The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-12-24
A SHORT HONEY MOON.
A Woman who Wanted a Divorce In Two
Hours after Marriage.

A LETTER from Bridgeport, CT. gives
n the history of peculiar case in
which the honey moon of welded
couple was unusually short. The ac-
count says:
A man calling himself Soidenin jeff
erson, the " Mexican Doctor" but who
is described in legal process against
him as Solomon Jefferson, opened an
office in this city less than four weeks
ago, and went to board ut the house of
Mrs. Sarah Troland. Since that time
he has married his landlady's daughter,
been sued by his bride for divorce, in
voked the protection of the police to
save him from being kidnapped by
agents of the Mexican Government, and
has left town. The doctor is slightly
under middle age, and of about medium
size, has very swarthy complexion,
long curling hair, and wears coat pro-
fusely decorated with gold medals. He
claims to hail from Mexico and to be
Spanish Mexican, but it is understood
that his parents live in Vermont.
When he went to board with Mrs.
Troland he eXerted himself to the ut
most to win the good graces of the lady
members of the household. To Miss
Sarah Troland, aged 20, the Doctor
was particularly attentive. The young
woman being confined to the bed with
fractured elbow, Solomon begged leave
to attend her, claiming that he would
cure her in short order. She did not i'm
prove under his treatment, but during
the latter part of the time suffered from
several commissions and appeared to
have become weakened both mentally
and physically. Before he had known
the girl three days he began making
declarations of love and offer of mar
riage, and on the Saturday night of the
second week he was at the house he OBJ
tanned a marriage license and the SER
vices of a clergyman and the marriage
followed.
The bride was so weak that she had
to sit while the ceremony was perform
ed She had never received the Doctors
advances, but his constant importuni-
ties, backed by her mothers wishes,
caused her to yield. An hour or two
after the knot was tied she expressed a
strong repugnance to her husband, and
vowed that she would kill herself be-
fore she would consent to live with him.
The mother took sides with the bride,
and the Doctor soon afterward left the
house. The next two days he came to
the house to his meals, but his wife and
her mother grew more hostile to him at
each appearance, and finally command
ed him to stay away altogether.
Then the wife engaged a lawyer and
began suit for divorce. The petition
alleges that during her weeks acquain-
tance with the respondent she was con-
fined to her bed with bro ken arm, and
suffered great pain and mental anguish
that the respondent then attended herin
the capacity of physician, and, taking
advantage of his professional relation,
administered to her camphor, morphine
and other narcotic drugs, with the OBJ
ject of weakening her mind and making
n6E DlldDlt W Ills thdO
under the influence of those drugs, and
with her reason impaired thereby and
by her bodily ailments, so that she was
not conscious of the full scope her
words and acts, she yielded to the re-
spondent's persistent importunities, and
married him. The petition further al
leges that the respondent brought to the
house an ordinary marriage license, and
falsely representing it to be marriage
certificate, claimed that, by virtue of
this document, they are lawfully mar
ried, and he could claim her as his wife.
The petitioner did not know the differ
ence between a certificate and a license,
and believing the repondent's fraudu-
lent representations agreed that a clergy
man be called and the ceremony per-
formed. BY reason of these false repre-
sentations, and because the respondent
unduly influenced the petitioner with
drugs, and for the further reasons that
the respondent has previous wife liv-