St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-24
A wIFE's TROUBLES.
She Names Her Own Sister as @
respondent in a Divorce Suit.

r ,olAO 4taIuOS llCI OWA okSUOI as OOs
respondent in a Divorce Suit.
/. II have commenced proceedings in
the supreme court for an absolute di-
vorce in the case of Medforth against
Medforth," said Wall street lawyer.
, II represent the wife, who is the COM
.plainant, and the fair but frail respond
cut is the compliments younger sister.
| wish you would go and see the wife.
She is capital talker and is at home in
the evenings"
''Please to name me Birmingham" she
said, when the scribe addressed her as
Mrs. Medforth. "Eltringham was my
maiden name, and I am Mrs. Eltring-
ham to my friends now, and will, l
hope, soon be so to all the world. 1t is
curious story that am going to tell,
and but for the fact that both father
and mother are dead it would never be
told for newspaper publication by me-"
In substance the narrative follows:
Mrs. Medforth was married to her
husband in the spring of 1883, and the
pair lived happily together till about
eighteen months ago, when the sister
appeared on the scene and broke up
their home. Miss Rose Birmingham was
her sisters bridesmaid at the wedding.
which tooh place in the evening
at an uptown church. and a Charles
Henry Owston, an Englishman and a
clerk in a downtown bank, was the
husbands ''best man." After the re-
ception which followed the ceremony
the happy couple started for Washing
ton and the young folks who had been
invited enjoyed themselves. Miss Rose
had come from Chicago to attend her
sisters nuptials, and while here So
iourned in her Cousins house, where
the reception was held. She was twenty
three years of age and very cookbook
ing. DIVISION was a fascinating, college
educated young man. who made no mis-
take with the aspirates, and he was
much attracted to Miss Rose Eltring-
ham, while it was pretty evident to the
cousin that Rose thought good deal of
him. However, lest there might be
trouble, the prudent cousin informed
Mr.. DIVISION on one of his visits that the
young lady was engaged to be married
to MIR. Wilson, of Chicago. This state
ment She herself confirmed, yet at the
time did not withdraw from the fiirta-
ton. which had become very hot. When
after three weeks SOjOurn she finally
went back to the Lake City," Owston
sent her newspapers, new novels and
an expensive souvenir in the form of a
bracelet of the event where they had
been associated as bridesmaid and best
man." This elected letter, and the
letter initiated a correspondence, which,
from being temperate, gradually as
sumed OH his part West Indian sum-
mer temperature. Her wedding day to
Wilson had been fixed for early Septem-
Der of 1883, but she put it off until Oc-
tober, and then again until November,
and finally to the week before Christ
mas. The young man had bought
and furnished house, and as he was
leased by his friends, he grew suspic-
that appointed for the nuptiaIs she told
the young fellow she had decided that
she would not consent to be married
7 in the city of Chicago, as her sister
wanted her to be married from her
house in New York. So the engaged
couple came to Gotham, and another
delay of a fortnight was insisted on.
The impatient young man stayed at
hotel, and used to come along to the
: house every morning about eleven
O'Clock. Previous to that she would
be out walking. One Saturday
morning Wilson drove her down
town. He stopped. by desire, at
Stewards store, and she alighted and
went in to make some purchases. He
remained nearly an hour. and then
hired a boy to hold his horse. He
searched all over the store, but she was
not to be seen. Some of the salespeople
told him they had seen her pass out
on the Fourth avenue side. AS. was
subsequently discovered, she had joined
Owston, who had driven up to the store
in coach, and then proceeded to the
residence of clergyman, where they
were married. They then started for
Boston, and thence sailed for Liverpool.
Wilson was not brokeD-hearted. He
said that he had made lucky escape;
that young lady who could act in that
way didn' tamount to much.
Charles Henry DIVISION is MancheS-
ter man and he had business to trans
act for his firm in London. At the hotel
where they stopped Rose beheld a
handsome East India officer with what
she termed Byronic head and Man
fred expression. 1t is not known how
she succeeded in making his aequaint-
ance, but it is certain that when Owston
proceeded to the city proper on business
this black-haired swell used to visit her.
Finally one of the maids at the hotel
had her suspicious aroused, and watch
was instituted. The husband being in
formed. and having charged his wife
with infidelity. was coolly told that she
adored her handsome Lothario and
didn't feel in any way penitent. Where
upon there was lively exchange of
strong language and final parting.
The Indian officer took her on trip
to Paris, and presently informed her
that he had wife and family in Cal
cutta, and that his furlough was at an
end. He gave her some $500, and intro
duced her to a lady who practiced the
business of identifying fingers and
nails. Rose learned this art, and in a
couple of years she had an establish
ment of her own with several pretty
assistants. Her shingle bore the name
Nine. Salene Rose, and gentlemen were
her principal if not exclusive patrons.
In the summer of 1888 a Chicago man
uhn haIonrS to the .sprain nit, was in