The Sunday globe., 1901-07-07
DEAD TO RIGHTS !
A Guilty Couple Caught by Rela-
tiveS and the Police.
GOVERNMENT CLERK AND WIDOW
Playing Doctor and Using Egg YOIks 10 Cure
the Nervousness Of the Daughter He is
Caught In Bed with The MOiher-The Family
AIghII Respected and The BTOthers-ln-Law
Of The Widow are After The Clerks Scalp.

OF lnb WluOH dIo HlbI ln6 uIelAS oVdP'
The Sunday Globe presents the read |
ing public of Washington with one Of |
those typical cases Of scandal which |
are as prevalent in this community as
blackberries are in August. The dame
in the present case is not employed in
the Departments, so there need be no
fluttering among the dove cots OF the
Treasury, the Interior, the q. Z. o.,
the War, State, Navy Departments, or
the Sixth Auditors office Of our es-
teemed friend, Castle, who, last week,
promoted Victorine Alexander and
gave that most estimable and sensitive
lady an increase of salary as a salYe,
no doubt to her wounded feelings,
which manifest themselves when she
daily passes The Globe Office in an
angelic grin, as in her minds eye she
pictures the editor playing checkers
with his nose in the county jail-when
the weather is cooler, But to our
story
There died in this city a few years
ago a well.known gentleman, who left
a buXom and voluptuOus widow and
four children. He left ample means
to properly raise and educate the chill
dren. He has two brothers resident OF
this city, one a prominent lawyer and
the other a gentleman engaged by
Moses & Co. The widow movrned her
deceased lord briefly. She became ac-
ouainted with a clerk in the Second
Auditors office holding down a desk
under Mr.. Rdridge, by the name or
alias of Edward Price The Secre-
tarv will be made acquainted with his
real name by one of the brothers or
the amorous widow. Price-for by this
name The Globe will call him-posed
as a doctor in his early visits to the
home of the widow. Her Oldest daugh-
fer was suffering from some nervous
disease. and the "sundowner" from the
Second Auditors Office proposed
course of treatment. His diagnosis OF
the case convinced him that washing
her head with the yolk of an egg and
applying a battery to her spine would
effect a permanent cure. He came reg
ularlv. and there was a decided boom
in the egg market. Now, it happened
tnat the brothers of the widow noticed
the frequency of these visits, and the
LAWYER brother held up Mr.. Price and
demanded a discontinuance of his Wis
Its Prioo protested that they were
simply professional calls, and if pro-
tracted beyond the usual limit it was
due to the fact that he had to wash
the hair of the young girl with the
yolks of eggs, and eggs were getting
scarce, etc. He also promised that he
would never in the slightest manner
compromise the reputation of the fas-
cinating and volptuous widow afore-
said by being seen in any place escort
ing or accompanying her,
This agreement apparently satisfied
the brothers, who kept strict watch
on the widow knowing her amorous
temperament,and for time tle doctor
was permitted to wash the young
daughters hair with his egg yolks.
On tip, however, to the brothers,
they again renewed their vigilance,
and, satisfying themselves that Price
was not confning his professional
services to washing the daughters hair
with the yolks of eggs, they swore out
a warrant of fornication against Price
and the widow.
On a certain Sunday morning short
ly after o'clock, and while the good
and Virtuous people Of the city were
quietly slumbeTing in their couches,
the brothers, accompanied by Officers
Martin Brown, level and Roper de-
scended on the widows domicile, and
securing an entrance, stole softly to
the bedroom of the dame.
The sight that greeted the officers
and brothersin-law nearly caused
murder there anu then, and Mr. Ell
bridge came very near losing one OF
his 81 400 clerks. The doctors" part
ly bald head glimmeRed with a moon.
like glow abeve the pillow and the
widows abundant tresses streamed out
in shimmering brightness athwart the
partly disclosed torso of the sun
downer." The sun was down, sure
enough, but the light OF the moon re-
flected from the top of the doctors
Uranium revealed all that was neces-
sary to demonstrate that he was not
engaged in his professional duty of
washing hair with the yolk Of an egg
or administering electric shocks to the
daughter,
Rudely aroused from their slumber
the guilty pair were hustled to the |
station-house, and $50 bail each de-
manded by the sergeant in charge |
The doctor had three street car tickets .
and bunch of keys the widow had |
her nerve Hence, they were both .
lOCkeu up, DuJ bllc law g1l blObANA ~ ]
law of the widow relented early Sun |
day morning and put up the $50 to .
save the children the shame of their
mothers arrest and Incarceration in
a station-house. The doctor had his
friends notified and about sixteen hun
dred Of them, more or less, raised the
required amount about 8 o'clock p, NJ,
when he was released This case, like
so many others of its kind, was manip.
ulated in police court to save the guilty
parties, but the lawyer brother refused
to permit a nolle prosque. To save
the reputation, or what was left of
1t. of his amorous sisterjn-law, he
however, consented to a nominal fine
of So each for the pair, and, Of course,
our friend Mullowney permitted this
case of fornication to be thus lightly
disposed of. Ii it were some poor devil
of a helpless coon or white man with
out pull who were caught in the park
misbehaving themselves, our other
friend, Stoutenberg, would have an ad.
dition to his summer boarders,
However, the Second Auditors clerk
and the softly langurous widow con.
tinued their relations even up to the
present writing which accounts for
this article, the details OF which are
furnished by one Of the brothers to
the end that he may secure the dis 7