St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
HIS YOUNG WIFE UNTRUE.
A Colored Dominic Breaks Up House
keeping With Bed Stat
HIS SON THE INTRUDER.
Dominic Gabe Harrison Conceals Him.
self Under His Wife's Bed and Sc.
cures Evidence for a Divorce.

Africa" this city, those OF Browns
vile. Brooklyn, and of Crow Hill near
by, are greatly excited over the escapade
of Dominic Gabe" Harrison, which oc-
CURED Sunday night week, says the
New York Herald. Dominic Gabe's"
real name is John Chester Harrison, and
he obtained his nom de plume in this
manner. For many years the old gen
tleman resided on Sullivan street, in
this city, and by close attention to his
business, which was that of an artist,
with broad gauge brush and four
quart palette. he soon became wealthy
and purchased considerable property in
the neighborhood of the executive fiat
which he had erstwhIle occupied. With
his growing years Artist Harrison grew
religious, and about twenty years ago
he loomed up as lay preacher and
hunted around among the souls of his
kind to see if any were worth saving.
Then he threw up the brush and palette
for the big book and hymnal, and be-
came drawing card at the suburban
camp meetings.
Dominic Harrison was pronounced
Second Adventist, and at the last I'M
adVoidably postponed debut of the
Angel Gabriel. the good old dominic
assembled his hearers in his Sullivan
street study, donned night shirt and
fish horn and sat on the chimney pot
for three straight hours. determined to
give Gabriel blast for blast as soon as
he showed up. The wind wasn't blow
ing IN the right direction, however, but
it blew through the dominie's whiskers
and other clothes until he had absorbed
a sixteen button dose of the influenza.
and then he was forced to get off his
roost and admit that Gabriel had prob
bly, missed the train. Ever since then
he has been known as Dominic Gabe"
by the sacreligious youth of the baili-
wick.
FAVORITE WITH THE LADIES.
"Dominie Gabe" is seventy-fve years
OF age. and. Notwithstanding the fact
that he is not pretty. he is great favor
lite with the ladies. He is built some
what after the architectural design of a
boomerang, and the moth of many
years have made such sad havoc with
his grey Donegals that they look some
thing like an overdue pawnshep muff.
His shiny head has only fringe of
sparsely settled hair around the borders
and he has misery" in his back, but,
Notwithstanding these slight discrep-
ancies, about two months ago he took
unto himself helpmate in the person
OF a brOnzed South Fifth avenue belle,
Wenie ClawsOn by name, who was but
twenty-five years of age in her socks.
It was said at the time that Wenie
only married him for his money,
and that, to save expenses, he
had performed the marriage cere-
mony himself. The marriage was
so disparaged that Mr.. and Mrs.
Dominic Gabe were finally compelled
to move from the neighborhOod, as they
nightly received more wedding presents
in the shape of old file eggs. back
number apples and obsolete sea fruit
than their room could conveniently ac-
commodate. They therefore removed
to brownsville" Brooklyn, and lived
happily together until last Sunday
night, when the dominic broke up
housekeeping, and the most of his
newly-made bride, with bed Stat.
One of the haerlooms left by one of
the former Mrs. Harrisons - for the
dominic had a job lot Of six prior to his
last venture-was William Henry Har-
rlson, who stands nearly six feet high
ouu WIZ lS VI d UeluS
a waiter at Coney Island hostelry In
the summer time and stove-mfnder by
occupation in the cold-cuts-at-Al-h ours
season. The pair had only been
married a week or so when the dominic,
to use his own words, began to imagine
that "Wenie was too dam slick aroun'
Wfum Heneree. an he pretermint ter
Watchum, sah."
The Brownsville home consists of
parlor, boudoir, dining room, kitchen
and chicken coop en- suite. The bride
and groom occupy the boudoir, and
when William Henry made his semi
occasional visits and invited himself to
stay all night he occupied a divan in
the kitchen. The chicken coop is sort
Of Queen Anne extension to the bou-
DOR, and was so arranged to guard
against incursions of the poultry fan
ciers with which the section abOunds.
For a week or so the green-eyed lob
ster IN the dominie's makeup had been
Whooping itself, and on Sunday night a
week ago it came to ''a cripus," as he
Informed his lawyer. He had frequent
ly interrupted Wenie and William
Henry in clandestine meetings in the
Crow Hill cleaning, and on that Sun
day night he put up job which very
nearly resulted in a casualty with
Grape trimmings. At about O'clock
in the evening the dominic envelopSd
himself III his go-to-meeting Mother
Hubbard, wooden mitts and disjointed
stovepipe. and with his boots freshly
Bible under his arm, he started out for
church, on the hunt for few more I'M
redeemed pledges. He kissed his wife
goodby at the door, heard it slam, can't
cred around to the chicken GOOD,
crawled through the bunghole, entered
the boudolr and crawled under the bed.
This is what he heardi
GOLD sLABsIDED" APPEARS.
"Wunner wot time de OF slabsides I'll
be back, Wenie, pet?'
ST doan guess he'll be back untwil
ten. Doan yo' be freckened; eff we hyar
his jaglets cummin yO' ken go out troo
de hennery, Baby"
Then the dominic heard sufficient to
convince him that his bride was untrue
to him and that she had only married
him for his money, and then, at an in
opportune moment, he sneeZed. Will
lam henry and Wenie were on their
feet in an instant and, imagining that
there was a burglar under the bed,
William Henry drew revolver, with
an orifice like pickle barrel, pointed it
under the bed and remarked
''Now yo' cum outer dere feet fun.
must or I'll blow yer full o. cuspy-
doahs~
"Wi'um Henneree!" screamed the
frightened dominic, $50 de good lawd's
sake pint dat shootin' gallery der odder
way. Doan' yer know yer paw wot
raised yer?"
When the dominic had emerged and
had possessed himself Of William
Henry's pistol he took bed slat to the
two lovers and fractured everything in
the house, including William Henry
and the reealcitrant Wenie. Then he
put the guilty ones out and on Satur-
day he began suit for divorce and for
the reconYeyanee Of some property in
the city which he had decided to Wenie