was drunk
! be was fined three dollars, and, as he
had no money, was taken TO the Bride
we'll. The last thing be could remember
was eating supper wish his wife. He
managed to get note to his partner and
was released before evening. When his
wife and her maid left him in the street
and returned home, they were disap-
pointed to find that they had not obtained
all the money needed to pay for the dress
and some other articles. Mrs. Halle
saw but one way to obtain it, and that
was to sell her husbands watch aud the
other things she had taken from him.
The next day they were sold by the maid
at O pawnbroker's The dress was thus
paid for and Mrs. Halle attended the
party that evening. When asked why her
husband was not present, she answered,
with sigh, that she feared he was on a
"spree;" that she had not seen him for
twenty hours. When the party was
over she returned home well satisfied,
and locked the dress up in her trunk.
Then she calmly waited for her husband.
VI. Host
from the Bridewel he went home, and
there found his wife in bed, sick and
weeping. He met with a storm of re-
proaches, she accusing him of having
left her to keep company with some vile
woman. She asked him in a meek and
Injured way if he did not remember how
be had left her after supper two nights
previous, saying he had to see q friend
on business. Was that the reward she
was TO have for consenting to stay at
home?
All these reproaches were moistened
with tears Finally, Mr.. Halle was al
lowed to speak, and he told her all he
kuew-he had found himself in the
Bridewell with his money, watch etc,
stolen. How, why or wherefore, he did
not know. She declined to believe him,
and called upon her maid to bear wit
ness that her husband had said he was
going to see friend on business. The
maid did 80. Mr.. Halle protested his in
nocence, and was finally believed. The
next day be was able to find out, by in
quiring at the Armory and sub-station,
that be had been picked up dead drunk
in the streets. Beyond that he could
fnd nothing, and the whole matter was
mystery to him. But for one little in
cident it would probably have remained
go forever, and he would never have
known of bis wifes treachery and wick
edness.
The incident was this On his way to
his place of business on Saturday moro
ing he passed the pawnbroker's where |
his watch had been sold by the maid. He
happened to notice pretty chain in the
windown, and entered the store TO in
quire the price. While inc pawuoroker
was getting it from the window, he saw
his lost watch in the case on the counter.
He epked who had brought it there, and
the pawnbroker described the maid
Mr.. Halle could not even imagine how
the maid had got it, bat determined to
have her arrested at once. He never
had liked her, believing that she exerted
a bad influence on his wife. She was
arrested and was taken be-
fore a justice of the peace at the corner
of Randolph and Canal streets, who
heard the case. Mrs. Halle went there
with the maid, and earnestly besought
her husband not to prosecute. Hewculd
not comply with her request. The pawn
broker identified the maid as the person
who had sold him the watch.
Then came the tableaux. The maid
confessed everything, telling Mr.. Halle
that il be doubted her, he could look in
his wife's trunk, or inquire whether she
had not attended the party. Mrs. Halle
denied nothing, but stood there trem-
bling, crying, confused. What her hus-
band felt is not easy to describe. At his
repeated requests she acknowledged
The truth of what the maid had said, ac-
that she herself had taken
The watch and the other articles.
At the request Of Mr.. Halle the magis-
rate then discharged the maid and the
party left his Office. What the result will
be is not known, except that Mr.. Halle
declared bis intention Of living no longer
With his wife.
Thus eads for the time being this do
nestle drama.