Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-08-04

humiliate and degrade her.
About one year after the marriage
the Young wife gave birth to son
which was named Buchanan. Prior
10 this event Oaksmith and Goicouria
had secured the release ofthose vessels
which had been seized as stated above.
and had joined Walkers Nicaraguan
expedition. In this affair Oakslnth
figured conspicuously as an innate Of
the ''gray-eyed man OF destiny" When
Walker had secured temporary foot.
ing in Central America De Goicouria.
recently executed by the Spaniards in
Cuba, was appointed his Minister to
England, and Appleton Oaksmith was
accredited in the same capacity To the
| United States. In August 1886. Oak
smith proceeded 10 Washington to
I present his credentials. The shrewd
Marcy, then Secretary of State. man
aged adroitly to avoid mischeivous
/ political complications by refusing to
recognize the pretender ~ Minister on
/ the ground that he was a citizen of the
! | nited States. And thus his visions
/ of ambassadorial hunors vanished into
( thin AR. soon afterwards " alkcr was
captured and shot, and his expedition
/ fell with him.
These events afforded Oaksmth
| fitting excuse for a financial failure.
I He was heavily involved and what real
| property he possessed hc shrewdiv
covered in his mothers name line
! house IN Stuyyc>ant street, which
/ stood IN his mother, name. WA, rented
aud furnished in order to Weld the
| family a little income. Appleton took
! his wife and infant child to board with
Ms T. Y. White. in Sackett street.
I Brooklya He represented To his wife
that this Ms. " h,tc was a poor WIDOW
who had answered his advertisement
for board Bat 1t subsequently ap-
pcarcd that she WAS his mistress, anI
the mother of a Child ui which he wA,
the father. She was fourteen wears
older than lsotta, rough. course,
tyrannical woman. who treated tie
tlmli wife AMI mother with even
greater brutality and Inilgntics than
nad Mrs. Elizabeth OAktirId. her IN ltn
cT-lE-law. At the end ui three mont h,
TIN, furious mistress made an attc,npt
ON the life OF her boardcr. the wife oi
her paramoug, by cndeavorns to cit
her throat with a carving knife. TIi-
affair brought matters 10 a locus. an
OAksmita removed hi, wife from the
dangerous locality. More Of his inll-
uitics came to his wife's notice. but
she. meek and iorgl,ing, bore hl-
cruelty anu wrong la meekncss ami
silence. Her iirst-born died but three
other children were born 10 them.
In 1852, Appleton Oaksmith was ar
rested for completely in the slaye-trad-
mo QDerailo..s for which the notorious
Gordon WIS ConNICtci anu nan7cd.
Appleton and his brother Sidney we're
supposed Ia be the principals in the
business while Gorion was but their
agent. Sidney Oak-mIth eludcd arrest
and got out of the country. Appleton
wa, arrested. tried, convicted. and
sentenced 10 bc hanged. and was con
fined in The jail at Boston awaiting
execution, when he managed 10 escape.
lie had refused to permit his wife 10
| be present al his trial, but hai his r.d-
est daughter, Bessie, then mere cnild
of four or five years Of age. present IN
the court room throughout the trial 10
work upon the sympathies OF the coJrt
and jury. When this eXpedient failed
the child was sent back 10 Patchogue
10 the care of its mother.
Now more Portland people appear
upon the scene. Precisely how his
| escape was effected is not known but
| the principal instrument was Augusta
| Mason, a cousin Of Oaksmith, who,
Sith her mother, carried on the milli-
merry business in this city. We are in
formed, though the sun does not state
the fact, that Oak smith and his cousin
had been intimate from childhood and
| were warmly attached TO each o,her.
Oak smiths marriage TO lsotta Re
| beccini was not for love. neither for
| money, but, As we are told. for the
| purpose of obtaining 4 wife whose tai
ents and requirements. particularly IA
| the languages would be serylceabie 10
him.
After his escape from prison, four
wears and half elapsed before the
wife was permitted to know her hus-
| bands whereabouts, or communicate
| directly with him. During all this
time she remained faithful and devoted
10 him, struggling to take care of her
children, partly By her own toll and
partly by the miserable pittances that
came TO lie" through her mother-iG-law,
who kept close watch and ward over
her. In this long period of separation
four letters came 10 her from her hus-
baud, through her mother-in-law. one
| Of which that woman had destroyed,
though generously vouchsaflng - the
poor wife verbal statement OF 50
much Of its contents as she saw lit 10
impart. 1t has since transplred the
first six months of the fugitive escape
were spent with his mistress, Mrs.
White, in Brooklyn, where his mother
visited him. Then he fed to England.
where he has since resided under vari-
Gus aliases, as Robert Maxwell. Capt
Mcdonald, Mr.. Rebeccini, aud perhaps
others, returning once or twice In dis
guise to this continent, but not until
now throwing Oft all subterfuge and ap-
pearing boldly as Appleton Oakslnith'
in which character he is introduced u
the British public by his o.d chum
Hiram Fuller, in the London Cosmo-
politan.
The most villainous part Of TINS
whole drama remains to be told. SID
ney had returned to this country and
for some reason, was allowed u