San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-02
AGAIN HEARD OF.
A Pathetic Story of Love, Desertion,
Crime and Misery.


Crime and Misery.
New YORK, Nov. ga thin, wild
eyed woman, 81 years old, dressed in
clothing much the worse for wear,
staggered up to the house OF Cherries
Collier, No. go Eighth avenue, yester-
dAy afternoon ana asked to be allowed
to rest. After she had recovered her.
self she started to go, but il was found
that she was too i'll to move. The
police were notified and she was
taken to the Twentieth police station,
aud from there she was sent to the
New York hospital. There it was
found she was suffering with hys-
terics. When she had sufficiently re-
covered she told the following story,
which, so far as relates to events in
this city, has been found to be true:
Seven years ago the woman said
she was a well to do milliner. She
was just go years of age. One day
she went to A Atlantic City and there
met q handsome young man of 25,
who had come from Poland and whose
name was Severgn Gleason. She be-
came infatuated with him and. final
ly married him. She sold out her
millinery business AMI they begun
to drift until they arrived in San
Antonio, Texas. where with her
money, she claims, they started
shooting gallery. They made money
and lived nicely for a
wear and half. Then Mrs.
Gleason says her hue band left to es-
tabIIsh a business in incinnati.
While there, she says, he met woman
named Douglass. so great was mis-
infaIuation Tor his new acquaintance
that she declares they eloped to Chi
cago Here they lived in idleness,
according to Mrs. Gleason's state
ment, on the money that was to start
the Cincinnati shooting gallery. AS
soon as Gleason got penniless, his
wife says, he deserted Mrs. Douglass
and came to New York with the in
tention of finding his way back to
Warsaw, Poland. Through mutual
friend Mrs Gleason was informed of
this and she returned to her old
Philadelphia home
Finally they met again and decided
to for. give and forget. Since then
they have run shooting galleries in
Portland, Me-, Worcester, Mass,
Poughkeepsie, Philadelphia and
Boston. In Worcester, Mrs. Gleason
says Mr.. Gleason got into some
trouble over the shooting of man in
the gallery, supposedly by accident,
and he was locked up in Jail. She
supplied him with money, however,
as che made the gallery pay well all
the time. AS soon as the husband
was released Mrs Gleason declares, he
rewarded her fidelity by leaving her
and fleeing to New York again. TO do
this she charges that he persuaded
her to go to Philadelphia to look for q
gallery site. She again began
search for Gleason and finall Y she
found him at the boarding house of
Mrs. Clarke, at No 259 West Twenty
fourth street. There he was known
as Mr.. Rockwell, and the wife de-
elares that Mrs. Douglass was
with him and known as Mrs.
Rockwell. Mrs. Gleason took up
her residence within the same house,
and says she used every endeavor to
win him back. Failing, she told the
landlady who she was and who the
Others were, and "Mr. and Mrs.
ROCKWELL" were asked to leave the
house Friday last, according to the
sick woman's story. On Saturday
0ICdsOh uCBoh ia hOh
husband, and says she found him at |
Eighth avenue and Twenty-third
street. He gave her some whls-
Ky and she drank the whole flask
full. She went to q friends house
ON Eighth avenue, where she re-
manned until yesterday morning. She
had lost her husband again and once
more went out to seek him. Her
search ended in the hospital. She |
says that Gleason has all her earn
ings for the past seven years, which |
are considerable, and that also he has |
$1,000 worth of Missouri Pacific stock |
belonging to her.
The Gleasons formerly kept little |
shooting gallery on Alamo street,
opposite Schols's saloon. While here |
they seemed to get along very we'll |
together.