Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-01-24
Arrest Of an Alleged Bigamist.


The Baltimore Amcric0n of Monday last,
says: On Saturday afternoon Sergeant Drost,
of the southern station, arrested a gay de-
ceiyer named Theopolis b Young, charged
with being the possessor of two live wives,
one living in this city aud the other in George
town, D. G. The story of Mrs Young, No ..
related to Justice Nugent is us follows On
January lllh, 1860 Theopolis was married in
Georgetown to Mrs. j. @. Miller, then the
mother Of several interesting children For
about two years Theopois proved himself n
good husband but suddenly he became an
noyed at the racket daily and nightly indulg-
| ed in by the children of his predecessor, and
Informed his wife that as he was not used to
the noise Of children before his marriage he
would not submit 10 it afterwards. He then
began keeping late hours, probably to escape
the noise Of the children, but the wife muir
INJURED not. AT last he deserted her and fail
ed 10 provide for her and her children, not
withdrawing the youngest one was Of his
! flesh and blood. A few days since Mrs.
Young learned that her husband WAS in this
| city, working in sash factory on East Falls.
avenue, below Pratt street and she also learn
ed that he had q second wife. Fortilying
herself with documents to prove her marriage
| with Young the injured wife came TO Balt-
more and obtained from Justice Nugent a
warrant for the arrest of her husband. The
warrant was placed in the hands of the Ser
! geant Drost and in a short time he Don Juan
! was at the southern station, as also were his
| two wives.
! The examination Of the accused showed that
/ he had married his second wife, manda NJ.
! Brunei in this city on the 10th of October
last she, however, being coguizant that vile
| No. l still lived, and that the parties had not
been divorced. As the evidence in the case
was given TO Justice Nugent, both wives shed
| tears freely, wife No. because she had been
so shamefuy abused, and wife No because
Theopolis stood an excellent chance of becom-
ing an inmate Of the Maryland pcnitentiary
| Young did not deny being the husband of
both Of the women, and offered no excuse for
| deserving his wife No. L. When he was COM
mitted to Jail for the action of the grand Jury
he bade his wife No. 2 an effectionate adieu,
but paid little or no attention 20 his wife No
After the gay deceiver had been sent to .il
the legitimate wife seated herself beside the
other Mrs. Young, and pointed ont to her
where she had erred, and begged of her to re-
turn TO Washington where her mother resil-
esq and once more make glad the heart Of her
aged mother. After considerable enfcaty
No. consented TO be guided by the advice of
No. /, and the curtain was run down on a
tabeau representing two unhappy women
making their exit from the side-door of the
station-housc, Captain Delaniy acting as mas
ter of ceremonies Squire Nngent as the stern
dispenser of Justice, aud Turnkey Kim nell in
the background, holding aloft in his right
| hand bunch of keys, while with bis left hand
he pointed 10 the cell once occupied by the
too-much-married Theopois Young.
ENCOURAGE Your MECHANICS. The Atlantic
Constitution has the following on this sub
jcct. which is full of good sense, and we COM
mend it 10 our people. Our mechanics are one
of the most useful and industrious classes of
our people, and do as much, or more, towards
building our towns than any other
Do not send abroad for help if you have
workio do, when ii can be done in your own
town. Encourage your own honest, indus
trious, faithful mechanics. They need all the
work they can get. BY such course you
keep money al home assist the worthy, and
have just as good work performed. It is the
way to make your towns prosper-to support
your own schools. churches and press Where
there is disposition to send hundred miles
for an article that 10 say the least, could be
manufactured as well at your own door, there
will always be little or no business done in
that place. The churches will be thinly at
tended and all kinds of labor extremely dull
Wherever mechanics are the best employed
prosperity is seen; the social virtues predom-
nate and kindly, brotherly feeling is exper-
pness.
Whatever you have to be done look around
and see if your mechanics cannot do it, If you
have a house to build or a shoe to tap, or n
saddle to be made, lin ware to mend a house
to paint, or pack of cards to print, Just look
among your home folks before you 80 abroad
and if there is none in your town capable of
doing the task, it will be time enough to look
elsewhere. 1t is wrong idea to think moth
ing is serviceable that is made at home. We
know ofmany an instance where men have re-
fused to purchase work made by their neigh |
bors, and sent TO distant city for the articles |
ihey needed, and paid third more for them,
when behold they have been manufactured and |
sent away to sell by the same neighbors OF
whom they refused TO purchase
Let the motto of all be, will encourage my
own mechanics. In turn you will be encour-
aged also. A mutual feeling of good will and |
kindness will spring up in our midst and
prosperity will be observable in every street
and in every dwelling