The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-06
DID BE MARRY hrs DAUdHrERs
A Chicago Man Pears That ITS New wife
Was the child lie Lott Forty Years Ago.

CHICAGO. Nov. 5.-James W. Drouillard. a
well-known attorney. was retained to-day ny
Samuel Clinton Willetts to decide whether
woman whom Willetts married two years ago
is not his own daughter. About forty live
years ago Willetts was married to Miss Mary
Evans ut Erie. Pa. He was II years old ana
she was IL. They wentto live with "iIie'ts
parents, and year later baby girl was porn
As time passed discussions arose anu
| Quarrels wero frequent. one night wneh
Wuletts returned from his work his
| vii, and child were gone. Hc waited In
| vain for them to return. and when four years
| passed he gave them UP forever soon alter
| wnrd he heard that his wife had died. six
| y.ars nfer his wife deserted him Willetts
married Caroline stevens. whose parents re-
| sIdcd in a small town adjoining Erie. In less
| than two years son was gwen to MN. but ms
| wife died He named the child George. The
| how when II years old entered the employ OF
| the firm OF Harding, Davis Co.. wholesale
hardware dealers in Pittsburgh In few
years lie was sent travelling by tho firm. In
! the mean time the father moved to Pittsburgh
and took up his residence with his son. on
Christmas night. 1860. Wiletts sat waiting in
| his apartments for the return Of his son. who
brought with him young, and beautiful wife.
She had been Miss Helen Wright. and young
Her .' parents T had recently died. Wlletts took
Il strange fancy TO his sons bride. For TWEEN
". eight years the son and wife lived happily
together. and old Mr.. Willetts seemed con
tonted. The couple were never blessed With
children. On Dec. II, 1883, George Wilets
died after an illness Of six months lie left
his wife considerable money. and made his
father promise always TO take care Of her. A
few months after his sons death. Will"tts and
his daughter law went abroad. 4 singular
attnrhment had sprung up between th"m; and
4n Jan, ~. lSW, they ,wrre married In
Wa,ne Mclsonard. of the English Church.
Shortly afterward they returned to
Americn, and devoted considerable time to
travel. Much OF their timo they spent in Chi
cago. They intended to make this city their
permanent home. Occasionally Mrs Wiletts
told her husband incidents Of her past lie, and
many times he was struck by something
strangely familiar in her manner and her life
"a u child. A few months ago the possibility
that = had married his own daughter began
to dawn upon Wiiletts. and he was forced to
believe that his wife had been the girl who was
born to him many years before in Erie. Since
then Bhe learned that his first wife. ator
deserving him. went to Cleveland. where in
less than seven years she married u man
named John Wright. Shortly after her mar
rage her now husband deserted her. She was
LETT alone with her, daughter and soon died.
Miss Wright, left alone, sought empoyment
and earned her own LIVING until shn met
was with the greatest difficulty that Mr.. Will
let's traced ont these facts. and in his mind
there Is no doubt that he Is married to his
daughter. Wiletts and his wife. or his daugh-
ter. as he now calls her. are living on tho
North Side,