The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-15
A CASE OF ILLICIT LOVE.
"A Man Forsakes His Family for
a Strange Woman"
A scene AT THE DEPOT.
Some time since William Melton

Some time since William Melton
lived in Baltimore with his family.
There also dwelt there y Mrs. Helm
berger, alias Mollie Mosby, alias
Lington, alias Sington, who, re-
report says, was not a dragon
of virtue. The two became ac'
quainted, and MJelton became infatn,
ated with her. He neglected ami
abused his wife because her love led
her to demonstrate with him, and she
tried every means in her power to win
him from the woman, and loosen the
| hold she had got over him. To save
/ her husband she got him, some four OF
! five weeks since, 10 come on visit &c
his brother who lives near Bcnwood
and thought she was secure at last from
The woman she feared.
Put she was mistaken. The two
were all the time in correspondent"
and on Thursday last the wife inter
ccptcd telecraphic dispatch from the
Baltimore woman, addressed TO he!
husband, stating that she would meet
him in Wheeling on Saturday. II
Jel;on Immediately wrote 10 his para
mour, telling her that The dispatch mad
been captured, that he had taken room;
at the Stamm House for herr and tell
ing her that he would meet her at The
| depot but that if he failed to DO so she
was to go to the Stamm House and
register her name as Mrs. Wilson.
On Saturday morning he came up &c
Wheeling, saying he had some business
to transact here, but his actions were
so unusual that the wiies suspicion:
were aroused and che determined tc
watch the trains. As the train from
Baltimore on Saturday morning reached
Bcnwood, Mrs. MJclton boarded the
cars. In passing through she saw the
woman who had stolen her husband :
love, and calling TO her brothcr-in-law
took seat and came up with her tc
Wheeling, first telegraphing to Sergean
Conant to he at the depot. At th'
depot in this city her worst fears wer'
confirmed, for the first person she sa
ewes on was her faithlcss husband
awaiting the coming Of the woman
from Baltimore
Hardly waiting for the train to stol
the wife jumped off went TO her hus
band, begged of him not to desert her
to have nothing to 10 with this "strang'
woman. Angered, only, by her en-
treaties and at the failure Of his plans
he caught her hv the throat and rudel
pushed her back, swearing that he wOuI,
have cher hearts blood for this Tn,
officer telegraph for was present and a
once arrested him for the assault an'
battery. lie was taken before SPUR
Johnston, and in default OF giving bai
in the sum of 5000 was committed t.
jail. Mrs. Heimbergcr &c. was notified t.
leave the city before dark or she Nigh
fined herself in trouble.
Mrs. Melton, is a fragile, earnest
looking woman, who appears 10 he dy
ing under her troubles. The other i, /;
course iookingwoman, whose character
istics arc plainly marked in her lea
lures.
! We trust that the exposure givcl
this affair may have the effect OF open
ing the erring husbands eyes 10 tn,
great wrong he is doing and the consc
ouent shame that must come on hin
and all connected with him, and that j
will restore him to that loyalty due the
the suffering woman he would have lie
serted.
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