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Show SI.VGl'LAR CO-Dl'CT OP A WIFE A5D JIOTHKR. . A married woman liviEg at West-boro', West-boro', in Massachusetts, went to Boston Bos-ton about the 15th of February, to make purchases ior, her f'amiiy. She had always been considered respectable, respect-able, had been a wife four years, and has one child. After buying what she wanted she sent her goods home to Westboro' by express. She subsequently subse-quently went to the waiting-room of a railroad station with the intention of guing to Chelsea. While waiting for the car she was accosted by a young man, a complete sttanger, who pro poed to her to accompany him for a walk. At first she declined, but afterward after-ward consented, and the two passed into the streets. Presently the young man asked his companion if she were married or otherwise engaged, fche answered buth questions in the negative. nega-tive. He then told her his name and calling; said he was a moulder who had been employed at Wakefield, but had been discharged because he was a siDgle man; had he been a married man, he added, he might have kept his place. This announcement prub-ably prub-ably drew from the lady some expression expres-sion of condolence or other encouragement, encourage-ment, since the ardent moulder then and there made her a proposition of marriage. Strange to say, the offer was as promptly accepted. This wife and mother coolly agreed to marry a person whom ten minutes before she had never seen, and of whose charac ter and circumstances, save through his own account, she was totally iguor-ant. iguor-ant. The pair then "agreed to go to Lynn, where the happy lover's parents reside, and to whom he desired to nrespnr, his nflfi;inppil This plan was duly carried out. The two went together to Lynn ; the parents, pa-rents, who are highly respected by their townsfolk, were seen, and the intended bride formally introduced. At this point the groom was guilty of the tri-tiing tri-tiing exaggeration of telling his father and mother that he had known the lady he meant to make their daughter-in-law for six months. The old people peo-ple were pleased with their son's choice, made much of her, and introduced her to their friends. The mother, however, how-ever, with a laudable caution that might wisely have gone further, took the youBg woman into a private room at an early stage-of tho acquaintance, and, with the preface that she liked her looks and manners, hoped that, be ng a stranger, her antecedents had been such as would in no sense bring discredit on the family. The lady made prompt response that everything was as it should be; that her name was spotless; that her father was a seacap-ain, seacap-ain, living in St. John, N. B., and that she wuuld not be guilty of deception decep-tion ior the world. A ell satisfied, the mother agreed to tho marriage, which thereupon took place, and the parties lived together as man and wife ior one short week. In the meantime the original husband, hus-band, missing his spouse, went to Boston to. look lor her. His search was at first for obvious reasons, vain. But for purposes of her own, this female fe-male Barbe-Bkue now resolved to pay a visit to Boston, and to go alone. Hei new husband objected, but she overcame over-came his scruples and carried out her design. Having arrived in town, she sent to her Westboro' lord, addressing address-ing him with compunctious reserve as "Dear friend," and asked him to be kind enough to send her clothes and other effects on to Boston. The husband hus-band came instantly to the address thus given, and confronting the erring wife, reproached her with her absence. I I . -1- ctriKeu wnu remutse unu teitui, sue fell on her knees, and, with bitter tears, begged his forgiveness. She confessed she had married somebody, but was quite.unable to recall the incidents of her courtship aud wedding. Pending this revelation,' the friends of the other husband arrived, haviug got wind that something Vfas wrong, and a dreadful scene ensued, wh'ch ended by the lady returning to Westboro' with her legal husband. It is proper to say, in extenuation ex-tenuation of her conduct, first, that she is reported to have imagined that her husband was uufuithful to her; and, second the too common plea set up for back-sliders that she is"by some supposed to be insane.'' i. Y. Times. |
