Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-02-08
NIFFLINToWN, JUNlAvA COUNTY. PENN'A, FEBRUARY
noon he made her long visit, in his

usual manner.
This event has been sudden SHOCK
to both families, and the absolute con
cealment of his marriage from all hi.
friends for many years, while his wifi
and children openly bore his name ii
public botels in this city. is as unaccount
able to them as it will be to others
The young man was for several years an
internal revenue officer in this city, but
for some years past has been employed
in a bank down town. He paid three
thousand dollars year for the board OF
his wife and children. while receiving 8
salary of only two thousand; and has
yet maintained his bachelor life with law
ish expenditure. In his rooms are said
to have laiu not far from hundred suits
of clothes, with expensive books, and
many evidences of wealth. But his &C
counts at the bank are said to be entirely
correct. His full understanding of wha,
he was doing appears from the fact tina,
he carried to the alter pistol, with the
fixed purpose, as he afterwards said, Of
blowing out his brains there if the cere.
mony should be interfered with
The Tribune gives the following ad,
ditional particulars .s 70 D.. .r
''The guilty bridegroom was calvin R
Cross. book keeper in the Central Ma
tional Bank On salary of $4,000 a
year he lived extravantly, but enjoyed
the confidence of his employers, and was
never suspected Of any dishonest trans
actions. After being in this city three
years, he met a Miss Calvin of Boston
and was induced to believe it best to
marry her, after the acquaintance had ma
tured. The marriage was kept secret
and he for four years provided her with
rooms at the Ashland House, in Fourth
avenue at a cost of $4,000 year. re.
tanning. meanwhile, bachelor establish
ment of his own in Fourteenth Street.
His wife bore him two children, one ot
which is living. No one outside of the
hotel knew of the wedding.
With a recklessness that looks like
madness, Cross contracted marriage en-
gagement with Miss Laura n. Luckey
daughter of Nelson Luckey of New
Hamburg, on the Hudson. This termi
mated in fashionable though unostenta
tious wedding at St Thomas Church. or
the 23d of last November. His wife
was an attendautIat the same church
and being present at the Thanksgiving
services, heard for the first time of the
wedding. She at once sought some Of
her husband relatives and demanded an
explanation. Cross found that further
concealment was impossible. and on the
Sunday following he entered the hotel
hastily aud in great agitation. and after
a stormy scene with his second wife, LETT
her presence and has not since been seen
by her or any of her friends, His first
wife states that she has not heard from
him since his disappearance, and has ap,
piled to his friends for relief, her hus-
band having left her quite destitute -
Norman Cross, a SON. in-law of Corne-
lius Vanderbilt, and cousin of tine biga.
mist. says that Calvin was accustomed to
work at night on the books of business
houses besides the one by which be was
employed, and that in this way he some
times earned from $3.50 to 5000 week
and that he was also successful in some
stock speculaiions- Mr.. Whellock, Pres
ident of the Central National Bank, ad-
vauced a remarkable conjecture. viz :
That Cross may have been in collusion
with Sanford, who, while in the employ
of this bank four years ago. was a de-
faulter to the amount of nearly Sl00 600.
Sanford,s account was partly kept III
Cross's ledger. and he might have re-
ceived bribe to conceal discoveries as
to Sanford's dishonesty. 1t it now as
serted that the affair with Miss Luckey
is the sixth marriage engagement which
Cross has made since his marriage to bis
first wife. and that the record of one of
bis marriages. which should be preserved
in the Office of the Register of Vital Sta
tistics, is missing. The young lady who
was the victim of the higamist. returned
to her fathers house, at North Hamburg
after the exposure, and has been nearly
distracted by the discovery of his treach.
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You've men, if you would have the re.
spect and esteem of all whose respect is
x,or r.,ould uiob on