Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-28
WRECKED AND RUINED.
A Beautiful Woman, Infatuated by n
SUitOr, Deserts Her Husband and
Children and then Returns
DisEraeed.

New York Evening Post, 2ith.l
Mrs. Mackenzie, who eloped to this
city from Montreal with +. II. Brydges,
Joined the latter on Saturday evening,
after their discharge by Justice Bixby,
and the pair left the city together. A
disratch from Philadelphia announces
that Brydges has arrived there with e
lady, registering their names at the Con-
tinental hotel as Mr.. and Miss Bridges.
Sir Andrew and Lady Allan, the father
and mother of Mrs. Mackenzie, arrived
in the city yesterday, hoping to recover
their daughter.
New York Times, 2jth.l
Some further details of the Montreal
elopement case were made public yes
terday. 1t has been ascertained that
Mrs. Nina Mackenzie, eluding her rela-
tives, with whom she had promised to
return home, and abandoning her chill.
dren, left her home at about eight
O'Clock on Saturday evening. She took
q carriage and drove directly TO the
Hoffman house, where BTydges bad
taken his quarters. Thence Mrs. Mac
kenzie, accompanied by Brydges, drove
to Jersey City and took the nine O'Clock
train for Philadelphia. On getting
aboard the train Bridges engaged Sec
ton in a sleeping-car, and this unusual
circumstance, as the pair were only go
ing to Philadelphis, attracted the arten-
tiOn Of the conductor, so that when
questioned yesterday he was able to
identify the fugitlves. On arriving al
| PHILADELPHIA the couple engaged rooms
at the Continental hotel, Brydges repre-
| senting Mrs. Mackenzie as his sister
On learning these facts, Mr.. Andrew
Allan and ether relatives who had &C.
companied him from Montreal when he
came on here in search of his erring
daughter, went to Philadelphia, whith el
they were followed by Mr.. and Mrs. G.
J. Brydges, the parents Of Mrs. Macken-
zie's companion, who had come to this
city in search Of their son. Mrs. Mac
| kenZie's children are still in this city in
| the care of nurse, and will be taken
back to Montreal to-day by Mrs. Allan,
| their grandmother.
A special dispatch from Philadelphis
last evening says: "The elOpement case
of Lieutenant Bridges ana the wife oi
Mr.. Mackenzie came to acOnclusiOn here
tonight. The runaWays arrived here al
midnight on Saturday, and registered as
Mr.. and Miss Crawford, Of London. Or
Sunday they went to the Continental no
| tel, and the names on the hotel register
were Mr.. Brydse5 and Miss Bridges
They were assigned separate rooms, and
staid there until to-day, when Lieuten.
ant Brydges's father and the father oI
Mrs. Mackenzie arrived there, with Mr.
Abbott, her lawyer, and Mr.. M'Kin'
ney, barrister for the lieutenant. The
reason assigned for coming here was
| that Mrs. Mackenzie desired to enter
suit for divorce. A lawyer was consult
ed, and both parties were advised TO re-
turn to Montreal. A conference was held
| in their rooms, which was said to be OI
a very amiable nature, the lady insist
ing, however, that she would not live
with her husband. AS result Of the
meeting, the lieutenant and his relatives
| left for New York on the evening train
| and the recreant wife and her friends
will follow early tomorrow morning.
MONTREAL, January 27.-Mrs. VIM
| Mackenzie, accompanied by her father,
| arrived here this morning.