The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-07-15

!, was so SUCCESSFUL IN my nrSJ experience
of detectives life
The True Version of the " Lady
oa of Lyons" oH"
Junius e. Brownies letter from Lyons, tt
the San Francisco Alta.
i Lyons has always been associated IL
nv mind with the sentimental lady to
whom Bulwer introduced us many years
ago, 1 looked for her all along the Rhine
and could not discover her. When had
despaired of getting at the facts of the
case. heard of a man who knew them
Having long entertained a suspicion that
the story had not been rightly told, I So
licited an interview, contrary to my GUS
tom, and had the tale from his lips He
said Pauline was not interesting or roman
| tic He thanked me for the interest
had shown in the sentimental history,
and favored me with these prosaic details {:
| Claude Melnotte was in truth garden
er's son, who fell in love with Pauline
while she was buying radishes of him one
morning when her father, having been
drunk the night before, refused to pur-
chase the household necessaries, as was
his custom. Claude was rather suscepti-
bic, and sold her the radishes at half price,
on account of her pretty face, as he said,
which pleased her, and SO delighted her
practical parent, when he heard OF it, thai
he insisted upon her going to market eve
ry morning. She did not like to do it, but
papa being obdurate, she obeyed. Claude
finally became so interested that he gave
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so far as to purchase mutton and corn-beet,
presenting them in the name of love.
| Her mercantile papa was in ectacies
with Claude, declaring him very gener-
Gus person, who ought to be encouraged.
| He demanded that Pauline should take
Ievery thing that was given gratis Pau
| line became the regular market-goer for
the family, and at last Claude told her
that he would like to marry her if the
old gentleman would come down hand
somely. She felt affronted, and informed
the elder Deschappelles, who, living only
in money, inquired into Claude's circum-
stances and found that he had not retur
ned any revenue to the Assessor for seve-
raj years He then called on the senti.
mental youth, and threatned to take away
his license.
Claude got mad and brought suit for the
things he had given Pauline. He failed
to get Judgment, and resolving on revenge
induced one of Deschappelles' clerks, who
had been refused by his lady, to intro
duce him as wealthy chap that cared no
more for thousand dollars than A. T.
| Stewart does for ten cents
Old Deschappelles was taken in; and
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whiskers and put on a wig to WOO her in
She did not care how he looked or talked
I for the old man having gotten hard-up
couldn't pay her bills, and she was bound
Ito have wealthy husband. When Claude
proposed, she asked him to make out 6
statement of his effects, and having sworI
that he owned ten corner lots in Lyons
she accepted him, and her father ratified
the contract. -
| They were married at once, but aftel
the ceremony Deschappelles discovered
, the trick, and put his new son-in-law out
of the house, receiving black eye for his
Ilaudable labor. Claude would have beer
sent to prison fol- his scoundrelism, but
he offered to go into the army, and so es
; capped punishment. He didn't fight very
well but he played an excellent game O.
draw-poker, and in two years made mon
ey enough to get out of the service. HI
then returned to Lyons and offered to live
u with Pauline. The old man said he Woulc
] consider his case that two more mer
had proposed In his absence, and that the
Il chap that had the most money should take
i the girl.
1 Claude fell short by several thousand
/ dollars, and was in consequence ordered
to keep out of the way.
i Pauline married one of the other fellows
(the report that she went to Chicago to
i get divorce is without foundation, and
/ Claude took to cognac SO enthusiastically
that he fell off one of the Rhine bridges
on a certain night, and the Coroner after
ward made $25 by holding an inquest on
his body. t5 & o. g4 9 noFi GO
4 Pauline was happy, as women usually
are, in her second marriage, for her hus-
band paid all her bills without grumbling
She had several children, grew fat and
! frowsy, and died at last of a chronic and
l combined attack of beer and dropSy.
Claude never knew a line of poetry in
his life, and couldn't have told the differ
4 ence between the Lake of Como and a
/ Dutch canal. "Dost like the picture?"
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