The evening world., 1888-09-13
THEY STOLE HER BOY AWAY.
MRS HUNTER-KEENE IN SEARCH OF HER
YOUNG HUSBAND.
His Name IL Walter Keenc, md lie Fell
In Love with md Married His BoardInu-
House Mistress, hut His Family Persuaded
Hin to Desert Hcr-she II Forty-oue and
He Il Nineteen.


Him to Desert Hor-she Is Forty-one and
He L. Nineteen.
ESPECIAL To THE EvrSrso voRtp.l
PROVIDENCE, Sept. ia very lively social
sensation has followed thism marriage notice,
which appeared in yesterdays papers:
KEEsE-lIpSTER. AT the rectory, Church Of the
simonson, April 81, 1858, Walter bullock Keene 20
GeorRiana Appleton Hunter; widow OF Capt, g. NJ.
Hunter, United States Custom House; uaul hter OF
VIM. Stuat Appleton, neice Associate Justice
samuel hlaI CHORD, Of United States Supreme
Court, OF Washinoton, ID. &.
The honeymoon was passed at the shore
resort known as Riverside down, Narragan-
sett Bay. Now the bridegroom, who is nine
teen years of age, is in ON unknown hiding
place, and the bride of forty-one years, with
five children. fingers hereabouts awaiting de-
v%elopments and daily taking the advice of
Judge Harris of Harrisville.
Keene is the great grandson of Josiah
Keene. one of the old and substantial farmers
of North Providence. and the grandson of
Charles Keene. who at one time induced q
young girl to marry him, the alleged clergy
man being a student at Brown University.
The girl, discovering the deception, made
q fuss. Keene's father forced HIM to do her
justice, and after their legal marriage and the
birth of n child she took her own life be-
cause Of his ill-treatment. The child, a
bouncing boy. lived. was brought up by his
fathers people, married and n boy was born
to him, and This last boy was Walter Bullock
Keene, the hero OF this domestic drama.
His aunt was a member of ne wealthy Bull
lock family, of Rhode Island, and she held
for him n large sum of money which fell TO
Walter when he became of age, and it is now
more than doubled by the investment in
profitable property for a long term of years.
The aunt in her own name owned q half
dozen cottages at Riverside. the shore re ,ort
n few miles below this city, and there she
requested Walter to come for his vacation
when he should come from school.
Then the aunt took the youth to New York
and they visited the Bellevue Medical School
and arrangements were made for his tuition.
A suitab Q boarding place was looked for,
and finally Aunt Bullock placed her address
upon the list and Waiter was taken TO the
house of Mrs. Georgiana A. Hunter, whose
house was reported n good one and very re-
specialize.
Then, with all arrangements made ~satlsfac-
tory to both parties, the aunt came back to
Providen Q and left tine youth to secure his
medical edu q ian.
Young keene suffered from sickness, a sort
OF malaria. in the latter part of the winter
and was attended by his clearinghouse mis-
tress. Who very attentlvely nur, ed him.
When Keene had recovered, he proposed
marriage to Mrs. Hunter. a strong at.
tachment having sprung mp between them.
She finally assented and went to Brooklyn
where the ceremony was performed very
quietly.
When the summer vacation came around
Walter returned to Providence to visit his
aunt at Riverside. Mrs. Hunter soon fol
lowed and with her the five children and the
luggage OF her household. They all went to
Riverside. and a. Aunt Bullock's cottage
was too small a cottage owned by her directly
opposite was taken BY Mrs. Hunter. He
passed tho time with ler, and the entire party
Al ant the 1aya an wItar md land tppafher
keene's steplather, Il well-known officer
in the town of Lincoln, became curious, and
looked into the matter. He never suspected
the couple were married, but he questioned
Walter closely about his relations to Mrs.
Hunter.
Keene became angry at the pressing inves-
tig ltion by his stepfather. and openly ad.
mittei the MARI age, saying that he should
live with his wife and the five children
This resulted in q bad state of affairs in the
family and immediately efforts we're made
to separate the couple.
After q weeks. lime Keene came to the
conclusion that he had bet. er submit to a
family rule and he decided upon q serara-
ton. The remembrance of "A wife and five
children. upon q medical student was pic
tured to him aud submission resulted. Mr..
Keene disappeared, having departed in the
night in company with q friend.
1t ID reported that there are only three per-
sons who know whe Keene 8 staying at
present, but from a member of the family the
secret is divulged that he has gone to Europe
to another medical university.
Just be 'ore Keene's departure he gave a
written notice tn his aunt that he had no
claim upon the house where he stopped with
the Hunter family. This was secured by
Aunt Bullock to prevent trouble after the
boy, flight.
Mrs. hunter-Keene is a young-looking
woman. with a lively air and evidently full
of Joy when not in trouble, as at pI esent.
She comes from a well known and prominent
family. and, as stated. Is the first niece OF
Associate Ju tice Blatchtord. OF the United
States Supreme Court. She is a member of
the Appleton family, Of Baltimore and
Boston. She is also we'll connected in New
York, and her immediate family there have
been conspicuous for many years.
Her five children are bright. looking and of
swell appearance. They are variously aged
from five to seventeen years.
Mr.. Hunter saws that nothing can perpet-
ually separate her and her husband and that
she will have detectives, if required, to find
him.
She also states that she can procure several
witnesses in New York who will testify as to
the love that existed between her and her
husband.