The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-28
Her Two Husbands.

! on MlSSlSSlppl TlVer SCealLoOttV which had it's termination in a Los Angeles divorce court a short time ago. The case is most singular, and has moral that should be re- membered by self-willed girls. As the story'goes, a young Englishman was doing the Southern States and was on his way from new Orleans to St Louis. He was both handsome and wealthy, and had been lionized by numerous mothers who were the possessors of marriageable daugh ters, but he steered clear of their lit tie traps until he boarded the steam CT, when he looked for the first time into the dark, luminous eyes of young Southern belle, who had never before been beyond the reach of mothers loving hand. She was under the care of her old black nurse, but the young Englishman had been hit hard, and the two young people were together almost all the time during their stay on the steamer. Before the steamer reach ed St Louis the old negro woman discovered or thought she did, that the Englishman and her charge were too intimate, and a great hue and cry was raised.
 There were quite 8 number of Southern men on the steamer, and as soon as they heard the story made up there minds that a mar riage should take place without de- lay. The newly married pair re- mained in St Louis until the young lady's mother could be notified of the sudden addition to her family. The meeting was something terrible to see, for when the mother was made fully acquainted with the story she went from one fainting fit into another, until the physi- clans who had been hastily called in despaired of her life, and inform ed her daughter and son-in-law that she would never recover. And she never did; for in three days af- ter the meeting she died, and the sorrowing daughter, whose one false step had brought so much grief in- to the world, again took the steam CT to escort the remains of her moth CT to their last resting place in her far-off southern home.
 After the funeral it became appa- rent to the young husband that if he did not remove his girl-wife from the immediate neighborhood of her mothers grave, he would soon be called upon to attend another fune- raj.
 He at once made up his mind to come to California, and the couple made there way to Los Angles and settled here.
 But a dark cloud appeared on the horizon, and the old saying that true love never did run smooth was never more fully illustrated than the sequel to this strange story will prove.
 The dark cloud was none other than a dashing blood from the East, who met the young wife by acci- dent and at once proceeded to fall desperately in love with her.
 As is always the case, her false step was brought before the hus- band and a a frightful scene follow ed, The false friend disappeared and the couple separated. The hus- band expected his young wife to follow her lover, and he proceeded to file a complaint for divorce. But the wife remained in the city and | the divorce was brought to trial very soon after the complaint was filed. AS soon as the decree of di- vorce was issued the husband ( eed- ed all of his Los Angeles property | to his ex-wifc and left the city, and from that day to this he has not been heard from, although it is be-