Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-07-13
BYE BYE BABY dear.
A Little Domestic Episode In a New
York Family Over Twin
Baby Boys
A Wife, a Husband, a Mistress, a
Police Court and a Talk
About a Pistol.
Skeletons that Grin at Midday and
Walk in Daylight Into
Homes and Lives.

New YORK, July IA woman giving
her name as Adelaide Leathers, was pris-
oner at the Tombs Police Court before JUS
tice Solon B. Smith, yesterday morning.
She was of ladylike appearance, dressed in
a quiet black costume, and was very pru-
dent in her demeanor She is tall and grace
ful, and while not particularly pretty, has
very expressive face. The complainant was
C. C. Leathers, portly gentleman, with a
blonde goatee and mustache, and military
air. He charged the woman with annoying
him at his place of business, No. l6l Duane
street.
Justice Smith turned to the woman and
asked her for an explanation Of her con-
duct. She claimed that she was the wife Of
the man beside her; that he had abandoned
her, and that she had called upon him to
ask where and when she could see her chill
dren. The man grew excited as he heard
these statements, and in somewhat innO-
cent speech said that the woman had been
in past years a mistress of his, and that
when he had parted from her she bad
brought suit in the Supreme Court, before
Judge Donohue, asking for a separation
and settlement; that upon full hearing
of the case Judge Donohue had de-
MED the application saying that she had
entered into improper relations with Leath-
ers and was not entitled to any claim upon
him. Justice Smith asked the woman
whether this was so, and she replied that
she was the wife Of the complainant in fact,
without any formal ceremony; that she
had left her home for him had lived with
him as faithful loving wife for seven years,
had borne him two children, and that ulti-
ma,elv he had turned her away aud taken |
her children from her The man said in |
response that she had no legal claim upon |
him at all
The woman said, in somewhat impa- |
tent tone, We'll, If am found guilty, what |
is the penalty
at will be $40 fine this TIM but if it oc-
ours again you will likely receive a sentence
Of twelve months So be careful was the |
response from the Bench.
Without further word the woman took
utT Ntll 4
and from ii drew $40 bill, which she |
placed on the desk, before the Judge and |
turned, in company with lady who had |
accompanied her, to the Court. The last |
words of the Judge were evidently ringing in
her ears, and she said, With determined
way in an undertone:-
Twelve months Yes indeed it will |
not be to a court that will be brought He |
will be made to suffer for his conduct even
if my babies are made orphans
Mr.. Leathers at Home.
Mr. LeatherS went back to business, and |
in the evening returned home to his apart |
ments at the Vienna fiat The apartments
of Mr.. and Mrs. Leathers are on the third |
floor and are luxuriantly furnished. Mrs
LeatherS is a petite lady and was very |
much excited over the occurrence of the day |
before. The woman had come and said she |
wished to have a quiet talk about the man |
they both loved and also about her twin
babies According to one version Of the |
interview talked on until amid the odds and |
ends which ornamented the room she |
caught sight of Photographic group Of
two sweet boy baby faces. Grasping it she
kissed il again and again, pressed it to her
bosom and declared it was picture Of her |
own children.
why, you are mistaken about that, said |
the lady of the house, that is a group OF
my husbands children by his first wife
They cannot be yours.
They are mine, say and they have
been stolen from me. Where are they?
was the hysterical reply
A Pistol as a Persuader.
The visitor seemed determined to carry
away the portraits against the protest OF
Mrs. Lesthers, and it is said that the latter
lady was compelled to take pistol from
drawer and use it as n persuader before the !
woman could be induced to leave the house
The idea, said Mrs. I.eathers, "of that
woman coming into my house and acting in
that manner. What claim has she on my |
husband. when she was never married to
him. would have had her arrested at that |
time if could have got an officer"
Mr. LestherS, who WAS sitting by, said: !
The whole story is simply one Of black
mail Jus, as any man in this city is likely |
TO be set upou by some woman with whom
he has hcen intimate before marriage