St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
A QUEER CASE.
A Saratoga Girls Sensational
Marriage Last Summer.


A strange story is told by Brooklyn
young man concerning an adventure he
had in Saratoga last summer. Out of
this adventure has grown suit for the
annulment of a marriage.
While the Brooklyn young gentleman
was sitting on the piazza of the Grand
Union hotel at Saratoga last summer, a
beautiful young girl, a Jewess, passed.
She had luminous black eyes, dark wavy
tresses, clear olive complexion, and
and a 1.-THE, shapely figure. AS she
passed him the young man threw at her
a flower, and observed that she stopped
and picked it up. The following day
he waited patiently on the piazza, and
when she appeared, offered her bOu-
quet, which she accepted. From this
meeting grew an intimacy which de-
veloped into wedding engagement.
The parents of the young lady, who
were Hebrews, objected to her marriage
with the young man, who was Roman
Catholic, but the objection did not seem
to be too serious to be overcome.
At all events the young couple agreed
that they would be married privately,
and for that reason, accompanied by
servant in the employ of the young
lady's mother, the couple drove to Balls
ton Spa in September and were married
by clergyman i'll that village. They
then returned to Saratoga and the young
lady went to her mothers home and the
had been boarding. They met several
times thereafter. The young lady, it
is said, requested the clergyman, when
the marriage was performed, not to
make any record of it, but he declined
to agree to this. On the threshold of
the door she took the certificate and tore
it in to fragments, as it is asserted.
While the young husband was walking
the streets of Saratoga week after his
marriage man walked up to him,
tapped him on the shoulder. and said !;
what do you meanT' The bride
groom, startled and amazed, asked for
an explanation, why" said the stran-
ger. 'what do you mean by going off
with my wife and marrying her?" The
Brooklyn man said it was true that he
that he had married anybody's wife.
"Well, you have" said the stranger,
land will hold you responsible for it."
The bridegroom went at once to the
house of the BRIDES parents, confronted
| the mother, and demanded to know
what the story meant. The mother re-
piled that it was true and upbraided him
for abducting the young lady, who was
already tied by the marriage bond.
A suit for the annulment of the
marriage was brought in Brooklyn and
| the case has been sent to referee. 1t
| is said that some interesting testimony
has been drawn out and that sensational
developments are expected before the
case closes.
The young lady tells her friends that
she was not responsible for what she
did; that she was under the influence of
| the young man, and that when she en-
tered the carriage to drive to Ballston
he gave her a large bouquet, and she be-
lieved some sleeping powders that he
had placed upon the blossoms and that
this bereft her of her senses. This re-
markable statement is only one of the
many peculiar phases of the case. When
the facts are made public they will
create a sensation.
The young bridegroom was engaged
in manufacturing business, and at the
time of his marriage was supposed to be
well to do, but he had business reverses
and his friends charge that the loss OF
his property may have had something tC
| do with his sudden domestic complica
tons. At all events the case is queer
one.