The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-04
A LEGLEss HUSBAND.
The Widow Lenser Marries a Man
Without UNDERMINING But With
Prospects.

The Widow Lenser Marries a Man
Without Underpinning But With
Prospects.
From the New York sun.
A romantic courtship, which had it's
beginning over two years ago in one of
the wards of Bellevue hospital. was
terminated on Sunday morning by mar
riage in the little chapel at the hospital.
The bridegroom was John Solinsky, a
Russian 40 years old, who has been a
patient at the hospital for nearly eight
years. The bride was Mrs Pauline
Lenser, of 81 West Houston street, a
handsome woman of AZ years.
Solnsky is cripple, both legs having
cut off just below the thigh. The couple
met about three years ago. Solinsky had
then been an inmate of the hospital for
over three years, and was confined in
Ward No. ,.
One morning the attendants brought a
5-year-old boy into the ward, and put
him in the cot next TO Solinsky. The lit
tie fellow fretted a good deal and he at
tracted the attention of Solinsky, who
amused him by telling fairy stories 4
few days afterward the boys mother,
Mrs. Pauline Lenser, came TO the hospital
to see him, and the boy told her how nice
MIR. SOlinSky had been. Mrs. Lenser was
oroken-hearted over her sons condition,
and SOlinsky tried to console her He
called attention to his own misfortune,
and so excited the sympathy of the grief
stricken mother that she partly forgot
her own sorrows. She went TO the hos
pital every day, and finally got into the
habit of holding long conversations with
the never-complaining invalid who spent
the whole day in amusing her son.
Solinsky learned from Mrs. Lenser that
she was widow and it was not very
long before he began to feel more than a
friendly interest in her. When the boy
was finally discharged from the hospital
the widow continued to pay frequent
visits to ward No. ?, and one day she
promised SOlinsky that she would marry
him as soon as he was able to leave the
hospital. Last spring his condition was
so much improved that he was able to
wear pair of artificial legs. Then So
Hnsky decided that there was no reason
why he shouldn't leave the hospital and
get married. Solinsky had been a tailor
at one time, so he opened a small shop
down town. and Mrs. Lenser used to de-
vote much of her attention to his house
hold work. Arrangements had been al
most completed for the wedding when
Solinskys legs began to trouble him
again, and he was obliged to return to the
hospital
Mrs. Lensers two married daughters
told her that there wasn't any reason
why she shouldn't marry SOlinsky, even
ii he was confined in Bellevue hospital
but he feared that the trouble with his
legs would never be entirely cured, and
as he didn't want to be burden on her
hands headvised further delay. Solinsky
has lawsuit pending against the Della
ware and Lackawanna railroad for $40, DOC
damages for the loss of his legs. The ac-
cident happened about fifteen years ago.
He was then manager for a coal company
in Pennsylvania, One day he was pushed
from the platform of moving train by
the conductor and the wheels passed over
both his legs.
Several years ago Solinsky obtained n
verdict for s25, 900, but the case was APP
pealed. The lawyers in the case are con
tident, however, that the matter will
eventually be decided in his favor. He
is also heir to an estate in Russia which
he says is worth $4,000, but owing TO
litigation he has not come into his inheri-
lance
Solinsky told these facts to Mrs. Len
ser. The widow overcame her lovers OBJ
jections, and the wedding took place two
days ago The couple were married by
the Rev. Henry St George Young, the
chaplain at Bellevue hospital. Solinsky
will remain in the hospital a few days
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