The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-07-29

A heart-brolzen and deserted husband,
a faithless wife who forsakes her fam
! lily and fees with another man, and
several small children crying for the
mother, who will probably never re-
turn to them, sum up the domestic
tragedy which has blasted the happi-
ness of Lawyer John o. Bowman. At
the same time such are the incongrui-
ties of human nature, the story has
| furnished no end of food for the gos-
sips to dawdle about at Devon Inn, the
scene of the sensation, 1t is not def
nitely known when the elopement oc-
Cured, although 1t must have been
either last Friday night or Saturday
morning. DIR. @. Ellsworth Hewitt, Of
No. 1929 Chestnut street. is the gay
Lothario In the case.
THE FAITHIEss WIFE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowman have been
| guests at Devon Inn all summer, and
nothing in their conduct betrayed any
Indication of domestic infelicity. Mrs.
Bowman, being an uptown woman,
was not received with any show of
cordiality by the blue-blooded south-of
Market street families who frequent
this fashionable suburban inn. Al any
rate she troubled nobody and nobody
troubled her. She Is much younger
than her husband, being his second
venture in the matrimonial market
She Is probably not over %, having
been married at the age OF II. Mr.
Bowman is man of probably 40.
There are four children. Carl and Min
ME by the former marriage and Mari
on and Fred by the last wife, the young
est being scarcely year old.
RID OF HER HUSBAND.
Last Friday night Mrs. Bowman left
Devon, accompanied by her husband,
with the intention, it Is said, Of visit
ing her parents, who are staying ut
Atlantic City. On reaching Broad
Street Station the SChemlng woman
devised a plan whereby she might
throw her husband of the track long
enough to cover her flight. She had
some time previously, so it Is stated,
told him of her love for DR.. Hewitt.
Taking him to ono side she poured
into his ears Il tale that filled him with
horror. IL was to the effect that be-
fore leaving the hotel she had put poi
son In tho babys milk, and feignng
repentance urged him to go back i'm
mediately, before it would be too late
to save the child's life. Although
completely staggered by what he had
heard, tho deluded husband took the
! next train back to Devon, only to find
that he had been deceived.
This Is the last time he has seen his
: wife. 1t is supposed that she met
Hewitt, md together they took the
train for New York, where they will
leave the country for Europe.
AS FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
This position Hewitt was exalted to
Immediately after the return to town
from Sen Grit, and there was constant
Intercourse between the pair upon
one preteSt or another until the eli.
max WAS reached. There was always
some one at the Bowman domicil that
needed u doctors advice and it some
times happened that when her hus.
band was absent Mrs. Bowmans
case required the constant attendance
OF physician, and this was best OBJ
talned by her accepting the hospital
81 DIR. Hewitt at his snugly furnished
apartments at No. 1929 Chestnut street.
This Is the doctors office, but has
been used by him for some time as
sleeping apartments ever since the
proprietor of the Colonnade Hotel
was compelled to request him to
; leave the hotel permanently. This
WINS the necessary result OF his con.
: duct with bis late wife. The latter
was Miss Colby, and her family being
very We'll OH HOW'LL married her Tor
her money. He was somewhat disap.
pointed, however, by MIR. Colby's re-
! fusing to rent Walnut street house
for them, and was compelled to take
rooms at the Colonnade His treat.
I ment OF his wife was brutal, and later,
i when a surgical operation became
r necessary, he sent her to the hospital
/ and never saw her again. She died
: under the operation. Since his forced
removal he has been sleeping at his Of
flee, and taking his meals at the STRAIT
ford, Bellevue md other places.
OWNS TWO DRUG sToEEs.
His only means OF support are derip,
ed from two drug stores, ostensibly
kept by Harry Griffith at Ninth and
, Race and Tenth and Arch. His origin
, is mystery, as his claim to he a neph
ew OF ex Mayor Hewitt of New York
has not been established.