Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-19
A SAD ROMANCE.
Separated in Life but United in De

A SAD ROMANCE. 7
Separated in Life but United in Death.
A New York correspondent of the Fort
Plain Standard thus tells of recent sad
romance in real life. Malvern Lispert is a
wholesale merchant, doing business on
Broadway. In early life he married So
ciety lady in Paris, and, returning to Nex
York, engaged in his present business. In
due time son was born, who became to
them an object Of worship. The father was
very successful in business, and the son as he
grew up was denied no luxury that he could
wish for. When 16 he was sent to Column
bla college to complete his education. He
graduated and was taken in his fathers
store. 1t was not long before the father
discovered that his son was hayward, and
had many suspicious associates.
The father, determined to know the worst,
employed detectives to shadow his son, and
it was soon brought to light that he regularly
visited woman Of low character who had
been known as an inmate Of house of i'll.
fame, and to whom he was married. When
confronted with this information the son
confessed his shame and was repentant.A
the city and it's satanic school, and spend
a year OF two in the country, until he had
rid himself of the infatuation of his evil as
sociations This he consented to do. and
the scene OF his country life was located in
Otsego county, The father, years before,
mad visited the romantic region made IA
nous by the penaof Cooper. He went with
his son to the farmhouse of Aaron Pratser
whom ne knew, where he engaged board for
his son, giving no particular reason for leav
ing him there. The son took to fishing and
hunting, and was quite contented with the
change. He realized that he was on classic
ground, relieved for time from the din and
turmoil and remorse of his city life.
The father, in whose family he was board
ing, had two daughters, the youngest
bright, pretty and intelligent girl, fond O,
music, Of art and literature, though she had
been afforded little opportunity to cultivate
her taste for either. The young man had
not lost his interest in art or music, in
which he was proficient, and was we'll up in
literature, and when their acquaintance was,
more intimate, they were often seen toeeth-
er, and she improved in all these branches
under his instruction. In that region there
is not hill nor mountain top; not glen
nor forest; not grove OF cave; not bay ora
outlet, nor rvulet, nor cascade that is not
invested with halo Of interest, inspired by
the commanding genius Of Fenimore
Cooper. It was an excellent field for this
young couple to en- JOY. There was no place
on either shore of the lake which they had
not visited in their wanderings
The new life to the young New Yorker
was very delightful. He realized that his
pleasant companion was elevating his moral
ideas into that sphere desired by his belov-
ed parents. He wrote bright letters to his
mother. The young and innocent girl
seemed to him, as he found her in this Sc.
cluded place, like
A violet by messy stone
Half hidden from the eve!
Fair as star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
1t was not long before their friendship
ripcned into love; and as a sutton for Her
hand her parents looked upon him with IA
vor, believing him to be a young man with
bright future. In time he persuaded the
young lady and her people to consent to a
secret marriage ceremony, giving plausible.
reasons for not wishing his people to know,
it at that time. They were married and ap-
peared perfectly happy, though he, know
ing that he had no right to marry, while
"beholding heaven must have been feeling
hell. There came change DER the spirit
OF their dreams. One evening at dusk two
rough looking men called at the farm house
They were friends of the disgraced woman
he had married in New York. They had
hunted him out, learned that he had mar
ried again, and now demanded a handsome
price for keeping silent. The brave youth
refused to be blackmailed. The men made
a disturbance and excited the farmers su
picion before they left.
The young man confessed his situation to
his newly married wife and her father They
sympathized with him. The young mans
father was sent for, but before he arrived
his son was arrested and hulriedly brought
to New York. He was indicted for bigamy,
and in spite of the efforts Of friends and rel
atives, sent for ten years to Sing Sing pris-
on. It was crushing blow to tho son, his
wife, his father and his mother. In less
than nine months from the time he entered
the prison he died, on the I'd inst Previous
to his death his devoted Otsego county wife
was permitted to see him in the prison hos
pital, where she fell upon her knees and
assured him of her faithful love and fidelity,
and offered a prayer to heaven for their for
giveness and future welcome. The girl had
suffered months Of untold agony, and the
visit to the hospital Frustrated her. She
returned to her home. and before the news
of her erring husbands death was an
nounced by the telegraph at her home, she
too was a corpse. Their remains have been
inferred side by side in a cemetery near the
waters Of Otsego, while their friends mourn
their sad experience.
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