Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-05-07
A RUOkLYN SKELETON.
The Secret of an AristOcratic Household
..Enoch Arden rs Il Tramp.
hicago Tribune.

..Enoch Arden rs a Tramp.
Chicago Tribune.
In a suit not long ago in the supreme
court of BROOKLYN, facts were brought
10 view about some persons named IN
il Of most strange kind. Close on
thirty years ago comely young lady
Of this city was welded to II well-to-do
Young man whose business was in New
York. They lived happily together for
some years and had three or four chill
dren. At length the husband died,
having first made a will, by which he
bequethed some 100000 to his wife,
without laying any charge upon her
not to marry again. Mrs. b., as she
may be called, sold out her dead hus-
bnd's business and still made her home
in this city. She was very handsome
gidoW, her weeds becoming her well.
Two or three years went by, and, though
many lovers sought her side, she was
| leaf to their whispers and not to be
won by their promises.
About this time dashing young fell
| 0w made his bow in Brooklyn society,
mOng the set to which Mrs. b. belong
ed, He was well made, had a hand
0ne face, dressed in style, and seemed
10 know almost everybody and every
hing. He and the widow met. TWAS
fatal meeting, for she took "a fancy to
-e stranger, and he was not 10th to be
saved They flirted and made love
zach other for a few weeks, and then
1twldow married the man Of whom
he knew really nothing, and installed
HIN as master .of herself and home.
Three weeks OF delight followed.
Then the honeymoon and the widows
cream of happiness ended together.
HE man whom she had taken TO her
heart turned out q drunka:d and an
lder, and spent every cent he could lay
hold Of for rum. He ran up bills at all
the grog.shops around, and once and
again his wife paid the score. Then
le put her foot down and vowed she
would do SO no more. The husband
'oe her watch, her jewelry, her clothes,
her furniture, and Dawned them for
liquor. He became pest and an eye
sore to his wife and the neighbors. At
asi, when he found that his wife would
give him no more money, and pay no
more bills, he raised shameful uproar
ana struck her. She was going to nave
an Gagged, but forebore on his pledging
.m'et to decamp. She gave him
SV, and lodged $500 more to be paid
nm after he had lived for three
months in San Francisco. Thither he
vent, and drew the money after he bad
even proof that he had been there for
Ie tlme named. Then he passed out
y Hght for months. But not forever,
w rom time to time his wife in Brook
gu recelYed letters from him in varl-
3as parts of the United States asking
~, w money, which she sent in sums of
'.y ana so. She wrote to trustworthy
se'Sons, and found that her husband
pN a duty, drunken hideous tramp,
s1sS'hg from one place to another with
TUIue OF outcasts Of the same kind.
rive years passed thus, and the wife
wv wv nothing Of the husband, though she
-ao letters from him, as already said,
soou many times. In the mean time
1s NSd joined an uptown Methodist
.0'eIl' and was one of its strong pill
,5 IN the church was wealthy
,..o"er IN large way of business on
II. .,. u me chief thoroughfares in the
y rf ana dwelling in costly home on
~, iii'L A warm friendship sprang
oeI"een the two, and before long
"a .. tecor0S Of New York court show
r, ,IS' the lady had got a divorce of
's KIND from her husband. The
re We We're said to be all regular and
m, ''L'uaVit stated that the plaintiff had
eeh the defendant for over four
..l,.t 81 heard anything Of his where
49, How the thing was fixed can.
b., 's AinooWn, but the woman was made
q. - Suu thereupon married the widow
VA 'neady spoken of. The couple
~ ~ .osether in fine style, and every
= was as lovely as it couli he.
M 'me II may be safe to add.
.g.Fa Is ana Years rolled by. The new
7.,sn lJ' OF course, thought the old
n a@f was out of the way forever.
s sag perhaps, had her fears about
a,,.. s4gth' to her great 10y, she got
a, ,' Yer from stranger, VINO wrote
4 -sI husband had died in the writ
.. such time, and that he