Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-17
SCANDALOUS.
raE WICKED WAY OF THE WORLD.

TIE WICKED WAY OF THE WUKLD.
Rem .rkabie Developments Brought Forth
In Divorce suIt-COnneIIsvi:ie's
Baptist Churca-A Former Lan-
castrian IN Trouble.
St. Louis Dispatch to the Press.
The developments in a suit for divorce
are causing sensation just now. The
plaintiff is William Waddingham and the
defendant his wife, Pauline. MIR. Wad
bingham has been a resident of St. Louis
all his life, and is the possessor of great
wealth, being reputed to be worth from
$500, 600 to S40O, 900. He met his wife for
the first time in st. Louis about thirty
years ago. She was then known as Pau
line Hulett. They were married on the
3Oth of August, 1853. The plaintiff al
leges that shortly after marriage he dis
covered that his wife's repute was not
entirely satisfactory, aud for this reason
he left her, having lived with her. less than
a year. She went to reside in Pultney,
VT, where, according to the allegations,
she led questionable life, though he re-
mitted to her for over twenty years SlCO
per month. A short time ago he acci-
dentally discovered that at the time he
married her she had another husband,
one Chas. r. Gavin, still living, and it
was upon this ground that he brought
suit for divorce.
In 1S43, Gavin and Pauline Hulett lived
together as mau and wife. Shorty after
| this period Gavin wandered eastward, and
| being caught in an act of grand larceny,
was sent to the Auburn penitentiary for
three years. While he was in prison his
wife went to the bad and he became Sc rt
of wanderer, serving shortly thereafter a
term in the Columbus penitentiary for
counterfeiting. For the past few years
his family and acquaintance have nearly
lost sight of him, and his mother, who
| had not seem him for thirty years, sup.
posed him dead.
In response to the demanding charges,
Mrs. Waddingham enters general de-
NAL. She alleges, in her answer, that she
was never married to Chas. II. Gavin, but
that cousin of hers, who greatly reSem-
bied her, named Martha Jane Haskins,
was the one who married Gavin. AS to
the testimony concerning her habits of
life in Pultney, she simply says that the
witness swears falsely. Gavin has been i'll
st. Louis for several days, though his
presence was kept rather quiet. Monday,
was the day set for a hearing of further
| Ut pO0lGlOnS LII VI GuC pitsihUiiiS sshN
defendant has been duly notified
to be on hand at the Office OF
Mr.. Waddingham's attorneys. The
purpose of Mr.. WaddiEgham was to sur
prise the defense by the production OF
Gavin. He and his attorneys, with Gavin
were ON hand before ten o'clock. At that
hour the defendant, with her attorney, ar.
rived, and scene intensely dramatic in its
details eusued. Mrs. Waddingham, whC
is we'll preserved woman, seemingly
about As years of age, and of small and
shapely figure, came into the room with a
smile on her face. certainly unconscious OF
the plot that had been laid for her. Gavin
was standing against the wall and facing
the door when the woman entered the
doorway. lie looked her directly
in the face but gave no sign of rec
ognition. She gazed at him for a moment
as if she had suddenly been confronted by
an apparition, then threw her hands into
the air and staggering toward corner o
the room called out in frantic tones
"Charles ~ "CharleS - and then fel
on the carpet in a hysterical fit. Afte,
being revived she looked wildly arount
and said, in scarcely audible tones, g.
} thought he was dead" Gavin stooc
there all the time, with his hands behint
his back, stariug at his wife, but saying
not word. His stolid face betrayed nt
emotion whatever. and he looked Oh witt
the Indifferent air of a spectator wilt
| had no concern in what was trinspiring
!, When the lady was Leu away he cOclIy re
marked, "That's her. He Was then pu
on the stand and his deposition proceeded
"A Fatal Call.
The most sensational as we'll as melan
choly episode of this extraordinary do
mestic tragedy has not yet been recorded
1t was the intention of the plaintiffs at
: torney to place the defendant Cd the stant
and try to obtain her admission under
oath, but it was discovered that she hat
returned to Mexico on Monday night
and this was impracticable. TO leave III
further doubt on the question OF the pre-
viops marriage, Mr.. Nichols left for Do
troit Thursday night to procure additiOna
testimony, if not the actual record. He
| took Gavin with him and it was part o
their trap, there to have him identified a.
the Charles r. Gavin who lived there il
1916 Gaviu's mother has been living il
Detroit for fifty years, her recent home
being at 101 Catharine street.
Yesterday morning Gavin and his at
torney called there to see Mrs Marsh, and
a telegraph dispatch received yesterda,
afternoon gives an account of the success
Of the call. 1t appears that Mrs. Marsh
has been in a weakened state OF healtf
for many years and on account of her ag'
and many family affairs had lost vitalit.
both of body and mind. A short time ag'
she lost her favorite son, lawyer in Dc
trOit, and she had believed her son Charles
dead for many years. When the two Gil
lers tapped at the door, yesterday, it Wa
opened by girl, who conducted them t
a room where the old lady was seated
She rose to receive them but th'
same moment she recognized her lost
son aud screaming out his name, fell
dead.
| FKEDERICK SCANDAL.
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