Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-19

her Spanish aunt'S Will and her Own title
to the splendid sum of 100000 sterling,
on deposit for her in The Bank of Spain.
By pinching and .scraping IN all, his
younger years the former soldier had
managed to save E700 of his own j but
what was this in comparison to this
Spanish fortune He deemed himself
the luckiest dog on earth, and went at.
once into golden slavery to which mar.
rage. in February of the same year, adj
ded the final fetter Understanding, OF
course, that his brides wealth was not
vet in her hands, he freely
used his own means in. securing and
furnishing comely house in Woman
terrace, Lower road, Rotherhithe, and
engaging two servants. Under ordinary
circumstances it would have struck him
as strange that he had not yet seen the
ladv's father, who, according to her
statement lived in England, and did not
oppose. the wedding-but the whole af-
| fair was so extraordinary to his delight
ed Imagination that this single oddity
did not impress him much at first.
Eighteen months of welded life happily
passed, and, the husbands financial re-
! sources nearly exhausted, his wife in
formed him that it would be necessary
for her to visit Madrid with her father.
To the latter she had meanwhile written
! that she had married a rich .aristocrat,
/ too proud to wish to cultivate any of her
Relatives so that even at this advanced
| day husband and father had never met.
! Still unsuspiciouS, however. the fond eX-
soldier. now a parent himself, advanced
his last $50 for the Spanish expedition,
and was delighted to hear that it was
/ finally decided to take him too. Here
| seemed an assurance at last of an intro
! duction 10 his father-in-law.- Lis wife
| proceeded in advance to where
| that relative was announced to meet her
/ and telegraphed thence for him to meet
| them, but when he had repaired to the
! place Indicated another dispatch inform
| Ell him that the father would not travel
thither, and he was obliged to return to
/ London alone AS he testified further
4 lefore the Greenwich court, on pre-
tense, still. of the Spanish journey, the
/ furniture in the fine house at Rother-
/ hithe was subsequently removed thence
! by the lady's order to- an alleged place of
+ storage until the party should return to
England but instead Of this it was re-
/ ally consigned, by.her secret directions,
/ to an auction room in HolbOrn, and there
/ sold hurriedly for her private benefit.
! Still, too, she remained absent, Ostensi-
4 bly, getting her parent ready for the for
! eign journey, until, at last, in his empty
/ house, and with bis means all gone, the
/ Iuckless victim of imposition slowly
awoke to a sense of the systematic de-
ception and robbery which had been
practiced upon him. His Spanish heir
/ ess was simply the penniless, adventu-
rOus daughter of poor rural workman
sometimes a g0verness ; finally preyer
! upon a man whom she had beguiled
/ solely for the sake of his E700. The
/ Spanish story, the parchment docu-
ments, and the kilograms were all of her
ingenious fabrication and she had de-
vised the scheme of the Madrid journey
and sale of the furniture with an adroit-
ness of plot worthy the cleverest of Miss
Braddon's female adventures. The re
mainder of poor Davis story may be
given briefly. An interview with his
wife and her father took place, and it
was agreed that she should return to her
father, and that all connection between
them should cease, he (defendant) un-
dertaking to keep the child, which is
now at nurse in the country. Since this
mutual separation the defendant had
been served with different county court
summonses for debts contracted by his
wife, who had also applied for and OBJ
tanned outdoor relief for two weeks in
the parish of St. Giles, entering the
workhouse in that parish and remaining
two days. On the Sth of last month,
with an infant now eight weeks old, she
became chargeable to the parish of
Rotlerhithe, the authorities of which
place brought suit to compel her husband
to support her. As there has been no
legal dissolution of the union the court
| decreed that the defendant must give
third of his poor income of about 81
week for the purpose named, and the
unfortunate man has no other satisfae-
ton than such as he may have derived
from presenting his story for the sym
pathy of the public.-Net0 York World.