, 1881-08-21

for marriage with Mrs. De Hart, and ef
fected it July II, nine days before tte
| Turpln wedding, and crowned his nup
tlals by borrowing considerable amount
| from his unsispecting father-in-llw' III
then took his Lakewood wife OIL a bridal
trip, and left her in Washington, saying that
| he wished to go to Fredericksburg and see
| his sick child. lie went straight to Rich.
1nond and married Miss Turpin, as we have
said. Then he took his Richmond wife on q
bridal tour, and with all the coolness in the
world went to Washington, where his Lake
wood wife WAS waiting for him. lie left the
Richmond wife on the train, saying lie would
be back Immediately, and went to see tie
Lakewood wife. Meanwhile the train start.
cd off with the Richmond wife, and lie tclc.
graphcd her he would meet her ut Jersey
City. Then he sent the Lakewood wife to
Lakewood, saying he would soon rejoin her.
at Jersey City lie met the Richmond wife
and took her to Albany, where lie negotiated
some more forged drafts. Thence he took
her to Albion, n. T., and sent her home to
Richmond, saying he would soon join her.
Instead Of that, he went to Toronto and
swlndled Some more banks, and finally
turned Up i'll Lynn, Mass, where Pin
kerton grabbed him. Besides these two
women, he married two women in New
York City and borrowed money from
both his nothers-in-aw, woman in paines-
Vile, O., 4 woman i'll Jersey City, a woman
III Philadelphia, a woman in Little Rock,
Ark, and had lie not been arrested would
have shortly married the daughter Of MI ex-
Governor Of Missouri. In ull, tl1is venerable
scoundrel, Eerging on Gu, grandfather in
years, and with no hair on his head to speak
OF, has married fourteen young women in
about three years time, and never lived with
any OF them but two or three days, though
i'll that time he has succeeded in borrowing
money from their "sistcrs. cousins. and their
aunts,' and even tlpt ordinarily unilnpressl-
bic class, his fourteen motLers-in-law. So
far as tie marrying career of the rascal is
however pitiable it may be to lis
dupes, it is impossible to consider it in any
other way than 4 humorous one, for man
who can get ahead OF fourteen mothers-in-
law in three years time has achieved Il feat
which can only be relcgated to the highest
walks Of comedy.
Tile arrest Of the man, however, tlispels all
the Illusions, and now the moral stands out
plainly. The fourteen womellW he has
recently married were all young, and good
looking. and respectable, but they were eager
and willing to marry this old man, though lie
was stranger to them, without inquiring
who lie was, or what lie WAS tloiag, or where
lc was going, or what were his family con- );
lections. or what WIS Ills character, merely i,
>ccausc he professed to be rich, and they !
hought they were about to move into Il |
'pherc Of life where they could sport their
llkS and diamonds, and ride III their carriages,
md make Il sensation in society, and live
Without work. 10 I'LL appearances their !
rlends and advisers were equally inlifIcr-
mt, and only looked at his financial preten-
IONS lie was Il good catch, and fourteen
I them caught on, and now have the poor
onsolation of knowing that they were silly
udgcons who were hooked by Il vulgar
forger, anu counterfeiter. The mar
ativc OF his career only shows that there is
considerable class of wonlen III this co1114
y. and respectable women too. who are
, crazy to live without work and to make
splnrgc that they are ready to jump at any !
lit that appears to be glded, and to marry i
lytl1ln@ III nlan-Silapc that prcttnds to have ,
oney, without stopping to inquire into his ! !
lteccdents or real character. The ratio in !
is case OF It to shows that there is Il =
rplus OF this silly, reckless class, and that b
hen the ostenslbIy rich person appears, =
ough lie may be old as Methusaleh or ugly Il
Caliban, he has only to solicit n,atri- :. ~
onial contracts to have them filled. all b
or the country, without any ill., n
irics rs to the party Of the first d
rt. And. picc rcrsa, tile career of the p
acious rascal and the conduct of his dupes 81
imates that this same class of very good
! very respectable women think that they al
uld del11ean themselves by marrying a Il
or man upon his merits and running the =.
K Of having to work. The amount Of I'LL n.
pplness, even under tile most favorable St
of regret, and of bitter COIL CT
action that the victims Of these one-si.ied W
injudfcious marriages have to undergo VI
ms to be no bar to others, however =,
scrc there is SO much temptation lying Ct
MT they seem to fancy they are ,lerelict it dc
y tio not yield to it, aud so rush blndly ! n
and where one succeeds in getting her ST.
.e the others pay bitter penalty for n'
ir rashness and silly ambition. Aferritt's ~ -;
rtcen victims ought to bc warnings nt,
inst marrying for money, but the silly as
lc will go on all the same gu
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