Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-18
A Sad Romance.

A Sad Romance.
n New York correspondent OF the
Fort Plain .Standud thus tells Of
recent sad romance in real life: Malvera
Lisrort is 9 merchant on Broadway. In
early life DO married society lady in
Paris, and returning to New York, en-
gagged in his present business. In due
time son was born. who became to
them an object Of worship. The father
WAS successful in business, and the
son denied no luxury that he could wish.
When Is he was sent to Columbia Col
lego to complete his education. He
graduated and was taken in his fathers
store. It vas not long before the father
discovered that the son was wsyward
and had suspicious associates. Deter
mined to know the worst, he employed
detectives to shadow his son, and it was
soon brought to light that he regularly
visited u woman of low character, who
had been known as the inmate of a
house of ill-fame, and to whom he was
married. When confronted with this
information, the son confessed his
shame and was repentant. His father
proposed that he should leave the city
and its " satanic school, and spend
year or two in the country, until he had
rid himself of the infatuation of his evil
associates. This he consented to do,
and the scene Of his country life was
located in Otsego county. The father,
years before, had visited the romantic
region made famous by the pen of
Cooper. lie went with his son to the
farmhouse of Aaron Pratser, whom he
knew, where lie engaged board for his
son, giving no particular reasons for
leaving him there. The son took to
fishing and hunting, and was quite con-
tented with the change.
The farmer had two daughters, the
youngest, bright, pretty girl, fond of
music, of art, of literature, though she
had little opportunity to cultivate her
taste fer either. The young man had
not lost his interest in art, music, or lit
erature, and when their acquaintance
was moro intimate, they were often to-
gether, and she improved in all three
branches under his instruction. In that
region there is not a hill or mountain,
glen or forest, rivulet or cascade, that
is not invested with halo of interest,
inspired By the commanding genius of
IYA!nDr" Cooper. 1t was an excellent
field for this young couple to study.
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 real
lied that his pleasant companion was
elevating his moral ideas into that
sphere desired by the beloved parents.
He wrote bright letters to his mother.
The young and innocent girl seemed to
him, as he found her in this secluded
place, like
ga violet by messy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as star, when only one
Is shining in the sky
1t was not long before their friend
ship ripened into love, and as a sutton
for her hand her parents looked upon
him with favor, believing him a young
man with bright future. In time he
persuaded the young lady and her peo-
pie to consent to a secret marriage,
giving plausible reasons for not wish
ing his people to know it. They were
married, and appeared perfectly happy
though he, knowing 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
farmhouse. They were friends of the
disgraced woman ne had married in
NAry Fnhnx, ho hr~koI hin, ont
learned that he had married again, and
now demanded a handsome price for
keeping silent. The courageous youth
refused to be blackmailed. The men
made distu, bance and excited the sus-
picion of the farmer and his family be-
fore they left.
The young man confessed his situa-
ton to his newly-married wife and
father. They sympathized with him.
The young mans father was sent for,
but before he arrived his son was ar
rested and huryiedly brought to New
York. He was indicted for bigamy, and
in spite of the efforts of his friends and
relatives, sent for 10 years to Sing Sing
prison. 1t was crushing blow to the
son, his wife, his father and his mother.
III 1893 tDtu ilac LlOAtLS lLClll tuO tlLuC
he entered prison he died. Previous
to his death his devoted Otsegc county
wife was permitted to see him in the
prison hospital, where she fell on her
knees and assured him of her faithful
love and fidelity, and offered prayer
to heaven for their forgiveness and
future welcome. The girl had suffered
months of intense agony, and the visit
to the hospital almost Frustrated her.
She returned to her home, and before
the news of her elring husbands death
had been announced by the telegraph
at her home. she. too, was corpse.
Their bodies have been buried side by
side in cemetery near the waters of
Otsego, while their friends mourn their
sad experience.
A BIG SExToN.-The decease of the