The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-17
REPEN TED TOOLATE.
ELoPEMENr. AND DIVORCE,

ELoPEMENT. AND DIVORCE
The Romance About .6orerpor Hubbard's Daus
tsr-Aftsr Pour Years Of sddsd Life She Seeks
q aDIroree-Aarrlsdtoa to aCOaehmAn-She Re.
pudIates the Uaion asd Asks 10 bs Free.
HARTFORD, April l6.-The sequel to Il
elopement Of Miss Nellie Hubbard, Il
youngest daughter OF Ex-Governor HUI
bard, and her marriage to her father
coachman, Frederick Shepard, four yea
ago, hss just been made known to hi
friends here, who learned for the first tim
to-day that Mrs. Shepard had secured
divorce from her husband. The story {
Miss Hubbard's hasty action, in deceiyin
her father and marrying man 80 ia
beneath her, not only in the socia
but in the intellectual scale, ha
bad the ending which such storie
generally do have-repentance at leis
ure for what was done In haste. Mis-
Hubbard, who was at the time younI
girl scarcely IS years of age, was secretl!
married to Shepard at Westerheld, Mass.
on March II, 1879, while her father
family were absent from Hartford. Shep
ard, who was about 80 years old, had actet
as coachman for ex.Gov. Hubbard 10
about year and q half. So far as hi
character went, very little could be urged
against him, except that he had formerl,
been hackman.
TIE MARRIAGE DISCOVERED.
He was young fellow Of good address
and did not drink or swear, but he wa
very illiterate. Miss Nellie undertook t
teach him to read and write, and whit
engaged in this laudable effort to benef
his condition she lost, or imagined sht
lost, her heart. The fact OF the marriage
was not made known to ex.Gov. Hubbard
until March %, II days after the ceremony
when the marriage certificate was sent t
him by the groom's parents. His daughter
was preparing to leave the house 10 joit
her husband when this document was
placed in his hands. The heart broker
father confronted her with the certificate
and she then candidly acknowledged thai
she was married to Shepard, declared, with
the enthusiasm OF woman in love, thai
her husband was fully worthy Of her, and
left the house to join him despite the
attempts OF the grief stricken father to re
strain her. From that tint to this Nelliet
name, it is said, has been forbidden word
in the household OF ex- Governor Hubbard
The old gentleman disowned the girl who
had hitherto been his fayorite child and
positively refused TO receive any commune
cation from either her OF her husband.
THE wifE's MISTAKE.
The couple lived very happily for time
and child was born to them, girl, tc
cement their union. About two years age
they removed to New Haven, where Shep
ard started large livery stable in State
street with money furnished by his wife
and her friends. The stable is connected
with large hotel, and yields quite reve
nue. TO Shepard, who is still running it
They engaged cozy coltage in pleasant
street, and here ior time all went well
But the domestic peace was to be shattered
in New Haven. Mrs. Shepard became
tired OF her unlettered husband, and they
began to find that their tastes in
almost everything ran in counter di
rections. Shepard attended strictly to biz
business, and Mira. Shepard, who was not re-
ceived with opened arms by New Haven
society, showed her contempt OF the fash
ionabie world, OF which she had formerly
been a belle, by purchasing dog.cart and
a handsome pony, with which she appear
ed in tho streets, elegantly attired, on every
pleasant day. The beautiful woman
naturally attracted admirers, and among
them one Is said to be an aged and wealthy
manufacturer OF New Haven, and another
millionaire OF New York, who frequents
the Turf Club in that city. Shepard be-
came jealous OF his vile, with or without
cause, and the result was that the two
separated several months ago and, have moi
lived together since.
woRrulER HUSBAND THAN WIFE.
When the breach occurred Shepard
went to live at hotel, and his wife re.
maincd in the cottage with her child. The
husband called frequently to see bis child,
and on such occasions Mrs. Shepard left
the two together. Some flour months age
she gave up her cottage and went to live in
the Selden House, at New Haven. The
breach between her and her husband was
constantly widening, although 1t was very
apparent that Shepard idolized his wife.
Some three months since when the rumor
that she was about to seek for divorce
was first spread, q friend Of Shepard'sspoke
to him on the subject. He cried like q
baby then, and said that he had always
been true TO her, and should always love
her devotedly. He acted like a child that
was being punished, refused to believe that
his wife would ask for divorce, and
seemed to be confident that she would ul.
timately return TO live with him.
Mrs. Shepard's lawyer in moving for the
divorce was l.. N. Blydenburg, who figured
as the counsel for the Malley boys in their
trial for the murder oil Jennie Cramer. The
cause for which the divorce was granted Ia
said to be abandonment, Shepard making
no counter.chargts. Great efforts have
been made to keep the fact that divorce
has been granted secret in Connecticut,
the lawyers and the Judge doing all in their
power 10 conceal the record from the pub.
lie. II is thought by some that Mrs. Shep.
ard, having disembarressed herself OF her
plebeian husband, will be welcomed back
to her fathers house, but the general
opinion is that ex.Gov. Hubbard will
never recall the denunciation which he
pronounced against his daughter four years
ago.
DoCroR MoNCK.