The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-23
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
a Husbands Bold Scheme for
Detecting His Wife.
THE PLAN is VERY SUCCESSFUL.
Midnight Scene in Fashionable HOtel-The
Drive Through the Darkness-The
Daughters Return Home.
Especial to THE HERA1D-E.;aminer Dispatch

refined, accomplished, but frail, is the vic
tim of as sensational plot as ever existed
with view to obtaining evidence for a
divorce court. The instrument is the con-
fidential clerk of the husband, who is a
wealthy merchant of this city. The plot
Vas conceived month ago. Day by day it
unfolded in the pretty little town of Mont
clair, n. j., and yesterday morning an hour
past midnight came the denouement in
room No 20 of the Hamilton house, Pater
SON Never before has Paterson had such
a scandal Its select family hotel, patron
lied by the best people of the town, is con-
taminated Nothing else is talked about.
The hackman who received $40 from the
husband to drive his faithless wife six
miles through the rain at = o'clock in the
morning to her fathers house is the lion of
the hour For eight hours previous to the
elimination of the plot the interior of the
Hamilton house was like stage set for the
performance of melodrama.
AS early as , pm. Sunday two of the &C
tors Made their entrance. They were well
Niressed men, who registered as John w.
Allen aud +. Morrey, New York. Allen
was agitated; he seemed unable to remain
quiet for two consecutive minutes. There
was great difficulty about apartments.
They expected friends and wanted two
rooms adjoining with door between and
hall to each. By making transfers OF other
guests Mr.. Clark, the proprietor, secured
for them rooms 20 and 81. Until ) o'clock
Allen and Frank were in and out every
moment, but quiet. At 800 they entered
the restaurant and ordered dinner. The
restaurant occupies one front of the build
ing, which is half century old, with a
portico of two fronts and balconies sepa-
rated by Ionic columns. Just as the din
xsIs were served a carriage drove up.
All looked out of the window as a
lady was aighting from the carriage.
40 the surprise of the waiter, he and his
ttriend arose instantly and left the restaur-
ant, forgetting their gOld-hea canes,
Allen and Morrey went directly up stairs
and as they did so the young man who had
driven up with the lady, who now sat in
the parler, was registering: civilian Allen
and wife, Montclair.n Having registered,
the young man disappeared for moment.
Shortly after he was seen coming down
stairs. He was flushed and plainly excited.
He told the clerk that he and his wife were
the friends John w. Allen was expecting,
and accordingly opposite his name was
written ia the register, room 2l."
Entering the restaurant with the lady
the young man ordered dinner They sat
down in the seats just abandoned by Allen
and Morrey. The waiter gave them other
seats expecting the gentlemen would re-
turn, but they did not. Master of his craft,
he noticed that the lady was beautiful,
elegantly dressed and in exceedingly high
spirits. He equally observed that the
young man appeared half frightened out of
his wits and was incapable of giving an in
telligent order. They had bottle of wine
The lady grew lvelier, but always APP
parently lady, while the young man be-
came more and more daZed, and palpitat-
ing They fingered long over their wine,
and then retired to their room.
The walters gOssiped about the strange
agitation of the young man, but it was
after midnight before ALLEN and wife,
or ''Allen and Morrey'' were heard from
again. Several wealthy residents Of the
town had retired to their rooms in the
Hamilton house. One such, a gentleman,
occupied room 10. He was undressing for
bed and the serene responsibility of the
Old hotel never seemed less in danger of
9Sng outraged. Suddenly the occupant of
NrOom 10 heard the door slam and heard a
Woman's startled exclamation: ''Oh, Rich
ard, this is terrible" The exclamation
was followed by such a prolonged volume
OF curses, screaming and tramping of feet
that the occupant of room 10 pounded on
the wall and demanded silence.
At this moment the "agitated youn q
man; calling himself William Allen'' was
running down stairs with a part of his
clothes upon his arm. Before the domes-
ties were fully aroused a carriage had been
brought and he was driven rapidly away.
The proprietor, on going up stairs to see
what was wrong with his guests met
''Morrey'' coming down. Mr.. Clark
said his guest, Il am sorry to inform you
that terrible misfortune has occurred to
my friend in your house. Hearing a
Familiar voice in an adjoining room my
Friend burst through communicating door
and saw that which ruined his home and
robbed him of all hope of happiness in
future. He saw his wife in the arms of a
man.
Mr. Clark remembered the circumstances
of the connecting rooms and was not de-
ceiVed. He was angry at being made a
dupe and the instrument of plotters, but
'.Morrey" showed him the necessity of or
dering them out by begging him to provide
a carriage and horses at once. This was
done, and at 2 o'clock in the morning, with |
the woman closely yelled between them, !
the two friends drove OF in the darkness |
and rain. There was no sleep for any one |
in the hotel that night AT o'clock the |
husband and his friend drove up behind a |
pair of dripping horses and loquacious |
cOachman.
The coachman's frightened senses were !
ASsst enlightened by a so bill. My eyes, but |
they are jolly crowd, - said cabby. Mont
clair was the spot we were making for. 1t .
rained pitchforks until the last mile. Not /
a word was said by any of them, but all of /
a sudden the husband began 10 snort and /
the woman to snort back, and before you !
can say Jack Robinson, ali was snortin' .
away like anything. | drove up TO house .
pointed out by the lady and she got out. An .
old man came to the door in a nightgown
The husband said something TO his wife and .
she answered sarcastically, AS you please |
Then the husband says to the old man, |
Here's my wife. Keep her. With that |
the woman went in and we came back as
fast as we could" The verdict of the |
listeners was that the story was fully at
tested by a $50 greenback.
Meantime the husband had poured his |
woes into the ear of the disguised |
landlord. The husbands name was not
Allen, but Richard Young, amerchant with
a profitable business at No. 100 William
street and a luxurious home on Seventy
ninth street. His wife has borne him four
Children. She was of a lively, pleasant
loving disposition. He grew to suspect her
Of intidelity and had proof. They quarreled
and six months ago separated. She went
to her parents in Montclair. He believed
they were abetting her in her folly, so he
employed detectives, who increased his I'M
rest without furnishing him proof. A
month ago he formed plan. He made
confident of his clerk, sufficiently good
looking young man, whom his wife had
aever seen. He put plenty of money in his
DSckets, and sent him to Montclair with
orders to be her wooer and not a
5ardy one Daily the clerk reported
progress. There was a meeting and
Introduction; then another meeting; ad
yances by the clerk; gradual increase of
interest on the part of the wife, who was
separated from home and husband; friend
hip; affection. Sunday morning came the
Jerks telegram warning the husband that