Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-12-10
BfGAMOUS DR.. LINN.
He Wins a Wealthy Widows Heart
and Some Of Her Fortune

telegram from Philadelphia, December 9.
says:-A handsome Philadelphia widow, with q
fortune of $500 600, her marriage to an sdven-
turer who already had one wife living, the biga-
mst's successful plot to get $4,000 from the
wealthy widow, his fight, and the annulment
of the second marriage are the elements Of
rare romance which eliminated in this city yes
terday.
Mrs. Harriet S. Wilkinson, whose husband. a
very wealthy merchant Of this city. died ten
years ago. has been travelling in Europe for sew
eral years. A large fortune, including over
$3.50 600 worth of real estate in Philadelphia en-
abled her to crafty long-cherished desire to
visit all the great capitals of Europe. At Paris
in 1882. she met DR.. Hugh j. Linn, of this city,
brother ofthe secretary of the republican state
central committee Of Pennsylvania. He made
love to the wealthy widow, won her heart and
her promise to become his wife. The doctor
then sailed for his Quaker City home, with a
promise to get his affairs In shape. and promised
to return for the wedding in the spring. In
April. 1888, Mrs. Wilkinson went over to Lon
don, end few days after her arrival Linn
reached there from New York. and on May 5
they were married.
Within month after the marriage the newly
made husband, pleading urgent business, sailed
TOT New York. He had not been in this country
long before he wrote to the wife that he was en-
gagged in scheme to build new airline rail-
road from New York to Boston, and was about
to be appointed treasurer of the company If he
could invest $4,000 in the new enterprise. and
asked that Mrs. Linn should send him over that
amount at once, as his own affairs were tempo
rary involved The lady at once made up her
mind to come over herself. and arrived in Phila-
Gelpha in September. On October 3. after lis
tenlng to the eloquent story of her husband she
went with him to the Philadelphia trust COM
pany and borrowed upon collateral security the
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for him to put up in the new Boston air line.
The trust company paid over the loan in check
drawn to Llnn's order, which the cOnfdng wife
passed over to him. A few days afterward be
accompanied her to New York aud put up at
the Metropolitan hotel, where they remained
for three weeks. At the end of that time Linn
told his wife that he had business in Boston,
and bidding her an afectiOnate goodbye left
her. He never returned. Instead of going to
Boston he came to this city, and having been den-
tiled by the messenger of the Philadelphia
Trust company, went to the Philadelphia bank
and had the ten-thOusaGd-dollar check cashed
in One-hundred-dollar bills. With this he left
the city, and bis whereabouts since have been a
mystery Mrs Linn came to Philadelphia and
consulted counsel He discovered that Linn
had lived an adventurous life often on the con-
tlnent of Europe. sometimes in the far west en-
gagged in mining speculations once New York
police surgeon, and thus had knocked about the
world at haphazard for years. and that he had
beeh maffieu ioF eieht years 10 MISS mary
Shaughny, whose father lives at No. 1922 LO-
Gust street. although the fact Of the maria re
had not been generally known. On May 10, five
days after Lnns bigamous marriage to Mrs
Wilkinson in London. the real Mrs. Linn be-
came mother. Mrs. Wilkinson at once saw
how she had been duped and wronged. All
efforts to find Linn were fruitiess. and the first
Mrs. Linn had also disappeared. Mr.. Shaughny
is wealthy and well known in this city. Yes
terday the court OF common pleas of this city
ordered decree annulling the London mar
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