The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-14
LEFT WITH A MARRIED MAN.
Handsome, wealthy Girf> lnfatua-
ton aud Elopement.

Handsome, wealthy Girfs lnfatua-
ton and Elopement.
Trenton Jan. 14.-Mrs. William Tay-
lor declares that her handsome step
daughter. Miss Ella Cecilia Taylor, has
eIopad with Augustus Metzger, a poll
t-cian with influence and aspirations. 1t
is quite certain that both MISS Ella
and Metzger are absent from their
homes.
The Young woman left canary bird.
and her tender. loving nature is proved
bv the fact that she left money, too
TO buy food for the bird. If MetZger mas
run away. he has left a pretty wife and
seven children.
Miss TAYLOR is twenty-Seven years
old. the daughter of William Taylor.
of TAYLOR & Yates. who died less than
a wear ago. leaving To her goodly Tor
tune i'm her own right. She lived with
her stepnother in a fine house, No IN
Warren street. Mrs. Taylor says that
for eight months Metzger. who is good
looking and thirty years old, called on
Miss Ella every night but three. ana
then he explained. regrefully, tnat ne
was sick.
Mrs TAYLOR believed her daughter ;
fervent and frequent admirer was slh-
Gle until a friend otherwise informed
her lately. She promptly told Miss Ella
that she sOuld not permit married
man To visit her. and then there was
quarrel.
A few weeks go Metzser learned that
his mother had died in Germany. be
cueathing snug sum To him. lie told
his wife he would so abroad ana col
Iect his inheritance. and often assured
her between kisses. how sorry he would
be 10 leave her. even for little While.
Finally he fixed on Wednesday as the
DAY of his departure.
He drew $500 from his bank anu told
his wife he would buy his steamship
ticket from an agent named rogers.
on Tuesday evening MetZger talked
with his wife for several hours Of MS
tourney. often with tears in his eyes.
Early on Wednesday morning, after a
sadly affectionate parting with Mrs.
Netzger and The seven children, he
went away.
a Dhvsician in Philadelphia is treat
ing Miss Taylor for slight affection
of the lungs. and she has been in the
habit of going to see him every Wed
nesday. So her mother was entirely
unsuspicious when Miss Ella went
away early Wednesday morning. But
in a few hours Mrs. Taylor received
Letter which read in part:
Dear Mother: Don't look for me to-
day. I don't know just when | will be
back as | have made up my mind 10
stay away from Trenton for a while.
| have made all preparations TO stay
some time if | am so inclined. l sup
pose you will be very angry with me,
but | can't help it. 1 am only doing
what I think is for the best. 1 am TAX
ing nothing with me but my clothes.
/ enclose 81. Eighty cents is for the
church tickets on my bureau. and the
rest is to get food and sand for the
bird.
IF Maud will please tend my birds
while I am gone she will not lose by
it, I hope you will not be angry i
am doing only what I think is best. l
hope you will keep well. and be happy,
| say good-by TO all. and hope the good
man will spare me to come back.
Yours. ELLA.
Mrs. Taylor has learned these facts:
That Miss Ella drew $1,000 from bank
early on Wednesday; that eMtZSer
bought two passages on the White
Star steamship Southwark, that sailed
from New York on Wednesday, from
Turford & Tibbetts. No. 140 South
Broad street-One. as proved by the
stubs of the tickets. for himself, thir
ty years old; one for his wife, twenty
seven years old: that the true Mrs
Metzger is not on the ocean, but at
her home. No. 46 Pennington avenue.
SO Mrs. Taylor is certain her daugh-
ter has run away. But Mrs. MetZger,
with all a wife's confidence. refuses to
believe that her husband had deserted
her. She says, however, that she has
never seen her husbands relatives.