The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-06-13
PLOT MARRIED BY CUPID
How Highly Placed Business Man
Was Caught in a Marriage
Trap-Horace Field ParshaII,
the "ShreWdest American in
London" Was victimized and
UnwittingIy Wed Another Mans
Wife.
ONDON-A romance inspired on
one side-the woman's-by q
trickster's criminal cunning. in

trlcKStefS criminal cunning, In
which sentimental mockery at
the start takes the place of love
n by degrees becomes a worthy emo
ton; in which an unlawful marriage,
planned with calculating sordidness,
once entered into becomes a real af-
fairs of the heart; in which a wife
acting the leading role in uer husl
bands %dastardly plot becomes a big1
amist and then, the true woman with
IN her asserting itself, becomes crush
ed by the irreconcilable falsity of
her position and confesses. A real sit
uation? Yes.
In this strange way are the Incl
dents worked out in the trapping at
the altar of Horace Field Parshall,
chairman of the Central London rail-
way and known as the shrewdest
American in London, relates the New
York World. Sent forth under threats
OF death to do the criminal bidding of
a man to whom she had linked herself
in girlhood, the impulse of love for
him who becomes her victim at the
end makes the woman's part in the
plot little short Of a soul tragedy. :
AS for the man-for Parshall-it is
the story Of a. honorable dupe who,
when the truth Is made known to him.
Is compassionate instead Of relentless.
and pleads for mercy while others call
for punishment.
ParshaII High in Business World.
With an income CT considerably
more than a hundred thousand dollars
a year, and dukes and lords and 9TH
er British money men as his business
associates, Horace Field Parshall is
we'll known in London. He is forty
six years old and a widower with two
children, a boy and a girl. His wife
was a Miss Rutty. He came from Mil
ford, N. Y, and entered railroading in
London during the days of Charles T.
YerAes, being an engineer who COM
mands money by his genius.
The WOman-the real victim If ona
measures consequences-is Mrs. De-
borah Jeffreys, wife of n Norbert
Harrington Jeffreys, whose name sue-
gests responsibility but whose record
does not. She is thirty-three a
DID, comely, Of gentle manners. and
her life we'll ordered except In so far
as II mas been warped by her huSband.
Inc first setting of this strange
story is at an English summer resort:
the last. with final curtain, in a Lon
don police court.
In January a year ago Mr. FarshalI
was introduced to a young woman
known then by the name of Miss
Bertha Johnson. She seemed a person
OF refinement. She was we'll ovned
and OF charming manner Mr. Par
snail met he. not in.requently trere-
after, and II day asked her to mrrrv
him.
1t was not until along in the SIM.
Hler That she accepted him. The Young
woman had gone down to sunny Fo'ke-
stone, which vies with Brighton an a
fashionable resort. and was quest at
the Pie hotel. Thither, at week.-mrs.
went Parshall, seeking rela xation from
the exacting duties of chief executive
OF the %"tupenny tube" or London nh.
way. The shrewd business n-an and
the young woman, the latter ever then
playlnL her part in the design to en-
trap him, motored about among the
quantity picturesque Kentish towns
winch still stand a monument to
caesars invasion, visited the ancient
roman ruins and enjoyed moonlight
walks along the leas, which follow the
crest of the ocean side chalk cliffs
pack OF Folkestone. To Parshall 1t was
a romance without a shadow. To the
woman it was a shadow without the
romance. 1t soon became to each a ro-
nance with a shadow.
Seemingly Happy Marriage.
On August 5 they we're married.
Parshall. unsuspecting and happy.
formed a little party at The Piers,
and with his bride at his side, motor
ed to the sleepy little hamlet of FL.
ham. lying midway between Folke.
stone and the famous cathedral town
OF Canterbury, where, at the registry
once, the ceremony was performed,
Mrs. Martha Judd of Folkestone was
one of those present at the mar
riage.
Many a plan Of the mind has before
now beer upset by the heart Of a won.
an. 1t was so in this case. The false
wife found herself the center of con.
flcting emotions. At the instigatiou
OF a man who would willingly sacri
hce her for his own financial benefit
she had married a man whose tender
ness and kindness had made her truly
happy. But the relation was impos
sible.
At the Parshall country place in the