The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-16
Blue Earth County Scandal.-A sup.
~ posable Explanation.
From the New Him Herald :

IRON the New Ulm Herald.1
The town Of Lincoln, Blue Earth
county, went afsw nights ago to bed il
humble obscurity, and awoke next morn
ing to the fame, of-a Brooklyn scandal or
q scale commensurate to: its size. The
story runs thus.:'r., ,.ts:,4~ ..: !n.. 49,.
A lady, fair to behold, lives in the
town. Whatever may have been he,
former speccadilloI, shefis. now the admir-
alton of lovers Of youthfal-z charms 9and
modesty, and is the wife of a young far.
mer. The smooth course of their welded
life IS but marred by mortgage on their
property, held by an eccentric gentleman,
of sixty.f1ve, living in the neig ghborhood
He is we'll off and lends money. His sec
ond wife, married to him in his mature
years, when herself in the bloom of youth
is too old for him. He is supposed t<
possess the secret Of everlasting vitality
a love for whisky, and q weakness 70,
the fair and frail. His wife's cousin.
would be materially benefited by hi.
ruin, by some complicated family y ar
rangement. 50, ..... ,
On .:dafk night, while kiss: confidence ;,,nsin
and the neighbor's watch dog slept. and
the pale moon was ensconced behind mur
KY clouds, and the neighbor snoozed ir
the nearest town. he, armed with bottle
OF rye-nectar, lifts sash of his neighbor's
window, ,gropes abo ut the house and finds
his way into the dormitory. She, startled
by the g''ostly visit, escapes by back.
door, arrives painting at the cousin
place, claims his aid,and returns in his
company to the haunted house. Here
with bottle in his palsied hand, snores
on lounge the unlimited visitor. He is
elected, and she faints.
Her husband flushed with ire, appears,
next morning at the offenders house.
He presents 10 revolver and no notice tc
quit the Blue Earth Brooklyn, but a re
lease, duly and legally drawn and ready
to sign, annul'ing the mortgage on hi
property. t'Sign or be arrested is his
motto. The old gentlemen prefers to be
arrested.
The case comes before the justice. Wit
nesses and lawyers appearlin long array
and the offender is committed for trial
but liberated on $500 bail, in view O.
the probability of an acquittal; his &C
cusers attempt to compound felony BY
private blackmail telling in his favor.
In such shape cano the story to tn,
Herald office and would have been pub
]isted without comment, if our devil hat
not, in surreptitious manner, set up tn,
following:
Suppose man and wife and the cousin
that feel somewhat interested in the old
drunkard's ruin, put up the job. Sup
pose the husband had drawn out the re-
lease papers on the day previous, and ]ef,
his house on the plea Of visit 1g the city
Suppose that the young Delilah, so fai,
to behold. invited the mortgage to the
house, where endearmcnts and old rye
combined, acted as sororiic on the hoary
headed Samson, Suppose that the cousin
appeared on the scene according to a pre-
concerted plan, and the blackmailing de-
nand was made with a hope of frighten
ing the old man into compliance without
creating scandal. Supposing all thi.
what sort of a case would the affair par
out for Messrs. Porter, Evarts & Co.