The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-15
HAS PETER DWYER ELOPED?
HIS DEPARTURE FOLLOWS THAT OF A
TALL WOMAN IN BLACK.
Giving his wife Finy Cents q witch 90
support the Famiiy-Her Unsucces.fui
senrch-And the Minstreps Mission Closed. |


Tomorrow. il the landlord does not relent,
he sacred notices. the picture Of Awful"
Gardner. the song books and the chairs. to-
Rether with the map OF Palestine. and all OF the
other belongings Of Pete" Dwyer's mission at
| 10 Barrow street. will be removed to the side
walk. and thence no ono last evening had tho
slightest idea. The neighbors do not think the
| landlord under the peculiar circumstances can
relent. HI himself admitted last evening that
| he might forgive the back debt. now nearly four
months due were there any probability that
| there was to be any revenue for the next four or
six months. But the converted minstrel. rs
| Peter Dwyer has now so long been called has
suddenly disappeared. without an apology to
| the landlord and with n singular story by way
Of explanation to his family. The absence has
prolonged into two weeks; the police have been
| unable to hear Of or from him he gave his wife
| and children fifty cents. and left rent bill Of
| 800. and has not yet made the remittance by
registered letters that he faithfully promised
| his wife as he bade her good-by on the chapel
stairs.
And yet there seems TO be no other ground
for the report that has even overshadowed the
Temperance excitement in that part of the
Ninth Ward. that Dwyer has eloped with the
wife OF another man. than that this woman dis
appeared about tho SIN. TINE y, di'I; nnd hqs
not since been seen. and that Mrs. Dwyer in
| NiStrpSS,
last Tuesday. that her husband had gone away
with Mrs. Melville. md even called upon super
intcndent Walliqg who advised herto write to
the police NJ such cities as il was likely Dwyer
might visit At tho same time, Landlord
Dixon has such little conildence in Dryers
return or NJ the possibility of keeping up the
mission under all the circumstances Of the pro-
longed departure. that he has been obliged 20
give the tenants warning. to 20 into effect on
Now that Dwyer has disappeared there are
plenty Of people who wag their heads and say,
| 50 TINT good
come OF his walking the streets with the tall
woman dressed in black. who was such con.
stant attendant at the mission and NJ some Of
the temperance meetings, where senator Bob
Hart" and the other noted converts have been
now that they did not think It was for religious
communion alone that the sprightly and at
tractive tall woman stayed so late at the evening
services AZ the mission 50 late. indeed. that Mrs.
Dwyer. happening in there at an hour long past
midnight. Informed herthat respectable women
kept respectable hourS. lhere was nurh gos;
! sip in tho ward when Dwyer sat with the tall
Woman in black in an ice cream saloon IN
than one hour, and there are many who
now say they predicted that the mis-;
sion wasn't running quito AS 1t should
whom they saw the frequent meetings between
DIVER and the tall woman. II provoked the
when thirty and forty dollars were owing on
the rent, TO have the evangelist as Dwyer was
often called. come to the office and nav him an
instament OF seventY-nve cents on the amount
due especially as the landlord knew that
| the mission work This was subsequent 10 the
| time when n wealthy gentleman called upon
Landlord Dixon to revoke his promise 10 be
res ponsible for the rent. saying ms he did so
that he had learned some things about the
evangelist.
| well the past winter. When the converted min
sirel opened the chapel at 10 Barrow street two
were filed nightly and by Just the class Of men
whom Dwycr told his wealthy Christian friends
he wished 10 reach. They were men for whom
II was necessary to put placards on the walls
side by side with the, most tender sentiments
from Scripture. politely requesting me audi
attendant annoyances. There were women there
often who never were IN any other place Of wor-
ship. Contributions came in freely The large
Eilt-ciged Bible on the stand became well
thumhed. the eXhoriations were enrnest, and
the work wns blessed But this winter, while
the Ninth Ward has been In fervor ~ religious
excitement, and there have been throngs in the
. Berean and other churches. more and more ot
the seats were empty ss the winter progressed
at the Dwyer Mission Gospel srrvi e, and last
evening the large Bible revealed lack Of recent
use by reason Of the dust on its covers. and the
! man Of Palestine has grown sadly wrinkl"d.
wees 1t ali dspsnded on the coming Of peo
pie. II no more than three or four were there.
there could be singing and PRAYER lt,wqs
curly In the winter thn the woman, Mrs. Mel
vile. OF whom Mrs. Dwyer complained. first
r came 10 the meetings. She was earnest, and
, | and slender form mnde her well known rs the
tall woman who goes TO DIVERS mission,
my husband and were in the world we saw
| enough that WAS had. and used ~ say In those
| /
church Of SUNDAY, that wished we might 70
| too. But I've learned some things since we
came 70 the mission; got my eyes opnnrd
always those who could shout and sing and
pray the loudest who could heirusted; ! grew
5 | more and more suspicious OF that kind"
. Mrs Dwyer interjected this conclusion into
y some remarks that she. made about Mrs.
= mission did not impress her at ali ia.
| vorably. She did not like the habit OF
staying late. and still less did she enjoy the
n | husband
p she asserts Mrs. Melville managed TO arrange.
Il The Evangelist admitted to his wife a few weeks
| ago that things were looking badly. Rni
, asrrihrd part Of the trouble tothe more success-
: ful evangelical efforts IN the vicinity. He was
hlity that as an attraction his daywas over, for
tn" pres mt at least. or rs h expressed IL 10 his
: iii the well grows dry. III take a little trip up
? ihc Hudson and preach and lecture ana per
It me-" People IN the neighborhood assert that this
was part Of the Arrangement which involved
n the tall woman. but the only reason that causes
o the wife to hesitate while sui asserting that her
husband has not deserted her, is the fact that
he has now been away two weeks ani she has
not heard from him. His trunk was packed two
?. weeks aco today II was checked for Montreal.
H. bad,' his wife Eood-hy and kissed his chill
K cent piece that he wouli send the landlord
. part of the proceeds Of the lectures. and
d went away Day after day passod. and she did
o not hear. Then some OF the nelghbors told her
q that her husband had gone away. with
70 Mrs. Melville. She told her landlord. aud
% she visited the Superintendent OF Police But
- she has not yet heard. The MD of the police
% from Sing Sing To Quebec has been Invoked
. hui there have been no religious meetings held
g or lrcturrs given, So far AS can ne lrurnci hy
d, the Evangelist anywhere along the line of the
u Hudson or beyond. Mrs Dwycr enrned that
; Mrs. Melville has not been seen for two weeks
L and thnt she went away on the day before Dwy'l
a did. Still. Mrs. Dwyer has changed her mind
= since she saw her landlord and Superintendent
l. Nalling, nnd now says she does not believe her
? husband has gone away with the other woman
u Peter Dwyer WAS converted while in prison
- after an eXhortation by Awiul' Gardner Pre-
81 viously he had been n performer IN concert
q saloons and kept dance hail hlmsci IN one
j. OF the lower wards lie was "A heavy drlnkrr
o and often. after conNcrsion Narrated the dlssl-
o patton of his early lie by way of aucciote ol
illustration when speaking 10 men who were as
o he was once. He began to speak after his dis
. charge from prison. and to work ms an evan
: gest in the worst places in the city, Wealthy
= Christian men helped him establish mission
in Beecker street and for a time Pete" Dwy-
= er's mission was one OF the sights OF tho city
u He subsequ antly went TO Chicago and cstHh.
: lished n mission therc. hut did not succeed
y very well. On returning to New York the SEQ
= ond story of ~ Barrow street was fitted up ms
i mission, and heIr services havr heon unit