Show RUINED BY A WOMAN One of the Most Rcmarlcablo ConsplraJea Ever Brought to Light A drama in real lire which combines the distinctive features of the Diss Debar and Flack sensations with a touch of tragedy added had been slowly worked out almost to the lest net in New York city when an unexpected unex-pected interruption not long ago put the I principal actors to flight The facts of the case have been published In The Now York Bun The comedy had advanced to this point An adventuress who has other I wealthy New York victims had estranged a rich contractor from his wife and family she I had secured from him property amounting to i almost a million a secret divorce and marriage I mar-riage had been considered the real wife had barely escaped an assassins bullet The real name of the woman in the case is I Caroline F Wells She was once and probably prob-ably still is the lawful wife of Emmet Wells a hop commission broker of New York city Her principal victim is George F Woolston a contractor well known throughout tho west as a builder of railroads and waterworks water-works Previous to 1SS3 Mrs Wells as far as is known was a dutiful wife and a good woman About fifteen years ago she married Em met Wells So far as is known she was faithful faith-ful to him during the eight or nine years they lived together In 1832 she left him I going west witn too intention or engaging lathe la-the cattle business She had about 11000 It is said that Mr Wells consented to her departure I parture Years rolled by and thero was no word from the would be cattle queen and her friends looked upon her silence as evidence I I evi-dence of defeat I She Invested her monoy and lost it and bo came reckless Womanly virtue was apparently appar-ently thrown to the winds and aha soon bo I gas to live in greater luxury than If she had renamed with her husband She went out west as Mrs Wells and bas since been known by many aliases She has always been a favorite with men George F Woolston is Ill years old His I income has averaged between 50000 and > 75000 per year I Mrs Wells and Mr Woolston first met in the west about six years ago She was introduced intro-duced into Mr Woolstons family as Mr C I A Willard of Boston and he took pains to spread the report that she was a wealthy widow who wanted to invest her money in western property It became necessary for I the widow to leave Mr WooLtons hOD < abut a-but he continued to spend most of hU time I in her company in other places Mrs Wool ston could not be blind to tho situation but her remonstrances were cI no avail l Indeed Woolston deliberately proposed that ho maintain main-tain two households treating both women precisely alike financially The wife failed to consent Finally Woolston spent almost his entire time with his mistress They traveled trav-eled all over the country registering as husband hus-band and wife Woolston was lavish in his gifts to his companion com-panion Ha made her an allowance 500 a month and all expenses and sho received in addition magnificent presents F titrSb y of1f if 11 ll r rUE WOMAN IS vms CASK From The Now York Sual Wool on mid bis companion early in July of tho present year went to board with Professor Pro-fessor Houston at Wnsya cottage Sheeps head Bay under tho names of Mr and Mrs G F Walton Mrs Woolston heard that they were there end went to see for herself if the rumor was true It was late Friday afternoon Sept 20 when she reached the place It was evident that Mrs Walton did not expect callers She was expecting her husband however and as tho carriage drove up to the cottage she rushed to the door to welcome him But it was the injured in-jured wife who faced her Mrs Walton was the first to speak I dont know you I she exclaimed loud enough for Mis Houston to hear Oh yes yon do I replied Mrs Woolston The bogus wife turned to Mrs Heuston ted said This woman claims to know who I am I never saw her before but 1 know who she is She is crazy She was divorced from my husband sera years ago and the has been following us ever since I shall not I stay hero another minute Then she rushed to the railroad station and boarded an outgoing train Mrs Woolstou put detectives upon her track and then turned her attention to the trunks which had been left behind She secured a search warrant and they wero opened in the presence of several witnesses wit-nesses and a mass of evidence was revealed There wero letters from Mr Woolston which established his guilt even without his confession confes-sion sionTho Tho most serious evidence found was in relation re-lation to a divorce whIch was being cooked up in order to secure a separation from the legal wife The flat evidence that such a course was to bo pursued was found in a letter from a lawyer law-yer named C Harold Fife of Vicksburg Miss and addressed to F L V Walton As it was found in her trunk and itS she had gone bjtho name of Walton it presumed to be in answer to one written by her on that subject In the letter Lawyer Fife said he could get a divorce quietly in six weeks without with-out Mr Ws presence The fee would beat 25 be-at first and Fw additional if the divorce was obtained The real wife of George F W oo ton was soon by a Sun reporter in Boston where aha lives with her two sons The story which silo told was a Ions and painful one and included in-cluded tho details of a plot to have her confined con-fined as a lunatic Sho also said An attempt was made to shoot me last August when I was on my way to join my husband in tho west Tho train was just leaving PitW old when a bullet crashed through the window It came just as I stooped forward to pick up something and buried itself in the opposite side of the car If I had notchonged my position the bullet would have gone through my temple I did i W rorr not think i it was anything mars than an accident ac-cident at tho time bus when I was overhauling overhaul-ing this woman trunks I found a scrap of paper that had avid fitly been torn from some letter in which i t shooting affair was mentioned Then concluded that the bullet was fired mora through design than by accident acci-dent |