The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-10
TWO MYSTERIOUS spousEs.
4 Curious Question in Occult Thcos-
ophy at Huntington. l.. /.
From the New York Times.


Huntington, l.. L--Local occult theoso-
whether Wethorn has returned to this
village queerly reincarnated. Weithorn
disappeared fifteen years ago as French
man If he has reappeared Il is as an
Irishman, calling himself Charles Smith.
The unbelevers contend that no French
man could have a new birth and reap
pear In fifteen years with a brogue and
galways. The believers say vaguely that
there are curious things in theosophicai
transactions, and that almost anything Is
possible.
Weithorn appeared here in the early
7O's He literally appeared, because the
first that was known of him he was In
the midst of the people with gestures and
pronunciation distinctly Gallo, and MOTH
ing was known of how he came, or VINO,
what or where he was before he came.
Several prominent citizens at that time
became seriously III because of their poor
success I'm discovering the antecedents,
purposes and conditions of the stranger.
He soon became an important part OF
the village life, not only as a permanent
mystery and subject for speculation, bat
as an active factor. He had more to say
in matters of church and municipal man
agement and social life than anybody else.
kind OF a Frenchman and he was always
ready to enlighten the populace on any
subject except himself. That was the
matter in which the town was most in
terested, and il was the only matter on
which he was interested.
Miss Sarah Nanny, who was a lively
girl and acutely interested In village
matters. married Weithorn. II was sup
posed at the time that she accepted him
in an uncomfortable burst of curiosity and
patriotism in the hope that she might find
out something about him and crafty the
yearnng curiosity Of her townspeople.
All she found out about Weithorn was
that he had a most abomlnabl@ temper.
He was small and ambitious and she was
large and resentfui They occupied for
several years a small house the man had
built on an outlying lot and the question
which of the two was boss Of il was un-
decided until fifteen years ago, when Wei
thorn disappeared as suddenly and mys-
teriously as he came.
Mrs. Weithorn accepted the situation
with philosophy. Her fugitive husband
had left her the house and an infant to
remember him by. AS a wife she had no
income. As an abandoned wife she was
allowed a dollar a month by the over
seers OF the poor. With a residence and
an income she was apparently content.
Charles Smith arrived here recently just
as Weithorn did He had with him a
brother and both were apparently irish.
They built a house out by the railroad.
and yesterday Charles married the grass
widow who has been grass widow so
long that she might now be called hay
widow
The ceremony was apparently improvis
ed. The bride and groom walked into
Justice Allison Lowndes' Office and an
nounced their conjugal purpose. James
Dickerson, the local gas man, was invit-
ed by the simple process of being hailed
as he wllked by on the opposite side Of
the street and was the attesting witness
on her way TO the ceremony she stopped
long enough 10 write note to the over
seer of 'ne poor, saying that she had fin
ished doing the part of an abandoned
wife, and would need no more help. II
have had surprise" she added
So the mysterious Charles Smith and
the grass widow OF the mysterious Wei
thorn ave become one aud the question
Is whether Smith Is Weithorn, penltent,
and returned in disguise, or whether the
transection Is a new one. and the coinei-
dence entirely accidental.