Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-15
CARLSON.

The New York Mercury has a long &C
count of the matrimonial dOings and thu
multitudinous deceptions practiced by
Alfred Carlson, the uxorions Swede whose
villainies have already been chronicled il
the INTELLIGENcER, and who left bride
in this city, only to hear of his previous
rascalities when too late to have him ar
rested.
According to the Mercury his Paterson
N. J., bride was widow, Mrs. Parkinson.
daughter of Mrs. Mornzell. of Paterson,
who was possessed of quite large amount
of property in Paterson, besides magnif-
cent farm at Haledon, some few miles dis
tant. There she lived in good style. Oc-
casionally Mrs. Parkinson would visit her
mother, and on one of these visits, gay
and handsome, fascinating Mr.. Carlson
made her acquaintance. The widow at
that time was in her forty-second or third
year, was tall and graceful in her car
riage, and though her hair was freely
streaked with gray, was by no means un-
comely. To see was to admire, at least so
asseverated Mr.. Carlson, who, having long
looked and sought for an introduction to
her, declared himself her abject slave
hencefortl, and regardless of the other
lady's love, became constant and ardent
suitor for the hand of the lady whose
praises he never tired of sounding, whose
love he set himself untiringly to win. For
tune favored him. Mrs. Mouzell, the
mother of the lady he desired to marry SO
much, fell i'll, and her daughter, Mrs. Park
ensOn, took up her residence with her a
while. After few months the siege
married April 90, 1877.
lie fell from grace, took to drink, lived
for awhile on his wife's money and one
day having borrowed a couple Of hundred
of his wife's dollars, left Paterson, in the
company of a lady to whom he had been
paying attentions previous to meeting her.
Very soon thereafter it became known that
the young lady had loved the gay Adonis
mot wisely, but too WELL" After his re-
turn, when charged by his wife with hav-
ing been the cause, the handsome husband
admitted the Impeachment, using it as an
excuse for not returning the $780, which
he had in a moment of fcrgetfulness taken
out of his wife's desk just before he left
his home to accompany his young lady
friend. After being out of business long
time he finally agreed that if his wife
would fit up and furnish one of her houses
rs "a frst-class restaurant he would charge
himself with the ''looking after it." In
vcsting three thousand dollars, Mrs. Carl
son made the necessary changes and pro-
cured full stock of wines, liquors and
cigars. Within month it dawned upon
his wife that he had only one customer,
and that was himself. Seeing that the cx-
pertinent was failure, Mrs. Carlson in
sisted on closing the restaurant up. After
ward her husband amused himself at home
spending her money, selling her former
husbands S watches and chains and tjewelry
to keep him in pocket money, and con-
Quoting himself in such a thoroughly
lordly manner that, in self protection, his
obtained a warrant for his arrest for dis
posing of property that was not his own.
With this in her pocket she gave her low
ing spouse the opinion to leave or the
alternative of being "lOcked up" He
chose the former, and with eighty dollars
in his pocket started out to work for his
living.
Wilmington, Del, was the place he
selected, and ere long his wife received a
letter from her pilgrim husband which
contained news that he had found employ
ment, had resolved to turn over a new
leaf, intended to join the Baptist church,
and above all, that he had experienced
religion, " and in the future would live
but "for her" and for "his Saviour"
Within month came another letter he
was doing well, had joined the church,
and was living with a single eye to the
future. About this time religion must
have taken possession of his soul, for his
wife in quick succession received
numerous pious letters from him, averring
his better life and heavenly hopes until his
Paterson wife agreed to take him back.
On probation he conducted himself decent
ly for few weeks. but then again fell
into his old habits. Three months of this
and again Mrs. Carlson's patience became
exhausted. Once again he had the option
given him of arrest or departure, and as
before, he choose the former. Again did
his wife fit him out, and with 800 in his
pockets he returned to Delaware Once
there he again experienced, according to
his own accounts. religion, but the bait did
not take. Meantime she heard of a
dozen person victimized by him there
and has received a letter from his wife in
this city, which the Mercury publishes.
OF his victim at Paterson that paper
says she is a fragile, delicate woman, in the
last stage of consumption, with its burning
fever flushing her face, and her skin hot and
cold, and moist and dry in turn. She had
arisen from her sick bed to speak to the
Mercury reporter, and placed in his hand
the voluminous correspondence which she
had received in reference to Carlson. Sor-
row and sadness, deep seated and over
oppressed her, and as she spoke
in little more than whisper, the hectic
flush dyeing her cheek every now and again
to leave it paler than death the next mo-
ment, showed how much she felt the terri
BILE position in which the man who had