Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-05
II. W HTTMURE,
Publisher and Proprietor.
Pauline Markham EIOpes with
General Me MahOn.

New York telegram TO Chlcago Times, mo-
yember 3O.l Ill.
On the evening OF the 22d instant
much confusion was caused at Niblo' 9
Garden, consequent upon the sudden
disappearance of Pauline Markham.
When the hour for the performance ar
rived, Stalacta was missing, and Lizzie
Kelsey was obliged to fill the role, as she
has ever since. 1t was subsequently as
certained that Pauline had left for rarts
unknown by tae five o'clock train from
Jersey City, in company with habitual
frequenter at Niblos known as General
Mcmahon, formerly of the Confederate
army. Mcmahon had, it is said, pro-
clivity for lavishing colossal bouquets
upon the fair Markham, as she nightly
sparkled on the stage. Pauline's new
admirer undertook to foot bill Of $55
week at the Crittenden House for her
and her maid. They occupied parlor
and two bedrooms. Markham, disdain.
ing q cheap locomotion, rode nightly to
the theater in coupe, aud as she re-
turned Mcmahon would enter the vehi-
Gle as it passed the corner Of Broadway
and Houston streets. The General,
finally, finding it necessary to leave the
city, Pauline consented to relinquish
her engagement without notice to
the mar ayers, and accompany him.
He left the bulk of his baggage as
security for q board bill of $400 at
his hotel, and liquidated $40 due
La Belle Pauline at the Crittenden
by draft for 5000, for which $50 in
change was returned. A Broadway
florist named Hofheimer had served
about $1,000 at different times for bou-
quets ordered by the General, but bill
Of $425 still remained unpaid. Hearing
by chance of McMahon's departure, he
posted with Detective Nugent to the
railroad station, and presented his ac'
count as the train started. While on the
way to Newark, Mcmahon offered Hof-
heimer draft for $4,000 on Ballstsop's
Coal Company, of Texas, as security,
requesting him to guard it carefully, as
he would pay 1925 and redeem it in
seven days. Eoffheimer, therefore,
allowed him to depart Pauline ap-
peared at FIRST to manifest no interest i'll
the proceedings, but when McMahon
observed that he had no money, she
turned and remarked: "Ill get out
SOME of my diamonds, and you can give
them as collateral" but to this PROPOSE
ton McMahon very strongly objected,
averring that the arrangement he had
Just con included would prove satisfactory
TO all concerned. McMahon was Major
in the army during the late war, and at
its close took up his residence in this
city. He boarded in a fashionable
hotel during all last winter and
portion of the summer following. His
rooms we're Of the best the house
afforded, and involved q heavy expendi-
ture of means. But their occupant
was always in possession Of ample
funds, and spent money lavishly until
the opening Of the panic, when he ap-
peared to have suffered heavy losses,
betokening an approaching condition OF
inpecuniosity. His board bill, after
being permitted to run considerably be-
yond the period when payments are
usually demanded, was presented to
him for payment, but he stated bis ina
Dlllty 10 meet IL ht lne tlmci duu ho'lhE
run ia debt at the hotel for six weeks
board, he, two weeks ago, changed his
place Of residences to 3 less costly abode,
leaving bis baggage in possession OF the
hotel proprietors until such time as he
could arrange settlement of his in
debtedness.
Mcmahon is described as . nan OF
commanding presence, about thirty-six
years Of age, and a person who never
wore Q neck-tie. In lieu of this he dis
played insaFisbly large diamond stud,
in place Of the proEsrbial collar button:
BE is reported as having Q wife and
child living with his relations in Gal
weston. Texas, and during a portion OF
the past summer they resided with him
at a hotel at Long Branch. He was
usually called General Mcmahon, and
was the gentleman who furnished Man
ager Greenwall two years ago with
money TO open Lima Edwins theatsF for
the appearance Of the Chapman Sisters.