The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-06-14
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM.

Summer has Cone-A Remarkable Case of
Bigamy-Some Nice Young Men-Brook-
lyn Bellies Observation-Disclosures Reports
of Mr.. Tililen's Condition-Miscellaneou
NEW YORK, June Z. 1884,.
EDITOR CHIEF:
After long and weary waiting the sum-
mer seems really to have come at last; and
during the past week people have. been
going about the streets mopping their
faces and asking sympathizing friends if
they had ever seen anything like it. The
avalanche of straw hats and linen coats
has been enormous, and the new summer
helmets Of our model police have been the
wonder and delight of half the servant
girls in the city. Speaking of our noble
police and their helmets, reminds me that
wicked police sergeaD. destroyed the
peace of worthy citizen by walking off
with his other half. I really can't say his
better half, for she left behind her hus-
band and three nice children, and the
wicked policemen left an excellent wife
and four responsibilities. One can't help
rejecting that this was a nice fellow to
take care of a fellows property-why a
red-hot stove would not be safe from him.
This week brought to close one of the
most remarkable trials that has occurred
here for years. During the war, a young
man enlisted in Brooklyn and went to
the front with his regiment, leaving a wife
and two children behind him. After
little time all trace of him was lost, and he
was supposed to have been killed in some
of the great battles in which the army was
then engaged. Ten long years the wife
mourned for her bold soldier boy, and at
last gay widower, with a couple of chill
dren, became interested in her, proposed
for her hand and was accepted; but pre-
vious to the marriage the widow told her
prospective husband just exactly how she
was situated. The gentleman declared
himself perfectly satisfied and married
her. Ten years of welded bliss sped by
and three children were born to them,
when one day the last husband Mortified
his wife by informing her that her first
husband was not only alive, but was at that
moment actually living in the city of
Brooklyn with another wife and was the
father of several childHen. The news
nearly crazed her till she was confronted
with her alleged husband, when she swore
that was not the man to whom she had
L fbof aIo bo1
never seen him before. The presumptive
husband was equally positive that he had
never seen his presumptive wife; he had
not only never seen her, he did not know
her, and would not recognize her from a
side of sole lesther if he met her in the
street. Notwithstanding this, however, on
the trial before a referee, there were a
number of people swore positively that
| they were well acquainted with the soldier
boy, and that he was the indentical individ-
ual that husband No. 2 asserted he was.
The woman is certainly deserving of SYM
pathy. She has had two husbands and
now she has none, but she has several uu-
pleasant reminders in the shape of five
children whom no one seems anxious
to father. hardly know where the justice
comes in-her second husband has got his
divorce on the ground that she had hus-
band living when he married her from
whom she had never been divorced, and
she is estopped from suing No. 1 for
bigamy or support, for she has sworn in
court that he was not the man she was
and can only excIaim with Mr.. Weller,
:.samivel, me boy, beware of the vidders."
We are under obligations to Chicago,
this week for ridding us of elements we can
we'll spare. It is quite possible for the past