The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-10
Mss Morrison viii Marry Man
Who Proved FalthlaSS.
He MARRIED IN FIT OF pIQUE.
Impatient at Parents Opposition rOsIlng
Left Her and Married saoihsr Woman.
StlII PAID Her Court.

New York, Jan. 10.-Mary r. Morrison
remained faithful for sixteen years tp
a man who had been faithless 70 her.
while a husband and father. John w.
Bowling had posed as am uutrammciled
suitor for her hand Then came the
awakening. and Miss Morrison saw him
no more.
Death took tho wife a year ago ana
then, after months of search, Downing
found his former sweetheart. She had
long before forgiven him and gladly con-
sented TO become his wife.
AT his home, 1H East l1ightF-tirst
street. last night. Dowling told OF his lifo
romance. He and Aliss Morrison. who
lives az o5S West 123th street are 10 Doe
married February O. at ST lgnnuus
Loyola's church at Eighty-fOurth strcet
and Park avenue.
Dowling came here from England twcn-
" years ago. and is the manager of an
estate with offices az l25d street and 81.
Nicholas ave0uc. He met and fell I'm love
with Miss NJ rison. then a girl of eigh-
teen, living with her parents in Sixty
first street, near Lexington avenue. lie
then was twenty years old. Her parents
looked favorably upon the young mans
suit but would not consent TO so early
marriage.
MARRIED IN FIT OF PIoCE.
Piaued by the parents opposition.
Bowling says, ne became reckless. Busi-
ness took him to Goshen. n. Y. There he
met Miss Anna Paisley. the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Paisley.
After a brief courtship they were mar
ried January Is. 1855. in this city and
Bowling installed his bride In a coscy
home at 20 West Eleventh street.
1. .fa 81. @,
ately happy. Dowling said last night that
he continued his suit for the hand OF
Miss Morrison for two years. He was
still deeply in love with her. There was
talk of an engagement" between them.
Two years passed when he suddenly real
lied what he was doing. He determined
10 leave the city, and took steamer for
Savannah, GA, in January. 1885.
DOUBLE EXISTENCE DISCOVERED.
Friends In Investigating his disappear
ance discovered the double existence he
had led. and informed both his wife and
Miss Morrison. There was an affecting
meeting between the two women. Miss
Morrison said she would never see Dow
ling again, and the wife sent n message
of forgiveness TO him.
He returned after an absence OF three
weeks and resumed his place in his fam
| lily.
In the years that followed Bowling
said his wife never reproached him, but
that she often told him il anything hap
! pened 10 her 10 find Miss Morrison and
ask her 10 be a mother to their children.
Mrs Dowling died a year ago today.
/ leaving a baby a few days old, their fifth
child
FOLLOWED WIFE'S INJUNCTION.
| Bowling kept lss lonely home a few
/ months and then thought of his wife $
I injunction, and timidly began a search
! for Miss Morrison. At the address in Six
\ ty-first street he found the family had
4 moved twelve years before. The address
| OF an aunt I'm East Fifty-seventh street
was found. and last September letter
| from Bowling reached Miss Morrison
The same day came a reply from her
| saying
| 81 had long ago forgiven you. T an
| glad time has made you a better man"
They met that evening for the frs
| time in sixteen years and talked over thu
| past. She said she had received many OF
| fers Of marriage. but she had refuse,
| them all, and had waited i'm hope. few
! weeks later they became engaged anC
now the day for the wedding has beer
! set.
To his comfortable home at 100 Eas
| Eighty-first street Dowling will take this
| bride.