Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08
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4 Sensational Domestic Scandal in Fash
iOnabIe Baltimore Circles--A Young
Broker Marries a Young Woman with
Negro Blood in Her Veins--The Fact Dis
covered After Years of Welded Bills.
Through the Revelations of a Female
MulattO Gambler.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 7.-One of the
most sensational and interesting divorce
suits ever enacted on the legal stage in
this country will, at an early day, engage
the astute and shining Blackstone talent of
this city. The romantic details of this pc
culiar life drama will certainly cause the
gossips, not only of this particular locality
but of the entire United States to wag
their tongues with great velocity, and
roll their individual eyes with earnest
amazement. The story reads like a TO
nance, but every word is true as gold.
Five years ago, among the young bloods
of Baltimore there was numbered young
gentleman who, by happy combination
of art and nature, was entitled to a high
seat in the arena of life. He was youthful,
twenty three years of age, handsome in
face and stately and dignifed in form.
He was the happy possessor of 100000,
safely invested in registered United States
bonds, bequeathed to him by an aged
grandmother. The young man had very
aristocratic and, wealthy mother,and she was
extremely particular in regard to her sons
choice of a domestic partner for life.
On bright, frosty morning in the
month of January, 1877, the young man
entered fashionable kid glove establish
ment on Lerangton street, this city, for
the purpose of purchasing No. z ladies'
kid glove, which was the size that snugly
encased his small and finely formed hand.
There, to compress an individual world
into few words he met his
destiny. The young saleslady
who waited on him was a
beautiful brunette, with most engaging
mlen. It was the old and yet ever new
story. When he announced to his mother
that he was going to marry this young
lady there was total humiliation of the
domestic peace in that Madison avenue
mansion. AS may be imagined the mar
rage caused serious disruption of family
ties, but as the young lady behaved SO
well under the circumstances,
she was so pretty and bewich-
ing and kind in manner to her
mother-in-law, that the old lady
at last relentsd. Two years later the young
couple were happily keeping house in
luxurious manner, and the Joyous pros
pective father was well known as shrewd
and energetic broker. At this period of
the young husbands existence he discov-
cred that his wife was using large amounts
of money in a very mysterious manner.
He began to expostulate with her. "Dear,"
he kindly said, 81 am wealthy, know, but
1 cannot stand these mysterious and
heavy drafts. What do you
do or want with all this
money!" She returned confused and eva
sive replies, and the young husband was
much perplexed by his wife's peculiar be-
havior.
About this time the proprietors and
patrons of the bucket shops" and low
gambling resorts of this city we're greatly
amazed by the behavior and display of
wealth which an aged colored woman de-
lighted them with. She was q very light
mulatto, about the exact shade, as far as
complexion went, as an ordinary
cream puff with couple of
tablespoonfuls of ginger in its
culinary make up. She vas . most inor-
dinate gambler, seemed to be completely
carried away by the passion of e,and,
while q constant and heavy loser, was
never short for over a couple of hours at
a time. She actually appeared to own
gold mine. Where she got her money ne
one knew, and she never told, but she had
it, and that was all that was necessary for
the particular business she vas then en-
gagged in. One fine day the
young broker found himself the
proud father of red-haired
dimpled boy. He then did not find SO
much fault with his wife for what he con-
sidered her extravagant and useless expsn-
diture of money, and supreme content and
unalloyed happiness held high carnival
within his castle walls. One morning
whom his cooling babe, now aged nearly two
years, sat on his maternal grand-mother's
knee, colorsd servant brought her letter
fresh from the hand of the wiry
man in modest gray. She opened it
with a smile of peace, read with
q gasp of horror, and then, with one wild
shrek of woe, she and the infant simulta
nsously fell to the floor.
The letter written in almost an illegibls
hand and filled With an abundant amount
of.phenetic spelling, contained the follow
ing startling words:
'Your sons wife is niger. He mar
ried nigger. am her grandmother, and
am what they call mulatto. You
would think she is white, like
you white folks, but she amt
If you don't believe me, come
and see me. send my address. A name,
number and the name of street were at
the bottom of this dynamite hand grenade.
OF course, when the old lady recovered
from her svoon she refused to believe that
the note contained the truth. However,
| when the husband heard of she contents he
began strict investigation, and when the
| facts in the ease became so convincing that
the wife could deny no longer, his young and
charming brunette treasure, with tears of
anguish in her beautiful dark eyes, con-
fessed, in her husbands arms, that colored
blood did run in her veins.
| It seems that the old mulatto woman
gambler was his wife's grandmother. His
wife's grandfather was a white man and
her parents were white, her mother having
been more successful at deception in this
line with her husband than the younger