The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-15
A BEAUTIFUL BLONDE.
SHE Is THE CAUSE OF MUCH AN
MOVING CORRESPONDENTS.
A Deserted Husband Deluging Memphis
Gentlemen With Letters OBTAINING
His Wife and Beseeching Her to Re-
turn to Him the While.
She is a beautiful blonde.

She is beautiful blonde.
This is perhaps an indefinite generaliza-
ton, but nothing more definite will be
said tending to disclose the lady's identity
in these presents.
She came hero some months ago and
has been here in the city ever since. AS
was remarked in the opening OF this mar
rative, she is a beautiful blonde, petite,
chic, neat, elegant and refined. She has
small, white hands, lips like rubies, teeth
like pearls, eyes like the heavens, when
clearest, and voice as soft us the whisper
OF zephyr. There is Frenchy exquis-
iteness about her that attracts attention
and extorts admiration from the most I'M
willing and cold. She has been here some
months and made many friends among
members Of good society, and she has con-
Quoted herself since her arrival like ver-
table Caesars wife.
She has husband in Vicksburg whom
she does not love, and thereby depends
narrative. No sooner had she reached
Memphis than this man began to persecute
her. Every one with whom she had any
dealings was warned by letter not to have
anything to do with her. Dozens Of let
tiers were sent TO various gentlemen in
Memphis, all TO the effect that the lady
was a Mrs. 'Os'ler Joe, whose face
was as fair as the light Of day. but
whose heart was as black as
night. He rehearsed litany OF her
alleged crimes, and charged her with them
all in each Of his letters. lie claimed that
she was married and divorced; that
she had been guilty OF infanticide,
the cause OF homicide and OF
other less sinful and more condonable
olenses. She was o bold, bad woman
who blighted the eyes that her brilliancy
attracted. She had gone cunning for an
other husband aud bagged him. She was
oil the Gorgon sisterhocd, Medusa whose
hair no Minerva could change into snakes.
He warned each gentleman that his wiie's
apparent charms and graces were not the
golden apples OF the Hesperides, rs
they seemed, but Dead Sea fruit that
turned TO ashes on the lip. He had mar
ried her innocently, not knowing Of her
past history. She was still his legal wife.
lie wanted 10 save others from his fate be-
fore II was forever too late.
The only thing TO vary the monotony vi
his letters was that when writing TO one
Memphis gentleman he would give another
Memphis gentleman particular and espec-
ial fits. "She was with that libertine
Jones'" he would write TO Smith; or, 'she
was with that scoundrel Smith, he would
write TO Jones.
II might be here observed that neither
Smith nor Jones figure in the letters. The
gentlemen who do figure are reputable
and honorable men and their names are
withheld on account OF the high standing
OF the reporter.
These letters continued to pour in.
There seemed to be a private detective
a. work, and II the lady entered a store
the clerk who waited on her was warned
by next mail. II she visited bank, a
church festival, n real estate or doctor
office, the person visited would be sure to
receive a letter.
Thus things wen. on until the Memphis
gentlemen began comparing notes. They
soon discovered that they were all in the
same boat A little investigation revealed
the fact that, on the very day that the hus-
band would write a gentleman in Mem:
phis letter assailing his wife's charac-
ter, the same mail would bring one 10
the wife, pleading for her return.
and filed with the most endearing
language. lilo loved her, he knew
he loved her, no matter what she was and
he wanted her 10 come rest in this
bosom" She had deserted him, TO DO
sure, but still the memory Of her smile
10 him brought warmth and comfort,
II not balm; like moonlight on the
troubled sea. Frightening the storm II
could not calm. She was the idol OF bis
heart; his souls own soul adorod her, and
wrote page after page Of poetic sentiments
in the hope that the sweet morsels might
charm her and induce her 10 return.
The whole correspondence Is now in the
hands OF attoKneys, and the Criminal
Court will beappealed to TO settle the
matter, no doubt. The gentlemen mixed
up in the affair strenuously oppose having
their names made public, but the Grand
Jury will doubtless learn them.