The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-14
What the St Louis Republican has to Say
About their Actions in the Hound City.

THE PEARSON SCANDAL
What the st. Louis Republican has to Say
About their Actions in the Mound City.
The following is from the st. Louis Re
publican of the 18th "'Men were deceiycrs
ever AT least so thought the good people
of Dallas, Texas, when one morning, about
three weeks ago, they woke up and dscoy-
cred that one of their most respectable and
influential merchants, named A. A. Pear
son, had eloped with young lady named
Miss Edna Bradley, leaving his family and
business to take care of themselves. For a
long time certain trim spinsters of the
cody town of Dallas have pointed out with
wise mods the intimacy that appeared
to exist between Miss Bradley and
her employer, Allen Pearson. She
was young sprightly and hand
some. He was neither. The fact that he
had a wife and several small children did
not deter him from playing the gallant cay
alier to the pretty Miss Bradley. He was
amerchant engaged in a heavy dry goods
business, and she had nothing to commend
her but winning ways and pretty face. 1t
was discovered by many people who came
in the store at unreasonable hours that
Pearson and Miss Bradley were ALWAYS TO-
gether and occupied the most loving posi-
ton. Their conduct soon became the talk
of the town and was whispered from ear 10
ear, the aforesaid trim spinSters wing with
each other in spreading the scandal and
revcll ng in its nastinesS. Matters
finally came 10 a climax last week and cul
minated in the elopemcnt of Pearson and
his paramOur and the deSertion of n faithful
wi ~ lp III
available funds, and, taking his pretty clerl;
under his wing, he started for Memphis.
Tennessee. The run-aways arrived there
one week ago last Tuesday and stopped at
an out-ofthe-wav hotel, where no questions
would be asked and no Dallas friends
likely 10 stop and recognize them. The
pretty clerk and
THE MERRY MERCHANT
enjoyed themselves there for a few DAYS
when suddenly shadow was cast across
their pathway. a busy-body from Dallas
had located them and sent word to
that town informing the authorities
where they could be found Hastily
packing their trunks the guilty couple de.
liberated as to the point that offered the
most suitable inducements for immigration.
Having heard OF the good name and re-
ligious character that this city bears they
decided to come here and endeayor TO hide
themselves from the view of their inouis-
tive friends in Dallas.
Having decided this, they took the first
northem-bound train and arrived in this
city last Friday. The next point was where
to go. Pearson had been in st. Louis he
fore and knew the character of its hotels.
lie thought the best way to evade suspicion
was to get into the most quiet and orderly
ofthem. With this end in view ne escor-
t.,lh do Ian, tn TO
with q flourish OF the pen he regis
tered as Allen A. Peterson and wife Gin.
cinnati, Ohio. The clerk assigned them
room No. rs, to which they quickly no.
treated and during their stay they moved
not beyond its threshold. The connie
stayed from Friday until Monday, and was
10 all appearance very respectable, very
modest and very polite, in fact such pnir
as one meets with every day, COMMON
place young woman and her husband. A
keen observer, however, would discover
that when they made their appearance in
public, turtye glances were cast about
and all disguise possible put on.
On Monday the gallant gentleman
from Texas began to seriously dis.
cuss with himself whether he had not
better desert his present paramour as he did
his wife. The more he thought over the mat.
ter the more he was inclined to believe II
was the best thing to do. So.mustering uu
courage he told the pretty Miss Bradley
that their
STOLEN BLISS
was at an end, as he wanted to 20 back tc
Dallas. She made vociierous kick against
any such proceedings; they were both ruin.
ca IN Texas, and 1t was foolish for either Ia
thihR oil going back. He replied that hi.
money was nearly gone and that some
thing had to be done instantly, and that
his only hope lay in his business at Dallas
About. this time commercial tray
eler for some Texas house cam,
along and recognized Pearson and
asked him what induced him TO desert hi,
wife and family and run away with milf
ner. lie replied that he was insane tn,
night he diu 1t and that he thought about
gong back ana squaring up things. III,
was informed that his wife had got out an
attaehmeht against his late stock of good.
for 81 400 for clerk services performed by
her. This seemed to decide the question
and he retrcatcd 10 tie precincts of room,
Is and told pretty Miss Bradley that n,
would buy her n ticket to New York cit,
II she did not want TO 10 back 10 Dallas
Pretty Miss Bradley answered by doiny
what women usually do under such circun,,
stances, she sat down and cried helplessly
for half an hour. This did not moy,
the merry merchant from Dallas. III,
informed her that there was n,
other course open, and that the best thinl
she could do was to 80 to New York, and
that perhaps he would meet her when IA,
went there to settle with his creditors
This peciied her littlc but she still
dreaded the ordeal of going to New Yorl
alone, but IL was preferable to going bach
to Dallas and facing the taunts of the trim
and envious spinsters Of that village. Sh,
couldn't do that. Her mother was there
and her sisters and brothers were there, an,
she had written that she was
STUDYING FRENCH
and elocution, but they had discovered he
shame, and death would be preferable /,
meeting them face to face. She had riske,
Yer oil for the man Pearson, an,