The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-01-20
Floped With and Married Her
Own Mothers husband.
THE PITIABLE STORY
As Told by the Outraged Wife in the
New York Courts in Her Plea for
Divorce from Her Cruel and
UnnuturaI Husband Who
Married Daughter.

Married Daughter.
No modern instance is comparable
10 the case Of Mrs. Bruce Crane No.
2, who ousted her own mothers's af-
fections out OF the heart Of her own
stepfather, whose first wife was Mrs.
Crane No. 1.-The new BRIDES own
mother-and eloped with him.
Bruce Crane has just married his
df-orced wife's daughter, correspond
eDt in this ignotle case.
Where may one find situation
and complication more heartless?
Mrs. Bruce Crane, who was Mrs.
Jeanne Burchard Brainerd before she
became Mrs. Bruce Crane, had two
daughters when she intrusted herself
and her widowhOod into the hands OF
Mr.. Bruce Crane, then struggling
and afterward. while she was his wife
-matured into one OF the most dis.
tinguished landscape painters In the
whole United States.
When the second Mrs. Bruce Cranes
own mother was in the slough of des
pond aud was cast into prison, she
die not visit her own mother. Bat
she kept on keeping house for her fa.
nous stepfather, Bruce Crane.
When, after the first Mrs. Bruce
r Crane, who had given up all money,
I'd everything she had in life to give
MHnd when her daughter took the
citing s,the artist father against her
Monumcnher, she did not even visit
Mi IN ol,sther in her dire extremity.
- ~ Sile first Mrs. Bruce Crane
fwasSSsialed before a magistrate in 4
police court In Greater New York
hersoWn daughter who has succeeded
to her own mothers name and
fame,E let ner be locked up in cell
like any common, ordinary unfortu
nate without coming to the rescue
and now after all the agony OF spirit
the first Mrs. Bruce Crane has gone
throughgoaded so by desperation
that she even had to beg-as final
release from all her intense misery
that she must name her own daugt ter
as the correspondent Of her husband,
stepdaug hter and natural guardian
of the child to whom she had ,iutrustf
ed him, her portion is that OF intense
shame. She has seen all her hopes
blasted, all her life ruined, and
ali the field Of her existence ungar-
nered by the unnatural conduct Of her
daughter who has stolen away from
her own mother the heart Of her
mothers husband.
CHAPTER IL.
a woman had been found in New
York leaning against an iron railing
In Eighth avenue, between, Fifty
sixth and Fifty seventh streets, in
the evening. 1t was in December,
when 1t was bleak, cold, dismal. IL
was just ten days before Christmas,
to-, when the whole city Is suppoed
to be alive to the most 1gfori6t.T spirit
of Christianity:.' PsaGe On earth, good
will to men.
shslaeS gshe could barely
mo5seW pdl E52.fme and her address
GSonL oh Bruce" she kept on
There IL there were an ache In
j connf, and break In her heart.
a2a 2Ia!.aaIRg!,' aRa,s''no '0f hfu'e' OF my little
Oficer O'Leary, OF the West Forty
seventh street police station, found
her. With the quick instinct Of his
profession he knew at once that she
wassa getnlewoman In a most deplor-
able situation. He pondered q mo.
Sment.
Where Is your home, Madame.
Do you want TO 90 homc?"
Home, Home-yes, no, oh yes,
take me home No, cont, don't"-
There was a cut over enc one OF her
eyes, which might have been the re-
suit Of fall, and tue fiicer called for
an ambulance and took her to the
Roosevelt Hospital. Finally, after
her mino had qulckened little bit
with warmth after her exposure, she
gave her name and address;
Mrs. Bruce Crane, No. 90 Fifth
avenue"
1.n 1r husband was notified. She sent
'ler daughter Annie. The daughter
pnt no response. The husband made
10 effort to come to her rescue.
$50 she had to be taken like any
common unfortunate to the station
house. Even after another not!tiCa-
tion Bruce Crane did not bail her out,
nor did his stepdaughtcr hasten TO her
succor.
Can one imagine more heartless or
crueller ordeal than this, which hap
pened the next morning in the York. |
vile Police Court?
She was arraigned in court early be- |
fore Magistrate Carne, vino happened |
to be sitting. Alone with all the or. |
dinary "drunks" and thugs" and
"riff.raff' OF great city Policeman
O'Leary produced his prisoner. There |
was that innate something in her
bearing, her carriage, her dignity,
that instantly compelled all eyes to
focus on her, for Mrs. Bruce Crane
has always been handsome woman.
Scarcely anybody could believe bis
eyes when the conventional charge !
was made-'a vagrant and intoxicat-
ed" Poor woman, what made her
so?
Then, and only then, did Bruce
Crane appear.
She was gowned In smart frock Df |
CLOSE. fitting gray cloth. Her splcn,iid |
bond hair under her little tCque took |
all the glints OF the sun that stole into |
the dingy, ill-smelling place.
He and she stood facing each other.
She gave him one look. She said
nothing. He turned his head away
and In answer TO the question Of the |