The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-23
FR HE HOVE.
a Brooklyn Disciple Under
Arrest

Arrest
Brooklyn Eagle, oct. -.
Yesterday afternoon lady clustered
with excitement went into the Eighth
Precinct Station House, and said to the
sergeant at the desk, "Will you send
an officer with me? 1 want to have a
man arrested Sergeant Mcnamara
accompanied the lady to the house of
Mrs. Deverill, in Fifteenth street, near
Sixth avenue. In the 'front.' parlor was
seated comedy lady of about 30 and
n middle-aged gentleman, with a lac
quered mustache and black suit OF
faultless tit.
The lady arose from her seat as the
officer entered. She pointed to her
male companion and said, ''Oflicer. l
want you to arrest that man; lie is my
husband, and has abandoned me-" The
middle-aged gentleman with lacquer
ed mustachG turned, and rising, moved
unsteadily away from the officer.
'Win yOu make charge against
him, madam ?" said the officer.
81 certainly will" replied the desert
ed wife. The pair were taken to the
station house. There the wife made
the complaint of abandonment, and the
gentleman in black was ushered into
night quarters. Behind the fact of
this arrest is tale Of many cOnnubial-
tiles, in which Wilbur Fiske Dale
sports with the torch of Hymen in q
peculiarly lively manner. Wilbur
Fiske Dale is Il member of the firm of
Dale & Co.-or ut least interested in it
manufacturers of sailors outfits, in
Peck Slip, New York. His appear
ance III Justice Waslh'S court this
morning showed him to be man
about so years old, with all the modern
improvements. His gray hairs are ar
officially stained. His neatly trimmed
mustache is an ebony black. His face
is smooth and bland his attire is neat,
without gaudiness- lie is garmented
in a classical suit of black, with a sa-
bic strip encircling turn-down collar
of Respondent whiteness. There were
two ladies in court interested in this
case. One was the lady who had him
arrested, the other also rejoiced in the
distinction of being the wife of Wilbur
Fiske Dale. They were to unite in the
case against him. lie was charged
with bigamy. The ladies were both
comedy, well-dressed, and intelligent.
They condemned individually and in
concert the base perfidy of their mutu-
al husband.
Wilbur Fiske Dale has a matrimoni-
al history spiced with events remarka-
BILE and other wise.
Eighteen years ago, while in Boston,
he met Martha Vigers, then girl of
10, and of the most respectable con-
nectiOns. She was prepossessing and
amiable; he handsome and insinuat-
ing. On short acquaintance he ask
ed her to marry him, and she yielded
to his destinations. She was Roman
Catholic, and he protestant. At his
urgent request they were married by a
Baptist Clergyman. In less than a
year he deserted her. She returned to
her native place in Halifax, Nova Seo-
tia. Years rolled by and she heard no
tidings from her truant husband. She
gave him up as lost to her forever
Meanwhile he was circulating pretty
largely around the country, attending
to business and INDUCING his matri-
monial vein at the same time. In 1861
he met Miss Heany in this city. He
paid her the fondest attentions, and
she, all unsuspeeting of his true char
aeter, married him on his proposal
He seemed to be devoted to her for 6
while, and then, apparently hungry
for a new matrimonial alliance, left
, her. He GALVANIZED about the country
some more, and, as it is alleged, picked
up another wife in Vermont and bur-
led an early one in some other locality
In 1866, hearing that Martha Vigers
whom lie had married in Boston, wa:
then in Halifax, he went there truly
penitent, and with a mouth filled will
the most glowing promises for his fu
ture fidelity. The lady received hin
at first with bitter reproaches, but tn
{ willy connubialist turn, them aside
= with his winning phrases, and she be
gan TO feel a renewal of her old attach
ment. She had heard that he had beef
7 intermarried, and she told him so will
g considerable vim. Then he becam
J. very penitent, and with onion eyes Ia
made this brief confession and appeal
at is true, Martha, but the woman
y married has died, and now come bac
Z 10 yOu, the first and only woman eve
e loved. If you will live with me agair
/ promise TO be good husband to you
The heart of the outraged woma
:, sOttened by the tenderness of this ar
" peal. She promised to live with hiI
again If lie would remarry her befoT
the Rev. Thomas L. Connolly, tn
e Bishop of Halifax, as she did not cor
: slider the former marriage, by a Prot
q estant clergyman, valid, she being
4 Catholic. lie readily and apparent
q thankfully consented to the secon
= marriage, and on the 9th of Apr
y 1866, the second marriage betwee
= Wilbur Fisk Dale and Martha VigeI
- was solemnized by the Bishop of Hal
+. fax. COnnubial felicity for a time e1
listed, and then the bonds were aga
Ia riven by the rowing husband. He lie
her suddenly and without word
( departure. He resumed his travel
and in 1873 was back in Brooklyn an
, in the arms of Miss Heany, wife No.
s. so far as known.
How he gained her confidence al
trust. his persuasive lips and insinua
K ing manner can alone tell. She W
if reealcitrant at first, but it was speed
70 work with him to bridal a womi
. scnrnnl aEIIa NGnuin raeInain trina