The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-23
REMARKABLY Story.

[From the syracuse IN. " Courier, Nov 1871
A singular case of CRIME and amaleama-
ton has lately been developed in this city
by the parties concerned. Some half dozen
years ago good looking, intelligent white
woman went to one of our intelligence
offices to secure place. She left her name
and residence, and day after day called to
see if any one wished to secure her services.
No one wanted her, and the girl was be-
ginning to despond. Her little store of
money had almost given out, and soon she
would be without sufficient means to buy
meal of vIctuals. One day she made her
accustomed call at the intelligence office,
and there she saw man named John Girls
man, of Utica, known there as the "spotted
nigger." This man was about tseven-eighths
muIatto. He lacked the very thick lips and
exceedingly curly locks peculiar to the race,
and was in the habit of passing himself off
as Spaniard. He was a man Of the very
worst character, keeping vile den filed
This John Crisman told the simple girl
that he was u foreigner stopping in Syra-
cuse for little while that be was greatly
in need of help at his palatial residence, and
if she would accompany him he would see
that she was well supplied with all that her
heart could wish. Trusting the villain, the
spider and fly left for Utica on the next
train. Arriving there, Crisman told his
victim he had been invited to attend the
wedding of a friend at Frankfort, which
was to take place the next day, and gave
her an invitation to 60 with him. To
Frankfort they went, and here the girl was
drugged, and while in half unconscious
state was married, as Crisman claimed, to
him. Back to Utica again, and the girls
ruin was effected. When she had fully re-
covered from the effects Of the drug she re-
pudiated the marriage, Notwithstanding the
fact that Crisman had q certificate regularly
signed, which attested the marital obliga-
ton. She declared she would never live
with him, and at once came back to Syra-
cuse.
Crisman, not to be thus cheated, followed
her, and sought the aid Of the police in re-
Covering his unwilling wife. She was ar
rested and taken before the court, but de-
clared she had been deceived, and would,
under no circumstances, live with such
villain again. She was discharged from ar
rest, and Crisman, after foaming and fret
ting about town Two or three days, gave
up the chase, and returned to his den, in
Oneida county. There, with low and dis
solute companions, and yet with an eye
always looking for the main chance, he
reaped his ill-gotten gains. The wife, in
the meantime, remained in Syracuse, where
she is at present. 1t Is atarmed that she
has here been living with man to
whom she has been true and afectionate-
hardly nwife "-woman Is the better word,
and probably the one she herself now uses.
Now comes the point of this bit of romance.
John Crisman, the '.despised spotted mig
GER" died some time since in Utica, and he
left considerable property. Now Mrs. -.
claims to be Mrs. Crisman; the marriage
she SO strenuously repudiated, she aftirms,
was valid one, and what follows? Why,
of course, Mrs. Crisman, In absence Of other
legal heirs, sets up her claim to all the real
have left at the time Of his demise. We are
assured the claim is good. The matter has
been placed in the hands Of lawyer, who
will do his best to secure the widow her
rights. st,t s. 5H'..- =