The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-27
|llg9B WILSON'S ROMANCE
Strange Story Told in New York
Law Court.
How He Won His Wife. She Got q
n Divorce and Held His Property.
While He Was "Shanghaied''
and Sent to Australia. His
Return Home.

: is tho title of case now being tried in
New York. 1t is one of the most re-
{ markable cases on record
When Jacob Wilson, the plaintiff,
was SO years old,ain 1887, his father,
tho late Jacob Wilson, ST., an affluent
! New York merchant, suggested that it
was about time for the young man to
4 marry. Jacob, Jr., was not aversc to
such an arrangement, and unhesitating-
~ expressed his Willingness to comply
with his fathers behcst But this was
!, no easy matter, for the young man pos
sessed face so unprepossessing that his
! own father eften said he believed M
I ture must have exhausted her homehest
materials on, it and could never repro
auce duplicate, and, in addition. Ja-
8 cob was great dsvotee of Bacohus,
and it il alleged, rarely drew a sober
Z breath.
Living within n few doors of the Will
4 son domicile was u good looking young
woman whose amiable disposition and
ireproachable character rendered her
special object of young Jacobs atten-
ton. BE laid daily siege to her 24-
& year-old heart, but received absolutely
no encouragement, and when he pop
ped tho question" she decisively de-
clined.
Try your luck elsewhere" suggest
cd, the father
~ mo, sir, replied Jacob. "Iql mar
" Mary Saunders, or I'll die bache-
lori
AS nothing could swerve the young
man from this determination his father
Z constituted himself acommittee of ono
and waited upon the obstinate fair ono
) TO plead with her, in behalf of the reject
4 cd surfer
Finding diplomacy and oratory of no
avail, tho SELF appointed ambassador
proffered riches. immediate and album
dant, enc the golden key unlocked tho
heart which had been imperyious to cv-
cry cthor ar7;ul1ent
81 Mary my sen said Mr.. Wilson,
B"and Will give you 500 n month for
4 life, fertile AVID well stocked New
Jersey farE, sid $40 900 in cash.
And the f"-iowing day Jacob Wilson,
Ir, escorted his bride 10 the altar.
Shortly ai;erWard the elder Wilson
died without leaving Il will.
TEc,o's 10 need O. q will nv dear. :"
explained JACOB to his wife. .I'm INV
father 8 only child. and so all his prop
ertJ descends to THO anyway"
But Jacob had rcckoned without his
host. A woman appeared ON tho sceno
= ane brought along two children.
am Jacob Wilson, Sp. Is widow. his
second wife, she said, ''and these chill
dren are the offspring Of the marriage. I"
She began suit TO establish her
claims, and in due time she won tho
ease and was awarded onc-third of tho
estate for herself and propsrtionute
two-thirds ehare OF tire balance for her
children. Jacob got what reIlsdned-
about $75,0 900 all told.
One day, several months after this
4 Jacob disappeared and was not heard OF
AGAIN for many years. His wife had
charged him with infdoliEes and had
Degun an action for divorce. and it was
Thought that Jacob had gone away in q
ht OF dependency and put an end to his
life
The divorce was granted. and Mary
was once more freq to disyu,se Of her
neart Which she had bsrrCred for money
Jacob was honelyt good for moth
ing fellow" she said, ''but he had one
yirtue-he loved me, and us n token of
his affection he transferred all his prom
arty 20 me-
II soon after obtaining the decree of di-
rorco Nary became the wifo of John ].
Clancy, . New York dry goods mer-
chant.
But Mary did not Long survive her
second marriage. Barring come trifiing
lesac5es to relatives, her will beoueath
I'd every thing she owned to Clancy.
But now comes the most remarkable
part OF the story.
4 wind and weather beaten man.
with seedy, i'll fitting garments, and
with . fsca which Dissipation and ma
cure had We'd with each ether to distir
nre, entered tho Office uf a prominent
Bfoaaway law firm several months ago.
Ho told g rambling story Of how he had
been betrayed seven years ago by his
vie. whom ne loved to distraction.
While carou: Ang with some strangers
enc night was insensibly led by them
down to the docks on the North river. I
aoRs recall Vary we'll what happened
.heta rGnsmber. however. that nv
vic ssS out of a hack and talked 60 me.
hat; si1e,said has escaped nue.. Then
cams Pealod Of total stupefaction, and
WREN IS1oEe ], found lnyself on board a
ssitsng vessel bound for Australia.
u haa boon 'shanghaied.' was Ger.