Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

| crossed by a Fulton ferry boat, and took a
| Broadway stage at the ferry. Her destination
| was Stewards, but il was not her intention to
buy out that gentleman, as the purse which she
| had in the pocket of the walking dress she wore
| contained only SIS and some cents-enOugh,
however, for her present wants. The lady,s in
| tention was to get yard or two OF silk, OF
| which she had purchased too little some days
before. She got into the broadway stage, as
we have said, and some time after paid her fare.
| This she remembers, as she does that she re-
| stored her purse to its cosy resting place again.
| The stage stopped several times on its way up
| Fulton street, aud took in passengers. But as
| it passed the Aston house the driver pulled up
| to admit one who was not of the every day sort.
| He was gotten up in princely fashion. He
might have been a railroad director or an alder
man. He sat down opposite the Brooklyn lady.
She admired the gentleman from an aesthetic
point of view He was embodied elegance from
his boots TO his hat.
But what most attracted her attention was a
| magnificent solitaire diamond ling, which he
wore upon one of the fingers of his left hand.
She wondered who he was and what he was
worth. The stage soon became crowded and the
gentleman arose to give his seat to a lady. By
and-by seat became vacant beside our lady
friend, which the gcntlemanly stranger, with the
nice clothes and the solitaire, took. This he
kept until he left, which he did opposite Blocker
or thereabouts. The lady rode on, and had for
gotten all about the embodied elegance and the
into the store, chose what she wanted, put her
hand in her pocket for her purse, but found 1t
missing. She borrowed ten cents from the clerk
TO pay her stage fare home. She wondered all
the way who had picked her pocket, and blamed
alternately all the honest people who had
ridden with her in the stage; but she never
for moment harbOred a suspicion of the gen.
teman of the ring and things. She got home
and told her neighboTS, who consoled her in the
usual neighborly way, by hoping it would be
a warning to her" "she was very LUCKY to get
off so easy" etc. She told her husband, who
laughed at her till she cried, then kissed her,
and gave her ten dollars to buy new purse.
A friend dropping in after dinner, she had to
tell the story over again: Strange to say, he
suspected the gentleman with the solitaire.
"Was he in when You paid your fare"
''He was"
"Could he have seen your purse and where
you put it?'
''Why, of course he could"
Didn't he get up and then sit down again
the second time beside you"
"He did, but"
"Where's your pocketW
"Why, here" said the lady, plunging her
nervous fingers flor she was excited by the
cross-questioniug) deep into the pocket of the
dress which she still wore-"right here. And,
God bless mel' said she, as she Withdrew her
hand again, AS I'm living woman, but here's
the ringp
True enough. The exquisite in abstracting
the purse, had left the solitaire behind him. A
Broadway ieweler values it at $500. If the gen.
tleman will send his card to Joseph Dowling
ESQ.,, Tombs, he may see his ring again. Should
he be disappointed in this, however, we can
assure him Of an addition to his jewelry in the
shape of bracelet.-NeO York Mail.
HE DOUBLE MARRIAGE.-The developments
of the story of love, desertion, and bigamy rem
der the case only more complex and incompre-
hensible. The guilty bridegroom was Calvin +.
Cross, bookkeeper in the Central National bank
On salary of $1,000 year he lived eXtrava-
gantly, but enjoyed the confidence of his en-
ployers, and was never suspected of any dishon-
est transactions. After being in this city three
years, he met Miss Calvin, of Boston, and was
induced to believe it best to marry her. after the
acquaintance had matured. The marriage was
kept secret, and he for four years provided her
with rooms at the Ashland house, in Fourth
avenue, at cost of $4,000 year, retaining,
meanwhile, a bachelor establishment of his own
in Fourteenth street. His wife bore him two
children, one Of which is living. No one ont
side Of the hotel knew of the wedding.
With rccklessness that looks like madness,
Cross contracted a marriage engagement with
Miss Laura N. Luckey, daughter of Nelson
Luckey, of New Hamburg, on the Hudson. This
terminated in a fashionable though unostenta-
tious wedding at st, Thomas's church, on the
23d of last November. His wife was an attend
the Thanksgiving services, heard for the first
time of the wedding. She at once sought some
OF her husbands relatives and demanded an
explanation. Cross found that further conceal
ment was impossible, and on the Sunday follow
ing the marriage he entered the hotel hastily
and in great agitation, and, after stormy scene
with his second wife, left her presence and has
not since been seen by her or any of her friends.
His first wife states that she has heard nothing
from him since his disappearance, and has APP
piled 10 his friends for relief, her husband hay
ing left her quite destitute. Norman Cross,
son-in-law of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
cousin of the bigamist, says that
Calvin was accustomed to work at night
on the books of business houses beside
the one by which he was employed, and that in
this way he sometimes earned from $50 to 5000
a week; and that he was also successful in some
stock Speculati0ns. Mr.. Wheelock, president of
the Central national bank, advanced a remarka-
bic conjecture, viz: That Cross may have been
in collision with Sanford who, while in the en-
ploY OF this bank four years ago, was a default
er TO the amount of nearly 100000 Sanford S
account was partly kept in Cross's ledger, and
he might have received bride to conceal dis
coveTies as to Sanford'S dishonesty. 1t is now
asserted that the affair with Miss Luckey is the
sixth marriage engagement which Cross has
made since his marriage to his first wife, and
that the record of one of his marriages, which
should be preserved in the Office of the register
of vital statistics, is missing. The young lady,
who was the victim of the bigamist, returned to
her fathers house at North Hamburg, after the
exposure, and has been nearly distracted by the
discovery of his treachery.-N Y Tribune.