Year: 1875

YOUNG MAN BRINGS WIFE FROM THE WEST


TO NEwBUEG-HIs FRIENDS BLAcKEN HER


NAME AND SHE ATTEMPTS sUIc1DE-DIsAP-


PEARANcE or HER HUSBAND.


NEwBURG \. Y, Nov l, 1876.


A few days ago this city q young married
woman took, in the presence OF her hus
band large dose or morphine with the de-
sign OF committing suicide Help was procured as
soon as possible for, before committing the rash act
she had fastended the windows, locked the door and
secreted the key and il was some time
before he could alarm the other inmates
Of tho large boarding house whore the at
tempt at suicide took place The doctors succeeded
BY the use Or emetics n placing the woman beyond
danger. II seems that the young employed in
Texas last winter BY the hrm Of J. BigIer & Co.. or
this CITY, who live oak forests in that
State and every winter send down large
force of men 70 get out the timber While
there the young man. his family state lived with the
lady who is his wife for six months and then Just
before leaving or the North July last her earnest
entreaiy married her Il seems also that there had
been


MARRIAGE


The young mans family say they believe that the
first husband i stIn living and they have Set on foot
Investigations in Texas with the view or as
certainng bis whereabouts The wife who is
now about twenty one, says that when she was
fifteen sne became the victim or mock
marriage, the issue OF which was a child now in
Europe The second husband says she made him be.
lieve that the FIRST dead at the time Of The
second marriage. Al all events no 2 came 10
his home IN this city IN July last and she
went to Missouri He visited her there crce or twice
but kept until recently all knowledge 81 the affair from
his parents About two weeks ago he took her
to Philadelphia, and, leaving her there came
on 70 Newburg. On informing his parents, they very
gtrenuously opposed his living with her aud John
Kerr lawyer and the Recorder Of this city was sent
10 PHI phla to treat with her and il possible per
suade her return TO Texas She agreed take $50
and 90 home, and he gave her that amount


SIZE STARTED SEwBURG


soon after the lawyer left and the detective sent the
news In advance that she was coming. On landing
here OF the rst persons she saw was her husband
He got into the hack With her, but left u On
her order afterwarf, and she
driven to the boarding house referred 70.
During the next few DAYS they met several times and
talked over their troubles he sill avcrring that no
loved her but that his parents were unalterably op-
count as they claimed, Of what they regarded
~ her previous bad character. Ono day they
took walk in ST. Georges Cemetery, in the southern
part 81 the city, and she drew pistol and threatened
but she put pr her pistol without firing and sank
iainting grave lie picked her up. she revived,
aud they walked away. The next noteworthy incident
II nc romance, or tragedy,


THE ATTExPT At SUICIDE


already referred TO- The people Of the house. learning
rom herself that she carried pistol, had persuaded
pes 70 eye y up on this night after she
Nv, naa taNen the poison, her husband tried TO
shoot MN, and, knowing that she had had a
pmtoi IN hcT possession, be desistcd and this
gave r*e y additional delay In securing
heR Mossp she had no weapon N tho