Daily globe., 1879-04-22
1oserELLow,s MARRIAGE.
Il Wuytyard Nep7etU OF the Poet Makin
an Irish Girl His Bride.

Boston Cor New York Sun.
Stephen Longfellew, who was married in
Jersey City on Friday night to Ann J. Hen
nessey, OF Charlestown, Mass, is nephew
of Henry W. Longfellow, and was born at
the homestead of General Wordsworth, of
revolutionary fame, in Portland nearly forty
five years ago. His bride was saleswaman
in the dry good store of B. Fl. White & Co.,
and is comely Irish girl of less than seven
teen years. Stephen Longfellow has for
many years been employed in the United
States coast survey service, as was his brother
Henry W., who died some years ago. These
brothers were reputed to be two of the most
talented engineers in the service. Stephen
has held important positions, and his stations
have been scattered along the Atlantic coast
and on the great lakes. He has wife and
children in Philadelphia, and it is rumored
| that the wife obtained o divorce some time
ago on account of his dissipation. Some of
his friends deny this, and aver that he is
still bound by the ties of marriage. He has
been in Boston for several months, but has
never lived in Cambridge, which place be
gave as his residence when married to Miss
Hennessy.
Some time previous to Thanksgiving Day
he formed the acquaintance of the Hennessy
girl. On Thanksgiving Day he broke his
leg by fall, and subsequently suffered
amputation at the Massachusetts general
hospital Miss Hennessy had left the en-
ploy of White & Co. previous to this, and
during his confinement she frequently
visited him at the hospital, giving her
mother various excuses for her absence from
home. Whenever she neglected to visit him
he invariably sent q note to her, which she
told her mother was from friend who was
trying to get her position in some store in
town, or from the proprietor of shop who
had sent for her. After he had recovered
so as to be able to leave the hospital, she
absented herself from her home for whole
week, telling her mother that she was on a
visit to q friend, the daughter of DIR. Wor-
den, of the navy, who lived in Sommerville,
which was proved to bs untrue. The two
apparently became infatuated with each
other, and we're together as much as possible.
One evening in February they came with
another couple to the fremont House late
at night and entered the ladies' parlor. The
other young man, who is unknown, applied
to the clerk, Mr.. Wilson, for q justice of the
peace to perform marriage ceremony. Nc
such magistrate being in the house, Mr.. Wilson
went in quest of one, and found one in the
Parker house. Upon returning to the Ire
, mont, however, it was ascertained that Long
fellow, and not his male companion, was the
candidate for marital rites; but the justice
: refused to perform the marriage ceremony
: for two reasons that the would-be bride
: groom was drunk, and, besides, a gentleman
present who knew Longfellow expressed hi
belief that he already had family. Ih'
woman was, doubtless, Miss Hennessy.
Shortly after this Mr.. LongfelloW' 8 friend
! coprh& 70 broo u M, tho Thew inVOlx
ed the aid of the Charlestown police, ant
= . asked that Miss Hennessy be arrested. il
. order that she may be frightened into re
!. turning the jewelry, money and other pres
) ents, which they alleged he had given her, t
. the value of $500 or 5000. Most of thi
!, money, they said, he had borrowed from ac
: quaintances. Be this as it may. it is sur
that he had quite large sum of money i
his possession on the night of tn
fremont house adventure. His friends tol
the officers that he had been on protracte
spree. and they thought he was not respon
sible for his acts. The girl, however. keI
g out of the way of the officers and escape
> arrest. The police speak rather slightlngl
s of the girl, but make no specific accusation
against her.
The home of the Hennessys is of tn
humblest sort. The house is an old woode
rookery, standing on Chelsea street, in tn
Charlestown district, directly opposite th
ID navy yard barracks. The main room, OF
,v cupied by the family, is in the basemen
and by descending the four or five s'eE
$ from the street, and STOPPING. one can ente
the apartment and stand erect. The wall
IN and ceiling of the room are of rough Woo
;e covered with coating of whitewash. Th
rude chimney stands out from the wal, an
behind it is bed. Shelves around the side {
m the room contain the few a
ticles necessary for use in tt
& culinary department. and for tt
dining table, which, with two or three chair