The Evening critic., 1882-05-26
THE EVENING CRITIC.
THE cHRrsTiAMcY sLusA.
Another Nasty Chapter in the shape
of "a letter from MIR. Christiaucy.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST. Is8s

of "a letter from Mr.. Christinucy.
The wretched Chrlstiancy scandal drags It's
length along like ono Of Alexander stephens
sentences, or n snake with a broken back. IL
is 80 utterly repulslve In every respect that ills
n dieagreeable necessity for q respectable
journal to touch upon 1t at all. There is no
moral to IL further than 1t Is extreme folly for
an old man to wed young woman and take
chances on her constancy.
The letter which Mr.. Chrlstlancy wrote to
John Lugenbeel, father OF his wife, In August,
1873. has been produced as evidence in his
behalf before the examiner. II was wrlttcn in
lansing, Mich. and Is long and painful ac
the young wfes Inconsistency. 1t awakens
sympathy for the husband, and II It be a truth
iul detail of Mrs. Christiancy's system and
habit Of life, and Of her style of associations,
public sentiment should 60 over to her hus-
band. The absurd folly, however, of the
old man, after all Of the discoveries which he
states to have made, continuing to live with
his young wife for years after Is beyond de-
fense.
His letter in brief states that he had prior to
the marriage earnestly endcavored to per-
suade Miss lugenbeel of the unwlsdom OF such
union, and essayed in evory manner TO dis
suade her from marrying him on account of
the disparity of their ages. She was inilexI-
BILE, and was resolved that they should be
welded. AS he loved her tovotedly and che
professed reciprocity, the marriage took
place. on the very day OF the wedding she
learned that her cousin, James Lugenbeel, to
whom she had at one time been engaged, hal
II
ceremony she, in n hysterlcal manner, told
her husband that she loved James
Lugenbeel, and no one else In the world, and
begged him TO allow her to be divorced This
he would not and could not do and her con
duct became that of an insane woman. After the
lapse of n few days she quicted down, and all
things went smoothly, until ono day she saw
James Lugenbeel in the Corcoran Art Gallery.
He essayed to avoid her, but she followed him
and compelled him TO enter into converse.
ton. The sight of her first lover threw her
again into paroxysms of affection for him, and
she again implored Mr.. Christancy to be di
vorced and let hor free. About this
time another lover came upon the
scene, Frank Anderson, Of Mobile. She
vibrated between him and Lugenbeei, and III
proportion as she associated with them, tho
more abusive and heartless she became TO
ward herhusband, boldly avowing her indiscre
tions, tainting him with his age, and mocking
him with the prospects Of his early death
While ho was at Saratoga she refused to g.
there with him, but spent the summer at Heal
ing Springs, Va, where Frank Anderson
Joined her. Mr.. Chris tiancy enclosed In hi.
letter to Mr.. Lugenbeel one from Mobile,
which stated that Anderson had boasted o.
having been criminally intimate with Mrs.
Christiancy before the marriage.
The whole affair is n repulsive aggregation o
beastliness, and II detailed would, .whil,
satiating the prurient disgust the respect
BILE reader.