Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-28
IOWA MINISTER ARANpoNS WIFE
IN IOWA AND MAKES LOVE
TO BROOKLYN GIRL.
DECEIVED INNOCENT WOMAN
AND ALL HER FRIENDS
illegal Marriage to Eastern Girl Pre-
vented by Inquiries Set on Foot by
Pastor Of New York church-Rev.
Victor N. Patterson to Be Prose-
cuted.
Special to Times-Republican.

Waterloo, Feb. 2S.-Deserting e
Iowa, and making love to Il young lady
in Brooklyn, N. Y, lowering about the
bed on which she has lain ill for
many weeks and promising to marry
her as soon as she was sufficiently re-
covered, Victor NJ. Patterson, for more
than year pastor of the Union Con-
gregational church in Waterloo, has
been playing the role of q DR.. Jekyl
and Mr.. Hyde.
Were there not documentary proof
of his pertidy it would be almost be-
pond belief that he could cause so
many heart-aches.
Tho the distance of half a continent
separates him and his innocent intend
ed fiance from his grieving legal Wife,
q bride of less than a year, the United
States mails annihilated space and the
interchange of letters between the pas
tor of Parllvile Congregational church
Of Brooklyn, of which the sick girl to
whom Patterson has been so atten-
tive and devoted since abandoning
his bride, is member, and
the pastor OF the Union Con-
gregational church OF Waterloo.
resulted in tearing away the mask of
Pattersons pretensions, and the
startling truth was conveyed to the
invalid brideto-be that her lover was
already legally welded to another. 1t
fell to the sad lot OF the Parkville
pastor to inform her that he had re-
ceived verified copy of the marriage
record of Palo Alto county, in which
- Dot
etrson and Miss Myrtle Brott and
been licensed to wed and the cere-
mony duly solemnized.
Terrible Blow to All.
Victor M. Patterson had been born
and reared in Brooklyn. His family
was an honored one His sister, a
teacher for many years in the Brook
lyn public schools. is highly esteemed
and honored. The disclosure would
almost break her heart. She had
acted as Il mother to Victor. for his
real mother died when he was q child.
She had pictured him as some day be-
ing q great power in the world for
good In order TO equip him tor high
service she had spent $1,000 on his ed
ucaiion and sent him thru Yale uni
yersity.
The young lady's father was very
angry to think that they had been
imposed upon, and Patterson was
forbidden to visit the home any more.
The young woman herself was dis
turbed by conflicting emotions. But
the saddest heart of all was the one
that was grieving away out west on
the Iowa prairieS.
Learned Of Babes Birth.
AT the time that the Parkville
church pastor received a copy of the
Anarriage certificate he learned that
a baby girl had been born in Palo
Alto county to Mrs. Patterson. When
the pastor of the Parkville church
confronted Patterson with the copy
Of his little daughters birth the lat
of the marriage records and the news
ter part Of January he acknowledged
the legal papers, but denied that he
had lived more than two days with
the wife he had married, and be-
smirched her character and DETAINED
the name of his child.
When the sorely aggrieved young
wife heard of this GROWING act of
perfidy she took steps to have her hus-
band punished, placing her case in the
hands of an attorney at Emmettsburg,
who, failing to secure q satisfactory
promise on the part of Patterson that
he will support his wife and child,
will cause a warrant of arrest to issue
ON a charge of desertion.
Wife Was Forgiving.
When Mrs. Patterson's friends urged
her several months ago to take steps
to prosecute her husband for abandon
ing her she replied, in the forgiving
spirit of the lowly NaZarene whose
beauty of character, love and gentle
ness she has shared in such unusual
degree, that she still loved him and
had faith to believe that he would re-
turn to her in due time If he had
ceased to love herg,if he would not
come to her, she would not cause him
any trouble And Mrs. Patterson had
not been preaching the gospel as her
husband had been doing. She was liv-
ing the gospel But when she learned
that her recreant husband had not only
deserted her but was paying court to
another, young woman, and, this last
and worse disclosure of all-like q
knife stab thru the heart-that he was
trying to bring disgrace upon her
name she could ,forbear no longer, for
her most percious heritage was her
good name
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