The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-12
SEQUEL 70 A WEDDING.
Grave Charges Against an Editor BIlde-
groom.
SAID TO HAVE ANOTHER WIFE
The wedding of Colonel ID. G. Pavey, Edi-
tor of the Portsmouth IN. H. Times.
Leads TO Scandal - He VIII Make
Statement for the Press.

PORTSMOUTH, n. H., April 12.-Col>nel
Darwin c. Pavey, until Monday la% asso-
riate editor of The Daily Evening Times,
same to this city about a year ago, and
soon made many friends.
Almost Immediately upon his arrival
here he renewed an acquaintance, formed
MT a summer resort several years ago, with
Miss Annie Estelle Smart, daughter OF
Police onacer Richard ID. Smart,
drawing in the public schools at a salary
of $500 year.
While this courtship was going on it
was understood that Colonel Pavey had a
wife somewhere in Massachusetts or Con-
necticut as we'll as several children.
These stories were so vague, however,
hat little heed was paid TO them, and the
rourtship went on swimmingly. In De-
cember it was reported that the couple
were to be married on Christmas, but for
some reason the wedding was postponed.
All this time stories continued to float
about of an undivorced wife in Connect
cut, but this did not finally stop the mar
riage, which occurred on Easter Sunday.
Colonel Pavey selected one of the most
fashionable churches in the city, old st.
Johns Episcopal, for the ceremony, and
for weeks the coming wedding was the
talk of the town.
On Easter Sunday afternoon the church
was crowded, so much interest had been
aroused. Colonel Pavey, TO give special
eclat to the wedding, had prevailed upon
Mayor Laskey
To Act ms Best Man.
The colonel and his bride departed for n.
brief wedding tour announcing that upon
his return he would take up his residence
Ut the Rockingham House.
He returned on Friday evening last, and
on the train that brought the couple also
arrived copies of New York paper con-
tanning grave charges against Colonel
Pavey.
The substance Of the charges Is that
Colonel Pavey year ago deserted a wife
and five children in Wallingford, Conn,
that he has since contributed nothing to
their support, and that If he has obtained
n divorce il is entirely unknown to the
wife and obtained by fraud.
While these charges have been current
for several days, up to yesterday Colonel
Pavey has seen fit to make no explanation.
The colonel refused TO talk until he
could prepare
A Statement For the Press,
which he was then doing. He did not
wish to speak in any haphazard way, but
would gather all the newspaper articles,
and reply to them severally in full.
He said that where he at first considered
silence dignified, a statement to the press
by him would be a justice to his wife, and
would be more dignified; that he had a
clear conscience, and should not leave
town on a freight train, nor should he
walk away.
Mrs. Pavey herself introduced the sub
ject. and said il had been a source of no lit
tie annoyance to her; that all there was
about it was that
Her Husband Was a Divorced Man,
but that out of respect for her feelings, as
she did not wish it noised abroad that she
was to marry divorced man, he had not
10 represented the case; that Mr. Pavey
had not notified his former wife of his di-
vorce, because it would have entailed an
extra expense, and that he did not think it
necessary.
Mrs Pavey No admits, therefore, that
Mrs Pavey No. was not notified of any
divorce proceedings.
Colonel Pavey holds divorce papers OBJ
tanned somewhere in the west, and it is
well known that such divorce as he has
Is not considered legal in New Hampshire.
He has been busy all day preparing an ex-
haustive review of the case for the press,
but it has not yet been given out.