Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19

~ one Side-the WomanS-by a
tricksters criminal cunning, in
- which sentimental mockery at
the start takes the place of love
and by degrees becomes 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 her hus-
bands dastardly plot becomes a big
amist and then, the true woman with
in her asserting itself, becomes crush
ed by the irreconcilable falsity of
her position and confesses. 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 soul tragedy.
As for the man-for Parshall-it is
the story of an 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 hundred thousand dollars
year, and dukes and lords and 9TH
er British money men as his business
associates, Horace Field Parshall is
well known in London He is forty
six years old and widower with two
children, a. boy and a girl His wife
was Miss Rutty. He came from Mil
ford, N. Y, and entered railroading in
London during the days of Charles T.
Yerkes, being an engineer who COM
mands money by his genius.
The woman-the real victim if one
measures consequences-is Mrs De-
borah Jeffreys, wife of one Herbert
Harrington Jeffreys, whose name sug-
gests responsibility but whose record
does not She is thirty-three years
old, comely, of gentle manners, and
her life well ordered except in so far
as it has been warped by her husband
The first setting of this strange
story is at an English summer resort;
the last, with final curtain, in Lon
don police court.
In January year ago Mr.. Parshall
was introduced to a young woman
known then by the name of Miss
Bertha Johnson. She seemed a person
of refinement. She was well gowned
and of charming manner Mr. Par
shall met her not infrequently there
after, and one day asked her to marry
him.
1t was not until along in the sum-
mer that she accepted him. The young
woman had gone down to sunny Folke-
stone, which vies with Brighton as
fashionable resort, and was guest at
the Pier hotel. Thither, at week-ends,
went Parshall, seeking relaxation from
tho exacting duties of chief executive
of the "tupenny tube" or London SUBJ
way. The shrewd business man and
the young woman, the latter ever then
playing her part in the design to en-
trap him. motored about among the
quantity picturesque Kentish towns,
which still stand 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
back of Folkestone To ParshaIl it was
a romance without a shadow To the
woman it was shadow without the
romance. 1t soon became to each ro-
nance with a shadow.
Seemingly Happy Marriage.
On August they we're married
Parshall, unsuspecting and happy,
formed little party at The Piers,
and with his bride at his side, motor
ed to the sleepy littlo hamlet of FL
ham. lying midway between Folke-
stone and the famous cathedral town
of Canterbury, where, at the registry
Office, 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 been upset by the heart of wom-
an. 1t was so in this case. The false
wife found herself the center of con-
ficting emotions. At the instigation
of a man who would willingly sacri-
fee her for his own financial benefit
she had married man whose tender
ness and kindness lad made her truly
happy. But the relation was impos-
sible.
At the Parshall country place in the
suburbs of London she met the chill
dren. They. too became fond of her