Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-03-27
INSANE INFATUATION.
A Lawyers Senseless Love for a Eal.
len WOman---SeBsatiO Meeting
Upon the Streets Of Davenport.
Stunned for His Family's sake.


Stunned for His Family's sake.
The Davenport Times of last evening
had the following sensational article:
On Saturday evening. some time be-
tween 8 and 8 o'clock. an elegantly
dressed woman. twenty-eight years of
age. stood nervously ut the corner OF
Second and Harrison streets. She was
pretty. of attractive figure, wore an air of
anxiety, but was at the same time self
possessed and determined. She was con-
fronted by man, whom she had endeav>
Ored to pass by unnoticed, and then. on
being accosted by him. she produced
pistol. which cleaned like silver as the
man looked down on it. He might have
read in her blazing eye or along the sheen
Of the weapon, Apartments for rent in
the nearest graveyard" The woman,
who stood in this defiant attitude, was a
fallen sister, yet, strange to say, she was
defending the purity. honor and happi-
ness of that mans home; she was endeav-
oring to shield that mans wife and little
ones from scandal that would have
wrecked their home.
Don't speak to mel Keep away |
warned you never to see mel Go back.
for Gods sake. to your wife and chill
drepl You will ruin theml" These ex>
pressions came thick and fast from the
woman's lips and she held her pistol in
the face of the man who endeavored to
reason with her. Finding that two or
three persons we're witnessing the scene,
and that exposure would follow, the man
walked away in one direction and the
woman quickly disappeared in another.
Here IS brief abstract of the causes
which led up to this scene.
A few years ago this woman of the
street was living in Andalusia. Her fam
lily and connections there are among the
wealthiest In Rock Island county. She
had been married. and unhappily. Her
husband was a hard drinker, and she
sought the aid of the courts for way
out of her troubles. She employed u
prominent attorney of Rock Island to
procure her divorce. He was the man
whom she adjured so pleadingly on the
street on Saturday night. He is eminent
in his profession, has a charming, devo-
ted wife. lovely children. comfortable
home, is in middle life and stands high
at the bar and in various secret societies.
What more could he wantr He wanted
the love of an outcast; and he has sighc d
for it, prayed for il on Bonded knees and
implored her in his devouring infatustIon
to fiy with him to the ends OF the earth.
When he was preparing her divorce
case they met frequently. He became
enamored of this fair client and has
blindly loved ever since The divorce
hatt@ oh oh h.
drifted away from her home. Through
slow gradations she became public wo-
man. gave herself up, but in no brazen
| way, to a fast" life
"To squander her whole summer
While twas May"
The lawyer pursued her, living with
| her as long as he could remain away from
home. She came to this city and took
| rooms up stairs at the corner of Brady
and Fifth, over Chinese laundry. The
| lawyer followed her here. His wife, with
| intuitive misgivings, tracked him to the
bower of his adOred one. She begged
him to return to his home and children.
She would forgive all because she loved
much. Her pleading was of no avail.
She then went to the police. They
ordered the woman out of town. the weak
creature who was yet woman enough to
resist his love. but the strong. sensual
adulterer was unmolested. Then she
sold out her furniture, and hid herself in
another part of the city, in order to escape
her crazed adorer. He had lost sight of
her for a few nights. The woman was
not all sin; she would not be q party to
the wreck of a household. He came over
the river and walked the streets for sev-
eral nights, seeking her vainly. He had
sworn to shoot her IL she would not be
his, and 1t was fer this reason that when
they at last met she was armed.
What will be the end Of this mad in
fatuation cannot be predicted. Phari-
sees may stone this woman; worse women
whose clandestine eDjoyments are hedged
from public gaze by social barriers may
mock her, yet, who knows that in re-
polling the wealth and resisting the love
of married adorer. her quickened con-
science sees in the tears of his hapless
wife or hears in the prattle Of his little
children. the revival Of recollections that
were the dream of her msidenhood Blu,
are now the extinguisted fires Of every
honorable hope which once burned within
her.