Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-28
A CURIOUS CASE.
4 CHILD TAKEN FROM an OaPHAEAss SLOWS
BIS BLOOD.
Reared Amid he Best Surrounding, Bis Natural
Tendency Toward Badness and Worthless
mass Comes Out

8 large practice in this city. Almost
twenty years ago DR.. Payne and his
wife found themselves Childless. Mrs.
PAYNE, then as now afIectiOnate, moth
erlv, determined to adopt q boy, an
orphan-to take from the shelter Of an
institution an innocent being who might
grow I'D to call her by the dearest name
on earth. Her husband, almost unwlll-
ingly, yielded to her wish. The step
was dangerous, but-hiS wife would
take it.
They went to the Howard Mission and
Home for Little Wanderers here and
thew chose from a hundred waits on the
shore of desire, from scores OF found
lings. 4 TINY fellow, but rounded, big
boDed. cheerful. All that anybody
knew Of him was that his father was &
T,Othario of the slums, his mother q
prettv Young woman, whose poverty
compelled her 10 lay her babe upon
Charity's breast That's all anybody
knows of his birth now, for the dentist
and his wife never cared to seek turth-
er.
Mrs. Payne took the youngster home
N Stamford with her aud fOndly named
him Newton. He grew to be a lad and
he was law and careless. A youth, he
preferred the cOmpaniOnship OF the
Ioupgers on the street corners to the So
cietv into which he might have entered.
AS he neared his majority DR.. Payne
sent Young Newton to a ranch in the
West that he might acquire self-relisnce
and engergy. He returned, not wrecked,
not dispsipated, but weak, irreSolute,
without ambition.
When his foster son was twenty-one
wears old-that is, two years agO-the
doctor said TO him:
7 have supported you all these
wears. There is no promise OF good in
YOU. You must now make your own
living. I will not see you starye II you
do nothing 10 disgrace the name you
bear"
Newton came to New York. He was
as solitary here for while as If he had
gone down into his grave. Mrs. Payne,
whose affection cOuid not whittier, sent
him money, and unknown TO her hus-
band occasionally visited him. But 1t
was the money that Newton wanted.
il was not much, but IL was enough to
keen him alive So he was happy, for he
WAS idle. He lodged In different houses,
generally on the east side of town. For
81 long time he had q room on East
Ninth street. Two months ago he en-
Gagged q hall bedroom in the house No.
g. East Twelfth street, paying for 1t,
this foster son of the rich dentist, the
sDlendid sum Of s. a week.
Me- Tt,wa1Ffh CT raaf Il ono NJ n
pair OF twin houses over which has pre-
sided the wife of Harry c. Brown, an
attractive woman, but not handsome,
whose thirty-eight years have not re-
strained the vivacity of her speech and
manners, perhaps because she has had
no child. Everybody knows Harry c.
Brown in that neighborhOod, for besides
'running"-as they call 1t around there
those two houses, which are near
Fourth avenue, no is the proprietor
of another and more pretentiOus eS-
Enlistment on the southeast corner of
Twelfth street and University place
Besides, again, thanks TO the friend
snip of Commissioner Barney" Martin,
he has a position in the Water Purvey-
or's Department of the Department of
Public Works, and is a member Of the
lrOQuOiS Club, where for even JOve
mods, Barney" Martin unbends. Every
body knows Harry Browns brother
Fred, too, for Fred is Harry'S partner
in the business, and Is a deal of a poll
tician. He used TO be Hubert D. Thomp-
sons private messenger.
For q month after young Newton
Payne went to the house conducted by
Mrs Brown there was nothing 10 make
her husband suspicious. To be sure,
he did not see her every day, for he
lived at University Place, but why
should be diStruSt his wife Of ten years,
the woman, too, who had worked like
slave 10 help him when he was poorest.
But gradually Brown could not but see
q change in his wife. OF 4 morning she
would be heavy-eyed and liStleSS and
dull as though just recovering from
drinking bout. Cunningly, she COM
planned OF all sorts of ailments. But
her husband saw too certain familiari-
ties towards her on the part Of the new
lodeer, the lusty, boyish-faced Payne,
and he became diStrustiul.
When Harry Brown went 10 see his
wife last Friday afternoon she was just
putting ON her hat. he reminded her
that she was two days late in settling
the accounts of that house and asked
her where she was going. She answer
cd that she was going TO buy new bon
net. That done, she promised 10 come
90 University place ana pay over the
money due from her for that week. She
went out and she did not return.
Friday night passed and she did not
come back. Brown, by frantic inquiries
on Saturday, learned the whole story
from the other lOdgers-learned how
his wife had been CSrOuSinC with Payne,
how she had been furnishing him with
money by asking for pre-paymentS for
her rOOms-learned everything. With
the etfrontery of utter ShameleSsnesS,
in walked the scion of the gutter on
Saturday night. Brown, much the
smaller man and the weaker-he is
rty-Seven-cOllared Payne.
"Where'S my wife, damn yOu?"
Payne tried 20 lie, Stammeringly.
Brown threatened to send for his broth
er Fred, who is as 0.g as Payne. Then
Payne showed the blood that Is in him,
the blood of the father, who deserted
his mother.
Don't do that" he pleaded; "ock
the door and I'll tell You all about it.
And he did. Told how he and Mrs.
Brown had registered at the Putnam
House Friday night and were given
room No. 225; told how they had gone TO
StamfOrd-oi all places ia the world
Saturday, and put up at the Grand
Union House there; acknowledged that
he had returned to throw Brown of the
track. And like a cur he tried 10 throw
all the shame upon the woman.
A sensible man, Brown did not Kill