Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-15
A BROOKLYN SKELETON.


A BROOKLYN SKELETON.
The Secret Of an Aristocratic Household
Enoch Arden as a Tramp.
In suit not long ago before the Su-
preme Court of Brooklyn, facts were
brought to view about some persons
named in it Of a most strange manner.
Close on thirty years ago comely young
lady Of that city was welded to a we'll
TODD young man, whose business was in
New York. They lived happily together
for seme years, and had three or four
children. At length the husband died,
having first made a will, by which he
bequeathed some 100000 to his wife,
without laying any charge up not to mar
ry again. Mrs. B., as she may be called,
sold out her dead husbands business, and
still made her home in that city. She
was a very handsome widow, her weeds
becoming her we'll. Two or. three years
went by, and, though many lovers sought
her side, she was deaf to their whispers,
and not to be won by their promises.
About this time dashing young fell
low made his bow in Brooklyn society,
among the set to which Mrs. B. belonged.
He was we'll made, had a handsome face,
dressed in style, and seemed to know
everybody and everything. He and the
widow met. It was fatal meeting, for
she took fancy to the stranger, and he
was not 10th to be enslaved. They flirt
ed and made love to each other for few
weeks, and then the widow married the
man, Of whom she knew really nothing,
and installed him as master of herself
and home. Three weeks of delight fol-
lowed.
Then the honeymoon and the widow s
dream of happiness ended together. The
man whom she had taken to her heart
turned out a drunkard and idler, and
spent every cent he could lay hold of fol
rum. He ran up bills at all the grog.
shops around, and once and again his
wife paid the score. Then she put hel
foot down and vowed she would do SO nc
more. The husband stole her watch, he,
jewelry, her clothes, her furniture, and
pawned them for liquor. He became 9
pest and an eyesorc to his wife and the
neighbors. At last, when he found thai
his wife would give him no more money
and pay no more bills, he raised shame
full uproar and struck her She was 20
ing to have him Gagged, but forborc on hi.
pledging himself to decamp. She gave
him $500, and lodged $500 more to b.
paid to him after he had lived for thre,
months in San Francisco. Thither h
went, and drew the money after he hat
given proof that he had been there for tn
time named. Then he passed out of Ugh
for months But not forever, for iron
time to time his wife in Brooklyn re
celved letters from him in various part
of the United States, asking for none
which she sent him in sums of $40 an
$50. She wrote to trustworthy persons
and found that her husband was dirt,
drunken, hideous tramp. passing fror
one place to another with horde of out
casts Of the same kind.
Five years passed thus, and the wit
saw nothing of the husband, though sh
had letters from him, as already said,
good many times. In the meantime sh
had joined an uptown Methodist Episct
pal Church, and was one OF it's stron
pillars. In the church was a wealth
w1dower in large way of business o
one of the chief thoroug hfares in the cit,
and dwelling in costly home on til
Hill. A warm friendship sprang up bt
tween the two, and before long tn
records of New York court showed thu
the lady had got divorce of some kin
IRON her husband. The papers wei
said to be all regular, and an affidav
stated that the plaintiff had not seen til
defendant for over four years, or hear
anything of his whereabouts. How tt
thing was fixed cannot be known, but til
woman was made free, and thereupo
married the widower already spoken Q
The couple lived together in fine styl
and everything was as lovely as it coul
be,
f'or time, it may be safe to adj
Months and years rolled by. The ne
husband of course thought the old hu
band was out of the way forever TT
wife, perhaps, had her fears about it.
OSAA3 ~ AVA ASoS ivy, o1C wv d 1CIi
from a stranger, who wrote that her hi
band had died in the writer's barn SUI
time, and that he had buried him at
expense of $3.50. The stranger asked til
the sum be sent to him, and it W,
Then had the mind of the woman rest.
She was found of beautiful fowe
and the garden in front of her home "
always kept with much care. One Su
day morning in the early summer S
was up betimes gathering the love
roses and the sweet violets for bouqu
to place by the side of her husband
the breakfast table. As she stopped S
became aware that shadow had pass
between her and the bright sunshi
She glanced up and saw man standi
on the sidewalk, grasping the railil
and looking at her almost fercely. s
gave start, almost scream, and st
ped back. The figure moved not.
was frightful object that stood the
The hair was coarse, long and matt
and covered with greasy straw
The beard was shaggy and unkem
The eyes were red and bleared Pate
of dirt were on the face. The clot
were ragged and foul, and the hands |
a avid beasts claws. But in spite of
blood-shot eye and the dirt, and
claws and the rags, the half-faint
woman knew that the hideous being