The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-07
LIFETIME IN A WEEK.
Wooing, Marriage, Desertion, Illness
Death and Burial.


Events of q lifetime-a three hours WOO
ing. marriage, desertion illness. death and
burial-were all crowded into last week in
the sad romance of Sadie Powers, a pretty
mill girl, of Paterson. y. j.
Having no work at the mill on Monday
afternoon she went to visit Ms Cunning
ham. OF Mill Street. who had long been her
friend There she met Mrs Cunningham s
nephew James II. Ward, of Sheldon, Conn.
Mrs Cunningham was busy and asked her
visitor to entertain Mr.. Ward. The two
soon We're on excellent terms. Mrs. Gun
ningham from time to time appeared to
warn them in jest that they had better
not fall in love with each other, and began
INVITING them both, saying that they
ought 10 be married.
Police Justice Samuel Percy, who is also
a newsdealcr and distributes evening pa
pers to some OF his customers, reached
the Cunningham home as usual, and the
widow called TO him.
Judge, here are two young folk who
want to get married. Come in and do it,
The Justice thought this joke and paid no
attention. She insisted, and he consented
to enter the house. There he found Miss
Powers seated on one side of a table, and
on the other was Ward pleading with her
to do something to which she would not
consent. When the Judge turned to 90
Ward said. Yes, we want to get married,
and if you can marry us go right ahead
NOW, Saole, YOU can't take that dare, can
your
Nh'ie the girl blushed and hesitated
Ward, with many protests of affection
continued to plead. At last the girl asked
the Justice. Are you a real Justice and
can you marry people. or is this a Joke ~
she was assured that Percy had the
power and Ward insisted that he at once
perform the ceremony. Percy said it would
take him less than half an hour TO deliver
the papers. and if Miss Powers had con
sented by that time they could send to his
office for him
Armed with the necessary papers, he re-
turned to the Cunningham house in re-
sponse to q message, and found the bride
and bridegroom ELECT ready for his SER
vice Mrs. Cunningham, until then, had
considered it all fun, but now de1urred
and refused to act as witness. Miss Mary
Iuliy and John Glocken, two neishhors
Miss Powers said she was seventeen years
old and an orphan. and that as she had
no guardian she needed permission
Ward said he was twenty-four years cid
They We're married.
After q nlerry-making at the Cunning
nam house Mr.. and Mrs. Ward started to
this CITY for their honeymoon. promising
Thanksgiving dinner. They went to Pat
erson on "Wednesday night. Then the
bridegroom left the house on some pre-
text.
Mrs. Ward waited and waited in vain
for him. She arose i'll III the morning,
and went to Mrs. Cunnngham's alone.
There she became seriously i'll and suf-
fered an attack of commissions.
DR.. ellison was summoned, and ordered
that She he sent at once to the General
Hospital She had been there only few
hours when she died. There were indica-
tions that she might have been poisoned,
but an autopsy revealed that she had died
from a gastric ulcer.
Ward never returned. The poor little
orphan was buried on Saturday. many
girls from the mill attending her funeral
and Earning for the first time of her mar
=riage. when they read on the coffin plate
sadie Ward instead Of Sadie Pow
ers.-New York Herald.