The evening world., 1888-06-05
Off WITH A WIDOW.
Hoboken's Boss Common Councilman
Elopes.
His Companion Mrs. Meyer, Who
Lived Across the Way.

Mrs. WinEes on the Verge OF Insnuity-She
snys Mrs. Meyer Is Not Good Looling,
but Others Describe Her as Prcpossoss-
irg-The Couple Sailed on n Hamburg
steamer Last Thursday.
William ]. winges, the Chat rman of the
Hoboken Common Council, is enjoying life
on the high seas in the company Of a pretty
widow, with whom he has eloped, and the
little city across the river is in a torment Of
excitement in consequence.
Tn Chairman and the widow, Mrs. Eva
Meyer sailed on the Hamburg steamer Ham,
monia Thursday morning. They are regis
tered on the company's books as Mr.. and
Mrs. William j. Winges.
The genuine Mrs. William J. Winges " ia
on the verge of lunacy at her husbands de-
serted home, rs Garden street.
Winges left the house Thursday morning
without a farewell and she hardly expects to
see him again.
WinRes is one of the prominent men of
Hoboken. He has represented the First
Ward in the Council as o Democrat for many
years and owned a great deal of property.
His deserted home is a four story dwelling
Va " oppSuhuhNSs " an IA
tensive city property.
Directly opposite No. 10 lived Mrs. Meyer
with her aged mother. Her husband has
been dead only q few months.
Mrs. Winges. in tearfully telling her story
TO. q reporter this morning, declared that her
faithless spouse had courted Mrs. Meyer be-
fore she was q widow.
The de serted wife is a portly German wo.
man of pleasant face and manners. AT first
| she declined to say anything, exclaiming:
FOR Coda sake. don't ask ma can't
tell you. All there Is that he has gone. On
the steamers books you will find 'Winges
and wife, but l am the wife, and here 1
am
Gradually the reporter drew her out. She
admitted that her husband had lately lived
at home only I" of and on, " and had almost
ignored her. He had at one time declared
his intention of going to Europe, but had not
she learned after his departure.
She referred the reporter to tenants Of her
husband for such information as she did not
care care to R ivs. w These people people argued t that tr if
when he returned and SO said nothing.
At Mrs. Meyers home.no one was found.
Neighbors say that her mother, too, has been
absent since Thursday.
and a number of brick dwellings. She is
thirty-four and very tall. As to her personal
looks, opinions differ. Mrs. Winges said. ex-
tending {. her es. mouth to her ears with her fin
scribe her as most prepossessing.
The news of her elopement with Winges
did not leak out until this morning. Winges
had been seen very little about tho city for O
week before the pair sailed. He was not at
the meeting of the Council Tuesday evening,
but was seen Thursday morning. The truth
is now common gossip.
In oil probability o new Chairman of the
Council will be elected. Winges left no no.
tice of his trip, and his leave-taking is inter-
preted as a resignation of the Office.
He was chairman of the Board of Water
Commissioners q year ago, when Register
Murphy decamped with SAC, 900, and fears
that the courts might hold him jointly re-
sponsible with the bondsmen, is q possible
reason of his sudden fight.
He acted as agent for Brewer Rupert in
Hoboken, knew every one and was known by
avary npa