The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
Love, Secret Marriage, Betrayal, Dcser-
tion, Divorce, and Revenge-A Bomb
shell for Washington Society,
From the Washington CAPITOL

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From the Washington CAPITOL
Some six years since young law
student of this city fell in love with and
courted beautiful girl, who returned
his passion, and the two became en-
gagged to be married. The young gentle
man wos poor, however, and not yet adj
mitted to his profession, so that marry
ing for the time seemed out of the ques-
ton. He was madly in love, however
and fearing that before he could secure
q sufficient competence to Justify marry
ing he might lose the object of his af-
fections, he pleaded with her to have a
secret marriage, and promised that i'm
mediately after the ceremony she should
return to her home, and he would, as
usual, go to his bachelor quarters. After
much persuasion she consented, and the
two were united in wedlock at the
Church of ST. John, in Georgetown, by
the Rev. Mr.. Tillinghast, upon the - of
June, 1866.
The young man for while was true
to his promise, but he soon became as
importunate for the possession of her
person as he had been for the secret
marriage. Of course she yielded but
they both kept their secret, and as pro-
gress i'll the law was very slow, she, at
his suggestion brought an influence to
bear upon the Administration that re-
suited in an appointment to Western
Territory. Her social position and con-
nections were sufficient to control the
appointment, and she had money enough
to provide him with an outfit.
The young man departed, and made
quite o successful career for himself in
his new field of operations, and, writing
Regularly and returning at intervals, he
assured her of his heartfelt affection and
earnest endeavors to procure O home
suited to her. This sort of thing con-
tinucd for four years, when she was tele-
graphed to meet him at Cincinnati. She
hastened to obey, and arriving at the
last-named place, found her husband in
q state of great excitement. He told
her that he had got involved in some
moneyed transactions, and the choice
was presented to him of either marrying
a very rich woman, who loved him to
distraction, or being sentenced to the
penitentiary, and that he had married
and was now in her power. She could
> punish him for his dastardly conduct,
and if she did that he could not COM
plain he added&b bowever, that he had
parted from the Woman at the door of
the church, that he did not love her,
and could not love any one but his law
full wife.
Appealed to in this manner she could
only ask him what could be done, say
ing that she was ready and willing to
shield him to the last He then suggest
.. ed divorce, and said that he could go
, to New York and procure one without
, any difficulty. To this she consented,
and the two wendcd their way to the
great commercial centre, where he found
, . divorce lawyer, and in three days q
divorce was procured upon testimony
. manufactured between the husband and
q shyster, OF the most extraordinary char
q acter. One man, for example, by the
name of -, swore that he had known
, the plaintiff and her husband for years
In DowinSsvhle, Pa, q place the poor
, woman Rad never seen. Another wit
, ness on,liuS himself -, swore that the
a parties were bona fae residents of New
; | York, and that he had frequently ac
+ companied the defendant in nightly
4 visits to houses of ill-fame that on one
q occasion he had waited at such place
4 for the defendant until tired and ther
). went to the room, knocked at the door
n and being told to come in, found tn,
s defendant putting on his clothes, witt
a prostitute undressed in the room
1 Upon this showing the divorce wa
q granted, and the decree winds up as fol
: lows:
y That tho marriage between tho said plaintiff, :
and the said defendant, =, be dissolved, and thei
the said parties and zach Of them free from tn
3 obligations thereof And further that it shall be Law
r manner though the said defendant was actual
q dead. But it shall not be lawful for the said defend
ant to marry again until the said plaintiff be actual
@ dead.
;, Entor s. JONES, Judge.
The poor wife returned to her hom
= feeling that she had done a heroic ac
4 in shielding the man she loved, and sus
r, tanning herself with this thought tim
# rolled on, until one morning sh
q awakened to the startling fact that sh
n had been cruelty sacrificed. She learne,
d that the man to whom she had clun;
e was about TO marry fashionable lad,
# of the first connection III the land. Sh
= made inquiry, and found, to her sicken
n ing disgust, that the day was actual,
{. set upon which this infamous outrag
.e was to be perpetrated. She hastened t
= New York and procured a certified cop
le of the decree, intending to appear at tn
,r church on the day of the mock marriag
IS and forbid the bans by presenting
le copy of the legal document that Shove
le that, although separated from her, h
d was not authorized to marry another.
N Unfortunately, through circumstance
ID over which she had no control, she al
rs rived too late The cruel act had bee
II accomplished. A grand wedding, grace
d by the presence ofmembers of The Cal
ID met and our most aristoeratic lrupl
had occurred, and the papers were ia
G. of glowing accounts of the magnifcel
3 ceremony. Our readers will recollet
of the event, and they will have occasio
to recur to it again, as legal steps al
being taken by the betrayed wife
friends to bring this wrong doer I
punishment. The wife is now statistic
Of that the whole story of the second ma
ls riage was fabricated to deceive her. an
le she is, of course, very indignant.
c. In addition to all this we learn thi
e. this gay Lothario paid his court Ia
ID winter to one of our most beautiful ar