The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-22
HIS SOUTHERN LOVE.
PROF. CORLEW MYSTERIOUSLY
DISAPPEARS FROM CHARLOTTE.


Making Love TO Pretty Teacher, the
Daughter of a Judge-The Mayor
Hears of Chicago Wife-His Sweet
Dream Over.
From the Chicago Nt,es.
Letters from Charlotte, N. c., tell an in
teresting love experience Of John T. Cor
lew one of the most brilliant and popular
| graduates Of the normal institute at Normal
Park in the class of IS. After graduating
he became prof. j. T. Corlew, Lecturer on
Physical Geography" at the Normal Insti-
tute and a special favorite of Prof. Parker.
In the fall of 1886 Prof. Corlew left
Chicago for the South, going TO New
| Orleans, and after a season spent there,
! during which time he was employed as an
instructor in the public schools, he went to
Charlotte, N c.
A special dispatch from the latter place
says that Prof Corew mySteriousy disap-
peared from Charlotte on Thursday of last
week. the immediate cause of which was a
social scandal in which he figured as the
principal.
MAKING LOVE TO A TEACHER.
He was principal of the public schools of
! Charlotte, and had under his supervision
! twenty-five lady teachers. To one of these,
the daughter of Circuit Judge, he became
engaged, and a wedding which promised TO
! he the most brilliant social event of the
season was looked forward to by the up
per circles Of Charlotte society in fond
| anticipation.
| Unfortunately for the success of the pro-
| fessor's matrimonial venture, however, a
! few weeks ago Mr.. Mcdowell, Mayor of
! Charlotte, was called on business matters to
! New Orleans, and while there incidentally
met the Public Instructor of Louisiana, who
! inquired after Prof Corlew. The second
question asked Mr.. Mcdowell was: HAS
| he got a divorce from his Chicago wife
yetr
There was dynamite in that question.
| Mr.. Mcdowell knew nothing of the
| Chicago wife" and remembering that
| Corlew was soon to wed the daughter of his
| intimate friend he anxiOusly made further
| inquiries. He was then informed that a
| Crescent City belle was expecting to marry
| Prof. COrew, who had said that as soon as
he succeeded in obtaining divorce from
a former wife in the Chicago courts the
| marriage would be consummated.
THE PROFESSORS CHICAGO WIFE.
| Mayor Mcdowell returned home loaded
| for bear. He at once confronted Prof Cor
| lew with the New Orleans story and asked
|
| reported as saying yes, he was forced to
marry woman in Chicago about nine
! years ago, with whom he never afterward
| lived, and that eighteen months ago he
| began proceedings for divorce but he had
later understood the woman was dead.
The manner in which the Professor made
his denial did not satisfy Mayor Mcdowell
and he suggested to him that he resign his
position as principal of schools The pro-
! fa &c o,,1 ioI
meeting of the School Commission, which
was called to consider it, refused to accept
| 1t. This created a war between the School
Board and the friends of the Mayor, which
| resulted in the disappearance last week Of
Prof. Corlew, and the schools of Charlotte
are without a head and society is all torn
up.
CoRLEw NEVER GOT A DIVORCE.
Corlew's petition for divorce from his
wife, Lottie T. Corlew, filed in the Circuit
| Court of Cook county Aug II, 1886, is still
on tile 1t relates that the orator ''was law
fully married to one Lottie T. Dexter" at
Washington, D. c., Jan. 10, 1871, and that
| they lived together as man and wife ten
years less four days. On Jan. -, 1881, she
| deserted him 'for two years and upward
and persists in continuing her absence"
In an affidavit accompanying the petition
Prof Corlew says he believes his wife is at
| i
she is in Kansas"
! FORGOT TO PAY FOR FILING THE BILL
A gentleman of this city who was a class
mate Of Prof. COrlew says that he paid
| Corlew's attorney $40 to file the papers in
his divorce proceedings, aud that since
| Corlew has been in Charlotte he has written
| Corlew number of times for the amount
but without success. The third time be
| dunned the professor he replied saying that
| he was making money now and would settle
| up next vacation.
| From another source the information was
obtained that girl II years old was the
cause of the separation between Corlew and
| his wife. Whether Lottie Dexter was u
widow when Corlew married her and the
| girl was her child could not be ascertained
| but it is said that Mrs Corlew deserted her
| husband because of Corlew's conduct
toward the child.
BRILLIANT MAN BUT MOODY.
"While Corlew was here" said his class
mate, "he seemed deDr eSsed about some
thing He was not a man who would say
much about his past history, and while I
was intimately acquainted with him. did
not breach the subject, because / supposed
it was dislgreeable to him. He used to go
out in the different States in midsummer
and teach in normal Institutes during what
is called teachers session. For this.
understand. he got rather good pay. He
told me he received as high as $75 and 800
a week in the normal schools in Iowa"
did you ever notice that he was flush
with money"
mo, Ican't say that did"
mot enough to pay you the $40 he owes
you for filing suit for divorced"
"Well, no. Buthe was remarkably bril-
liant man. He nodded maps of plaster of
paris for illustration in his lectures on
physical geography, and they were
| models"
The attorney who filed the papers for
divorce said he was given the Impression,
! when the papers were drawn, that Mr..
Corley was anxious to marry little girl at
Normal Park to whom be had been paying
his attentions How true this was he could
not say.