The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-08-14
FATE OF AN U,FAITHFUL WIFE.
Sensation Of BrenIIam, Texas.
BRENNAN, TEXAS, 1880.

BRENNAN, TEXAS, 1880.
To the Editor Of the Comet
One of the most horrible occurrences
that ever shocked the moral sense o.
mankind, has lately come to light IN
our section Of Texas. The affair has
been published extensively by the
press, and the names of all the parties
concerned are no secret, but out ol
respect to the feelings of the outraged
husband, | suppress names in giving
| you brief account of the matter for
publication in the COMET.
Mrs. b was the beloved wife of
Mr.. R., very distinguished and
wealthy lawyer of the city of Bryan.
Last October she, in company with
her sister and her sisters husband,
visited Galveston, while Mr.. b
was attending court in neighboring
county. On bright moonlight night
the trio went bathing in the surf.
Mrs. b and her sister wore bathing
suits under their outward garments,
and when they arrived at the beach
had nothing TO do but slip off the
latter and go into the water, while the
gentleman had to undress and put on
his bathing suit.
Without waiting for him, they went
in the water. When he got to his
wife in the surf he found her in wild
state of alarm on account of her sister,
Mrs. b, who was missing. They
called, but there was no RESPONSE
they ventured further into the sea and
explored the water to the right and
left. Their search was fruit'ess. They |
aroused their friends, and pretty much |
the town, and the whole night was |
spent in the vain effort to find the !
one. Fishermen were employ
ed to drag the sea with seines, and TO
hunt up and down the coast for the
body. All without effect. The hus
band, Mr.. b, was telegraphed to.
iLC WcilG 'ioN ii DlOhcl-llcuIbti w lllC
Island, and renewed the search, and
kept it up for weeks at great expense,
with no better result. The whole
country was distressed by the occur
'ence, and sympathy for the bereaved
husband was deep and universal. The
of the bar met and passed
of coincidence; but it all {
,ould not bring comfort to the desc
ate heart.
Now comes the thrice horrible part '
If the story. 1t turns out that the {
was not drowned at all, but |
lad adroitly managed the plot to cover :
II elOpement with another man; that I
he went with her paramour TO New !
IOrk that he has now abandoned t.
er and left her to the tender mercies l.
the world, and that she is, in fact, i
ngaged in the basest employment S
hat ever disgraced her sex, and has .
ppled to her father for relief from "
5arvatiOn. G
There is neither fiction, conjecture u
or exaggeration in the above state Il
lent. The facts being well known, ;,
nd animadverted on in society, and n
Iblished by the leading papers Of h
lie State. A prominent paper said /: ~
Society in Bryan is agitated from n
liar to garret on account of the dis II
very that Mrs. - was not drowned n
all, but eloped with one -" (giv- ~ ~
g names of both.) The feelings of IL
le poor husband at this second and W
ore deadly blow may be imagined. IL IL
hey cannot he described. q
| relate the matter to illustrate the W
pth of iniquity to which human W
lture is capable of sinking, and, pr
a warning TO the tempted. 1.-THE 70
Dman who hesitates is lost. " In sll
with this, the crimes of t% FL
e Borgia were trivial. th
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