Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29
A Doub,y Married rCoup,e.

You love my rival, too"
A DoubIy Married couple.
Chicago Times: A dispatch from
Lynn, Mass, says. The officers OF st.
Paul's Methodist church were treated
to a story yesterday about N OF their
members-Howard Hall, Of Union court
which rivals in man the tale Of
EnochA Arden. A vell dressed woman
Of fifty, with her son, a man named
Hawkes.. a painter, in Summer
vile, waited upon one Or two
of the number, and stated
that her name was Hawkes., and
that she was the wife of Robert Hawkes.,
who she believed was drowned in Nova
Scotia twenty-seven years ago, but
whoms he had found alive III the flesh
in theperson of Howard Hall, VIII o has
been a devoted class leader in the
churc md a member for some years.
The woman said she married Hawkes.,
alias Hall, in a little town in Nova
Scotia, at the age of sweet sixteen.
They lived together in pleasant we'd
lock for four years and nine months,
until one afternoon, when Hawkes. left
his pretty home to go and see his moth
er-in-law. A river, deep n wide,
flowed between their domiciles. Hawkes.
disappeared. Search was made, but he
could not be found. AT last it was be-
lieved that he was drowned. The wife
was left to struggle alone with two
boys, and subsequently a third son, who
was born in the month of March in
which Hawkes. left. For twenty-four
years the wife mourned her husband.
1872, but sent her savings home to her
children. One boy died, but the eldest
and youngest survived and grew up to
mans estate. Three years ago Mrs.
Hawkes. married again. In the summer
of 1887 a man came into the Nova
Scotia village. He saw John Hawkes., a
sash and blind manufacturer. He said:
Hello, John Hawkes., I'm your
father" Mr.. Hawkes. did not
ssMy father is dead" The man
stuck to it, and Mr.. Hawkes. said he
would have no more to do with him.
The stranger wen his way.
A little laterin the year, Mr.. Hawkes.,
OF Somerville, was seen by a man who
called him by name, and claimed he
was his father. Mr.. Hawkes. replied,
as his brother had, that his father was
dead. The man said he wasn't. Mr..
Hawkes. sought out his mother. From
his story she recognized her long-iost
husband. She went to a lawyer, and,
after getting counsel, left her second
husband. Then she suffered from sick
ness for many months. On getting bet
er she set out with her Somerville sont
in search of his father. Yesterday
she traced him to Lynn. She went
up to the little house on Union court,
int there she saw Howard Hall. She
recognized him at once. There was q
pretty lively circus. Hall got on his
ear at once. His name was Hall, and it
was not Hawkes.. He had but one wife,
and she and his three children were
living with him. He threatened to
Mrs. Hall objected and advised him to
be quiet. She wanted to know "what
woman she had seen him with the night
BEFORE" Hall is charged with ogling
the girls from the steps Of his uphol-
stery store on Union street.
Mrs. Hawkes. got no satisfaction and
went to the church officers. They ad-
vised her to see the city marshal, and
she saw Mr.. King this morning. De-
tective Rowe took the case. The grand
sequel may follow.
ABoy Bridegroom.
New York Sun: An extraordinary
divorce suit recently settled in the Lon,
don courts brought out a very remark
able story which led to the divorce
which has been granted by Justice Butt
TO q petitioner. Richard ID. Fisher has
only just reached his twepty-first year.
He was sent in 1878, when not twelve
years old, to the boarding school of Mr..
Gall, at St. Leonard's. Ten months
afterward an improper intimacy sprane
up between the youthful Lothario and
Emily Kate, the daughter of Mr.. Gall,
the principal. At the end of 1881 Fisher
went from Calls school TO Kings col.
lege. Emily Kate came to London to
SEQ him, and told him she was threat
ened with disgrace through him, and il
would be only honorable In him tc
mary her. Fisher, who was only tif,
teen, concented. and they were married
by special license, the Clergyman being
a relative of the girl.
At that time, as the evidence showed
the husbands financial resources con.
sisted entirely Of one shilling n week
which his father allowed him as pockeI
money. This he was obliged to spend
% keep up his dignity at school, and the
young woman was Obliged to maintain
the baby. When the marriage was dis.
covered by the boys parents in 1884 he