The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-18

THE HoKE-MARBouns ISBRoGII4.-4
Remarkable Case of Sccnddl.-Sotne Thought
fnl friend sent us copy Of the X Kansas CITY
Times, containing history of and sequel 10
the we'll known Hoke- NJ arbourg scandal
case, with which our readers were made
familiar year or more ago, but not having
the space TO present the facts in our last is
sue, and finding them very readably q shed
up in the Johnstown Democrat, we this week
copy the story entire from the columns of
hat paper, ~ follows:
RETROSPECTIVE.
On tho 18th of February, 1864; twelve years
ago next Saturday. Johnstown Vas tifrttwn Tito
fever of excitement by the report HAT Joseph
Moore was n shoemaker and Marboure 81 NOR
chunt- both doing business and residing In this
cause of the killing OF Marbourg was his a.
Moore. That case. however. IS f,mi,ar to our
people, and is nov only referred to to Introduce
one of the characters in this rernar kabie case
of scandal which WI are about to relate. Moore
was speedily tried erd convicted OF murder in
was taken 10 the pcnitcniiary: and lie and bis
Tifc united toget her and went west. or shortly
ard lived together as nun Sid wife. Mar
bours's family removed TO Scstcshurg. Bed
ford county, where some of the mcribcrs OF it
yet reside.
JACOB 8. HoKE.
In Schellshurg. William Mnrhourg one of
the SONS of Jordan Marbourg, who had been
killed in this city. became the mpanion of n
young man by the name of Jacob ScheII Roixe
who eventually reii,Uvc! 20 ttJhison, Kan as.
Voting Hoke ci1.1ar scd in business there. Sue
cess attended his efforts, and he soon became
place when he was at the top pinnacle
OF mercantile success, Marbourg, the former
dnccments Of Hoke. and through his influence
embarked III business and was succcssfui.
papers we have received from Kansas City say,
who was "notcd for her beauty and jnteili-
gcncc." She was taken to his home, (which
nclutItlpd pGGTNthinU n Ste and
refinement could contribute" And; according
TO the Kansas City Times. their house BECAME
the circle OF many admirers, and resort of
the most fashionable portion of the young
metropolis of Kansas"
WILLIAM nARBOURG,
or course. was tho bosom companion and "mu-
tual friend" of the family. In the course or
events. and after "A child had come to make he
home mure attractive. there came whispers OF
an undue intimacy between Mrs. Hoke and
Murbourg. Society caught the faint riImors
and engerly enlarged upon them until the
throng which had enjoyed Tire hospitaities of
the cottage came no more. AT last the
ned. Marbourg, however, refused to humble
himself" or wish he was cast into the big tun-
mel III GalItzin, or hoped that ''he had never
been born" or said it was all owing to his true
iuwardncss, and Hoke shot him. Hoke was
arrested. and the shot not proving serious he
was fined one dollar.
MRS. noKE
then FASTENED away to Brooklyn, New York
the city whore the Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher,
Theodore Triton. Elizabeth II. Titon. Victoria
&. Woodruff, and other remarkable people
most Do congrcgatc. IIoke at once set our to
get possession or his daughter. There followed
u search which took i'll the eastern cities and
Canada. ard n scrie. of movements on his part
and counter movements on her part, in which
she assisted by Msrbourg and her mother
one day, howcvcr, Hoke saw his wife at a
window of house in Brooklyn. He at once
proceeded to get a writ to obtain possession
of the child and succeeded, Duri..R the trial
the mo- her regainei possession % the idol over
which there was SO much cnu;cutiOn, and il
wus secreted. 1t is alleged 10y fhc Kansa. City
papers thar HOkc wuui.; have won the suit but
Tor this Strategem the part of his WIFE
The jury was ont fourteen hr"rs and returned
a verdict for the defendant. Then Hoke of.
fered no objections and his Wits obtained q d.
RESULTS.
By this time Hoke's fortune hai vanished !,
and his business was destroyed. He had used
bis earning in his endeavors to obtain his child
and bring To justice the m"n vHo had ruined
his home and ruhhcd him of his happiness.
After Mrs. Hokc got tier divorce, which was il.
the TAIL or 1914. the scandal WAS lost sight Of.
k"ke went to Kansas CITY, where he is to-day
the Kansas City Times, he is gaining friends BY
his bearing ana conduct.
THE CLIMAX.
of this story -emains to he told. On the 2Ist
dny of January, 1876. Mrs. Army a. Hoke and
william 81. Marbourg were married In Angola,
New York and have since returned to y tchisun
to make j. their home.
Thus tcrrrinates case In which former
JohDstovn boz takes no second part wbich
has robbed one man OF his happiness, and which
matter what may pe the turn of events
hereafter, must forever cast Il shadow on Mar
bourg and his wife.
This story illustrates that soIre Of the unex-
panabIe things OF this world are the freaks Of
woruans mind and the ireachery of mans
heart Under the bittcrst and the most crieI
reversed which may and do come t. the latter,
a woman Will sometimes cling 10 the fate
beaten man aud lavish upon him her tendrest
devotion. AS the world deserts him, she hovers
about him aud placing hersei between him and
the ptiicss bpatiugs, she becomes the very in
CarnatlOn OF the heroic On the other hand,
when the o'ject of her love Is upon the rock
bed of success, and contributes, with the faciIi-
ties which wealth and prosperity have given
him. to her most whimsical wants, she deserts
fr gRas
ing. And the mutual friend, who has been
elevated to success 10y The man thus deserted,
helps the woman to take the step which arouses
the slumhers OF suspicion, II it does not tarnieh
the good which was i'll her soul.