The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-11
SARTORIS-GRAaF-BUsH.

SARTORIS-GRAAF -BUSH
Some years since a little johnny Bull by
the name of Sartoris married Miss Nellie
Grant, and, therefore, became notorious
His father-in.law was President of the United
States, and therefore bigger man than Vic
torla. A great many people thought Nellie
Grant ought to have Married an American
youth. They were sorry that she bestowed
her heart and hand upon an Englishman,
and recent rumors, showing that Nellie's
johnny is puppy or something worse have
served to create widespread sympathy for
Nellie. The fellow Sartoris is evidently in
very bad scrape. The facts seem to be that
he has met an adventures, and that she has
enthralled him. An effort has been made to
disentangle Sartoris from the wiles of the
Bush woman, but so far the perplexities and
embarrassments which surround the case
become more intricate. The Chicago Inter
Ocean says:
One version of the story, as it first came to the
public, represented that Mr.. Sartoris became &C.
quainted In England with Mr. and Mrs. Algernon
Bush, and that in April last Mr.. Sartoris aud Mr.
Jesse Grant came to this country on the same
was reported man of sixty or sixty-fve went
irto business at Green Bay, his WIFE, a beautiful
woman OF not more than twenty-five, taking a
house at Milwaukee. Here, one report says she
was visited every Saturday by Mr.. Bush and his
brother, who brought Mr.. Sartoris down with them
to spend Saturday and Sunday with them at the
house. After some weeks Mrs Bush LETT her house,
ana without paying for the furniture came hur-
riedly to Chicago. Soon afterwsrd Mr.. Sartoris
came TO Chicago, and, 1t is alleged, advanced her
money to meet payments which her husbands
embarrassment had prevented her from making.
The sudden departure OF Mrs. Bush from Mlwau-
kee excited the gossips there aud the fact that she
had interviews with Mr.. ssrtoris il Chicsgo gave
rise to all the rumors and wild stories that have
been in circulation here.
Here we have It that an old man sixty or
sixty-fye years OF age has beautiful wife of
twenty-five years. The young wife, instead
of living with her old man, takes house in q
great city. Not being able to pay rent she
abandons the establishment aud visits Chica-
go, where she meets Nellie Grants husband,
who supplies the needed funds to pay
rent, etc. AS might be expected, the plot
thickens. Busy heads make dizzy heads
Mr.. Bush appears and disappears. Mr.. Sar-
toris comes to the front and stays there. He
is the son-in-law of On Industrious citizen"
He is indissolubly connected with Grant
He shines and stinks like dead mackerel
10y moonlight. There seems to be remark
able amount of Bush in the matter. Just
now old man Bush, the reputed husband,
and Mr.. Bush, his brother. have dropped out
of sight, and as for Mrs. Bush no one is able
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Miss Melbourne or Miss or Mrs. somebody
else. II Miss Melbourne, she was formerly
known as belle and fast young woman in
St. Louis; if Miss Greene no one appears to
know why, and If Mrs. Bush no one knows
where or how she became so. If Miss Mel
bourne, she fell out of q window in st. Louis,
broke her arm and cracked her skull, re-
covered, went to Washington, struck a
Southern Senator and finally departed for
Europe with pocket full of money to re-
turn as Mrs. Bush. She makes contra
dictory statements in regard to her hush and,
at one time saying he is dead, at another
time that he was to put in an appearances at
Chicago. Sartoris is also contradictory in
his explanations, saying at one
time he had no acquaintance with
her, and at another time that he has only
visited her as he would any other acqusint-
ance. SIN the meantime" says the Inter-
Ocean. while there is no open charge of
misconduct on the part of either Mrs. Bush
or Mr.. Sartoris, no evidence is submitted to
show that there is Mr.. Bush in existence.
He has not been seen or heard from in Mil
waukee or Chicago, and when his wIfe's
name is being banded about it would seem
that he could not we'll afford to remain in
seclusion. As the matter has gone so far,
Justice to that little woman, whom, as Nellie
Grant, the people learned to love, and Mrs.
Bush herself demands that her father, her
husband or Mr.. Sartoris himself, or all
three, take the matter in hand and by proper
explanations stop the torrent of damaging
talk" 1t may be possible for Sartoris to
make proper explanations and stop the
torrent of damaging talk" but it does not
look that way. The probabilities are that
the boastful Englishman has been guilty of
shameful infidelity to his wife, nd has sue
ceeded thereby in bringing the name of Gen
eral Grant promine, tly before the people in