The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-30
HE WAS HER SENIOR
"I'm Tired of That Old Fell
low" She Said.
A LIVELY NEW YORK EPISODE.
As He Has Invested 100000 in Her He
Wishes to Retain Possession.

The Queer Actions of ''NIr. and Mrs. Alger-
non DougIass"--He Claims the Woman
as His Wife, but This She Emphatically
Denies, and Says He is Burroughs, the
Philadelphia speculator, and Already
Married--Efforts to Effect Reconoilia-
tion at Length Successful.
NEW York, Jan. 30.-One of the pas
sengers on the afternoon express from
Philadelphia was plump blonde of 30,
with ruddy cheeks and an abundance of
soft reddish-brown hair. She wore many
diamonds and long sealskin cloak. Be
side her sat a gray-bearded man Of 5l,
who is a grain merchant in the Quaker
City. The couple went to the residence
of Mr.. Franklin at 223 West Twelfth
street. where the good-looking woman
had friends. They passed as Mr.. and
Mrs. Algernon Douglass
At 8 p. M the woman was furnishing
entertainment for crowd at the corner
of Sixth avenue and Thirty eighth street
by trying to jerk a satchel out of the
grain merchants hand. Her luxuriant
hair had come down and she was crying.
She and the merchant had been out to
and she had had good deal of wine.
Policeman Reardon quieted the woman
| and she walked block up town. The
woman broke out in another tantrum at
| Thirty-ninth street, and again at Fortieth
4 street. She wept more violently when
Reardon came along a second time, and
she insisted that he should make the
| merchant give her one of the satchels.
| She said it was her property.
/ ''This woman is my wife" said the
grain merchant, 'and want her to come
home.n
The woman waved her hands and de-
MED emphatically that she was his wife.
Policeman Reardon concluded to hCve
the dispute settled in the Thirtieth
street station, and took both the woman
and the merchant before Sergeant
Cooper.
This man is Burroughs, the Philadel-
phia grain speculator,i the woman said
to the policeman.
When he got before Sergeant Cooper
the man said he was Algernon Douglass,
and lived at 70 Pine street, Philadelphia
He handed the sergeant number of let
ters written by the woman, in which he
was addressed as husband,
She said that she was Miss Annie
Douglass, and added, with laugh, that
she couldn't be married to the merchant
because the latter, had another wife.
81 want my satchel and l want to G,
out alone. want to live in New York
too Pm tired of Philadelphia. He'.
got beautiful home there, though" sh'
said.
"I've spent over $50, 600 on her." h,
said, ''and | want to know where she il
going She can go out alone if she wants
to, but I've got right to know wher,
she intends to stop"
Sergeant Cooper and Policemen Rear
don and Drew spent half an hour trying
to patch up their differences and g,
home.
No." said the young woman. "I'n
tired of that old fellow and that's al
there is to it, | want him to mind hi
own business. I'll have him arrested i
he follows me about"
Detective Murphy went and got Mrs
Franklin to act as peacemaker. Tn
women laughed heartily when they met
They chatted together for ten minutes il
private room, and then the blonde il
sealkskin consented to go back to Twelfth
street
The woman had long chat with Ser
geant Cooper while waiting for Mrs
Franklin. She said this time that sh
. was the daughter of an officer in tn
: United States army, and that she ha'
married the grain merchant on Cover
nor's Island seven years ago She addeC
that she had tired of him because of tn
disparity in their years