The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-12
CALLED TO ACCOUNT.
AwHeeLtNe MANS SERIOUS GRIMES
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10 De'srts HIa WIt In This City and Marriss An.
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Most Wheeling people remember Harry
Carpenter, young man who used to keep
produce and fish store on Market. street,
near Eleventh. THREE years ago, lacking 4
lew weeks, Harry lett the city rather slid.
denly and under circumstances which
caused some gossip at the time. (, lie had
squandered good deal Of money at tho
gaining table, and his plucky wife, finding
out who the winners were, compelled them
10 restore their gains. Shortly after this
Carpenter told her he was compelled to
50 to Sandusky to see some of his fish mer.
chants, and he left with the assurance that
he would be buck soon. At Columbus he
wrote back renewing the promise, and
since TINT time his wife has not seen him
nor heard from him directly.
.So A ROMANCE TO nEGIN WITH,
Mrs. Carpenter WINS very Young when
she married, anl was pupil nj the Female
College when she fell into Carpenters 50.
ciety. Her father Henry Robinson, the
Market Square grocer, had placed her there
with view to giving her finished educa.
ton, but his plans were thwartcd by tho
girls infatualion for Harry. Alter mar.
rage she led an unattractive life, for the
most part, with her husband, md her
troubles eliminated about the time Of his
desertion. Before this event the two were
living with Mrs. Carpenters father and
sue continued to live with him for some
time after, with her four children. She
now resides on Market street, above Tenth,
Carpenters parents also resided in the
city when he left, but subsequently re.
moved to Cameron, where they now live.
Mrs. Carpenter, the mother, and Mrs. Cur.
pcnter, the wife, are both named Ellen,
and from this coincidence discovery
was made which has resulted in lIarrv's
being confined in IN Iowa jail, and In.
dicted for u serious crime.
ONE WIFE TOO MANY.
Recently Carpenters wife received n
letter from Council Bluffs. Iowa, intended
Tor bis mother, written by n woman who
stated that size was married 10 him md
that he had lett Council Bluffs with tae
stain Of u nameless crime against Il little
girl upon his reputation. Mrs. Carpenter
wrotein response, telling wife No. . Of her
existence, and asking for particulars Of his
life since leaving Wheeling. / 4 7l'lI1
III response came the information that
the writer, Miss Rachel Stevens, had let
school to marry Carpenter, against her
mothers commands. She congratulated
herself that she had made the Discovery of
hls vllainy, and urged his legal wife to 60
to iowa and appear against him, saying.
"r.,srllaps lew years in the pcnitentiary
VIII 10 him good. Some time we may
meetand face the villain. lie has done
much mischief here. I suppose /, like
you, must now work and make my living.
but honest work is no disgrace"
.5S ,5 lie WAS COMING BACK.
A second letter from the Iowa wife 10 the
Wheeling one, which was shown to IN
lNrEILlGEScER reporter Yesterday, ia very
pathetic. She speaks Of the children Left
here, "Oh, l do not see how bu con|d
leave his dearl little children. He told mn
once that he and some OF the bows had pot
into trouble with girl. in Wheeling. and
that was why he left. He said he Vas " 90
Ing back in the spring aud 60 into solnu
kind Of business.
In this letter is enclosed one from Harry,
written at Denmark, Iowa, which led 10
bis discovery and arrest. This letter lio
signed Harry J. Montague, and in it he
processes great love for the Iowa wife, say
Ing that he rises at night and PAGES the
floor and cries for her. lie signs it, '"Ouc
who loves you better than lie," but ita
tone failed to have the desired effect, and
\ was placed in the hands OF the Chief Of
Police OF Council Bluffs, who caused Car
penter's arrest. ,H.F
ON THE HIGH Road TO STATES PRISON.
Yesterday Mrs. Carpenter received a.
telegram asking her to come to Council
Bluffs and give her testimony. She re.
'ponded, and will probably leave for that
point today. Carpenters chances for IL
lerm in the Pcnitcntiary may be consid-
cred good. 8n,z "a FIT"''
Harry was clerk at the Western House
1t Council Bluffs. Two Of his children are
with their mother, and two in the Chill
1rens Home on Thirteenth street. The
scamp is thirty.one years old, but repre-
'ented his age 10 his second wife rs twenty
,ight. l.f ~ 49,
.Asshe says in a letter to wife No. /, "lIe
viii not have another chance 10 deceive Il
clool girl soon.' ,j7,.'