Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-14
A SAD DENOUEMENT.

The End of the Domestic MeIodrama of
"Traskey, Bergh & Co."-Trsskey Goes
to Jail, and His Poor Wife Goes to
Work.
CHICAGO. August l3-Before Justice J.
X. Prindiville Mrs. Adelaide Bergh, whose
name of late has appeared SO frequently in
public print, was discharged from the
custody Of the law which it was claimed she
had offended by unlawfully living with a
young Russian by the name of Traskey, as
his wife, while Traskey was held to the
Criminal Court in bonds of 8, 900. Mrs.
Bergh passed quietly from the court room
without even glance at young Traskey,
while the latter was led away to the county
Jail to await the action Of the Grand Jury.
Remaining in the court room was
A Little sad-Eysd Woman,
apparently about 28 years Of age, whose pale
wearied face and detected air could have
awakened only sympathy in the heart OF
any who bcheld her. AT her side, seated
upon one OF the benches, were two pretty
children of and years, respectively, their
blue eyes open and their childish lips parted
in wonder at the buzz and stir Of the court
room. This was Mrs. Henry L. Traskey
and her two little children, the wife Of
man vho basely deserted her and clothed
and clothed another woman, his mistress, in
velvet, and her child in silks and gold orna.
ments, while bis own wife was toiling day
and night, striving by her needle and
by whatever other honorable means she
could to exc out ali existence for herself and
babics The little woman left the court room
with her sister and one or two sympathizing
rushing crowd of pedestrians that throng
Clark street She, least Of all, dares
to think of what the future has
in store for her. Alone in the world
her husband, who should be her defender
and protector. held bv the authorities on
criminal charge, her two little ones to pro-
vide for, and the disgrace Of their fathers
conduct TO shild them from, her future GER
tsinly lacks the silver lining that might por-
tend an easier path in life hereafter To
her credit be it said,
Mrs. Bergh
feels deeply her humiliation. The news
that Traskey had wife and children living
seemed to crush her completely, for beyond
doubt she had hoped to marty ihe man, who
through extending to her sympathy aud
kindness when it was most needed, induced
her to forget her woman purity so far as to
become his mistress in the expectancy of
one day becoming his wife.
The Denouement
in this romance in real life is a sad one
A husband and father tar of in Dakota;
with only two of his three children to re-
mind him OF the once happy home his in
sane jealousy had wrecked. A woman, the
wife of the husband in Dakota, here in
Chicago with one of her three children; a
bright-eyed little girl to remind her Of years
ago when she left Norway happy ex-
pectant girl the bride of Robert Berghl
of their aferward happy and SUD
se1uently disrupted home in Ds-
kota. A young nan behind the bars of the
county jail, charged with basely deserving
one woman, the wife he had sworn to
cherish. and with grossly deceiving
another. And last. q sweet faced
little woman, with shadow Of
suffering and anxiety clouding her
look. brave determination in her eyes,
clinging lovingly to the two blue-eyed ba-
bies her unfeeling husband had deserted,
and striving to win an honorable livelihood
for them both, no matter at what sacrifice to
herself