Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-27
Feminine Treachery.
Remarkable Matrimonial Story
Told in Omaha.
PLOT OF A GIRL AND HER LOVER.

other WAN, Drug him anu NohFrohise
Him, Then Go to the Divorce Court for
Freedom and Alimony-DetaiIs of a
Cold Hooded Conspiracy Given Away
by a Mutual Friend"
OMAHA, July 27.-Omaha society has been
startled by a sensation strange but true, in
which love, passion, matrimony, intrigue
and betrayal are interviewer. Rumors of
of the affair have been in the air for some
days, but it was not until yesterday, when
X c. Barton, son of Millionaire Guy C.
Barton, returned from his wedding tour
without his bride that the facts became
known. The plot of the story opens at
Ogdensburg, N. Y, where lived Alice
Bridges, now Mrs. Barton. She was not
beautiful, but bright, interesting, energetic,
and thoroughly attractive She had been
adopted by well-known lady who had also
| taken to her home a young man named
Hallam. The latter was handsome man,
| intellectual and fascinating. Hallam and
Miss Bridges fell in love desperately, but
| both agreed that they were too poor to
| marry. This however, did not prevent a
| step which only marriage could atone, and
in this relation the two remained secretly.
hut She WEEDS Another Lover.
In the midst of this romance Miss Bridges
| came to Omaha II visit relatives who are high
| in the best crcless, and her entree was adj
| VantageOu-. She went everywhere and her
vIvaCity secured for her large circle of adj
mireTs, most y gentlemen. Among them the
| most ardent and the most persistent the
| young man who afterwa, d married her. Be-
| fore she returned they We're engaged and
| few weeks 20 they were married in Ogdens-
| burg in fine style, the wealthy parents of the
groom and small and congenial party of
| Omaha society people going from here to at
| tend the wedding. Among the guests was
| Hallam, who so far captivated the groom
| to secure from him an invitation to visit here
when the contracting parties should have re-
| turned from their tour, The parents of the
| groom and tho rest of the party, after spend
ing a few days at Ogdensburg, came back to
| this city -
Package of Letters.
| Congratulations had scarcely ceased when
| one morning the father received a letter and
| pack" &c Of letters from Ogdensburg which
| proved beyond a doubt that in marrying Miss
| Bridges his son had become the victim of one
| Of the most auda cious and vi Lannon'S plots
| ever concocted either in reality or fiction. The
| letter was from old friend of the father.
The package of letters this friend had also
sent. They were letters written by Miss
| Bridges Ia Hallam, most of them dated sub
| sequcnt to the marriage. They showed that
| even before the acc .ptanCe by Miss
| Bridges of the offer of the ON
| aha young man these two lovers and
conspirators had consulted over it in the
most cod-blooded way; that he had advised
the marriage on account of the wealth of the
prospective groom and the possibility of reap
ing a harvest from il, and that she, car ring
nothing whatever for the man she promised
to marry, but blindly infatuated with her
| lover at OgdeRsb burg, had finally consented To
her share in carrying out the scheme.
| Cold Blooded and DeviIish Plot.
| The letters showed that the original design
| was that Hallam should meet the husband
and wife at Montreal, where they expected to
| stop during their wedding journey; that Hal
| lam should there induce the husband tO
drink; that the liquor should be drugged; that
| the stupeted man should be led or conveyed
| to a house Of ill-repute, that in this predca.
ment he should be discovered in the most
| public way possible that his dishonored
bride should leave him in burning indigns
ton and should Immediately bring suit fol
| divorce and alimony. They showed that for
some reason Hallam did net materialize AT
| Montreal, and that after this failure the con
spiracy assumed most serious shape Tn,
minutiR of his climax of the plot could not
| be secured from the letters.
| Confronted with Her Pcrfidy.
Armed with these letters the father. accom-
panied by prominent attorney of this city
| took the first train to st. Lonis, where he in
tercepted the bridal couple AMI confronted
the bride with the documents in the case
|
I shedding few tears quietly showed N
particular emotion. The father insisted upoi
the Immcii late separation of the bride anC
groom, and upon her agreement to an amicabl,
scCuTement 10y the husband of n decree 81
divorce. To this she Conse ltcd without argu
ment. 1t was only when the father demanded
the return to him of the wedding present
, that they might be distributed among tn
donors that she strongly demurred. and thi
; disagreement was speedily settled by his pay
ment To her of an ample cash consideration.
5 Given Away by "a Mutual Friend.
{ | The informant in the affair was the usua
: mutual friend. He is a lawyer at Ogdens
c burg AMI had long been a companion o
e | Hallam Ii appears from the evidence tina
. | he had been party to the plot up to tn
2 time that the final suggestion had been made
but that there his conscience overcame hiT
and he went to the intimate friend of tn
father before referred TO, made a clean breas
e of the whole thing and delivered the letter
p Of the remark able bride to the friend to
y used as he might decide. These letters Ha
n lam, with the strange faulty which seen
II often to possess the intelligent man in a con
e plication of this variety, had deposited i
It the lawyers safe. They are at present
If Omaha, in the keeping of the attorney VIII
|. accompanied the father to St Louis