AN ELOPEMENT ROMANCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 176, 27 July 1907, Page 3

AN ELOPEMENT ROMANCE.

A WIFE'S FORGIVENESS

NEW YORK, May 31. A tragi-cornedy of a motor-car and a • •deserted wife reached an . eminently ..satisfactory, though, startlingly unconventional, climax to-day, amid the enthusiastic applause of the entire body • of New York readers.

The scene was laid in a sick-room in a large hotel, where Mr Louis Gf. Meyer, a wealthy merchant, lies stretched on a bed of pain. Three -days ago. he and a lady, whose photograph is placarded to-day across every broadsheet,' were the victims of an -alarming motor accident. When fate ' thus cruelly overtook them, they were , escaping in a racing-car from the* scene ' of the only too well justified wrath of j Mrs Meyer. But on reading in the newspapers how terribly her husband "had been mangled, the wife, oblivious «of her wrongs, rushed to his bedside", "smoothing his pillow, with a loving -care, and awakening hiny to a tardy sense of remorse, which is given expression to in a legal document, duly bound and sealed. In order to render the unique document effective, Mrs 'Meyer has communicated the text of it to the newspapers as follows: — "Whereas the said Louis Meyer, feeling repentant, is desirous of Toeing tForgiven by the ' plaintiff,' and having an opportunity of re-establishing himself in his wife's affection and favour, "with a view thereafter to renewing marital relations, the said Meyer does lereby promise and agree to his said ■wife, Ada A. F. Meyer, .as follows: " ' First, that he will in all things "hereafter treat the said wife kindly and in a proper manner.

"■' Second, that he will hereafter abstain from all relations of every dame and nature, both social, and otherwise, •with Mrs Kathryn Conrad Fuller Harkness, and will at all times conduct himself in a loyal and honourable manner befitting the husband of the said Ada A. F. Meyer.' "

. The third clause provides for the Tegular payment of the household expenses, while on the fourth the " defendant " agrees to a probationary T>eriod of three months, during.which •" the said Ada A. F. Meyer shall de.termine whether or not she can hereafter repose trust and confidence " in her husband.

Mrs Meyer, a lady of powerful physique, explained to-day to the reporters that if her rival, when she recovers from a broken limb, attempts a fresh rapprochement with Mr Meyer she will first horsewhip her and then sue her for damages for alienating the affections of her husband. Unfortunately, the condition of Mr Meyer is now so precarious that the doctors fear that he may not outlive the probationary period provided for in the matrimonial bond.