St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-28

" WV X /'NNe eEAe9 Weigh at Grand
Forks, OAK, and that to know him was
to love him. On his representation that
a marriage license could not be pro-
cured in Minnesota or Dakota. she
being under age, she went with him to
Winnipeg. where, i'll May, 1888, sha
went through
MARRIAGE CEREMONY WITH HIM,
which she believed was genu-
ine.. No autograph certificate
from the manufacturer accompanied
it, and the name was not blown in; the
bottle, but the slri took it as prescribed
and experienced all the effects COM
monty resulting from the genuine arti-
Gle. In the course of loves domesti-
Gated dream she become the proud pos
SCISSOR of new bOnnets. new gowns, pin
money; also of a black Russian lamb
overc0at. Astrakhan cap, all entire suit
of clothes and six shirts. with Mr.. Mac
Veagh's initials on the fly of the bosom,
which she still has in her possession,
with various letters and telegrams from
him addressed to Mrs. Van Il. Mac
Veagh. All went lovely until the first
of last month, when his love began to
deal in futurities, and he was only will
ing to put up s. on the margin. He left
her at Brainerd, and in letter con-
tanning remittance of So told her he
was out of job and could do
nothing more for her until he
again obtained work. Then he prom
ised to send for her, but in the mean
time advised her to get employment
under an assumed name. She tried to
hire out as an angel, and to this end
took laudanum. Her life was saved
with difficulty, and. failing to become
an angel, she became a hotel dining
room girl. as before stated. Her intel
lect sharpened by grief. picture Mr..
McVeagh had given her of his cousin
and FIVE children, together with the
memory of a registered letter she had
seen him send to a sister in FreepOrt,
ILL.,, aroused the girls suspicious, and q
communication from her to the post
master elected the news that her recre-
ant spouse has wife and five children
in that city. The girl wrote. at once
unAer an assumed name to the alleged
Mrs. McVeagh No. 1, and reply from
the eldest daughter confirmed her
worst suspicion. She was not only de-
serted but betrayed
"a WIFE IN NAME ONLY"
the man she had regretted to the
peint of self-destructiOn, bigamlSt and
her destroyer. There was little else
the girl could do but go crazy. Some
women when all else is lost don't have
the luck to follow with the loss of rea-
son, but she did, When a report of her
condition and the causes that had led
to it reached st. Paul, Mr.. McVeagh
was to the front with a denial of the
whole story. He was amazed, grieved,
indignant. ETC.. and solemnly declared
the woman to be insane, the peculiarity
of her mania a perSiStency i'll claiming
him as her husband. Claiming a given
man as her husband argues more than
one woman insane. though it argues
nothing against the legality of her
claim. Mr.. MacVeagh announced hinl-
self on the war path, and proposed fight
ing the calumny to the finish. All that,
however, was changed by the receipt
and publication of a letter from Mrs.
MacVeagh No. l. who stated that she,
too, was almost craZy-frOm claiming
Van Renslaer MacVeagh as her hus-
band for nineteen years. In the past
four years she has seen him but once.
She expressed sympathy for
THE GIRL HE HAS RUINED
and begged Minneapolis friend. "fof
the sake of us all, get the officials at
work. 1t seems | cannot wait to have
him caught" AT the same time Mrs.
MacVeagh No. publicly met his ac-
cusation that she was in the habit Of
taking morphine with the testimony
that she never took any morphine in
her life until MacVeagh took her to
physician in Bismarck, OAK, for treat
ment i'm critical sickness-a sickness
for which MacVeagh was wholly re-
sponsible. Since that time she has
never taken grain of morphine.
At this juncture Mr.. MacVeagh
'sfolded his tent like the Arab, and as
silently stole away" from st. Paul to
parts unknown, and the affair was
dropped from print. Monday afternoon,
however. telegram was received by
the girl, Annie Roche (Mrs. MacVeagh
No. p at st. Cloud from MacVeagh. 1t
was dated Detroit, Mich, and asked
her to 60 to that city at once. Upon
the advice of her attorney, Miss Roche
telegraphed in reply that she could not
leave st. Cloud for lack of money.
Superintendent of Police Pittman, of
Detroit, was also telegraphed to arrest
Macy Veagh, and hold him until an officer
from st. Cloud can arrive empowered to
take charge. OF him. Mrs. McVeagh No.
/ has been notified of the recreant'S
whereabouts. and the two wronged
women mean to prosecute their common
enemy with single soul and purpose.
A member of the firm of Beaupre,
Keogh & Davis stated yesterday that
McVeagh had not been in their employ
since the 18th of the present month.
the time that Mrs. McVeagh No. l
made her disclosure. When news Of
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