The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-29
High Life In tho "Quakev cIty."
Tho Law and the Lady,

i DIX.
The history of Mrs. Haldorn's con
quests among the ~expounders Of the
law aud OF her victims In humber walk
OF Ii { is MT an uninterestlnx one, e.
peci.ily as II leads II the sequel already
announced. Her home in chi.dhool
wa, IN Niner,yiile. Pa. Her parents
we've both mutes Her father dlcd
eomc vear- ago, and her mother l. nUr
= teacher in the Deaf Mute Asylum OIL
Broal street, curuer oi Pine. Mary was
educ, ed AT Putistuwu at ! boarding
scl!o i, and there III played a lively ami
~vivariDu& disposition, wluuIu Tor her
self many friends b. her nncial an
geuiai mauuers. On competing her
education Mis- Mary celebrated the
event BY visiting the classic clty oi
Reading. where she became eniuIoured
with The Apollo OF the town, DIR. MartIu
Luther. who fell q prey To the surpas-
sing beauty Of the boarding school
graduate, and after a brief dose of bill
ing and c%oOing, Incident 10 desperate
cases Of love at first sight, the handsome
pair agreed to become one flesh. The
welding day was fixed upon. but about
three days before its arrival a golden
tempter appeared before the ravl>nei
eyes OF the afhanced bride in the person
If Mr.. Frederick Leaf Smith, who reck-
ons his wealth by the hundreds Of
thousands and is u distinguished mem
Der of the Reading Bar. He too be
came smitten with the lovely girl
beauty aud she became srnltten with his
bank account. and as both were willing
10 enter into a life partnership the con
tract was soon made and duly s0lcmn-
lzed according to law.
The twain started on their wedding
tour, but the JOY of the happy husband
was o turned to bitterness by what
he deemed to be the improper actions
of his Joung and vivacious bride. The
''green-eyed monster jealousy came
between them, and the husband of only
a few days saw or thought he saw hie
young wifi actually Sinking and smll
ing on New York's ex Senator, and,
worse than all. detected the lurily Ros
coe returning the improper recognltlons.
To increase the agony of the victimized
husband he found letters from the man
whose affanced bride he had won, and,
worse than all, in the course of his
connubial infelicity, by the aid of de
tectives he a~scertained that his wife had
committed tho serious improperly of
stopping at a Montgomery county hotel
in company with the handsome doctor
she mad discarded by marrying Smith.
This was the drop that caused Mr.
Smiths cup Of anguish and desperation
to overflow. He decided to have no
further transactions with his faithless
wife. Mrs. Smith came to this city and
made her home with a lady keeping a
boarding house. Mrs. Smith was as
anxious to get free from the matrimo :
NAL yoke as was her disappointed lord.
The proprietress of the boarding house
had not passed that period in life when
her charms we're potent with the sterner
sex and In fact WAS the warm and per-
sonai friend of MIR. Haldorn. Being
anxious to assist her legal friend in his
profession, the clearinghouse lady told
her friend Haldron that she had a client
for him and that possibly there were
millions in it. The young lawyer was
ready for business. and his new client
was introduced to him by the friendly
boarding house keeper. The introduce
ton, while it lost . friend to Mr.. Hal
dorm, won for him a wife. The beauty
of Mrs. Smith was all-powerful with the
susceptible attorney, and the landlady
was soon ignored for the younger and
more bewitching beauty, who was pant
ing for liberty and for a share of her
husbands cash as alimony. The young
lawyer was confiden. that he could BE
cure both for her. Accordingly the SER
vices of the fascinating and notorious
Annie Wallingford were engaged for the
purpose of going to Reading under the
plea Of seeking legal advice of Lawyer
Smith, and Of enticing him to this city
AS a victim to the charms of the gentle
Annie, when she was to betray hun to
the detectives employed by Mrs. Smith.
Unhappily for the festive Mrs. Smith
and her counsel the plan did not work
smoothly, which fact they attributed to
the more plcthoric purse Of the Reading
lawyer, who is said to have turned the
tables on the designing wife by buyin.
up her conft derate-tle Wallingtord
woman. Mrs. Smith also had In her
service a detective who has gained con
siderable reputation as a Jury fxer,
for the purpose of fastening on her hus-
band the crime of adultery; but it is
said that $1,000 of the lawyers money
fixed the ''61er," who played false
with the intriguing little woman, and
subsequently appeared as q witness
against her in a divorce suit brought BY
the husband, in which also the dicard-
ed clearinghouse keeper appeared as
a witness against the wife aud Haldorn.
While schemes were being planned at
this end of the line to get a divorce
with alimony from the husband, at the
other end of the line the astute lawyer
was bringing all his legal acumen into
play to get rid Of his wife absolutely.
He engaged Detectives Franks, Rusk
and Bartholomew to watch the move
ments of both his wife and her counsel.
The Argus-eyed detectives kept a vigi-
liant watch on Mr.. Haldorn's office to
note how frequently and at what times
his fair Gle ut visited him for legal nd
vice, and how often and at what hours
he visited her at her boarding house to
impart legal information. Dir. Haldorn
1901 discovered hat he was being
watched. and SO through the kindness
of Mr.. Hrrry +. Gilroy, who had an
Office adjoining MIR. Haldorn's, it is said
that AIR Haldorn was relieved of the
annoyance of the detectives by imparl-
ing legal advice to Mrs. Smith in Mr..
Gilroy's office while the shrewd officials
kept watch of his vacant sanctum.
While the detectives were watching the
house where Mrs. Smith was boarding
two boys employed at SO per week were
watching the detectives, hearing their
conversation and reporting duly to Dir.
Haldorn. After a time, however, the
amusement became monotonous, and