The sun., 1909-06-02
FEELS SURE SHE'S DESERTED
SCOTCH BRIDE FROM BOSTON
ALONE At GRAND UNION.
Police Think Herbert Z. Reed Does Not
Intend to Return TO Woman Waiting
Since saturday lie Said He Was
Harvard 'OB. but Records Belle Him.

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Intend to Return TO Woman Waiting
Since Saturday lie Said He Was
Harvard 'OB, but Records Belle Him.
A young Scotswoman who believes
that her name is Mrs. Herbert c. Reed
and who is almost certain that she has
been deserted by the man who endowed
her with that name in Boston three
months ago did not play the stereotyped
part OF the deserted bride yesterday
while she waited in tho Grand Union
Hotel for something to eventuate. Very
cannily she said that II the man whom
she believed to be her husband and who
had left her at the hotel on Sunday after
| noon did not return to her by o'clock In
| the evening she would be convinced that
he did not mean to return and she would
| try to forget him. He had not returned
by o clock. nor by midnight.
No tears. no hysteria for Mrs Reed.
Whatever heart wrench she may have
suffered, this independent little woman
showed no sign. She had not 90 much
as Scotch farthing to warm her purse
She had no friends in the city. All that
and a grip that had belonged to her
husband and which he had left when he
went away from her on Sunday.
Mrs. Reed was very much afraid that IL
she went from the hotel to Police Head,
quarters. there to consult the rogues
gallery, as Bernard +. Birmingham. the
be snapshotted by the camera men:
She didn't want this to take place and
she was sorry that she had told the re-
porters her maiden name. because she
thought there was somewhat OF shame
attaching TO the fact that grown woman
"a years old should have accepted as
truth the sweet stories OF a man.
Herbert c. Reed and the young Scots
woman came to the hotel so convenient
TO the Grand Central Station on Saturday
afternoon. The man registered himself
and his wife as coming from Maine,
nothing more. On Sunday afternoon he
left the hotel telling his wife that he was
going out to find an uncle Of his who
lived in New York to tell him OF the mar
rage. which both had guarded as a
secret. Before he left Reed took S67 OF
the money his wife had drawn from her
savings before their marriage saying
that 4 was dangerous to leave her alone
The young woman waited patiently
through all OF Saturday night without
saying anything about her anxiety To the
hotel people. She even passed part OF
Sunday alone in her room before she went
to William N. Tarbell, the manager, and
told him that her husband had left her
more than twenty-four hours ago and
had not returned.
Upon the managers questioning she
told more--enough to convince him that
the plain faced little Scotswoman was
wasting her time by sitting watching at
her window. She said that she had come
TO this country when she was 10 years
nll
earned her living as a waitress in Bos-
ton restaurant. Two years ago, when she
was living at SO Worcester street. Boston,
she had met Reed. Their meeting was
unromantio; it was over the plate Of buck
wheat cakes or goldfish balls that she set
upon his table
Reed made love to her, the deserted
wife said. He told her that he was a
student at Harvard, that his father was
a railroad king in St. Louis and that III
soon as he graduated he would come into
q. great deal Of money. with social posi-,
her to marry him but to keep the marriage
secret until commencement the Scotch
girl consented,
Mrs. Reed told the hotel manager that
she had gone with Reed when he got
the license to wed and that he had brought
a Methodist preacher 70 her house TO
marry them. She did not know the name
Of the preacher and she only believed he
was preacher because Reed told her so
Her husband kept the marriage certif-
cate in his pocket and he never showed II
TO her. Mrs. Reed said.
After this preacher had gone through
the form of marriage ceremony she and
her husband had lived apart, according 10
their pact. 1t was on Friday last that Reed
came to her In the restaurant and told
her that he had received his degree on
that day, He was ready. he said, TO take
her out to st, Louis and to introduce
her as his wife in tho home Of his father.
1t was not until yesterday that Mrs. Reed
learned that diplomas are not given ~
Harvard until the middle OF June and thai
there is no ma me in the directory OF stu
dents such as that her husband bore.
SO the woman, who had been known
simply as Winifred about the restaurant
gave up her position on Friday, drew from
the bank Sl00, her savings for two years.
and on the following day started with
her hus band on the journey which was to
end in that home OF luxury, in st. Louis.
She found no likeness OF her husband in
the rogues gallery at Headquarters
yesterday. From the general alarm that
was sent out by Headquarters late Mon
day night nothing has resulted.
Mrs. Reed went back to the hotel last
night. willing to accept the hospitality
offered by the manager until she can find
herself in this trouble that has come upon