| Show TWO A hilj alair his death conn march 13 A curious case which has just come to light here is that of an oli soldier who for ten years lived an apparently happy and circumspect life with two wives nuit tier of whom nul any knowledge of ahe other tiie iwu homes of the do ly married ma were in hartford Hart fort nd ndue port and had not each of th applied for a pension thy would have remained in ignorance of ibe true state of affairs previous to the husbands death in 1880 the man WAS Walter jones an industrious me who worked a number of year in ast bridgeport mechanic bhoj he married here in 1871 and with hie afi and two children lived in a corn home on east main street he w ic prominent in church affairs and a inked in good society in 1860 he married a young lb sin harbord Har tOrd and living witti air u year at li r parents residence left tet to tako alrae ii y for a PO en kanui concern lit eaid lie could not edke th lime to return 1 family auie ihan a half a dozen a carand her daughter remain at her old home in eskio aud ws tu maii Jdie din Hurt funt t nai her haid died in chicago and aaa buived there she donned widows weeda and devoted her whole leniu to ilo education of lier daufitt nellie now a girl of 17 years aix ju aha read in an old pa death in of one walter l ne i and the notice mentioned llie company mid ngi meu in which be served he t tle town clerk of this city and a copy of the bix druh to the attending name way appended and blu tu hidu and procured a certificate ct all this was dene to obtain ap cudio under a new law which had bet n by congress at the same thuie there preliminaries to obtaining obtain ini a ion were beina by the llo wllie widow went tr HIP same physician for a death alif doctor wa in a dilemma ho wrote to widow eliat certain details in atie pension anade it that ab carmn to bridgeport she did EO mid with her visited the physicians office she then for the first time learned of her husbands un s acting upon the advice 0 the docaur she accompanied him to the residence of the bridgeport widow the two n held a long conference and each expressed great sympathy for the other each was willing to give up all claim for a pc ansi n and each insisted tha the other needed it moat ane hartford widow was finally prevailed upon to RO ahead and present her claims although she wan married t the deceased man a latr than the oi her the widow in this city has n son of 11 years and a ear old eirl she has an income sufficient to support her comfortably and fhe ia happy in knowing that her belf denial ha resulted in br inKing joaie comfort to the little family in hartford |
