Show A blind mans love story the new york son holni reilly macumber was married o mary frances eon in st Augut linee chapel of trinity church in eit ei t bouston street on friday last ly the Rev JD tierron II erron assistant pastor charlea F E houston e reet ami mrs A II 11 hildebrandt of chrystia Chry stif street the witnesses this ini o was obtained from a ni the possession of the groom abo bride was arrested on charge of disobedience preferred by mother and sentenced on monday to lie workhouse on blackwells island for six months yesterday eho wm brought down to supreme court chambers on a writ of habeas and after a brief hearing che wa allowed to walk out of court afree and happy woman leading her hubband hui band mr macumber is a blind man 23 year old when ho waa 19 years old lie was second cateon the bett io the west indies lie was in llie hold looking up ata barrel hofmo 11 it was being lowered the tackling broke and piece of timber placed beneath the barrel hew up and struck him beneath the liht tye displacing the bone he lost the of abai eye and not long after tu eother eye became blind through nervous sympathy his physicians now promise him that he will eglin be able to read last winter ho led a band of three blind bunnells museum in they played six in karu bents each man playing an ex tru with hie feet he learned music in an asylum for the blind when engaged as a leader he makes about 20 a week and at present is making a schall weekly from an news stand in twenty ninth street at tenth avenue notwithstanding his blindness he has a spare intelligent and handsome face ue dresses neatly in black wears spotless tinen and carries a silver headed cane his wife can sec he tells he following etory of his and liis cifes arrest my wife is a brunetter bru nettee very dark they she is pi etty and I know she n pretty spoken I fell in love will lier because badly treated by her mother and I pitied her I have her wholly since june 15 I will not lell vou of the bad treatment she received from her mother mrs byder who lives with a family at fifty sixth street and seventh avenue her daughter lived with her all winter unknown to the family about the middle of juno the mother gave her consent to augustus T wallace of woonsocket II 11 I the girls own cousin aliat mimic should come down to my news stand and let me teach her to play the cornet at that time mimie knew nothing of music now she can alie cornet well and also the nino she is very bright all lier are attractive what has happened will break up a troupe which was to give first performance in pi rely ing upon hor abilities I had penta great deal of money thai I had saved when I wasa sailor I believe I could make double money wherever I might go if she were playing with me her mother used to come dawn every night with her and stay while ahe practiced camio never stayed alone until about two weeks ago then open trouble aroe between them at the house of mrs oniel chrystie threet she accuses her repeating what she had said against the aniels ONi els the next morning she came down to my news eland and told me to tell mamie that if she ever act her foot in her boute again slie would not go I told lier she ought not tj threaten like that it might come true she eaid was devil in maimie or else she have told mrs aneil what he did the mother is a roman catholic ind the daughter bays she anything like myself she used to say ma tie would never be a player more thac pig in one of lier spell of anger she said my daugh ler is marriageable she is 18 years old and she can marry whomsoever she pleases I dont care if it is a negro from thompson street I have alway said she was 16 because she was little and I know anything now the bays she is only 10 of course I don t know her ege except from watt she and her mother say but ray lawyers tell me they cannot take her away from and that she had right to leave her mother and come to me often ahat woman said to her daughter ill you dead under my advice ehe stayed after ahat at Mra who had been a friend to her matli er and who a nice lady living in a nice house I told camio I would pay her board her mother came to me and aked nie to promise that I would not give mamie anything o eat when lie came down but I did give her to eat and some too because I did not want to gee her going ar und with her toes ticking out of her shoes and with a throat she she had only a short dress and was petting too old to wear chort dresses I gave her the dress ehe now wearing her mother became so angry ehe bent down and had her arrested in the house of mrs a respectable lady living nearly opposite my news stand frank her eon is blind and a member of my troupe the mother then told justice murray ehe wonted her daughter bent to the island and accused her of improper conduct t that the policeman who arrested mamie could bear out the charge the policeman denied this jn order to prevent double the girl nied to BO home with her mother that lait wednesday the mother locked tho rear door of the house her camio found mean however to go up etnire end while tho will making hr toilet a person living in the houge entered and said there is murder in your eye dont elay here heres five cent for car fare A blind boy hie been looking you Sos liB came down to me and then went to mrs I aid mamie dont o home now your mother can put you on tho because you nave run away from home ihen she turned to me and begged me to merry her I eaid mamie love you but that ie the last thing we will do I ana blind if coret cornea to wo will get married you shall not eufer if I can help it she said to me you know I have no home that I am afraid to live with my mother and that I cannot live alone anywhere ele finally I consented X went around to the chape in houdron and made tint evening thur day and the next day we mar I can burfort kiy wife in re style sho eaid to ms J kno you ore blind but we can anake money together our troupe i called the globe II 11 would have two other ladles tho leader gua wallace and some of the members are in woonsocket the new york part of the troop consist of three blind men frank who plays the august bauer who plays the bass tuba and myself who playe the E flat cornet I also sin fiand do characters there i also a sleight of hand performance mrs ryder has threatened in the presence of witnesses to throw vitriol in my face and in that of my wife if we ever come near her house the ground of the decision on he writ yesterday was that under the law of disobedience such as was by the proceedings before the justice did not constitute is orderly conduct |