Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-14
RAISING TIE WIND
With Yeast Powder Prescrip.
lions, and Hunting a Husband
With Police Assistance.

Sometime ago, a year or more, perhaps,
amannamed Smidt, a widSwer, who owned
grocery on the corner Of st. Paul and
Lauderdale streets, was taken in by q
clever looking feminine, who claimed to
be widow, 10 the tune of nine hundred
dollars, or thereabouts. The couple were
to marry, so Mr.. Smidt was led to believe,
and he gave up his cash very willingly,
expecting to get it all back again through
the proposed oonnubial alliance Zoe
groeer had purchased receipt to make
patent baking powder from the alleged
widow, and it was through this negotis-
ton that an acquaintance was made which
led on to the loan Of money and the ex-
pectation by Smidt ofgoing hand in hand
through life with his inamorita. In due
time the groceryman sold the contents
of his store and rented the premises which
he owned to the purchaser, and ere long
he began to think the alleged widow was
making a dupe of him. Then he grew
importunate and annoyed the lady with
requests to pay him his money back.
firing Of this annoyance, the lady de-
clined 10 receive further visits from
Smidt, but referred him to her husband,
who made his appearance at convenient
season. The affair was ventilated through
the newspapers, and the husband Mr..
Mulholland) expressed hj.hself as greatly
astonished as well as mortified at the de-
tails He visited this Office and made
statement, in which he claimed that no
deception whatever had been practiced on
Smidt, but that he (Smidt) had received the
full value of his outlay in the receipts and
other paraphernalia connected with the
baking compound. Next day Mr.. Smidt
appeared and mode a statement varying
widely from Mulholland's. He acknowl-
edged he had made ninny of himself in
the whole affair, and that he was out nearly
thousand dollars, not a cent of which he
ever expected to see again. The lady, he
said, was a beautiful talker and she had
frequently visited him dvring their court
ship, at his place of business, claiming
that if the visits of Smidt ut her abode
were too frequent the neighbors would
gossip in an unpleasant way. Smidt be-
lieved this, and many other pretty tales
told by the amiable widow and finally,
as before remarked, let her have tie
money she coveted. When he
found out his cash had gone,
from him and his heirs forever, he con-
cluded to pocket the loss, receive the
laughing fits OF his acquaintance good
humoredly, and sell one of his pieces of
property, when he needed capital to start
business again. Since then Smidt has not
been heard from, but the alleged widow
turns up all of sudden and in an unex-
pected way. She sought the services of
the police yesterday to find her missing
lord, Mr.. John Mulholland. He had left
her the evening before, as they were about
to depart together for Colorado. He had
$1,000 with him and she had nearly four
times that amount with her. Mulholland
has been in Colorado before and it is pos
sible be changed his mind about repeating
his visit. He however failed to let Mrs NJ.
know Of any variation of his proposed
movements. Mr.. Mulholland is a very
pleasant kind Of person, quite intelligent
and can talk beautifully. Some times, it is
said, he imbibes too freely, and it is posi-
BILE he has merely gone off for a little |
spree.
AT noon to-day nothing had been heard |
at police headquarters regarding the abb |
sent yeast powder hero, and the express
sion Whereabouts is general that it would |
be good thing for the community if the |
couple would emigrate and never return |