The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-09
The Sequel
10 A WHEELING SENSATION.
The Career OF Mile Paula de
BrancO in this City Recalled.
SHB PARTS FROM HER HUSBAND
Under Sensational Circumstances
at Springfield, Ohio.
Society Shocked by the Development.
She Telegraphs from New York 10
be Taken Back-Her Romantic
Story as Published in the
InteIllgencer Four
Years Ago. 49,.
SHB PARTS FROH HER HUSBAND

epteidI UlIpdlc1 70 u's 4I'te9ege'sSH'
spRlSoEIELD, o., Feb. s.-Dr. LewiI
E. Niles, formerly for few months
prominent physician Of Wheeling, but
Who has been living in this city fol
some time, and his wife have just parted
under extremely sensational clrcum'
stances. Stories have been aaoat fol
some time that the couple have notbeen
living happily together. The wife
claimed abuse on the part Of the hus.
band. Last week society was shocked
by story that Niles had put his wife
ont Of the house in the rain and refused
to Let her return. Shortly after this
Mrs. Niles was driven TO the depot in q
close carriage and her husband bought
her ticket for New York. What she
viii do there cannot he imagined, asshe
has no friends or relatives there, 80 FAR
as known, and speaks English imper-
iectly.
NilsS's friends gave the following YER
sion OF the story.
NILRs's STORY.
DR.. Niles arrived from Cleveland last
week at 8 o'clock one afternoon, and his
vile came into the diniuing room and
said, excitedly:
~ am spaniard and will have re-
yenge," claiming that he had been &C.
romnanied bV woman.
Aiter dinner she went to the front
door, locked II, went into a frantic rsRe,
repeated the exclamation given above,
and grabbed him by the coat, knocked
0f his silk hat, gave him regular TRADE
at abuse and attempted TO pull out his
BE worked his way 10 the front door,
bopipp 70 escape, even bare.headed.
She thr,,st herself between him aud
the door. He finally unlocked the door
and pushed her out on the stoop, re.
locked the door, aud while she went
screaming around the house rescued MS
hat and hurried down town. ,,.,
The neighbors claim th.& Nlies once
gave his wife black eye; thct ne once
choked her roughly that he twits sed her
that he had married her not for love nut
for money, etc. ~
Niles friends claim that the woman
issddicted 10 drink; that she becomes
intoxicated, and that her temper is 90
fierce and unreasonable that her hus-
bands life is made hell on earth.
HER ROMANTIC HISTORY.
Il seems that Mrs, Niles is OF noble
birth. Her maiden name was Paula de
Branco, and she claimed to come of a
family Of noble Spanish dons. Her hus-
band married her under. romantic cir.
CumstanCes. He met her at Wheeling
first, when she was in a dentists chair,
having teeth extracted. She was under
the influence Of laughing gas and told
him her romantic history. He became
interested in the orphan girl, who was at
the time o French teacher at Mt. De
Chantal. Correspondence followed and
the doctor finally married her, she run
ming away from the school for the pur-
pose.
WANTS TO RETURN.
Niles's friends claim that the woman
became intoxicated on her wedding
journey and attempted to Jump out Of a
third.story window. Society is all torn
up over the affair and public opinion is
divided in the matter.
Dr.. Niles has Just received the follow
ing telegram from his wife, who Is alone
and iriendless in New York:
"Am wild with grief. Cannot stay