Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-25

name was written as Miss Anna HennessY, OF
Charlestown, Massachusetts. Mr.. and Mrs.
Longfellow started the same evening for
Washington in palace car" The above,
which appeared in the New York Sun OF Mon
day last, was but the beginning of Il strange
drama, which is not yet ended. From Jersey
City the scene has shifted to Philadelphia.
Already the parties to the above marriage
are separated, the bride of six days hiding
from her husband from fear and the husband
raving aud offering money to any one who
will find her for him or give him clue.
Already former wife and two children have
turned up; already the husband has acknowl-
edged them and denied his Jersey City mar
riage; already the young woman who was
there married to him lies in her hiding place,
moneyless, friendless, and without stitch of
anything save what she wears, bitterly re-
GREETING the day when she left home and
good situation in Boston.
THE PAIR IN PHILADELPHIA.
On Saturday afternoon last, shortly after
two o'clock, Mr.. M'Dsrmott, proprietor of
the Merchants hotel, on Fourth street, be-
tween Market and Arch, was sitting in his
office when the main entrance door opened
and gentleman and lady, with two valises,
walked in. A large-seized trunk soon fol-
lowed. The man was rather small, with
sandy mustache and Burnsldes, and COM
plexion tough and bronzed, as that of a sea
captain; with quick, nervous eyes, which in
cessantly twitched and jerked in the direc.
ton OF his com panion, as though fearful of
losing sight of her. A pepper-and-salt col
ored suit and high hat constituted his out
ward wearing apparel In one hand he car
ried cane, on which he leaned heavily as he
walked, and he walked lame. The woman
would have been taken for eighteen or TWEEN
ty. She had black eyes. round face, black
eyebrows. black hair and rather large
figure. Seven rings glittered on her two
horAc Hva On honH--Nnd 0f than q brill
liant diamond-and two on the other. A
pair of heavy, finely wrought gold bracelets
were around her wrists. The stranger
walked up and registered-"S. Lon2fellow,
Cambridge" The lady was not registered.
They were shown up stairs to room No. 40.
Mr. Longfellow ordered dinner to be served
in the room. On the following day it was
noticed that Longfellow was under the inhu-
ence of liquor. On Monday night they went
to the North Broad street theater. On Tues
day forenoon waiter came from Mr.. and
Mrs. Longfellow's room and reported that
Longfellow was beating his wife. He had
been drinking freely that morning. MIR. M
Dermott went to their room and raped.
Longfellow came TO the door and demanded
to know what he wanted. The woman was
somewhat excited and evidently frightened.
Mr.. M'Dermott told him he would allow no
disturbance Id his house LongIellow said it
was merely an affair between man and wife,
anu lHaG IL WAS ali Nc ld0u.OHN SdlI
he wanted them to pay their bill, take their
luggage and leave. Longfellow demanded
the bill, and the landlord said he would make
it out at once. He had hardly got down
stairs till Longfellow was after him. He
asked for some blank checks. The landlord
handed him a couple, but told him they
would not serve the purpose unless they were
regularly certified. Lopgfellow proceeded to
fill cut the checks on the Commercial nation
al bank of Philadelphia, the bill being twen-
ty-hve dollars He made one check the ex-
act duplicate OF the other for some reason,
and handed them to the cashier. The land
lord refused to receive them. Longfellow
said he could get as much money as he
wanted at certain banks, and, accompanied
by one of the hotel clerks, he went out. 1t
occurred to him before going far that it was
after banking hours, and he proposed going
to the postofice, where, he said, he had a
friend. Nobody appeared to know him
there, however.
THE WIFE PREPARING TO LEAVE.
They then returned to the hotel Mean
while Mrs. Longlellow, during her husbands
absence, had been making hurried prepare
tons to leave. Before he returned she sent
down to the proprietor to know whether
Longfellow was about, being evidently
afraid to go away while he was there. In the
same moment almost the husband got back.
Orders had been given by the proprietor to
the barkeeper not to let him have anything
more to drink. he passed on to his wife s
room. This was about five o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. Befo: many minutes The woman
came down with her hat on, greatly excited,
and passing the ladies' entrance IN her haste,
hurried out through the main office and dis
appeared through the door. Evidently she
had no destination in view. for the proprietor
sent clerk after her, who followed her down
to SAMSON street, by way of Market and
Eighth, and saw her come back, having
stopped several times to inquire her way. At
Market and Fourth streets she stopped,
called a small boy and was on the point Of
sending him up to the hotel to ask a clerk to
come down, as she feared to go there while
her husband was about. Just as the boy
was about starting on his errand the
husband himself came down from the
hotel and Joined her. Together
again they started up to Eighth
street and down toward Walnut. At Locust
street Longfellow suddenly seized his wife s
arm and twisted 1t with such force that she
screamed and ran to a policeman. Longfel-
low popped into boardin zhouse, 240 South
z ghth street, being still under the infid-
ence of liquor. The policeman took Mrs.
LonRfelow to the Lombard street station,
where she explained things and declared she
was afraid to be alone with her husband.
| The police authorities found her place TO
stop at in a private family, where she now Is
Meantime LoDgfellow, who says he has
searched every hotel in the city to find her,
| is kept in Ignorance of her whereabouts.
Yesterday morning she went back to the
| Merchants hotel to see about having the
| baggage, which she says 10 his, sent to her
new address, but Mr.. M 'Dermott holds it in
| hope of collecting his bill.
THE TWO WIVES MEET.
Meantime when Longfellow ran into the
| Eighth street clearinghouse he went into
the very place where his other wife and her
| children are stopping. Whether his inteu-
| ton was to take the Charlestown woman
there and have meeting between them Is
not known. At any rate the two women met
yesterday morning. The Charlestown woman,
learning that the other woman was stopping
there, called on her. The meeting passed of
calmly. Both ladies have black eyes and tair
complexion, which is about the only resem-
bance. The FIRST wife is a Kentucky lady.
considerably older than the other, but bear
! ing all The evidence of more gentle breeding
| Longtel.ow was not about when the second
wife called He says his first wife is a native
| of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and that he
married her in Memphis in 1878. The other
woman he now says he was never married to.
! But In reply tos this statement the Charles
town woman exhibits her marriage certi6'
cate, duly signed and attested by Justice OF
the peace in Jersey City. Until she learnsS
| the fact from the lips of the first wife, To
| Charlestown woman says she never knew on
Longfellow's former marriage. She be-
walls her fate, and declares that, if any
one is to suffer for what he has done, she
wants to be that one. She says she knows
she Is hardly sgt to associate with the clrcle
in which his people move. but she blames
HIM Tor the marriage. She says she met HIM
tor the first time in August last She was
then saleslady in White-& Co.'S store, In
Boston, receiving ten or twelve dollars a
week. Never did she know a man more IN
fatu Ated with woman than Longfellow was
with her. Shortly after my first meeting
with him, she continued, ''he visited my
mothers house in Charlestown, and told her
that nobody should marry me but himself
that he would have me dead or alive" She
says that Longfellow, on one occasion, pointed
! loaded pistol at her, and said be would