Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-14
BIGAnlOrs DIR. LINN.
He Wins a Wealthy widows Heart and
Some of Her Fortune.

He Wins a Wealthy Widows Heart and
Some of Her Fortune.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. "a handsome
Philadelphia widow, with a fortune Of
100000, her marriage to an advenfurel
who already had one wife living, the big
amists successful plot 70 get $4,000 from
The wealthy widow, his fight and the an
nulment Of the second marriage. are The
elements u q rare romance which culmi-
mated in this city yesterday.
Mrs. Harriet :. Wilkinson whose hus-
band. a very wealthy merchant OF this
city. died ten years ago, has been travel
Ing in Europe for several years. 4 large
fortune, including over $4,000 worth Of
real estate in Philadelphia, enabled her 70
crafty a lGng-cherished desire 70 visit all
the great capitals Of Europe. At Paris.
in 1ss3. she met DR.. Hugh J. Linn, Of this
CITY. "A brother Of the Secretary Of the
Republican state Central Committee Of
Penusylvauia. He made love 70 the
wealthy widow. won her heart and her
promise 10 become mis- wife. The Decor
then sailed for his Quaker city home,
with q promise 20 get dis Alters in shape,
and promised . return for the wedding N
the spring. In April, loS3, Mrs. Wilkin-
son went over TO London, and few days
after her arrival Linn reached there from
New York, and on May Q they were
married.
Within a month after the marriage the
newly-made husband. pleading urgent
business. sailed for New York. He had
not been in this country long before he
wrote o. the wife that he was engaged in
a scheme u build 4 new airline railroad
from New York u Boston, and was about
10 De appointed Treasurer Of the company
il be could invest $1,000 iG the new en-
terprise. and asked that Mrs. Linn should
send him over that amount at once. as his
own affairs were temporarily involved.
The lady at once made up her Wind -
come over herself, and arrived liz Philadel-
phia ia September. On Oct. 2, after listen
ing 10 the eloquent story Of her husband,
she went with him 10 the Philadelphia
Trust Company aud borrowed upon col
lateral security the $1,000 which he rep
resented IL was necessary for him % put
w ia the new Boston Airline. The trust
company paid OYER the loan in a check
drawn To Inns order. which the cOnfd-
ing wife passed over u hin. 4 few days
afterward be accompanied her 70 View
York a1d put up az the Metropolitan H.
tel. where they remained for three weeks.
At the end Of that time Linn told his wife
that he had business in Boston. and bid
ding her an affscti9Hate goodbye left her.
He never returned. Instead OF going q
Boston be came 10 this city, nd having
been Identified By she messenger Of the
Philadelphia Tr-st Company, went % the
Philadelphia Bank and ha1 the $1,000
check casned in 800 bills. With this
ne left the city, and his whereabouts
since have been "A mystery. Mrs. Linn
came % Philadelphia AID consulted
counsel. H discovered that Linn had
lived an adventurous life. often On the
continent o. Europe, sometimes in the far
West engaged in mining specUlatIOns.
once Eew YORK police surgeon. and
thus had knocked about the world a. hap
hazard for years, AM that be mad been
married FOR eight years 70 Miss Mary
snaugLnv, whose father lives az No. 3-22
Locust street, although the fact Of the
marriage had not been generally known.
On May 10, five days after Inns biga-
nous marriage 10 Yrs. Wilkinson in Lon
don, the real Mrs. Lin became a mother
Mrs. Wilkinson a once saw how she had
been duped and TrOnged. All efforts 10
md Linn were fTuitiess, and the first Mrs.
Linn bod also disappeared. Mr.. Saaughny
Is Wealth. and well KuY-@ -
Yesterday the Court q GG-5imI,nIa' D. 70, u.
This city ordered a decree annulling the
L0ndoei marriage.