Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-09

living because he might nave Il llkcHcsS vi HIS
CLARK s) wife, aud thus detect that was not
what purportcd to be. Afterwards MIR. bud
lev met Mr.. Clark on the street and came with
him to the "Ringo House. Mr.. Dudley was
left in the saloon, and Mr. Clark came into my
room and prepared me to be- presented as his
wife; he said il Dudley had photograph Of
Mrs. Clark he would treat the subject of our
marriage as if it were Il rusc to anluse his friend,
and then say that was his cousin travelling
with him; Mr.. D. was introduced aud suspected
nothing: his (CIark ) cousin, Miss Patton,
called upon us, and was introduced to her by
him as his wife, Mrs. Clark; after MIR. Dudley
visit Mr.. Clark assumed his right name; MIR.
Clark remained with Inc two weeks and then
started for ST. Louis; while he WAS in st. Louis
received letter from him; he also wrote to
the clerk, telling him to advise me to come on
to Cincinnati; | was then without means, and
the hotel bill was siis unpaid; | asked the
clerk what was to do: he sent for Mr.. pattcn
and Mr. Ringo, proprietor Of the hotel; they
bought me a ticket to Cincinnati: Mr. Rlngo
detained my clothes to secure his hotel bill;
Mr.. Clark said he would meet nc i'll Cincinnati:
| arrived there about six in thc morning: | re-
manned in the ladies >iLlng-room oil thc depot
until II in the day, looking Tor Mr.. Clark;
about midday IA policeman, observing my DIS.
turbcd manner, approached me ana lli4EIrcu
what | was waiting for told him my story,
and he declared that was abandoned: while
we were convGrsug the conductor Of the train
on which had come to Cincinnati stepped up
aud cIamed me as his guest: he offered 10 car
ry me to hotel and pay my bills: his name
was Marsh: the policeman, Mr.. Kinney, told
me that the conductor was single man, and
warned INC to have nothing to do with him: he
invited me to 20 home with him and let his
wife take care of NE; accompanied him. III
the meantime the policeman interested himself
| in my behalf; | stad at his house until the
next day; a proposition was made to send me
| to the Home of the Fricndlcss the telegraph
operator sent me Il message saying that Clark
| had been ut the Office and dispatched IN order
| for $3l to Mexico, and that | could ret the
| money by calling upon him; went twice: each
time the operator said Clark had just beer there;
| | saw notice III Il Cincinnati paper that a man
| by the name of Clark had deserted his vile. and
that she was without money or friends IN that
city: few days afterwards publication appear.
ed in the same journal congratulatlng MIR. and
Mrs. Clark upon having met by accident on
the train, as they were each going cast in
| search of the other; this paragraph Wa utter
| " false: did not see Clark from the time |
| left Mexico until | arrived in Washington.
! through MIR. kinncy's cScrtions obtained a
ticket for Washington; [ had only dollar
when left Mexico; by this time it was all cx
pended, reached Washington about 10 p.
M; had heard Mr. Clark speak OF Il friend
who was clerk at Boy!es llotc|i | knew ~
one in Washington called Il policeman and
asked him to oonduct me tn B,ylcs Hotel III
CURED # John r. lI;c was registered there; he
replied Yes, and went to the room which he
thought Clark occupied; he returned and said
he was not in his room, and had probably left
the city; asked to BE- shown to a room this WAS
Sunday night in short time the clerk knock
ed at my door and said he had mistaken anoth-
or for Mr. Clark room, ana that he had Just
entered the hotel | requested that he should
be brought to me: when he entered my roon
he seemed astuuishcd and rAcaiurod' My
Cod how did you manage to get here: Mir.
Clark spent this night with me; when awokc
| examined my pockct-b0o and found So of
the $50 which had when arrived in Wash
ington gone; | thought had been robbed aud
told him of it, he said hc had taken the
money; he was angry that the publication mad
appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial setting
| forth that Mrs. Clark had been abandoned by
her husband and was III that city in Il destitute
condition; he said this M ght BE- seen by my
| family and lead them to search more diligently
for me; he announced his intention to 90 to
| Fredericksburg and collect some money that
was due him there: he asked me to lend some
more Of what mad left: he took five dollars: |
| then had two dollar note and some small
change remaining: lie left me the saline morn
ing (Monday) for Fredericksburg, telling me
that | must still pass as Mrs. }. Il. Lee: stad
here until Saturday night August 24th, lS12
never during that time having left the hotel
but on one OCCASION, and then i'll company with
MIR. Clark; was brought away by Mr.. Mcr
chant my brother-ln-aw.
The examination in chief Of Miss Fcwai
here closed. It Was conducted by Judge
Thomas.
The defence proposed to introduce Thomas
NJ. Sullivan, policeman, from Washington,
but the court decIlucd to receive his evidence.
Cross. examination. Made Mr.. Calk's ac
auaintaucc in June last, at Mr., Hyrson's he
was then living at Manassas and had u wife
and two children; had no reason to know posi-
lively that he was married, but had never
heard it denied, and believed such to be the
case did not accept Mr.. Clark'S advances un-
til supposed he was divorced from his wife !;
do not know how long our intimacy had last
ed before Mr. Clerks family left Manas-
sas they went to her fathers; inquired, and
was told that they did not live happily together
after they had been gone some time received Il
note from Mr.. Clark asking NE to meet him at
Mrs. Hynson's, in which he said that he Was
separated from his wife, and wanted to see more
of me now; l went to Mrs. Hynson's that
night, and met Mr. Clark there: as | had
done several times before; the following day he
wrote note asking me to 60 away to Washing.
ton with him and be married; on being assured
1 that he was divorced | agreed to this: did not
feel that it was morally wrong for Mr.. Clark to
pay his addresses to me under the clrcumstan-
ces it did not occur to me that | should not go
to Washington and be married when | bad
every assurance that he was an unmarried
man; was also told he was divorced by Mrs
Hynson, who said she had letters in her posses
sion to confirm this statement; knew that [ was
deceived and ought not to remain with him
longer than the night we spent 10 Baltimore
but where could 90 / left Manassas with
an emissary of CLARK 5; his name is Hartman,
and he staid at Boyies Hotel; [ paid my own
fare down. the conductor demonstrated with