Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-17
RICH AND RACY.
A Sensational Elopemsnt, Mar
riase and Divorce.
TALE OF REAL LIFE M CONNECTICUT
The Daughter 81 an Ex-Governor Married
to a Goachman, Denounced BY Her Faith
er, and Separated After Four Years
of Married Life.

er, and Separated After Four Years
Of Married Life.
HARrFoRD, April 16.-The sequel to the
elopement of Miss Nellie Hubbard, the
youngest daughter of ex Governor Hub
bard, and her marriage to her fathers
coachman, Frederick Shepard, four. years
ago, has Just been made known to her
friends here, who learned for the frat time
to-day that Mrs. Shepard had secured
divorce from her husband. The story Of
Miss Hubbard's hasty action, in deceiving
her father and marrying man so far be-
meath her, not only in the social, bur in
the Intellectual scale, has had the ending
which such stories generally do have
Repentance ~ Leisure
for what was done in haste. Miss Hub
bard, who was at the time a young girl
scarcely IS years Of age, was secretly mar.
ried to Shepard at Westfeld, Mass, on
Marcn IL, 1879, while her fathers family
were absent from Hartford. Shepard, who
was about 80 yeas old, had acted as coach
man for ex. Governor Hubbard for about q
year and half. So far as his character
went, very little could be urged against
him, except that he must have been accus-
toned to associate with characters of doubt
full morality. He was a young fellow Of
good address, and did not drink or swear,
but he was very illilerate. Miss Neliie un-
dertoOk to
Teach Him TO Read and Write.
and while engaged in this laudaOle effort
ha m oy-
ined that she lost, her heart. The fact of
the marrisge was not made known TO ex-
Gov. Hubbard until March %. eleven DAYS
after the ceremony, when the marriage
certificate was sent to him by the grooms 8
parents. His daughter was preparing to
leave the house TO join her husband when
this document was placed in his hands.
The heart.brOken father confronted her
with the certificate, and she then Candidly
acknowledged that she was married to
Sbepard, declared, with the enthusiasm
of a woman in love, that her husband
was fully worthy of her, and left the
house to Join him despite the attempts Of
the
Grief Stricken Father
TO restrain her. From that time to this
Nellie'S name, it is said, has been q forbid
den 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 Communication from either her or her
husband.
risge had died away, Mrs. Shepard fell
quietly out Of sight OF her former aristo-
cratic friends, and she would have been al.
most forgotten but for her proceedings to
secure q divorce, which have once more
revived the memory of her romantic mar
riage. After the wedding the couple re-
mained in the city for about two years.
For few days they kept themselves per-
fectly secluded, and Shepard feared to show
himself in public lest he should be
AssauIted by His Former Master
snd iather-in-law, but finding that the eX.
Governor took no more notice OF him than If
he were dead he secured a clerkship in q
| Hartford shoe store, where he worked
faithfully. His young wife had plenty of
money at this time, some that was hers in
her own right, and more, it is said, from
the purse Of her heartbroken mother, who,
while bowling meekly to the will of her
husband, could not suppress all love for
her darling child. The couple lived very
happily for a time, and a child was born to
them, a girl, to cement their union. About
two years ago they removed 10 New Haven,
where Shepsr started large livery stable
On State street with
Money Furnished by His Wife
and her friends. The stable is connected
with large hotel, and yields quite reye-
nue. to Shepard, who is still running it.
They engaged a cOzy cottage in pleasant
street. and here for a time all went we'll.
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 every
thing ran in counter directions. Shepard
attended strictly to his business, and Mrs.
Shepard, who was not received with open
arms by New Haven society, showed her
contempt for the fashionable world, OF
which she had formerly been belle, by
purchasing u dOg-cart and a handsome
pony. with which she appeared in the
streets, elegantly attired, on every pleasant
dsy.
The Beautiful woman
naturally attracted admirers, and among
them one is said 10 be an sged and wealthy
manufactures Of New Haven, and another
a millionaire of New York, who frequents
the Turf Club in that city. Shepard be-
came jealous Of his wife, with or without
cause, and the result was a separation sew
eral menths ago. and they have not lived
together since.
When the breach occurred Shepard went
to live at hotel, and his wife renamed in
the cOttsge with her child. The husband
called frequently to see his child, and on
Sc ch occasions Mrs. Shepard left the two
together. Some four months ago she gave
up her cottage and went to Live in the
between her and her husband was con-
stsnt!y widening, although it was very ap-
Parent that Shepard
still Idolized HIS Wife.
Some three months since when the rumor
that she was about to seek for a divorce
was first spread, friend of Shepherds
spoke to him on the subject. He cried
like baby then, and said that he had al
ways been true to her, and should always
love her deyotedly. He acted like child
that was being punished, refused to be-
lieye that his wife would ask for divorce,
and seemed to be confident that she would
ultimately return to live with him.
Mrs. Shepherds lawyer in moving for
the divorce was L. y. Blydenburg, who
figured as the counsel for the Malley boys
in their trial for the
Murder of rJennie Cramer.
The cause for which the divorce was grant
ed is said TO be abandonment, Shepard
making no counter-charges. Great efforts
have been made to keep the fact that di-
yorce had been granted secret in Connecti-
cut, the lawyers and the Judge doing all in
their power to conceal the record from the
public. 1t is thought by some that Mrs.
Sheppard, having disembarrssed herself of
her pleoian husband, will be welcomed
back 10 her fathers house, but the general
opinion is that eX Gov. Hubbard will nsv.
er recall the denunciation which he pro.
nOunced against his daughter four years
ego.