The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
A SOCIETY SENSATION.
An Innocent Looking Personal Item Starts a
COnsoi In Search of His Wife.

An Innocent Looking Personal Item Starts a
Consol In Search of His Wife.
Philadelphia Record.
The guests of the fashionable Aldine Hotel
were thrown into a fever of curiosity few even
ings ago over what for time appeared to be the
elimination of sensational affair in high So
ciety, but which was in reality nothing
more than series of singular complications
growing out of personal item in Philadelphia
newspaper. The paragraph was as follows:
Mrs. Il. M Iilghman. very attractive young
lady, prominent in Boston, is spending few
weeks at the Aldine Hotel. accompanied by her
sister, Miss Nagle, of Cambridge, 1t is under
stood that Mrs. Tilghman will shortly change
her name. and become a permanent resident of
Philadelphia"
Tilghman, who was in Washington on business
connected with the State Department from his
consular Office at Berlin. He had just arrived
from Europe on flying business trip, and when
he read this little bit of society gossip he was
startled.
Mrs. l.. M. Tilghman was his wife, who lad
been unable to accompany him abroad because
of her i'll health. He supposed that she was in
Boston
Although his business at Washington was
pressing, the astonished and puzzled vice-con-
sul-general made haste to board express train
and arrived at the Aldine Hotel early in the
evening. Visions OF divorce proceedings upder-
taken in the dark were floating before his dis
turbed mental vision, and when he demanded of
the clerk to be shown I'D to Mrs Tilghman's
room, that gentleman was considerably aston
ished, and insisted that the visitor should first
send ND his card.
In the meantime Mrs. Tilghman had been in
formed that her husband was on his way to
Philadelphia to unravel the apparent mystery,
and she was awaiting his coming with inn
patience not unnixed with apprehension. On
the stairs on his way to Mrs. Tilghman's room
the husband met Mr.. Ed T. Dudley, the Cam
den attorney, who was engaged in consultation
with Mrs Tilgham and her sister over some legal
papers when the telegram announcing the vice
consul generals amazement at the public nfor-
nation that his wife contemplating chang
ing her name and his intention of coming to the
city to investigate the matter, was received by
the wife.
The presence of alawyer at this juncture seemed
to give further color to the newspaper story and
Mr.. Tilghman's perplexity increased. When the
affair seemed about to reach sensational climax
brief talk between the husband. his wife and
his sister-in-l law set the whole matter straight.
Mr.. Tlighman returned to Washington the next
day, and sailed for Berlin last week.
The explanation of this remarkable and an
moving affair. which created some what of SEN
satlon in Washington, Boston and this city, was
given in this wise: Mrs. Tilghman, who is mem
Der of one of the weathiest families in Boston.
came to this city and placed herself under the
care OF one of the most prominent physicians
for treatment Her health was such that she
could not undertake an ocean voyage hence
she was unable to accompany her husband to his
Berlin Office. Some person at the hotel had seen
the lady, and, hearing that she was young
widow from Boston, who was about to wed a
prominent Philadelphia. discussed the affair
with some friends. In due course Of TRANSMITS
sion. and turnlkg and twisting. the informa-
i tien fell upon he ses one r. snkinsss
his most pleasing vofn the reporter announced
that the lady Was about TO change her name, !"
again. The husbands friends IN Washin gton
noticed the item, and promptly informed him of
the fact After due investigation, the above facts
were elected, and now all interested enjoy the
affair as great joke