The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-13
She Was Married I'm City Hospital
Pesthouse and Spent Her Honey
moon as Nurse.
HARD-EARNED SAVINGS GONE
MAYE TOLD A SMOOTH STORY AND
SECURED HER MONEY.
Her Love Turns to Hatred and She
Appeals to superintendent TaGe
to Find Recreant Husband.

- Mrs. ,Margarets Maye, a victim of
mantle marriage, appealed tearfully to
Superintendent of Police Taffe yesterday
afternoon for aid in locating her husband,
to whom she was married in the pesthouse
last March. Her story is a sad one. and
from the tale she told she was married for
her small earnings which she had saved
from her salary as nurse during the small
pox season
Mrs Margaret Maye was formerly Miss
McCarty, a nurse in the pesthouse, and
Edward Maye, the man she married while
in that institution, was also one of the
nurses in the city's employ. Working day
in and day out as nurses under quarantine
and thrown constantly together Maye and
Miss McCarty became very much attached
to each other and were married in the
month of March. spending their honeymoon
in the smallpox hospital.
After the serious stages of the smallpox
season had passed and the nurses given
their discharge Maye and his bride went
to Irvington and boarded with some of his
relatives. Together the bride and the
groom had saved about $500 out of their
earnings and they planned to build a little
home in the spring. The pair lived happily
day. Mrs. Maye supposed that her hus-
band was all that he had represented him
self to be-
HUSBAND TOOK HER MONEY.
Several weeks ago. she said. her husband
told her that he had secured a position as
foreman for new interurban road that
was about to enter the city of Richmond
He explained to her that he had an oppor-
tunity to invest their money i'm the stock
of the road and in doing so would insure
himself good position with chances of ad-
vancement, and they agreed, she said that
Ii was a good plan. Two weeks ago last
Monday she packed her husbands grip and
walked with him to the railway station,
where he kissed her goodbye and told her
that if he decided to keep his new position
he would send for her within q week or So
He told her that IL almost broke his heart
to leave her, but he hoped il would only
be for short time. He stood on the back
platform OF the vanishing train and waved
a last farewell to his wife, who stood with
fearful eyes watching his receGing form.
Two weeks passed by and Maye. failed to
write To his wife, and last Sunday she
boarded a train and went TO Richmond
where she discovered that there was no
interurban road under construction
there and that he was unknown i'm that
city She then returned to Indianapolis and
went to the bank where they had deposited
their money and found that before leaving
he had drawn every cent of their earnings.
stating that he desired to make a payment
on house which he was about to purchase
LOVE TURNED TO HATE.
Yesterday Mrs. Maye became convinced
that she was a deserted wife and, with Bit
ter hatred in her heart for the man she at
one time loved. she asked Superintendent
Taffe to scour the State and arrest her
husband. If possible.
The unfortunate woman will leave In
dianapolis to-day for the home of her par
ents i'm nearby town and will remain
there, she says. until she hears that her
husband has been arrested when she will
prosecute him for wife desertion.
Superintendent Taffe assured her that
everything in his power would be done to
bring the man To justice, and he yesterday
communicated with "A number OF cities
where it was thought the young man might
be found. but as yet has had no replies to
his inquiries