The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-05-27
TERMN-BY NAIL.
WOMAN,S FRAHTY,
Al Displayed by the Wife Of . Colorado
Man.

Some time ago the Aspen (Col.l
Times mentioned q collision between
Nelson Fink, of that city, and . law
yer named Bell. The cause of the
conflict was the fact that Bell had es-
traDged the affections of Fink's wife,
and had caused her to wander from
the straight and narrow path of recti-
tude and virtue. To 60 back of the
meeting between the injured and en-
ragged husband and the despoiler of
his happiness. It seems that the
guilty pair had for some time made .
trystingplace of q house in the lower
part Of town. Their guilty meetings
had been carried ON for some weeks,
the husband during the time being
entirely Unconscious of his wife's in
fidelity. All at once she took no
ton to visit her parents IN Lawrence,
Kan. The unsuspectlng husband,
willing and anxious to do any
thing that would promote his wife's
happiness, consented to the visit.
The result was, in q few days she
took the stage for Leadville, where
her husband understood she would
take the train for the home of her
childhood. The next day Mr.. Bell
rolled out for the great carbonate
camp; nothing was thought of this,
as it might have been purely acci-
dental, until Mr.. Fink, the indulgent
husband, was the recipient of tho
news that Bell and Mrs. Fink had
registered at the Grand Hotel, in
Leadvllle, as Mr.. and Mrs. Bell. 1t
would be impossible to describe the
modification of the unsuspecting and
afectionate husband when this
terrible announcement was made to
him. At first he refused to believe
it; his faith in his wife could not be
shaken by such calumny. and not
until other evidence that could not
be disputed had been given him
would he entertain the thought that
she whom he believed was the best
and purest of her sex could be guilty
of such q charge.
The fearful truth, however, came
in such q way that his eyes were
opened and he realized that his home
was broken up, that his happiness
was destroyed. and that he was q
ruined and dishOnored man. A few
weeks after, Bell had the temerity to
return to Aspen, and it was on this
occasion that Fink met him and in
flicted what chastisement he could
before Bell retreated and locked him
self in his room until next morning,
when he left the town and has not
since returned. To come back to Mrs.
Fink. After staying in Leadville
day or two with her paramour, the
two went to Denver, from which
place she started east. That was the
last that was heard of her until re-
Gently, when her husband, who had
in the meantime begun proceedings
for divorce, learned that she was an
inmate of q house of ill-fame in Kan
sas City. kept by Fanny Wilson.
to the Sheriff of Kansas City,
to be served on the recreant wife. A
photograph accompanied it in order
to assist in identifying the woman,
as she was doubtless gUiDg under an
other name. The summons and
photograph were given to Deputy
Sheriff Slttington, Of Kansas City,
and the officer STATED out to find her
He did not have long to search, for
sure enough at Fanny Wilson's
bagnio he found the object of his
search. She was known among her
companions in shame as Kitty Bell,
having clung to the name of her
destroyer as if she was loath to part
from it. The officer showed her the
picture, and asked her if that was her
photograph. At sight of it the
woman turned deadly pale; she
trembled and sank almost helpless
on sofa. As soon as she was able
to speak, she gasped:
Eyes, give it to me-"
The officer, however, was firm In
his duty, and read the summons to
her. She begged and pleaded tor the
picture that identified her with the
place of degradation where she was
found, but without avail. The sum-
mons was returned to Aspen, duly
and the woman that was
once an ornament to her sex, is now
the defendant in q divorce case.
This is not the first escapade in
which q woman was concerned that
Mr.. Bell has had. He succeeded in
creating quite sensation in Lead
Vile some years ago, on account Of
variety actress named Edna Yelling
ton, q full account of which was pub
lished in the papers of that city. His
last adventure has destroyed the hap
piness of a family, and forever blasted
his prospects among the people where
he had made his home. It is under
stood that he is anxious to return to
Aspen, but the fear of meeting Fink,
who still thlrsts for vengeance, pre-
vents him.