Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-06-20
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Abslnsts.i and Married. aud S.w seeatnR
tsisnrre fresa Mhaspes~t he Welded.
ilasi week a younz man named Nj,
cheli applied Ia the courts for a divorce
II his talc Is true. something should be
done for him un account ~ the wrongs
he has suffered and the patience with
which he has endured them Mr.. Nit.
chell tells the court that Just about n
year ago he was wandering beneath the
pleasant shades of Evanston. neither
thinking nor doing i'll. when two strange
men arcosted him and told him they
were detectives and had a warrant for
his arrest he followed them submits.
sively 10 place where they met third
man. who told Mr. Mitchell he must go
at once 20 Chicago and there be married
90 young woman whose name, he SAYS.
he had never before heard. He was SO
paralyzed by this information that he
made no effort 10 get his freedom. lie
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 IL he had
cried out that he had been kidnapped
and was ON his way to the altar of sacri
flee.
He was carried 10 a 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.
evitable. He did not stick his head out
OF the window and cry for help, nor
scribblc note telling Of his forlorn con.
dition and throw II into the street hoping
that some one would pick Ii up and has
ten to his relief He did none of the
things which innocent young men DO
when they have been snatched away
from their friends and irnmured in
gloomy dungeons At last there came a
minister whom he had never seen before
and young woman who was quite as
much Of stranger to him. A marriage
ceremony was performed. though he fire.
quently interrupted il with his protests,
and when IL was over he was told to go
his way. which he did. and since then he
has been musing over the whole mex
plicable affair. He has not seen his wife
since, and doubts II he would know her
1t Is an unpleasant position for man
70 be In TO know that he has wife and
yet not know who or where that wife is
For all that Inc knows she may suddenly
begin to run up 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
Jolly time of il with men, and claim him
rs her own. A wife lurking somewhere
IN the darkness is "A constant menace
A man In such a plight may meet and
fall in love with his wife. and apply for
a divorce from her. SO he may marry
her. All this Mr.. Mitchell put up with
for year. and finally asked the court To
put him out of his misery.
The nervous young men OF Chicago,
after reading Mr.. Mitchell's story, will
probably turn pale when they think that
what has happened to him may happen
10 them; that they. too, may be alb
Quoted and married. Actresses have
often been carried off and given hus.
bands against their will, but II young
men, especially wealthy ones. are ex.
posed to similar fate in this enlight
ened age, in a city like this, western
civilization is a failure. Instead OF ear,
rying arms to protect themselves from
robbers, men win have to carry them
TO defend themselves from detectives
ministers and brides. Chicago Tribune