Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-06-20
THE, CITIZEN.
Living Double Lives.

detective who for seven years was .
confidential man under Inspector Little
child in the criminal investigation depart
ment of Scotland Yard talked about the
double lite of Mrs. Lehman-Webber, the
story of which came out in the courts re-
! Gently, and discussed the case with which
a woman who keeps her wits about her
may carry on for years deception of this
sort without much risk of detection.
ga man infatuated with woman, +" will
believe almost anything she tells him. 1t
is singular thing that romantic stories OF
this kind are usually made public by some
lawsuit that has no connection with the
romance. l once came accross most re-
msrkable case of duplicity in woman
thl ough chasing up some bonds of the
London and North Western Railway that
had been stolen from . house near Seton
Park, Liverpool.
| A nice looking little woman of the
name of Simms kept a millinery shop IN the
| London road. A steward on one OF the
| Guion boats-Bull was his name-met her
at some entertainment or other and mar
ried her. He was at sea most of the time,
| and it was ax-eed that she should keep up
the millinery business until they had saved
money enough for both of them to stop
work. Bull was man we'll liked by the
company, and was always busy. He was
not home more than three or four days
each month. He always found his wife
waiting for him in their home at Bootle.
q suburb of Liverpool, where great many
of the men employed on the Atlantic lin
ers live. Mrs. Bull kept the name OF
Simms on her sign, and no one in the shop
knew she was married.
| "A drummer from Oldham who sold her
goods certainly did not know il, for he be-
came a most persistent wooer and wanted
| to marry her. Finally, when Bull wa 8
away on one of his voyages, she went TO
| his home in Oldham and married him.
His parents were delighted with her. In
this second marriage it was decided not to
give up the millinery business for the time
being. Furnished rooms were engaged
not far from the shop. and here, whenever
the drummer was in Liverpool, he used to
live with the woman he believ-
ed to be his wife. Occasionally
take her home to his parents to spend San
day. She went there when her first child
was born.
"Bull, who was at sea at the time,
thought she was with her sister in Man
chester. She took the child to Liverpool
to see him and persuaded him, as she had
SO much to do in the shop, to leave the
little one in her sisters care. de consent
ed. do not know how this woman man
aged to keep up this sort of g thing with
out detection for ten years, but she did
manage to somehow.
"She might never have been discovered
if she had been satisfied with two men
But under the name of Miss Simms, she goi
INTO an ENHANCEMENT with a broker on the
Liverpool Exchange, q rich vidower, with
one daughter, who was at day boarding
school. She used to visit him at his house
afternoons. He was q man of some posi-
tion in society and readily listened to al
suggestions she had to offer to make theil
meetings as secret as possible.
"This thing had been going on for some
years when the brokers' house was robbed
and a cash boz containing the Northwest
ern bonds stolen 1 was put on the case
1t turned out that the box had been stoler
by a servant, but in making inquiries
about the persons who habitually come u
the house 1 unearthed this remarkable
story.
'Did you ever hear of similar cas-
here in New York;" asked the detective
To be sure," he replied. "E yo'
could get at the sealed testimony on whic
many divorces are granted you would find
them. The only case in which 1 wa
personally interested was brought sbou
by the double marriage of q young cir
who came down here from SulliYan count
to study art. She fell in with 8 youn
doctor, who proposed marriage. She re
fused at first, on the ground that he
mother was making great sacrifice u
/ pay IOT u6I dI0 bhob ohO hoe
promised not to marry until they wer
completed. Finally, upon his promise t.
keep the marriage a secret for two or thre
years and to allow her to make occasion
!, al visits to her mother, she consented.
"There vas no trouble tor year or two
Then l was brought into the case throug
an anonymo Us letter sent to the docto
that aroused his suspicious. We discvoel
ed that the alleged mother who supple
the funds was q most indulgent middl
aged husband, who promptly came her
and took his young wife home as soon a
he was made acquainted with the facts il
the case. The doctor, fearing that ex
posure would injure his professional pros
poets, decided to say nothing. This was
of course, an easy matter for him, as th'
marriage bad been kept secret"