Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-28
An Adventurous English Blonde
Advsrtises for q Husband.
A Correspondence. Exchange Of
Photographs, Love, and an
Engagement Follow.
The Blonde Comes on From New
York, Meets her A&anced,
and goes Square Back on
him, and Back to the
Metropolis.
The Disappointed Lover, is
Jugged to Answer to an old
Indictment for Robbery.

There has been stopping at the
Wyoming Hotel in this city since
Friday of last week a young blonde
English woman, plump and pretty,
aged about twenty-five or twenty
three years, named Edith Haylard,
concerning whom there is a history
which seems more like a romance
than truth.
She arrived in this country about
eighteen months ago, and obtained
a situation in a New York Hospital,
where she improved her leisure mo-
ments in the study of medicine.
During the winter, a married gen.
tleman, who took considerable in
terest in her, and who wanted to
see her married to a good and low
ing husband, took it upon himself
to hunt up such a man. He pursued
an unwise course as the sequel will
show. He, in the self-appOinted ca
pacity of a matrimonial agent, put
an advertisement in the Wduerly
Magazine, stating that a young lady
wished to correspond with some
young gentlemen in the West, witha
view to matrimOny; that her name
age, and circumstances could be as
certained by addressing him. A
copy of this paper happened to fall
into the hands of James Bruce
Adams, who has been station agent
and operator for the Union Pacific
railway at Red Desert for some
months past. He saw the adj
vertisement, and determined to
employ his leisure hours in CORE
spending with this girl, if he could
manage to arrange it satisfactorily.
1t might result in a favorable matri-
monial adventure, and if it did not it
would afford him some amusement,
especially as he had no society at the
desert town Of Red Desert. He ac-
cordingly wrote a well composed let
ter to the gentleman, who being
favorably impressed with the style
of the epistle, sent him the address
of Miss Haylard, and all important
facts concerning her. Adams at
ono wrote to her, and she an
swered. The correspondence
thus began, on or about the
4th of March last, was continued till
quite recently. These two persons
who had never seen each other,
after exchanging photographs, fell
in love, and became engaged. Each
wrote splendid letters, full of loving
thoughts beautifully expressed, and
it should not be a matter of surprise
that each captivated the heart of
the other, for are not love letters the
tender missives of the soul, that
watt a sigh from pole to pole?
Adams not long ago determined
that the engagement should cul-
inmate i'm marriage.
His thoughts had for some time
been directed to this usually happy
event; his anticipations and dreams
of the future were of the most de-
lightful nature. He reveled in hap
piness over the ecstatic bliss that he
imagined, beyond a doubt, was
in store for him at no distant day.
But, alas! as after events prove,
there's many a slip betwixt the cup
and the lip. 1t often happens that
a fellows bright-eyed gazelle, whom
he has taught to love him we'll, goes
square back on him.
Adams wrote to his betrothed
her that he was ready to
make their two hearts beat as one,
and that it was his wish to be mar
ried as soon as possible at her earli-
est convenience. She replied that
she would come West according
to his request, meet him at Omaha
on Friday, May %, for the purpose
Of fulfilling their engagement.
On Friday morning Adams, having
arrived the day previous from the
West, went to the Union Pacific de-
pot, and upon the arrival of the
train, he recognized the
of his heart. She, too, knew
linn among the throng on the plat
orm, and n would he sc supposed
hat she would have received him
most cordially. But she didn't.
She ~-uldn't even recognize him.
At the ms sight of him, her feel
ngs towards h-n instantly changed
rom those of loveso hatred and dis.
gust. He bore only. faint resem.
to the fiattering photograph
If himself that he had sent
Ter. He vas not her IDEAL at all. 4
he lacked every essentially ulitv in
of the man she has sx
,ected to meet, and of him who w.
O be her husband. He did not by .
nv means fill the measure OF her ,
.nticipations; he was repulsive to
Ter: and she resolved, without hav-
NO said a word, that he never could
marry her. :
Adams saw that he was in a pre-
Iicament, and going up to her, call
4 her by name, when she coldly
answered him. But the depot was
ct the place to impart to him her
udden change of feelings for him. ,
he would wait till they arrived at I
be hotel, which they reached in a
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