The Arizona champion., 1891-05-16
MITCHELL'S SAD CASE.
Abducted and Married to a
 Stranger.
NE IS NOW sEEkIna A DIVORCE
Too Terrified to Cry for Help.-Young
 Men, Beware

Last week a young man named Mit, chell applied to the courts for divorce If his tale is true. something should be done for him on account of the wrongs he has suffered and the patience with which he has endured them. MT. Nit chell tells the court that just about a year ago he was wandering beneath the pleasant shades of Evanston, neither thinking nor doing i'll. when two strange men accosted him and told him they were detectives and had a warrant for his arrest He followed them submis- sively to place where they met third man, who told Mir. Mitchell he must go at once to Chicago and there be married to young woman whose name, he says, he had never before heard. He was so paralyzed by this information that he made no effort to get his freedom. He did not cry out and implore the aid of the bystanders. There would have been humanity enough in Evanston to rescue him from his impending doom if he had cried out that he had been kidnapped and was on his way to the altar of sacri. flee.
 He was carried to Chicago hotel and there locked up Instead of ringing the bell, getting boy and sending him for the police, this remarkable young man waited in gloomy patience for the in. eyitable. He did not stick his head out of the window and cry for help, nor scribble note telling of his forlorn con dition and throw it into the street hoping that some one would pick it up and has. ten Co his relief. He did none of the things which innocent young men do when they have been snatched away from their friends and immured in gloomy dungeons. At last there came a minister whom he had never seen before and young woman who was quite as much of a stranger to him. A marriage ceremony was performed, though he ire quently interrupted 1t with his protests, and when it was over he was told to go his way, which he did, and since then he has been musing over the whole inex- plicable affair. He has not seen his wife since, and doubts if he would know her.
 It is an unpleasant position for a man to be in to know that he has wife and yet not know who or where that wife is. For all that he knows she may suddenly begin to rurfsup bills in his name She may compromise his honor She may burst in upon him when he is in the pleasant society of ladies or is having a jolly time of it with men, and claim him ss her own. A wife lurking somewhere in the darkness is constant menace. A man in such plight may meet and fall in love with his wife, and apply for a divorce from her, so he may marry her. All this Mir. Mitchell put mp with for a year, and finally asked the court to put him out of his misery.
 The nervous young men of Chicago, after reading Mr. Mi.chell's story, will probably turn pale when they think that what has happened to him may happen to them: that they, too, may be ab- ducted and married. Actresses have often been carried of and given hus- bands against their will, but if young men, especially wealthy ones, are ex. posed to similar fate in this enlight- ened age, in a city like this, western civilization is failure. Instead of car rying arms to protect themselves from robbers, men will have to carry them to defend themselves from detectives, ministers and brides. Chicago Tribune.