The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-09
TORMENTED BY MAIL.
TROUBLES OF A PORTLAND COUPLE.
How an Engaged Young Lady Is Perse.
cuted by an Anonymous Fiend-Her
Lovers I" Wife and Child"-~
Singular Perslstency.
Portland cMe., Special

Portland CNie.) Special
ave have received, all told, more than
800 such letters" said young lady to
the representative of this paper, as she
handed him a piece of paper about two
inches wide, and in quality the finest note.
On 1t were traced in fine, delicate hand,
these wprds
Your lovers wife and child are in st.
Louis" [Signedl "SPY."
This was without date or place. Con-
nected with this letter, If letter it can be
called, is a mystery and romance. Some
eight or nine months ago young man OF
this city became engaged to young lady,
also resident here. He is about twenty.
eight and she twenty years Of age. One
morning, some three weeks after their en-.
gagemenr, the young lady received let.
ter with the Portland postmark on the en-
velope. Opening IL, she found piece OF
very fine note paper, about two inches
wide, on which were written these words:
"Your lovers wife and child are in Boston,"
tsignedl "SPY."
Tha young lady was shocked at this
revelation of her lovers perfidy, and she
sent him away from the house when he
made his next call in a very abrupt man
ner, butit did not end there. The first let.
ter was followed by many more, ana at
last the much-tormented girl fell sick and
for many days her life was despaired of.
Her lover went to the house during this
time. and learned the cause OF his dismis.
sal and of her sickness.
He went vigorously at work and succeed.
ed in demonstrating the fact that he never
had a wife or child, and in the end the
young lady was made to see the grea.
wrong she had done him and he was re-
stored TO his former place in her affections,
and by that time it had become manifest
that the letters emanated from an insane
brain. They continued TO come, In fact
they came all the time. They were found
folded into the morning paper, they were
found in baskets of groceries left at the
house, and at one time twenty-five of the
notes, rolled together, were found in the
front yard. Every possible effort was made
! TO discover the author Of the letters, but all
in vain. The notes bearing the Portland
postmark W, re followed by others sent
from outside the city. In several instances
letters were sent from Baltimore, two had
the ST. Louis postmark, some thirty came
from New York and one from Chicago.
Stranger still, one came from San Fran.
cisco. There is absolutely no trace of a
purpose animating the writer, otherwise
than to give annoyance TO the parties con-
cerned. For example, one day the notes
will say, "Your lovers wife and child are
in Boston," and perhaps the same day
another letter will locate them in 81. Louis.
The writer seems to have but one thought,
and to repeat it parro,-like in many forms.
The letters received through the mails are
but small portion of the total number,
many having been thrown into the house
or left at the door.
The Sunday Times is not delivered at a
very early hour in the morning, and must
be tampered with, II at all, in broad day
light, and yet recently in one copy of that
paper were no less than FIVE Of those notes.
Four Of them located "the wife and childD
In Boston, and one carried them to Provi.
dence. Tho manner In which some of the
notes have been introduced into the house
has been not little strange. For exam.
pie, the young lady, on entering the dining.
room recen ly, found two notes on her
plate, both reading as follows:
Your lovers wife and child are in Boston.
lSignedl Spy,
The girl was astonished. No one had been
in the room since she left 1t to 20 TO the
parlor, and the door leading from the par.
lor 10 the hall had been wide open, as well
as that leading from the kitchen TO the din.
ing room, and the outer door leading to the
kitchen had been locked. Wnen she went
to the parlOr the person who carried the
notes to the dining-room must have gone In
by the kitchen door, and in order to have
reached the kitchen must have passed by
the low windows of the parlors. The
family are not aware that they have an
enemy. No member Of either family of the
young people have been outside the city for
many months, and suspicion does not rest
upon any one at present. The young peo.
pie propose TO avoid all notoriety aud the
case will not be made public.
ave shall be married next month"; said
the lady, "and l guess the letters won't
come any more. Any way, Wen risk all
the writer Of those letters can do, sane or
insane.v