The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-05-10
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So he was arraigned at Genos. Italy,
for the 'abduction'' of his af1ianced
bride, Miss janice G. Gamble, was found
guilty aad condemned to an imprison-
ment of fifteen months. This lady had
been known to him since 1885. Going to
London i'll 1850 he resumed friendship
with her, which, through absence abroad
had been in measure broken off. He
fel! violently in love with her, and she
seems to have fully reciprocated his af-
lection. He followed her wherever she
went and urged his suit violently. Nor
was she unwilling. More than once she
promised to beco me his wife. She even
went SO far as to name tie happy day,
but rs the time approached she invented
excuse after excuse for further delay.
The Chevalier grew desperate. After
being foiled and made a fool of from time
to time he grasped an opportunity Of
enticing her, with her maid and courier,
into his apal tmcnt at his hotel in Genoa,
and would not allow her to leave without
her written promise that she would
marry him on a certain day. The prom
Use was given. The day was fixed. They
parted on the best possible terms. Next
day Miss Gamble applied to the British
Consul and made 4 charge OF abduction
against him. Mr.. Wikotf appealed to
the American Consul, who offered him
his sympathy and protection. Mr.. Wi
koif, thinking that the whole affair was
probably joke. surrendered to the au-
thorites. After a long trial he was ad-
judged to be guilty, and. as mentioned
above was imprisoned for fifteen months
The British Consul was particularly
spiteful against him, and it was in point
of fact, owing to his bitter hostility that
Mr.. Wikoif attributed his own conyic.
ton. \ personal description Of Miss
Gamble and the Chevalier was given in
the Genoese report of the trial, which is
not uninteresting. THE prosecutriX,'
the report said, was OF middling size,
slight figure, an interestin. countenance,
animated eyes of hazel and brown hail.
She was dressed in black silk and was
raped i'll a mantle, which she threw
aside when she entered within the rail.
ing. She wore a white bonnet and had
an eyeglass and a smelling bottle in hel
hand. The accused was well dressed
and was about forty years of age, of tall
stature, brown hair, high forehead,
blue eyes, a regular nose and pensive
countenance. Nh Wikotf endured his
imprisonment like man. In the pre-
face to MY Courtship and Its Conse
qucnces, Il most entertaining book,
which he published to refute the calum
MES circulated against him, he says
Il should be wanting in self respect as
well as a natural sympathy for woman
SO long my friend. and more recently my
betrothed, if did not feel profound
repugnance at giving to the public de
tails of So delicate and personal nature
To avoid so painful an alternative | tn
dured on odious and cru,l Imprisonment
in silence. From the hour of my liberia
:ion, in February, 1853, to this moment
have appealed earnestly and often tt
the equity and sympathies of Miss Gam
BILE, entreatng her to co operate with mt
might be revealed without invading the
sanctity of our previous relations. Whe
ther from policy or Indifference she
turned deaf ear to my pleadings. My
sufferings and forbearance alike failed
aud was compelled to choose between
submission TO undeserved injuries, with
the loss of my prospects in life, or the
full aud undisguised revelation of my il
starred courtship and its uncomfortable
consequences From such an ordeal
would fain escape. but Fate is memorable
and weld to her decree
In another passage, in eXcusiug him
self for his somewhat ludicrous chase
after his nam"rata across the European
Continent, he says:-"it is pleasantly
recorded that even the stern and willy
Cardinal Richeleu fell so far victim tt
the caprices OF royal etiquette that. t,
the scandal Of his cloth and his own hu
initiation lie was induced to venture oil
a pas seul for the amusement Of Anne o
Austria and to the delight of her cour
tiers concealed behind the arras. 1t il
less strange. then, that person profess
ing to be neither willy nor stern, ant
albeit not unused to the melting mood
should have been led such merry dance
over hill and dale in the delusive hope 0
finally grasping his ignis fatuus."
BY this time Mr.. Wikoffs connection
! with the Foreign Office has ceased; there
was an end of the salary of $500 year
''drawn quarterly" and though he wrote
! many letters of inquiry to Lord Palmer
| ston the Chevalier could never discove
| the reason of his dismissal He attri
buted it, however, to the British Consu
| at Genoa, backed up by others whom h,
had in some way offended.
Personal.