Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-05
THE SONS REVENGE.
A Story With a Very Dramat-
ic Climax in Pittsburg.
IT BEGAN IN IRELAND
With the Cruel Desertion of Young
Wife rs Years Since.
TIE HUSBAND is FOLLOWED HERE
By Man Whom He Last Kissed as His
Baby in the Long Ago,
THE HUSBAND is FOLLOWED HERE
A REMARKABLE ROMANCE UNFOLDED

A Nemesis has at last touched the heels
of a Pittsburg man. 1t was &c years coming,
and the footsteps that were dogged led from
ireland to this city. Superintendent Nc
Aleese and Detective Sol Coulson scented
this end of the trail, and the denouemeut
they brought about laid bare romantic
story.
The reader must be taken back 2s years,
and be introduced to the parties in the rural
village of Collocney in County Sligo,
Ireland There, in the year 1859, lived
Bridget Keogh, a young country lass of Is,
and a neighboring boy of about the same
age. He was handsome specimen of Irish
manhood, and his rollicking nature made
him favorite with all the girls.
But it seems he thought more of Bridget
than all of the others. The two were mar
ried on August 8, 1860, in the chapel at
Collooney by the parish priest. The start
in married life was not bad one for the
young couple. There was bit of arabic
land that could be worked 10 advantage, and
then there were the COWS that came to the
husband as his wifes dover. In Ireland, espe-
cially in those days, wealth was counted by cat
tie as well as by cash. and only those who know
the value of a few COWS to the peasant can ap-
preciate the importance of that dover. In due
course of time the small family was increased
BY the addition of bouncing baby boy whom
they named James.
THE GLASS DARKENS.
All went well for time but presently the
young husband began to think of following in
the footsteps of others by coming to this cour-
try. The States had charm for him that his
humble Irish home did not possess, and at last,
mnch to the distress of his wife, he resolved
to 90.
III make money and have you with me in
less than year, Bridget" he said as they stood
on the wharf.
God grant it." was the fearful reply of the
young woman as she held up her little 2-year-
old boy to be kissed.
From that moment until this Bridget has not
seen her husband When she returned home
she found strange man driving off the COWS,
sad then learned for the first time that her
husband had secretly sold them. leaving her
passed, but no word came from the missing
man to the wife so anxiously waiting for the
means TO Join him in the new world. Another
year closed and still no sign nor scrip from the
absent one In the third year there came a
letter. written in the almost illegible hand Of
her husband The emotion of the lonely wife
and mother when this letter came was great
She was not then forsaken or forgotten. The
e H. h1o- rAr~1n
fellow hie enemies had represented him tobe
A CRUEL DISAPPOINTMENT.
She could not read it, for the children of the
peasantry in those days had small chance for
education. There was no money in the letter. |
That night Granny Keogh and all the aunts |
and cousins were invited to come in and hear |
the letter read, for its contents were not to be
made known until all were present. Around |
the turf fire the friends gathered, but the let |
ter was a cruel disappointment to all and a |
crushing blow to the wife. Slowly and pain |
fully the ''scholard" of the village spelled it |
out and revealed the heartleSSness of the |
writer 1t was a proposition to let him have |
the marriage lines and accept sum of money |
in exchange for the precious paper that proved |
her to be an honest woman. The letter went
on to state that the writer had prospered and
had thoughts of forming other ties: therefore
if Bridget would mail him their marriage GER
Jifcate and agree to think Of him no more he
would send her several hundred dollars, but
the marriage lines, the proof of their marriage,
must be the price.
Then the wife saw clearly the character of
the man to whom she had confided her life
She took the letter TO the good old priest who
after reading the infamous contents, solemnly
sdjured her never to part with the Zines in
her bosom. A letter scorning the proposition
was sent in reply, and nothing more was heard
Of the whilom husband.
THE SCENE SHIFTS.
In the same month that Bridget had been
deserted, she became the mother of another
baby boy. In year or SO Mr. and Mrs. Keogh
decided to tempt fortune in this country, and
they came. bringing with them their daughter,
Mrs Bridget, and her two children. They set
lied in Providence, R. l., and in all the long
years that have passed since then they have
lived honored and respected as good citizens.
Mr.. Keogh followed the calling of mason and
his daughter. the deserted wife, became laun-
1ress, working night and day to provide for the
,hildren abandoned by their heartless father.
L was a hard struggle but the courageous
woman battled bravely and won. Her boys
rev up to youth, acquiring with good edu-
alton habits and tastes that make good men
md good citizens. To-day they are two splen-
lid specimens Of manhood, looking what they
IRE, honest artisans, intelligent and honorable
'oung men.
A few months ago there visited Providence
N visit the Rev. Father ODonoghue.
,riest of the Pittsburg diocese, whose cure is
1 Greenville, Mercer county. He made the
cquaintance of the young men, and being
truck with their fine appearance and remarka-
lie intelligence he inquired about them.
earning somewhat of their history he remem-
,ered meeting a man of comfortable circum-
tances in Pittsburg who bore the same name
nd to whom the brothers bore a strong resem-
lance. He made known his suspicious and
romised on his return to look up the Pitts
urger He did so and was confident that the !
nan was the same who married Bridget Keogh
o the village of Collooney 2s years ago. From
lis report other inquiries were made by other
ersons and word came that he was man of !
smily. The Pittsburg police were communi.
ated with at this juncture.
All the above information comes from Provi-
ence Messrs. McAleese and Coulson, OF this
ity, give the following version of the matter
0 DISPATCH reporter: Some three months
20 the Inspector received a letter from a
riest asking if a liveryman answering to GER
ain descriptions as to time of passage from +,
reland was in the city. The priest asked that !
A QUIET INVESTIGATION ]
e made without a disclosure of the cause. I
nd promised if the man were found to tell a
1em something more, McAleese put the '
latterin the hands of Detective Coulson, and
e after a time located his man. They then
lformed the priest, and he told them the {
anted man had deserted his family 26 years l
20 in Ireland. I
Subsequently a letter, in fact several Of them,
ame from the son, James, from Providence,
. l., stating that he and his brother had sup
orted their mother for many years. and >
anted the old man brought to book. A week
20 or SO, since the young man put in appear
nee and McAleese turned him over TO Coul-
N who introduced the son to the father. s.
There was scene. This was very graphically IL
sscribed by the son. James, to a reporter of Il
le Providence B' e7,tng Telegram when he 81
turned home, and that paper prints the fol- e
wing account of il:
While walking along Market street the detective
pied the form of fine, handsome man Of about
'fHere be comes" !" said he. ''who?'' asked u
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