Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-21
a,nnytcIloW'S Wives.

poet Loug fellow, who vas married 10 MISS hnn
| Hepressey in jersey City last Friday night,
registered q, the Merchants Hotel ia this city
On Saturday p. IN. lie registered, "S. Lone-
fellow, Cambriisc." The lady was not regis
tered. They were shown upstairs to room NO.
80. Mir. Lougloliow ordered dinner to be
served 10 the ,u!n. % the following day 1t
was noticed that Lone efollow was under the To-
| Auepc9 of Euuor. Ou tuesday afternoon walt
er came irom Nir. sud Mrs. LoDgfeow's room
aud reported that LoDgfellow was beating
his wife. iIo hal bccr drinking freely that
morning. Mr., McD :rmott went to their room
and raped. IIongie!low came to the door ana
demanded 10 know What nc wanted. Inc Wo'
| man was somewhat excited and eV!dently
frightened. 81. McDernott told him ne
would e'low no disturbance in bis house. Long
fellow sad it Was merely an affair between man man
and wife and that Il was all right The lsnd!ora
| ssid bo gautcd them to pay their bill.
Iako their baggage and leave. LongtelloW
demanded Inc bill aud the landlord said
ne would make il out at once. He had hardly
got down stairs till LongtclloW was after him.
lie sakcd for some blank checks. The land
| lord handed him couple, but told him they
| w)uld not strTo the purpose unless thoy Were
| regularly certified. Lonetellcw proceeded to
! eli out th, checks or The Commercial National
Bapk OF Philadelphia. the bill being S25. he
| made one check &C exact duplicate OF the othor
| for some roasoa sud handed them to the cashier.
! The landlord refused TO receive them. Long
| fellow said ne could get as much money as nc
wanted at certain banks aud accompanied py
ouc Of the hotel clerks be went out. 1t occur
red 70 him bef3re going Ter that it was after
banking hours ard he proposed going to the
| postoEic6. where, he said, he had friend
| Nobody a9pearyd to kpoT him there, however.
| They thcn returned to the hotel. Mean
| while Mrs Longlcll0w, during her husbaads
absence, had been making hurried preparations
| to leave. Before he returned she sent down 70
know whether L21stellOW Was about. being
evidently afraid TO 90 away WhiIc ho was there.
la the same moment almost the husband got
back. Orders had been given by the proprietor
20 the barEecpcr not to let him have anything
more 10 drink. He passed on to his wife 8 room.
| This was about 5 0 clock Tuesday afternoon.
Before mauy minutes the woman came down
with her nat Oh, greatly excited, and passing
the ladies ostfarc, 10 her haste hurried out
through the main Office a1d disappeared through
tue door. Evidently she had no destination IN
yew, t9r the proprietor sept clerk after her,
who followed ner down TO Sansom street, by
way of Market and Eighth, and saw her come
/ IL.
her way, At Market and Fourth streets, she
stopcod, called small boy and was on tho
point Of sending him up to the hotel to ask
clerk TO come dowu, as she feared to go there
while her husband was about. just as the boy
vas about starticG ou his errand the husband
himself came down from the hotel and joined
| her. Together again they started up to Eighth
street and down toward Walnut. At Locust
street LcUg!eiloR suddenly seized bis Wite's
arm end twisted it with such force that she
screamed and ran to q policeman. LongtelloW
popped into boarding house, 24O South
| Eighth street, being still under the Influence of
uuor. The Do iceaan took Mrs. LoDgfellow 10
| the Lombard street station, where she eX-
planned things snd declared she was afraid to
| be alone with her husband She said she
would rather die thar have harm betall him.
| The police authorities found her placo to stop
st in private house, where she now is. Mean.
tine Ho5g!elo5, who says &c has searched
every hotel il tic c,ty to hrd her, is kept IN
| icrorancc OF hcr Whereabouts.
| bIeantire whco Loag'ci!ow ran into the
Eighth streat boarding house he went into the
| very place y7hcra his other wife and her chill.
| Grcn arc siCpp!ng, Wbciher his irtontion was
| to take the Cnar.cstoWp woman there and have
a moetiug between them is not known. At any
rate, the two woucG met yesterday morning.
| The CharlcStCwa woman, learning that the
other woman was stopping there, called on her.
| The muetiug passed off calmly. Both ladies
| have black eyes and fair complexion, which ls
about tho ouiy resemblance. The first wife is
Kontuck7 lady, considerably older than tho
other, bat bearing all the evidence of moro
gentle breeding. Lopgf5llow was not about
| when the scc2ud wife called. BIC says bis 1rst
wife is natipe Of Harrodsburg KY, and that
! -, III in
Other wonau be nov says nc was never mar
| ried TO-.
| But iu reply to ths statement the Charles"
town wouaa .Xhi5its her marriage certificate,
| duly sigGed aod attcsIed by Justice OF tho
peace 10 jersey City. Uotil she learned tho
facts from the lips of the first Wit. the Chartsr
town woman saYs she never knew OF Longfel-
| lows former marriage. She bcWails her tate
and declares that il any 0nc is to suffer Tor
| what he has dcne she wants 10 be that one.-
She says that L,ogfelioW on enc occasion, at a
| friends house IL Boston, pointed loaded pls-
tol at her acd said nc would take her lite for
two cents She farther accusses him Of trying
TO straualed her 10 The Merchants hotel
90 Monday right. Sac sass she is made
continually miserable by hi3 :al3usy. His ieal-
ou5y, by al! accounts, amounts almost to q
pbrcnzy. Walking with hin 10 public she
claims aoybody is liable to be insulted by him
l,fthey so much as look a. her. About Loogte'
lows prvious marriage she says she heard
lr.port afer she had b como engaged to him
that he had wife in Philadelphis. She told
him what she had heard and declares that he
| proc uced letter purpurting to come from the
Philadelphia wCm n in question denying that
she was his wife but ssyng that he had been
kind to her. 7 ne letter she says, along with
other assurances. satisfied har and their pledge
| Was renewed. .
Stephen Longfellow aays he is 45 years old.
he is nephew of the poet Longfe!low and was
born in Portland. His fsther, stephen Long
fellow, ST., is dead. Eo one can talk with young
Stephen for any length of time without discov-
e1ing that b els man Of fac education He aiVei
! his occupation &c an inventor. He has invens.
ed ships compass or steering apparatus, .
| model Of which he has with him in Philadelphia
inis marked "Long!elloHs compass" He says
ahe mas spent over three years on 1t and expects
to build up great business in this line. While
I he denies bis marriage with the Chstlestown
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