The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-29
ROMANCE OF RErRIBUTIoN.
Sixteen Years Quest for the Woma
and Son He Loved.


and Son He Loved.
From the PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.
NEW YORK, San 26.-The imagination Of
Dumas has not conceived a more sensa-
tional love romance than the story from
real life OF Paul F. Pauline, the well-known
ladies' tailor Of $40 Sixth avenue. 1t
sounds like novel, but is vouched for as
true by Pauline himself, who relates the re-
markable tale and gives it to the world
after silence of sixteen years in the hope
of finding the woman in the case.
Pauline is gray-haired man, bent with
sorrow and the weight Of 10 years. Thirty
eight years ago Pauline married in the
south Of France an estimable woman with
whom he lived happily until he met jose
phine Fouchard, afterward called Josephine
Pauline. Pauline was a prosperous ladies'
tailor, and Josephine was employed as his
assistant. According to his own confession,
Pauline loved his pretty assistant better
than he did dis wife. He provided for her
a separate establishment and neglected his
wife altogether. Heloved Josephine better,
he said, because she was the mother of his
boy.
THEY ELoPED TO THE COUNTRY.
For eighteen years this secret love affair
was carried on, and at the end of that time
both Pauline aud Josephine had become
convinced that Nine. Pauline was in the
way. Pauline quietly sold his business.
packed his trunks, and, with Josephine and
their child, eloped TO this city. Nine
Pauline. the trusting and loving wife, not
convinced until then Of her husbands
perfdy, pined and grieved. She never
recovered from the shock, and
died two months after her deser-
ton. Her death left Pauline free to marry
Josephine, who lived with him as his wife
at 1852 West Twenty-fourth street. The
laws Of France at that time did not recog-
nize divorce, and Pauline was only waiting
for the death Of his wife to liberate him
from the bonds Of matrimony with one in
order to enable him to marry the other
He had made all arrangements for the
event, and came home enc night to propose
his plans for the future to Josephine.
The house was empty. Josephine had
disappeared with Eugene, their son, and
$500 of their savings. One Charles CRETE
young Frenchman, was also missing at
the same time, and putting this and that
together, Pauline concluded that the woman
had deceived him in the same way he had
deceived his wife, and eloped with CRETE.
Clearly it was retributlon for his own sinful
acts. Josephine was then 43 years old,
Eugene 10, and CRETE 26. Pauline thought
that the disparity of their ages would make
life uncongenial for Josephine and CRETE.
1.-THE woman will return" he said.
He waited a year. living at the same
place. No tidings came from the clippers,
and Pauline finally came to the conclusion
that the words, "You will never see me
again, which Josephine wrote in the letter
she left behind would be a sad truth foi
him. He kept his own counsel for sixteen
years, hoping all the time to hear some
news from the absent ones, Josephine and
his child. OF CRETE he did not wish to hear
unless that he was dead. Him he mated
Now Pauline makes public his startling tale
Of love, deceit, revenge and retribution that
it might lead TO the discovery, if living, OF
his mistress and son. He is willing to paw
500 for their address or information about
thenl
"My desire is" Pauline said to-day, "tc
make Josephine my lawful wife, and tc
make at this late day, as far as lies in my
power, amends for the wrong have done.
l am nearly 20 years old. Josephine mus
be SO and my son IS. She was my partner
in business, and have always considered
her as such since her departure. have
kept carefully an account of all earnings
and have saved a snug little fortune, which
/ would like her and my son to share with
me in my old age. If Josephene is alive
and will come back to me l will forget and
forgive all. | love her STILL"
The old mans voice trembled, and as he
turned away his face he wiped tears from
| his eyea