The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-01
DEACON cuEsrEn;s LOVE soRApE.
A Pretty French Woman, An Intercepted
Letter and an Injured Husband.

A Pretty French Woman, An Intercepted
Letter and an Ipjurcd Husband.
CHICAGO, Dec. Sl.-This city was lately
the scene OF events which led to scanda
which is now the sensation in Blooming
ton, III. Hiram ]. Chester, one Of Bloom.
lington's prominent business men, a mem.
Der Of well known firm, OF high stand.
ing in social circles and the head Of re
spectacle family, was arrested last Satur.
day on warrant brought by Albert II.
Thompson, an attorney, OF Chicago,
charging Chester with having committed
adultery in Chicago last week with Mrs.
Fannie Sheldon, a French woman, for
merly. OF Bloomington, but who has later
resided in Colorado.
The husband Of the woman says he will
press the criminal charge against Chester
and will also bring an action against him
for breaking up his home. Mrs. Sheldon
has slender form, brilliant black eyes,
dark hair, olive complexion, and the pro.
verbal vivacious manners Of her country
women. Her husband claims that Chester
although the latter is deacon in the
Presbyterian church Mt Bloomington-laid
siege to her heart, aud finally estranged
her affections. lie also says that two years
ago he and his wife kept n millinery store
know as "The Vile de Paris" in Bloom
ington. The business proved failure.
AIR. Vaduer, brother to Mrs. Sheldon,
and after whom the town Of Nadner, Col,
il. named, secured the postmastership at
that place for his brother-in-law, and the
Sheldons moved out there. About a fort
night ago the pretty French woman told
her husband that her brother had written
her to meet him in Chicago. As the latter
is wealthy, owning considerable property
in Connecticut, Mr.. Sheldon, innocently
enough, rather encouraged her,in going.
He himself set off on some business in
another part Of the State, leaving direc-
lions for his mail TO be forwarded to. Ala
mosa, Conejos county, Col.
In the first batch Of correspondence was
a letter to his wife in masculine hand
and postmarked Bloomington" He says
he opened it and found il to be letter
from Chester to his wife, asking her why
she did not reply to his letter Of u former
date, making an appointment with her in
Chicago, and offering TO meet her at any
time she saw ct to name. Sheldon at once
concluded that his wife had answered the
letter, but that Chester had not received it
till alter he had written the intercepted
epistle.
SheldonSays he at once started for Chi. |
cago, and, securing tho services OF de.
tective, found his wife and Chester in
room at q hotel which he named. There
was a stormy scene. MIR. Sheldon states |
that Chester finally offered him 5000, |
payable in three years, as compromise. |
The latter's lawyer, Mr.. Thompson, rs.
serts that the same offer was made in his |
hearing. Suddenly, however, Chester be- |
came obstinate and refused 10 do any
thing without lawyer. Sheldon, his |
wife, Chester and the detective sat up oil
night talking the matter over. Thomp.
son says he warned the detective Of the |
danger there was in holding his prisoner
without .'warrant, and it9getherz thRylsetl
of to the Grand Pacific Hotel to tinda
lawyer. Failing inthat they went over to
the detectives Office, aud there the chief,
becoming frightened, let Chester 60.
Last Saturday Thompson, armed with
a warrant sworn out before Justice
Arnd, went down TO Bloomington, but
Chester's friends got out q writ Of haJeds
corpus: Judge Reeves, OF the Circuit
Court, decided that the man was unlaw-
fully held because Of defect in tho war
raht, since it did not charge him with liv-
ing in state OF open adultery.
Chester was released and began three
suits OF 5000 cach-one against Albert
II. Thompson, one against Sheldon and
one against Justice Arnd. He claims tits
a conspiracy to blackmail him out OF So
600. Lawyer Thompson, however, says
that new warrant will be issued against
Chester in which there will be no flaw.