Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-29
A WOMAN'S CAREER.
Twice Married, She Ruas Away with
Her Husbands Friend and Wants q
Pension After His Death.
A Case More Like a Chapter from Q
a Sensational Novel Than an DC
eurrence in Life.

A most curious case, says the Evansville
Journal, has recently come under the report
er's notice which seems more like a chapter
from q sensational novel than possible in real
life. The story is not a long one rs il shall
here be t-ld, but what could a novelist make
of III Miss Anderson wss one OF the society
ladies of a small town in Northern Alaoausa
in her youth, which was about ten wears be-
fore the breaking out of the war. her fathet
wss an overseer on q plantation for a nuut
Der OF year,, and tue proprietor becoming \
embarrassed was forced &C. let the plantation
90 under the hammer. IL was q foolhardy
expenditure that brought about this state oil
sfsirs. and Anderson, who had prohted as
much as he could by the munidcenoe OF has
| proprietor, WAS in position 10 purchases the
estate when il was for sale. He took charge,
made money aud then, though he stliSt-
| tanned the plantation, be removed his fsmi-
ly TO town, where he went into business Mics
Anderson, when she had arrived at society
| age, had lived about hall her life in the
town aud the other half on the plantation
the fret esr,-ia the overseer's cottage
and the last part in the plantation aouse
she YVES ia society q yesr or 10 when she
met a lawyer approaching middle life bu,
yet a bachelor. He had zone money, and
a. il Was we'll known she would have a neat
sum and their marriage was every other way
desirable, there wasn't much gossip over lis
4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. ~ btSaalt 1Atr-
and reigned quite gracefully for about Eve
years in the lawyers nome and had two
children. But Grabbed MIDDLE age could not
understand foolish youth, and 81 there werr
MISUNDERSTANDING. There became frequent
and then the whole appearance of Things
changed. They quarreled violently and
then never spoke for weeks. One night
Warren went home drunk and attempted to
whip bis wife. She defended herself for a
while and then escaped from the house, into
which she never again entered. Old Ander-
son iogged Warren the next day with a
horsewbip. She applied for a divorce and
he did mol oppose it, 80 that was easily ar
ranged.
The war cam and Warren was elected
colonel Of a home regiment and then pro-
noted 10 general of a local division. The
Andersona went 10 Louisville TO tide over
the serious times, the old man having wisely
converted everything he could into money.
While living there Mrs. Warren became ac-
quainted with Arthur Boliinger, who had
lately been made colonel of u regiment o.
United States volunteers, and was gettip-
resdy TO be ordered to the front. They weT
/, soon afterward married, and the order hsv-
ing come 10 move forward, che left her chill
! dren with her father and followed the for
tunes of her husband. The fortune was vel,
bad, and not six months after they left Lo,
E isville he was wounded in an action 81 e
. verely that he lay in the hospital for weekf
T between lie and death. His wife was win
0 him constantly and cared for him tenderly
o He recovered, but with the knowledge tina
be would ali bis life remain incapacita,..
: for work. He obtained an honorable di
e charge and went back to Louisville.
d 1t was near the close OF the war when Mr.
Bollinger met Fred Dorsey, a friend of h.
husband. He called frequently at 'thei
house 10 see his friend osiensibly, but reall.
to see his wife, and 30 fascinated her that 81
n ter urgent solicitation che consented 10 lesv
her ohildren-one had beeu added in the ee.
ond martisge-her invalid and impoverishe
husband, aud fy with Dorsey. Ii was n
much Of an elopement, they simply got 0
board a steamboat and came TO Evansville
arriving hare doubtless before their sbaenc
from Louisville was really discovered. Their
wss no pursuit., and they lived here quieil
for a number of years. Dorsey died herr
and Mrs. BolliDger, whose husband died sew
eral years ago. is sill living here. She hs
one child by Dorsey, but il died. Before sb
left Louisville with Dorsey, Bolliuger ha
applied for a pension, but when his wife L.
him be gave up the pushing Of the sppl CT
ton and nothing came of il. After bis deaf
his wife applied, bat some interested partis
informed the Pension Department that sh
had married Dorsey. Sne sverred she ma
net and the case ha, been under the consit
Grafton of the Department now for sever
years, the point whether or notshe vas ma
ried after her husbands death being II
stumbling block.
10 by Warren, who, with his s ster, "
returned to his father after his mother d
serted them, and who grew up 10 despiss hs
is the active party opposing the granting
the pension 10 her. His father was killed
Fort Donelson. His half sister, Bollipgsr
child, came TO live here with her moth,
after her fathers death. She has been thI
times married herself. Her first hus "a O
died in st. Msry's Hospital after long sufiel
log from wasting disease; her second husbsr
committed suicide about two years ago VIII
drunk, snd her third husband lie still ali,
add making things very pleasant for her.
That is the rough Of the tale, allowic
much scope for foe details. Whether n
peneion will be granted or not is Q quesfie
not to be easily answered. The attempt
as find evidence of the marriage with Doree
made recently, has brought the matter to t.
,es reporters ears.
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