Daily Republican., 1879-04-29
FIRST EDITION.
DUTCHER'S DISC RACE.


Wants his Wife to Indorse His
Female Companion.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The more the butcher Watson scan
dal is investigated the backer it looks,
and the temperance retOrmer's friends
in this city and Wilmington have given
him up for lost. When the light of
truth is thrown upon Mrs. "Judge"
Watson, her history and surroundings,
she becomes plain Mrs. Tannie Watson,
who has seen TIE inside of jails and has
had the deiirium tremens. Her pala-
,ial residence sinks into the little unpre-
tentious sixteen dollar a month brick
house No. CAB Florida street, small
thoroughfare running from Bainbridge
to Christian street, above Eleventh.
She does not own the house, and the
furniture has been sold at auction since
she left. Her cut-glass decanters be
came black bottles, and her choice wines
take on the flavor of cheap whisky and
jugs of beer. In fact, Mrs. Watson is
no more nor less than worthless wo-
man, who has lived a life of debauchery
and crime for years, if all reports of
her are true, and no one can be found
here TO deny them. Her pretended re
formation is fraud. Her maiden name
was Tannie Devine. Before she was
warried to Watson she had q child a
daughter, which was taken from the
arms Of the drunken mother by lady,
Mrs. Bell, of New York, who brought
the child up and with whom she is
now. The girl, who is sixteen years
old, was with her mother, in Florida
street, during the winter. And i. is
now said, on the authority of this girl,
that for two weeks after he was sup
posed to have left this city, and while
his wife believed that he was absent on
lecturing tour, butcher was lying
at Mrs. Watson's house, on Florida
street.
MRS. BUTCHER AT HOME.
Mrs. butcher and her six children
are in Wilmington. They live in
good three story brick house standing
on an elevation and commanding a
pleasant prospect, out beyond the wa
ter works. 1t is known as the butcher
Home and was presented to the family
by the citizens of Wilmington. Mrs.
butcher is thin-faced, care-worn, sad
eyed woman.
The people OF Wilmington speak in
the highest terms of her many virtues
and gentle disposition. She said yes
terday that she was utterly penniiess,
but not word OF reproach of the man
who has abandoned her passed her
lips. "There never was," she said,
"a better husband and father than
George ever since he signed the pledge,
fourteen years ago, until he met that
woman.
cannot understand what has come
over him. He seems to have lost his
reason. | believe she has drugged
him. But the ladies always did like
George, and suppose she tattered
him. Oh, he must come back" she
said, in moaning tone, "for the chill
dren's sake. He must not act so. |
cannot endure it. When one of my
little girls was going to school this
morning a boy shouted after her, 'Hul-
10, your father has run off with another
woman!'" After pause Mrs. butcher
uontinued: Mrs. Watson is a bad, wick
ed woman; she has all the airs and
manners of an outcast.
She smokes cigars like man, and has
got George to smoking, thing he has
not done before since hs signed the
pledge. When she and George were
both announced to speak here at the
same meeting they came from Philadel-
phia on the same train, but he left the
depot first and walked up to the hall
alone, and when she afterwards came in
they acted as though they had not met
before that day. That night they sat
together at the hotel smoking until two
O'Clock in the morning. One of the
children was with them.
MRS. wATsoN's wILEs.
"When he would start to go home
she would detan him, putting her
hand on his shoulder and saying in a
familiar, coaxing way: Don't go yet,
George | hate to have you leave mo.
They sat up together at our house
nearly all night. Once when ! entered
the room they were talking in a low
tone, with their heads close together.
When they saw me they drew apart
suddenly, and she was putting cigar.
Then ! told her just what thought OF
her. have seen letter which her
husband wrote to her in 1871. He told
her that lie had been out Of work for
two months and had not money enough
to pay his board. He said that she
might easily have supported herself
with her needle, and not have been
published all over the country as a ho-
tel swindler.
The letter said that he judged from
newspaper reports that her trip East
had not been success financially Ours
is not the first family that she has
broken up by her doings. She is
blackmailer and ruined Boston mer.
chant whom she got into her clutches
and broke up his family. She thought
that George owned our house and she
wanted to get me out of it and get in
herself. Only to think that George
butcher would throw away the repu-
tation that it has taken him fourteen
years to make for a creature like her.
When saw them in Danbury George
begged me not to disgrace him; not to
make a scene. | did not want to dis
grace him. wanted him to come homo
for the children's sake.
So what said to him was said in his
own room. begged him to leave the
woman and come home to his children,
but he would not listen. He said that
he would place Mrs. Watson side by
side with Anna Dickinson on the plat
form or die in the attempt, and said
would expose them wherever they
went or die in the attempt, and left