Evening journal., 1893-01-30

written for months together as my dar.
ling little wife He has been before
brought to book for bigamy hy still
another woman, Miss Loie Fuller. whose
serpentine poses and purse he had ina.
posed himself upon as a common law
husband, trausitory relation known TO
New York law by one name and to com
mon fame and common sense by another
Between perjury, bigamy, trigamy,
and an equally wide variety Of wives and
crimes it would have gone hard with the
"Colonel" and bis mustgChes in some
prison receiving room but for his wife,
his original, neglected, deserted
wronged, but still foolishly faithful wife
Of twenty years back. great many
men are saved by their wives This
was to be his good fortune They were
both younger when they married twenty
years ago She had money He had
none. This led 60 useful division of
labor. She provided the money and he
spent il, Gftar on other women, in as
sorted and steadily succeeding varieties
lie wandered-On her money She re-
manned first IN Detroit, later in Saranac
last at New York Colonel" II YES
was apparently one Of the men who feel
that after all there is no place like away
from home, and it was not until his
vagrant loves had ccntered on one
woman that Colonel" Hayes found the
full. sweet usefulness Of a happy home
and a loving wife.
lt was in 1888, after long succession
of vagrant loves, each fed with his wife's
fortune, and followed by her forgiveness,
that modest looking young women drew
these volatile affections to some con
stancy--broken indeed. by Miss Fuller's
serpentine episode. Miss keating was
pretty, modest-lo looking, with quiet
taste in dress and a keen eve for bargains
In husbands aud babies If there was
early in this intimacy a brief period
when Hayes was presumably single, it
soon ended. Before any one Of her three
children had been born, Annie Heating
knew that their father had faithful,
forgiving wife, whose dwindling fortune
was at his command
The pair of paramours united to prey
on the wife, who patiently bore more
than any Griselda told of Baccace or
Chaucer OF the three babies a son
lived. Such poor. rotten fragment of
heart as the man had warmed in love and
he proposed to bring him up "withont a
stain So he wrote TO Annie, if "she"
would only get out of the way, and
she, childless, longing for her hus
bands love, seeing here nc last that ia
this child was one pure thing which
touched her husbands heart set out TO
buy the child. She took Annie to her
iat In New York aware of mutual re
lations still subsising In the vain hope
chat she might warm again the rotten
heart of the worthless wretch she called
her husband. She made her husbands
avowed mistress, her guest and friend
81 have she wrote him, spent the last
three months In utter humiliation of
my womans pride and waited and at
Tended on her, because felt that child |
vas the one thing You wanted and il / !
took yours and reared it as my own, you
would in time come to look upon tt as
such yourself, and we would be as happy
with it as if had really given it birth '
This letter aud half score more like
them. Hayes sent to Annie, that she
might know just how anxious his wife
vas to get the boy and drive the harder
bargain. For three years this miserable
plot went on, and when Annie Heating
turned at last and had Hayes arrested
for the perjury he had committed In
some coil of the miserable bargaining
over the boy, his wife came TO his side.
Her money met the cost OF his defense.
Her devotion supported him. 10 may
have been hard TO see his paramour-one
Of many-smile, as she handed out i'm
open court one after another letter of
passionate affection from wife TO hus-
band but the wife bore it-faithful to
The last, and her last act was TO buy his
liberty and her love by bailing her hus-