The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-13
THE GREENFIELD MONSTER.
How He Transformed a Young Wife
Into a Raging Vixen.

The green.eyed monster has broken. up
more than one household in Butte, and has
made miserable many lives. Circumstan.
tial evidence has more thar once led to a
severance of the marital tie, ruined happy
homes and made life burdensome to people
who were happy until mutual confidence
wal lost. A case illustrative OF how easily
it is to be deceived by circumstances was
described yesterday to a MINER reporter
by a we'll known local limb of the law.
Not a hundred miles from South Butte
he said, "Mr. and Mrs. P reside. They
are a well-matched couple. The husband
has been kind to his handsome wife, and
the wife is proud of her manly husband.
She is not given to jealousy, he places the
utmost confidence in her, and dur
ing the eight years of their married life
not a cloud darkened their connubial hap
piness until one day last week there
occurred an incident that came near land
ing the wife high and dry on the shoals OF
despair. A lady residing next door was
taken suddenly i'll, and Mrs. P remained
with her until a late hour. The following
day she spent the most OF the morning
there, and ran in after dinner, leaving her
husband in the house, he having remained
returned he had gone up town. Going into
her chamber, the first thing that caught her
eye was a lady's collar on her
bureau. The wife examined it
found it was not her property. and in a
moment she was transformed from a calm,
happy m to a raging, jealous vixen.
She was satisfied that her husband had
betrayed her confidence. and her love for
him vas instantly turned to hatr1d. She
felt as if she was ready to die, she felt SO
miserable and unhappy, but she was a
woman with whom to think was to act.
She determined to secure a divorce, and it
was for that purpose she visited me.
When she entered my office and exhibited
the collar, her sole evidence of her hus-
bands supposed Inconsistency, she wept
violently and stammered out the story l
have just told you. l reasoned with her,
told her not to act too hastily, but to
keep the matter quiet until she secured
stronger proof that her husband had
deceived her. l succeeded in calming her,
and she returned to her home-just then
it was a hell for her-to carry out my in
structions. l did not believe in her hus-
bands peridy, and trusted that matters
would set themselves right and restore
happiness to the unhappy people. was
not deceived. A few hours later my office
radiant face told me that she had found
peace. She was accompanied by her hus-
band, who looked vexed, but still happy.
The wife told me how she had been
undeceived. She had returned to her
home, and was sitting in her bed
room, cursing man'sduplicity and woman's
blind devotion. when there entered a thir.
teen-year-old daughter of her sick neighbor,
who bounded into the room with the re-
mark, oh, Mrs. P-,you left your collar in
our house last night and carried off mine;
here is your property The words fell
like a thunderbolt upon the wife. She re-
membered all she said, and her base accu.
Stations. She became repentant, and when
few moments later her hus-
band entered the house, she told
him all-of how near she came to making .
public exhibition of him and herself. It is
safe to say that in future she will look be-
fore jumping to the conclusion that her
husband is q base deceiver."