The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
DOMESTIC BLISS.
MIR. Ramsden Relates How He Met His Wife,
and Tells of the Life She Led Him.

Mr. tSainsuen Relates How He Met HIS Mife,
and Tells of the Life She Led Him.
Report of Trial in New York Tribune.
Mr. Ramsden gave his account of his rela-
tions with his wife, at times laughing vio-
lently and again kissing his words through
his teeth. Mrs. Ramsden listened as he ac-
cused her of being a street-walker, and de-
MED that she ever had money or jewels, with
appraised hands, and murmurs of "Ah, my
Cod" and How can he say such things!"
THE fact ISL said Mr.. Ramsden, II met
her one night in the main street of Constan-
tinople. L had just returned from the
Crimea. had made money. l had not seen
woman for two years. l was fascinated by
the first pretty woman | met and she was
pretty very pretty. She was walking along
at night, alone, with her veil up. Come
along said | accosting her Just as | would
any other woman. She was living then in
low neighborhood. Next day took her to
my hotel. and she lived with me FIVE days"
'>Oh where were her relatives?"
Relatives She never had any that I knew
of. She used to talk of her mother in
Jersualem, and she said she had just come
from Varna. l never saw any her relatives.
Is for money, she hadn't cent. After five
days | sent her to Paris, while | stayed be-
hind in Constantinople two or three months.
Then | followed to Paris where she lived
with me-" Here Mrs. Ramsden lifted up
her hands, and looking at her husband,
III MAY 1Ou uGlp YOU
Then we went, continued Mr.. Ramsden,
"to London, then back to Paris, then to
Dusseldorf and then to Cologne, where L
married her, fool that l was. Married her
because l was infatuated with her. Then,
l tell you what she led me a life. l thought
she was mad. She used to kick me, and
fight and rave. So two years later
l got a deed of separation drawn
out in London, and l left her, paying
her 81 a week. After year lived with her
again. One day aT table she threw dish Of
vegetables at me and hurt my cheek" Here
Mr.. and Mrs. Ramsden both burst out laugh
ing. Then she threw knife at me. l
started in business, but she ruined me, and
had to go into bankruptcy. Then seven years
after our marriage l went to Paris We were
kicked out of a clearinghouse on her &C.
count and SO l got house for her. She re-
fused to live there with me. Now / said,
If you refuse to live with me it will be
separation, and | will never live with you
again She left me and went to Calais.
Shortly after, she presented me with twins.
They're not mine' l said, and they were
not"
Mr.. Ramsden then told how he took care OF
the children, how his wife had him arrested,
how he tried to establish'a business in Lon
don and Paris, but could not on account of
her persecution. How about Mary WalkerP'
he was asked.
well, Mary Walker lived with me in 1870.
1 had child by her."
Mr.. Ramsden, after telling how he came to
America to get rid of his wife, said: "One
day. as l was sitting at breakfast in Forty
second street, a note came from my office
saying that woman was raising i'll down
there. Shouldn't wonder said ], if that's
Beauty come back Well, it was Beauty,
and no mistake. She had come to me to get
a living again, and she has been prosecuting
me ever since. In fact, the only quiet time
I've had since L married her was the five
years she was in prison for perjury"