The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-27


Brady, young, talented, and wealthy
resident OF the village of Herkimer,
New York, wooed and won the hand of
Sarah D. Carver, daughter of a member
of the present General Assembly OF
that State. For a term OF about four
years they lived In a state of compare
two happiness, and then suddenly
GOODNESS was apparent on the part Of
the wife. 1t soon became evident that
she had lost her love for her lawful
husband, and conferred 1t on an indi.
vidunl named BrinkerhoH Tharott,
who paid assiduous court at her shrine.
Early in the spring of 1863 she left her
home for Lafayette, Ind, and on the
7th OF May of the same year, procured
fraudulent divorce In that State, IA
nous for divorce. The divorce was
procured for her, she alleges, by we'll
known lawyer of Lafayette, named
Alexander Bowditch.
Returning to Herkimer, she kept the
matter other divorce from her husband,
but continued to court the acquaintance
of Tharott, and one fine day she depart
ed with him for parts unknown, taking
with her their little daughter, beau
tiful child, about 3 years of age.
When the news ofthe divorce and the
subsequent eIopement we're conveyed
to the husband, he went nearly dis
tracted, ana while he might have for
gotten the loss of his faithless wife, the
loss of his child was blow to terrible
TO bear. Scarcely aware OF what he
was notwithstanding only that his child
was taken from him, he started in pur-
suit, and during his travels he has ira
versed thousands of miles, passed back
and forth through nearly every State
in the Union, and, after six terrible
years of agony and suspense, finally
ut feel a II
ter in an assignatiOn house in this city.
The story OF her trials and hardshtps
is a pitiful one. Her first destination
was Lafayette, and from there she went
to Cincinnati. After short residence
at the Porkopolis she moved to Mem
phis, and remained there for year or
more. AT the expiration OF this time
she was deserted by her paramour and
thrown upon the world to fight her way
as best she could.
Finding it a difficult task to make q
respectable living in Memphis, she
moved to Winchester, franklin county,
Tenn, and remained there until about
two years ago. She then adjourned TO
indianapolis, and stopped at the Bates
House. But unable to meet her indebt-
edness, she was elected from that es-
Establishment, and about year and
half ago was enabled to make her way
to Chicago. When she arrived in this
honest living. Being woman of very
engaging manners and highly prepos-
sessinK appearance, endowed with
liberal education, she sought for place
as governess up and down our aristo-
cratic avenues, but the fact that she was
entailed with an incumbrance, in the
shape Of her daughter, and the want of
good and sufficient references, deba rred
her from occupying even a place as a
mental in society in which she had
once moved an equal. 10 physical
labor she had never been accustomed,
and was entirely untitled. Refused
and rebuffed by those from whom she
believed assistance was due, she was
sonded to madness. and the next step
was to lead a life of shame.
A few days since Mr.. Bradley, who
was still roaming over the country in
search of his wife and child, received
an intimation that she had taken up
her abode in this city. He arrived here
as quickly as an express train could
carry him, and seeking out Frank II.
Guion, we'll known lawyer OF this
CITY, and former classmRte oil his, he
confided to him his troubles, and re-
ouested his assistance in ferrettng out
the whereabouts OF those he sought. IL
was readily granted. The various and
many "houses" located on Fourth av-
enue, State, Clark, and many other
well-known resorts for the fallen, were
one after another visited, but no clue to
the lost could be ascertained. Finally
they appealed to the police, and an ex-
pert detective was detailed for their
benefit. A photograph, taken six years
ago, was shown to him, and he thought
he could give the whereabouts of the
original. Accordingly, otter dark on
Monday evening, the party engaged
carriage and started for the house OF
Mrs. -. The door was opened In re-
ki,oi~ lpF1 OOlY mr. n
ed an elegantly furnished parlor. On
the sofa sat the only occupant OF the
room, a beautiful little girl, in light
golden curls, about nine years OF age.
She was handsomely dressed, and pre-
scented a very picture OF innocence ana
loneliness. The moment Mr.: Bradley
set eyes on the little beauty he recog-
nized the mere babe of so many years
ago, and the delight of the meeting
nearly robbed him of his senses. TAX
ing the little girl in his arms he covered
her with kisses, called her hundred
endearing names, and vainly appealed
to her for recognition; but she knew
him not, and yet a child's instinct
made her court the caresses bestowed
upon her by an overjoyed father.
What a meeting, and in such a place
Were it pictured in novel it would be
called "romance;" but this Is In real
life. And where was the motherf she
laO nedTu h SlIhHBc1y NOHSSS
listened to the animated prattle OF her
child, and fearful of Impending trouble,
she hurried down the stairs, and arrlv-
ed at the moment when her husband,
accompanied by his daughter, was
about to depart. She comprehended
the situation at a glance, and throwing
herself at the feet Of the man she had 80
cruelty deserted, begged for mercy and
her child:
Weary years OF search and trouble
hadthardened the heart of the husband
against his truant wife. In times
past he had even cursed her, and his
great longing had only been for his
daughter. But suddenly the old love
he had borne his wife SO many years
ago came back to him, and taking her
gently in his arms, he was only able TO
say, "You are the mother OF my child;
YOU are my wife, and such you shall
remain; only ask OF you know that
henceforth you shall be true to me, and
be loving mother to our little girl.
She is yet young; she shall never know
YOUR past history. Let us CO."
Hand in hand the newly found and
reconciled left the house Of debauchery
and crime, and when they had passed
over the polluted threshold, tears OF JOY
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