The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-08-30
MlTcHEtL'S SAD CASE.
Abducted and Married, and Now Seeking
Divorce from whomeyer He Welded.

Abducted and Married, and Now Seeking
Divorce from whomever He Welded.
Last week a young man named Nit
chell applied to the courts for n divorce
II his tale is true, something should be
done for him on account Of the wrongs
he has suffered and the patience with
which he has endured them. Mr.. Nit
chell tells the court that just about
year ago he was wandering beneath the
pleasant shades of Evanston, neither
thinking nor doing ill., when two strange
men accosted him and told him they
were detectives and had a warrant for
his arrest. He followed them submits
sively to place where they met third
man, who told Mr.. Mitchell he must go
at once to Chicago and there be married
to young woman whose name, he says,
he had never before heard. He was so
paralyzed by this information that he
made no effort to get his freedom. He
did not cry out and implore the aid of
the bystanders There would have been
humanity enough in Evanston to rescue
him from his impending doom If he had
cried out that he had been kidnapped
and was on his way to the altar of sacri-
fee.
He was carried to Chicago hotel and
there locked up. Instead of ringing the
bell, getting boy and sending him for
the police, this remarkable young man
waited in gloomy patience for the in
evitable. He did not stick his head out
Of the window and cry for help, nor
scribble note telling of his forlorn con-
dition and throw 1t into the street hoping
that some one would pick 1t up and has
ten to his relief. He did none of the
things which innocent young men do
when they have been snatched away
from their friends and immured in
gloomy dungeons. At last there came
minister whom he had never seen before
and young woman who was quite as
much Of a stranger to him. A marriage
ceremony was performed, though he fire.
quently interrupted it with his protests,
and when it was over he was told to go
his way, which he did, and since then he
has been musing over the whole mex
plicable affair. He has not seen his wife
since, and doubts if he would know her.
1t is an unpleasant position for man
to be in to know that he has wife and
yet not know who or where that wife Is.
For all that he knows she may suddenly
begin to run up bills in his name. She
may compromise his honor. She may
burst In upon him when he is In the
pleasant society of ladies or Is having a
jolly time Of it with men, and claim him
as her own. A wife lurking somewhere
In the darkness Is a constant menace.
A man In such plight may meet and
fall in love with his wife, and apply for
a divorce from her, 50 he may marry
her. All this Mr.. Mitchell put up with
for a year, and finally asked the court to
put him out Of his misery.
The nervous young men Of Chicago,
after reading Mr.. Mitchell's story, will
probably turn pale when they think that
what has happened to him may happen
to them; that they, too, may be alb
Quoted and married. Heiresses have
often been carried off and given hus-
bands against their will, but If young
men, especially wealthy ones, are ex-
posed to a similar fate in this enlight-
ened ags, in city like this, western
civilization is failure. Instead of car
rying arms to protect themselves from
robbers, men will have to carry them
to defend themselves from detectives,
ministers and brides.-Chicago Tribune.